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ee about 10 pairs, eine by the tertiaries; panicles 
axillary and terminal, loosely branched at the base, the dense 
eens 3-8 cm. long, 1 ae cm. broad, mostly floriferous to the 
ase, the branchlets mostly 3-flowered, the bracts lance-linear, 
mm. broad, ovate, obtuse, unguiculate, the exterior equal, 2 mm. 
broad, strongly pa Saale the base sub-auriculate on one side, 
oe 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, ovate, acute; larger petal 5 
m. long, the ay rounded and recur -ved, al eee ar and 
pale. ees below; lateral petals 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, 
inequilaterally oblanceolate with rounded apex, the re white- 
bearded; penis eget mm. long, very irregular, subsulcate; 
stamens 3 mm. long, the anthers 1 mm. long; pistil 3 mm. long, 
sa ovary and base of ane densely long Mig ee. eee very 
mall. (Vo. 2872 or 2412.) Species near 7. vzl 
se floccosa sp. nov. 
nchlets elongated, slender, purplish, the younger portions 
sae Aocese, the internodes mostly about 3-5 cm. long; stipules 
erect, 1 cm. long, lance-linear, attenuate and acute, canescent, de- 
ciduous; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, stout, mostly recurved; blades 
4-8 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad, ovate to obovate, mostly inequilateral, 
rounded to sub-cordate at base, short-acuminate and very acute at 
the apex, entire, above dark-green, white-floccose, rugose with 
strongly impressed veins, underneath tomentellate and ferruginous, 
the venation prominent, Sano the secondaries about 8 pairs; in- 
florescence, including uter surface of the calyx, densely short 
gray-tomentose ; panicles aye cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, dense, except 
at the base, their branchlets mostly 2- or 3- -flow ered; bracts 5-8 
mm. long, lance-ovate, attenuate and acute; pedicels very short, 
slender; anterior sepal 16mm. long, 5 mm. br oad, ovate, obtusish, 
strongly concave, sessile by a broad base, the exterior mae the 
same length, 3 mm. broad, slightly inequilateral, the inner 7 m 
long, 3 mm. Bread: highly inequilateral and slightly fic. ere 
ointed, paler; large petal . long, pale above, yellowish with 
intruded folds at the Siew the broad sac purple and densely 
purple-bearded eas the apex rounded or lightly emarginate; 
anterior petals 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, oblanceolate or spatu- 
late, the apex eer -d, inequilateral and slightly falcate, the base 
bearded; the lateral very irregular, 4 mm. long, subsaccate, nO 
bearded; stamens 3 mm. long, the larger anthers 1 mm. lon 
glands 4, united in pairs, ‘red- -purple, 1 mm. long, irregularly aaa 
rangular, oval or orbicular; perfect stamens 5 or 6, unequal; pistil 
as long as the stamens, the ovary and base of the stout ae densely 
long white-pilose. 
‘6 A climber with yellowish-white flowers. One plant found, in 
wet clay, at Coripata, May 14, 1894.” (Vo. 2zgr.) 
