I1CONES PLANTARUM. 85 
PiatTE 1198. 
MONOPYLE MACROCARPA, Benth. var. 
GesNERACEA, Tribe GESNEREX. 
Monopyle, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. ii. 997. 
M. macrocarpa, Benth., sp. nov., folio majore cujusque paris rari 
utroque agtiamie petiolato oblongo-ellipti uminato basi valle 
met ongeahe ori longe_ Pot he ad axillas v. in pedunculo ter- 
ontuaa fructifero able. linea 
Var. isophylla, foliis cujusque ee parum insequalibus. 
Has. The typical form in Eastern Pern on rocky streams near Tara- 
poto, Spruce, n. 4151, and the variety here figured, at the foot of 
Mount Chimborago, Spruce, a single specimen. 
Herba e radice repente ascendens v. laxe erecta, parum ramosa, 1-3- 
pedalis, pubescens. Folia in forma typica pleraque valde disparia, 
maximum oblongo-ellipticum, acuminatum, obtuse serratum, asi valde 
ineequale, subsemipedale, supra virens scabriusculum, subtus sub- 
c v 
adnatus, sub me a obovoideus, basi acutus v. vix obtusus, vix 2 lin. 
longus, Tone a escens, post anthesin valde elongatus ; lobi 5, lineares, 
8_4 lin. longi. Corolla albida superne pallide violacea ; tubus subpolli- 
caris, ‘ina aici ampliatus fere campanulatus; limbus oblique 
patens, pollicem diametro, lobis 5 latis, 3 posticis ede sien ae 
r a, 
antico ceteris majore. Stamina 4, didynama, ima ro 
inclusa, cum rudimento minimo staminis quinti seats filamenta fili- 
ormia, arcuata ; anthers conniventes non tamen s, loculis 
subglobosis dfrerpett tibus. Ovarium inferum, vertice brevissime coni- 
cum ; stylus brevis, apice stigmatoso vix dilatato. Capsulu infera, 
oblongo-linearis, curvula, subpollicaris, calycis lobis hand accretis 
coronata, vertice inter lobos parvo indiviso, dorso in obos rima 
longitudinali dehiscens. Semina ut in tota tribu numerosa minima 
I do not feel certain that the two plants from rather distant stations 
which I have united under the above name are strictly conspecific, 
