(315) 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891. 
1720 is MANDEVILLA Bancitt, as published, but it now appears that 
Mr. Bang sent a second species under this number. If an 
of these were distributed, they can be recognized by the following 
description. They appear identical with specimens collected by 
Lorenz at Tucuman and labeled in Herb. Kew ‘ chttes 
funtformis Griseb.” But there is an Lchétes funtformzs Vell., 
which is not Mr. Bang’s plant. 
Mandevilla subcordata sp. nov. 
Glabrous except the finely puberulent ae and lower leaf-sur- 
faces; branches slender, the internodes elongated; petioles 1.25-3 
cm. long, slender ; blades 6-8 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, oval to ovate, 
lightly cordate, abruptly short-acuminate and acute, membrana- 
ceous, slightly shining above, puberulent underneath, the reddish 
secondaries 14-16 pairs, the venation finely reticulate, not promi- 
dibular, the anthers about at the middle or a little higher; a 
lobes 3 cm. long and nearly as te. obovate; anthers 6 m 
long; fruit not seen 
Near snow-line, Mt. Tunari, 1891. 
r065, omitted, is MANDEVILLA Banei. 
249, omitted, is (?) DipLapEentA 1LLusTRis A. DC. Prodr. 8: 483. 
e same form was collected by Pearce at Pintobamba, 6000- 
yooo feet, November, 1863. The form is less tomentose than 
Brazilian specimens, Glaztou 17134. 
985, ‘*SARCOSTEMMA INCANUM A. DC.,” is 
Oxystelma Vailiae sp. nov. 
Finely canescent throughout; ee very slender, purplish- 
green, finely striate; petioles 1-2 . long, slender, lightly chan- 
neled above, faintly keeled inoue blades 1-3 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 
cm. broad, triangular-ovate or slightly hastate, cordate by a a 
shallow sinus, the lobes rounded, acute at the apex, thin, pale-gree 
the venation slender, inconspicuous, slightly 3 -nerved by the rong: 
basal secondaries; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; umbels 5—10-flowered ; 
pedicels sna mostly longer at maturity ‘tan the peduncles; calyx 
green, rotate, about 8 mm. broad, divided nearly to the base, the 
lobes Cage acuminate a and acute; corolla sulphur- 
yellow with a purple eye, 2 cm. broad, subrotate, shallowly 5- 
lobed, the lobes triangulate ; outer crown purple, closely adnate to 
the corolla; scales of the inner crown about 2 mm. long, saccate, 
