448 GLEASON: CENTROPOGON, SECTION BURMEISTEROIDES 
brown hairs about 0.5 mm. long, especially along the midvein, 
pubescent with similar hairs below, especially along the veins, 
where they form conspicuous belts of pubescence; peduncles 
numerous from the upper axils, ascending, 5-7 cm. long, pu- 
bescent like the stem, the bracts linear, 3 mm. long, deciduous; 
ypanthium short-cylindric, 9 mm. long, 7 mm. wide when 
glabrous; anther-tube stout, somewhat curved, 8 mm. long, 
thinly pubescent, especially at the apex, the two lower anthers 
villous at the summit. 
Type, Killip & Hazen 11,122, collected 9 Sept. 1922, at La 
Cumbre, Dept. El Valle, Colombia, altitude 1700-2100 m., 
and deposited in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden. Other collections are Pennell 4398, Cascada Chorron, 
south of Antizales, Dept. Bolivar, 25 Feb. 1918, Pennell 5723, 
La Cumbre, Dept. El Valle, 14-19 May, 1922, and Killip 5021, 
La Cumbre, 21-25 May 1922 
Centropogon breviflorus n. sp. Stem shrubby, climbing, 
long; leaf-blades firm, spreading, dull-green or brown-green, 
elliptic, 5-8.5 cm. long, 3.5-4.5 cm. wide, obtuse, rounded at 
6 mm. long, somewhat involute, densely hirsute and ciliate 
with straight brown hairs; corolla 20 mm. long, densely pubescent 
with septate hairs, the tube 15 mm. long, the lobes linear-falcate, 
depressed, glabrous along the margin; filaments included, 
glabrous; anther-tube black, 5 mm. Jong, thinly and sparsely 
pubescent, the two lower anthers villous at the tip. 
Type, Pennell 7545, collected 29, 30 June 1922, on Mount 
El Trueno, Dept. El Cauca, Colombia, altitude 2700-3000 m., 
and deposited in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden. 
