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ted, the verticels densely flowered; pedicels 1-1.5 mm. lon 
slender: eck more than half the length of the pedicels, peor 
a. stamens three times the length of the sepals, exceeding 
the sty. 
cee ft. high and six inches in diameter; Apolo, 5000 ft., 
July 13, 1902” (No. 1438). 
The same collected by Matthews. 
Species near W. diwerstfolta. 
Weinmannia sessilifolia sp. nov. 
— branches short, suberect, very leafy, the internodes 
3-5 cm. long, purple; leaves simple, nearly sessile, the basal portion 
of Aes mae slightly pilose on the lo wer surfac €, 3-5 c 
truncate at the base, sharply serrate with very small, salient 
purple teeth, thick, pale, the finely reticulate venation prominent 
both sides, the secondaries 10-12 pairs, diverging at a very 
wide ah oe forking prominent toward the margin; spikes, in 
ower, about 5 cm. long, 12 mm. wide, on peduncles a little more 
than half as long, in fruit slightly longer and 18 mm. wide, dense, 
blunt; bractlets scarcely 1 mm. long, triangular-ovate, thick; 
pedicels 3 mm. long, slender; sepals similar to the bractlets, but 
when straightened; capsules 3. ong and about equaling 
their styles, broadly a eae on nerved. 
“Two to six ft. high; Cargadira, 8000 ft., July 29, 1902” (No. 
1522). 
ROSACEAE 
Rosa repellens sp. nov. 
Stems stout, branching, very spiny, the spines on the older 
cm. long, ovat 
twice the Tength a on stipules, ‘stout; leaves, inclusive of petiole, 
12 cm. long; leaflets 5~7, all much alike, the lowest ie and 
the terminal slightly oe nearly sess sile , 2-5 cm. long, 12-30 
mm. broad, subrotund or b roadly ae roughly and irregularly 
serrate-dentate with short teeth, very thick, very rugose, the 
where it is more or less pubescent, strongly reticulate; petals not 
seen; pedicels 15-20 mm. long, very stout, angled, aed 
dilating into the fruit base; calyx-lobes 18 mm. long, 5-6 m 
