GLEASON: CENTROPOGON, SECTION BURMEISTEROIDES 445 
and agreeing precisely in every detail. One is labeled ‘‘ Rio dos 
Brazos prope Popayan, 19 April 1876,”’ the other ‘‘ad decliv. 
occident. mont. igniv. Corazon And. Ecuad. 3400 m., 10 Jun. 
1876.”’ The latter is the type, and bears a reference to the 
collector’s illustration tab. CLXXX, but unfortunately plate 
CLXXXII is mounted with the plant. 
Centropogon asservatus n. sp. A tall herb; stems hollow 
above, faintly angled, pubes above, becoming glabrous and 
somewhat verrucose in age; internodes 2—3 cm. long; leaves thin, 
membranous, dull-green, hinge elliptic, 8-11 cm. long, 2-3 cm 
wi ;- acum ninate, sane y Gineate at base into a narro wly 
lously mucronate teet v mm. ey fag Pe: puberulent 
prominent, reticulate beneath; peduncles from the upper axils, 
12 cm. long, thinly puber ulent to nearly glabrous, erect or 
ascending; hypan thin obconic, 16-20 mm. hi g-II mm. 
wide at the summit when pressed, faintly nerved, nearly gla- 
brous; sepals erect, natey linear above a na rrowly triangular 
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hairs with black septa; corolla-tube 28 mm. joa glabrous, 
gradually narrowed to the middle, thence dilated to Oe throat, 
the lobes narrowly triangular-falcate, ie eae 20 m ong; 
filaments 10 mm. longer than the corolla-tube, subtomentose 
wo lower strongly bearded at the apex; fruit a dry berry, 
Siipeoid, 3 cm. long, surmounted by the persistent sepals. 
Type, Pennell 927, collected 3-6 Aug. 1917, in forests on the 
Rio Balsillas, Dept. Huila, Colombia, altitude 2000-2100 m., 
and deposited in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden. Other specimens are Pennell 960 and 601, Cordillera 
Oriental, east of Neiva, Dept. Huila, 1-8 Aug. 1917. Of these 
the latter has broader leaves, about three times as long as wide, 
with sepals 40 mm. long. 
CENTROPOGON LEHMANNI Zahlbr. Four numbers in the 
herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden are referred to 
this species, although differing in some unimportant respects 
from each other and from the type. In Lehmann. 529, without 
