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Cyphomandra subcordata sp. nov. 
oe of 10 m., with trunk 20 cm. in diameter; leaves 25-40 
cm. long, 3-7-fo liolate, petioled; pe very unequal and irregu- 
larly ditnbated: petioluled, 5-25 cm. long, broadly and inaequi- 
laterally ovate, sub-cordate or cordate, abruptly and sharply 
acuminate, entire, thin, Sai on both surfaces; racemes pedun- 
- reaching 40 or 50 cm. in length, bifid, slender, drooping, the 
mail nodules approximate; oa 12 cm. long, apparently light 
pae purple; calyx half the length of the ‘corolla, finely strigose, 
thickish, parted nearly to the base, the lobes oval, mucronate; 
corolla campanulate, parted nearly half-way; fruit oval to obovoid, 
with rounded summit; seeds 3 mm. long. 
“A tree 30 ft. by 8 ae diameter. San Buena Ventura, 1400 ft., 
Nov. 30, 1901”? (No. 6 
The same collected iti Gouden in New Grenada. 
Sessea rugosa sp. nov. 
Branchlets slender, scurfy; leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, 
coriaceous, rugose, shining above; flowers panicled, sessile, scurfy; 
seeds sharply angled, rough. 
Stellate- ee ‘hroughout ue the eee of the upper leaf- 
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lanceolate, very abruptly produced into the petioles, acuminate 
and acute, thick and coriaceous, above slightly lustrous and rugose 
with the strongly impressed venation, underneath aed yellowish- 
stellate, ae the ence strongly prominent, the secondaries 6 
or 80 side, strongly ascending; flowering Seen ane mostly 
5-7 cm. ee eel branched, the divisions few-flowered; pedicels 
reduced to o mere nodes, aa broad whitish scars after the fall of 
elliptical-ovoid, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long, subtended by the con- 
spicuous saucer-shaped disk, which has a sinuate, light-colored 
margin; seeds sharply angled and roug 
“Slender, 10 ft. high, the mature aie purple. Apolo, 4800 ft., 
Apr. 21, on” (No. 2449). 
GESNERIACEAE 
Monopyle divaricata sp. nov. 
Pubescent throughout, the hairs of the leaf-surfaces sparse, 
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about 3~4 cm. long; petioles 4-6 cm. long, slender, widely spread- 
