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into the petiole, at the summit abruptly contracted and then nar- 
rowed into a long, lightly curved, acute acumination, coriaceous, 
drying pale-green above, brown beneath, the purple midrib and 
cially so beneath; panicles solitary in the axils, mostly shorter than 
the leaves, peduncled, the Fag rachis and branches slender; 
staminate flowers only seen; bud globose, 1.5 mm. in diameter ; 
wer 3-4 mm. broad; calyx- -tube ean perianth-segments 
thin, oval, a little longer than their stamens; filaments of first and 
sile, subglobose glands near the base; fourth series very small, 
lance-linear, thickish, obtuse; ovary wanting 
Species near O. corymbosa (Meissn.) Mez. 
232 and z5&4, distributed and published as ‘‘ EupHorBia GENICU- 
L. 
803, **URTICA sSUBINCISA,” is U. MAGELLANICA Juss.; Poir. 
Encyc. Suppl. 4: 223. 1833. 
z27, ‘*URTICA FLABELLATA,” is 
Urtica Trianae sp. nov. 
Pistillate plants only seen. Tall and slender, = stems be ei 
sparsely prickly; petioles very slender, 0.5—2 cm. long, the blades 
3-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, ovate, slightly cu abe: acute, "hin 
bright-green, sparsely prickly on the upper sede flabellately 5- 
nerved, the nerves very sle oa slightly prominent underneath ; 
margin deeply serrate, the t lance-ovate, cea scarcely 
acute; racemes pubescent, ale, no » O.5-1.5 cm. long 
and more than half as thick; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers 2 mm 
long; akene 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, ovoid, turgid, blunt, 
smooth. 
Vic. La. Paz, 1889. The same collected by Zrzaxa in New 
Grenada. 
1237 and 17658, ‘“*ETHERIUM RACEMOSUM” (misprint for 
Lithanium), should be RENEALMIA MICRANTHA K. Sch. 
623, ‘*SIsYRINCHIUM IRIDIFOLIUM,” is probably S. LEUCANTHUM 
olla. 
1624, published as ‘¢ HippeastruM Manpont,” is 
Hippeastrum soratense sp. nov. 
Leaves minutely puberulent under a lens, 3-4 dm. long, 
cm. broad, linear or a little broader above the middle, obtuse at ee 
tip, strongly about 30-nerved, the ane dark ; scapes very stout, 
2-3 dm. long, 1 cm. or more broad, as pressed ; bracts 4-5 cm. 
long, lanceolate, 1.25-1.5 cm. ee at the base; pedicels about 
