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1898] 
tiores bis superans. Columna staminea tubo triente longior, 
antheris inferioribus apice aureo-barbatis. Bacca globosa. 
A small shrub, apparently epiphytal. Leaves 18-20 X 3-11™", yellow- 
ish beneath; nerves three to the side, reticulately anastomosing ; petioles 
y" long. Peduncles axillary. Tube of calyx turbinate, 1.5™" high, lobes 
2" long. Corolla virescent, tube 1.5 long, 2™™ in diameter, two superior 
segments 8™ long, the lateral 6™™ long, the inferior 4™™ long. Staminal col- 
imn adnate a little above base of tube, 2™ long ; superior anthers sprinkled 
with golden hairs, 3™™ long, a half longer than the others. Lobes of stigma 
ee diameter. Berry 6™™ in diameter, crowned with accrescent lobes of 
La Palma, Costa Rica, alt. 1520", Nov. 1897, Werck/é, no. 11600 herb. 
nat, C. R. 
‘Burmeistera tenuiflora Donn. Sm — Folia subintegra oblongo- 
elliptica contracto-acuminata ad basin acuta, facie inferiore pal- 
lida fusco-reticulata ad costam nervos petiolos pubescente. 
Calycis tubus obconicus 5-costatus in pedunculum sensim atten- 
vatus laciniis linearibus brevior. Corollae tubus tenuis laciniis 
Scalycinis et propriis longior. Columna staminea basi corollae 
adnata glabra vix exserta, antheris totis imberbibus. 
5~7em ae petioles 6-9™ long. Peduncles exceeding pide 
their sinuate ae “a ‘i 7™™ long, at top 4™™ broad, a sh g-10X1™™, 
2.5" broad: s¢ e ee cunctate, Tube of corolla 11™™ long, at ne 
Superior ee ening ra broad, canescent and reticulate on face, a 
Letthiess gies om t “ene a third smaller. Staminal corona 2:2 
Forests of ‘Ah a — of stigma 2™™ in diameter. pena a 
Pittiey. is bent el Roble, Volcdn Barba, C. R., alt. 2000, May I000, 
eth, A, 
“avendishia capitulata Donn. Sm.—Glabra. Folia subsessilia 
a. quintuplinervia reviewers, nervis ic 
floribus ics 4 ee axillaris pa last us 
lg demin: pita is parvis e bracteis paulo emerg 
branaceig “in - pblongis calycem fere santa eeie mem 
nisi glandulig eh Calycis dentes acuti ciliolati. Corolla non 
€nticulata, 
Apparently : 
obtuse, atly asmall shrub, Leaves 20-25 x8-g™", coriaceous, apex 
“cute, margin revolute, petioles 2™™ long. Bracts purple, the 
