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Peru: Prov. Carabaya, nr. Ayapata, Lechler, 1972, partim (Herb. Mus. Paris.: 
Pl. 30. fig. 14). Prov. Sandia, between Poto and Ananca, 4400-4500 m., Weber- 
bauer, 961 (Herb. Berol.: Pl. 29. fig. 2; Pl. 30. figs. 7, 8). 
Some difficulty exists as to whether all the specimens placed under N. Jlabellata really 
belong to the species as defined by Weddell; he himself saw no flowers, though one of 
the types at Paris, D'Orbigny's specimen from La Paz, no. 332, is inscribed * Fleur 
violette et peu apparante.” It was owing no doubt to this note by D'Orbigny that 
Weddell added “ floribus parvis parumque conspicuis" to his description of M. Jlabel- 
latum. Yet Mandon's specimen, no. 798, with conspicuous crimson flowers, has been 
labelled M. flabellatwn *, Wedd., by Weddell in the Paris Herbarium. In addition 
to this a sheet bearing the no. 1972, Lechler, at Paris, has been inscribed by Weddell 
“parte videtur M. flabellatum rostri fruct. longiss.” And externally this plant is very 
similar to the type sheets of Pentland and D'Orbigny. Some complication arises with 
regard to this number of Lechler; for according to Weddell (7. c. p. 273) Lechler, 1972, 
=M. phyllanthos, whilst according to Baker fil. in Journ. Bot. xxix. p. 363, Lechler 1972 
at Kew is the type of his M. condensatum. 
Further, it is also possible that Turczaninow's Nototriche incana (D'Orbigny, 1353), of 
which no specimen could be found at Paris, is M. Jlabellatum, Wedd., though it is more 
probable that it is equivalent to M. pedicularifolium, A. Gray. 
N. flabellata was one of the highest plants collected by Conway at 18,500 ft. The 
plant is very distinct, both from the sulphur-coloured velvety tomentum and from 
the crimson, almost tubeless corollas. The stamens are arranged in a globular head and 
the elongated column is exserted (v. Pl. 30. figs. 7,8). The petals are irregularly toothed 
at the apex. The body of the carpel is covered with short stellate hairs, and the beak is 
ciliate (Pl. 30. figs. 14, 21). The leaf-lamina is also characteristic, the lower half 
forming a cuneate expansion, the divisions of the segments only reaching to the middle 
of the lamina. In some cases the segments only occupy $ of the length of the lamina 
(Pl. 29. fig. 2). As regards leaf-form X. flabellata shows alliance with N. pediculari- 
Jolia, N. argyllioides, &c., and in its tubeless corolla it agrees with N. pedicularifolia, 
N. Lorentzii, and N. sulphurea. 
N. flabellata may perhaps be considered to be a species which, judging from the 
diversity of its leaf-form, is in a somewhat transitional condition and shows forms 
breaking away from the type. 
13. NOTOTRICHE NIGRESCENS, A. W. Hill, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvii. 1906, p. 580. 
PERT : Dep. Lima, * Hacienda” Arapa, prope Yauli, ad Lima-Oroya viam ferream, 
4400 m., Weberbauer, 381 (Herb. Berol.). 
The numerous stamens are arranged in a globose head, with the free portions of the 
filaments fairly long. The anthers are a dark purple-green. - i 
The leaf-lamina is only sparsely stellate below and in its lobation shows some 
* Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xii. 1865, p. 82. This determination of Mandon’s plant was made after the publication 
of the ‘Chloris Andina.’ 
