wi( LET) 
ae elliptical or slightly ovate, thickish, nee ce ee geared 
volute, very glaucous underneath; m e, 
very prominent beneath, the venation eee racemes ae 
8 y peduncled, ; pedicels 10-20 mm. long, slender, 
nodes, as oe sya fallen bracts; flower 12 mm. long, 
broad; calyx mm. broad, as pressed, lobed about 
half way, the ne ee ovate, short-pointed, obtuse, thick; 
stamens about as long as the petals, the filaments stout, flattened, 
mm. e 
ae mm. ene 7-lobed, bearing the persistent style. 
bey) fe. high: near Apolo, 5800 ft., July 25, 1902” (No. 1473). 
VACCINIACEAE 
Macleania elliptica sp. nov. 
Glabrous; petioles 6-8 mm. long, very stout, dark-brown; blades 
thick; pedicels 10-14 mm. long, stoutish, slightly "thickened above, 
angled, articulated into ‘the li htly concave base of the calyx; 
calyx-tube cies hemispherical, a little shorter than the limb, which 
is 6 mm. , truncate, with 5 very small acute teeth; ‘corolla 
: cm. or more ae gradually contracted toward the summit, the 
riangular-acuminate and acute teeth 3-4 mm. long, x -nerved, the 
nha lightly pubescent; stamens 8 mm. long, e filaments 
half as wide, the sutures widely open above; cells finely and sharply 
acute Ai dened ees leae lightly recurved base; connectiv 
dark, thic ie bearing two short. thick spreading fone style 
exserted, slende 
“Rio Paes 4000 ft.; April 27, 1902”’ (No. 2487). 
MyrsINACEAE 
Clavija tarapotana sp. nov. 
labrous; leaves 4-8 dm. long, 4-7 cm. broad, oblanceolate, 
tapering regularly downward from a point distant about one-four 
of ngth from the summit into a purple petiole 1-2 g, 
mediate ones about half as strong, all interarching 1-2 mm 
