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BIXINEAE 
CocHLOsPERMUM HIBISCIOIDES Kunth, Syn. Pl. Aeq. 3: 214. 
(No. 7978.) 
Xylosma ovata sp. nov. 
(Specimens in fruit.) Younger portions of the branchlets and 
the veins underneath blackish-glandular, hairy, otherwise glabrous ; 
branchlets stout, flexuous; petioles 5 mm. long, very stout; blades 
4¥-15 cm. long, 4-6 cm. broad, ovate, the base rounded, the apex 
abruptly short-acuminate and obtuse, nA and sub- ‘obsoletely 
serrate, thickish, rigid; midrib and secondaries prominent under- 
neath, the latter about 10 a ; axillary faces about 5—7-fruited, 
the blackish bractlets pune m. long, subulate, thick and rigid, the 
pedicels filiform, 2.5-4 ¢ m. long; fruit broadly ovoid, sade) 1 cm. 
long, the style very short and much broader, the sti w 
lobed, peltate, thick, nearly 1 mm. broad (in fruit) ; ae eae 
ovoid, smooth, 4 mm. long. (Vo. 2782.) 
‘«©A shrub, about 6 ft. high, in wet, shaded forest-mould.” 
Sacramento, Yungas, August 14, 1894. 
POLYGALACEAE 
PoLYGALA SPECTABILIS (DC. Prodr. 1: 331) var. minor Cho- 
dat, var. nov 
Flowers one-third smaller than in the type. (Vo. 2803 or 2403.) 
PoLtycaLa anGusTiFotiaA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 405, pl. 527 
(non Bennett). ‘¢Abundant in coca plantations and other culti- 
vated grounds.” Coripata, Yungas, March 20, 1894. Flowers 
white. (Vo. 2096.) 
PotycaLa FormosA A. W. Bennett, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 19. 
(No. 2674.) The same as Rusby 7908. 
BREDEMEYERA FLORIBUNDA Willd. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Neue 
Schr. 3: 412. 1801. Coripata, Yungas, April 23,1894. (Vo. 
2143.) ‘+A shrub, 15—-z0 feet high, rather thin and climbing, 
with greenish-yellow flowers. Rather scarce, in good rich 
mould, river bank.” The same as Pearce’s specimens from 
Chairo, 4,000-5,000 ft., April, 1866. 
Monnina BOLiviensis A. W. Bennett, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 20 
(No. 1970.) The same as Rusby 7970. 
Monnina PaRviFLoRA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 419. ‘* Shrub 
about 6 feet high, with blue flowers, growing in clayey forest 
