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ovate, narrowed at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex ; anthers 
surmounted at the apex with lanceolate-linear glands as long as the 
cells or rather longer, biglandular at the base ; filaments in some cases 
elongated, in others oftener very short ; style filiform, pubescent with 
short glandular hairs, rather short ; stigma cylindrical-clavate, densely 
papillose-bearded, entire or scarcely emarginate at the apex ; placenta- 
tion central ; edges of the carpels quite coalescent. In elevated spongy 
pastures with short herbage, in Morro de Lopollo, towards Humpata, 
above 5300 ft. alt., in company with species of Utricularia, ete., 
plentiful; fl. and fr. March and April 1860. No. 1513. Flowers 
whitish-yellowish. In swampy meadows at the river Monino, in com- 
pany with various species of Drosera (cf. D. Burkeana ; Welw. Herb. 
No. 1184) and Xyris ; fl. and fr. end of April 1860. No. 15132. 
Var. £. nana. 
E. primuleflorum, B. nanum Welw., l.c., p. 48. 
Hviiia.—A pleasantly green, dwarf herb ; flowers brilliant, golden- 
yellow. On the swampy slopes of the loftiest mountains, nearly dried 
up at the time, to the south of Huilla, and on the left-hand side of the 
road leading from Lopollo towards Gambos; fl. end of April 1860. 
No. 1514. Apparently annual; flowers golden-coloured. In moist 
pastures in short grass, plentiful; fl. and fr. Feb. and April 1860. 
Cou. Carp. 748. 
4. P. debilis. 
Exochenium debile Welw., l.c., p. 48. Belmontia debilis Schinz,. 
lc., p. 332. 
PunGco ANDoNGO.—A flaccid, parasitical little herb, 1 to 2 in. high, 
apparently not annual; rhizome rather thick, whitish, somewhat 
fleshy, brittle, creeping obliquely among marsh herbs; stems numerous, 
rather fleshy, very brittle, subtetragonal ; flowers milk-white, penta- 
merous, cymosely fastigiate ; calyx deeply cleft ; corolla thin-fleshy ; 
the lobes obovate-oblong or obovate, not mucronate, obtuse ; the limb 
campanulate-spreading ; stamens inserted at the middle of the corolla- 
tube or a little higher, included ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, biglandular 
at the base; the connective fleshy, tumid, produced far beyond 
the cells; ovary 2-celled ; style straight ; stigma elongated-clavate, 
velvety ; capsule globose, many-seeded. In grassy muddy places 
nearly dried up at the time, at the Lagda de Quibinda on the right 
bank of the river Cuije, sparingly ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 1511. 
5. P. gracilis. 
Belmontia gracilis Welw., l.c., p. 47. 
Hovi__a.—An annual, little herb, 2} to 6 in. high, with the habit of 
a maritime Centawriwm but more slender ; stem filiform, nearly naked, 
tetragonal, erect, very sparingly branched ; leaves opposite, linear- 
lanceolate, channelled, erect-spreading, semi-amplexicaul at the base, 
somewhat decurrent ; internodes long; flowers yellow, pentamerous, 
rather large, 1 to 3, erect, rather lax ; calyx deeply cleft; the segments 
long-acuminate, winged-keeled, broad at the base, with white membra- 
nous margins and groups of very minute glands at its base between 
it and the funnel-shaped corolla; corolla-tube inflated at the base, 
constricted in the middle below the limb ; the lobes ovate, apiculate, 
spreading at the time of flowering, the whole corolla marcescent and at 
length adhering to the ovary; stamens inserted on the corolla-tube 
below the limb, included ; filaments equal at the base, about twice the 
