(331) 
? Cripa Manponi Britten & Baker fil. Jour. Bot. 34: 175. 1896. 
This has but five leaflets. (Vo. 7949.) 
STERCULIACEAE 
Helicteres amplifolia sp. nov. 
Shortly stellate-tomentellate and ferruginous ; branches elongated, 
stoutish, flexuous, angled, the internodes mostly about 4-7 cm 
. ab 
petioles ae en ae stout, sub-terete; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 
lon 
eae campanulate with the mouth sliehdy contracted, the lobes 
I long, oval, the base slightly narrower, acutish, 1I-nerved; 
hele deep-red, exceeding the calyx by about 5 mm., the limb oval, 
obtuse; stamen-column exserted nearly 7 cm.; anthers 10, 3-4 mm. 
10g style alae mm. long; fruit not seen. (Vo. 2648.) Species 
r Hl. barnens 
een POLYSTACHYA (H.B.K.) Tr. & Pl. Ann. Sci. Nat. 
IV. 17: 341. 1862. (Mougeotia polystachya H.B.K. Nov. 
Gen. §: 328.) (Vo. 28r0 or 2gr0.) The same collected by 
Pearce at Coroico, 3,000-4,000 ft., December, 1865. Burchell 
‘* 6697-2” may be the same. 
? MELOCHIA NODIFLORA Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 97. ‘+ 4-6 ft. 
high, with light-red flowers, in wet cultivated ground.” Cori- 
pata, Yungas, April 16, 1894. (Vo. 2732.) 
Melochia yungasensis sp. no 
Pubescence minute; root dk stout, woody, a branched ; 
stems numerous, erect or ascending from nc crown, slen- 
der, 3-5 dm. long, nearly simple, the internodes ra 2em. tiene: 
angled, reddish-brown; stipules 2-3 mm. long, lance-ovate, acute; 
petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, slender; blades 2.5-4 cm. long, 2-3 cm. 
broad, ovate, somewhat t inequilateral, cordate, acuminate on acute, 
coarsely an an d irregularly serrate, thin, bright-green above, pale and 
the venation prominent | underneath, the secondaries about six pairs, 
at an angle of about 45°, reddish ; ‘lowe ers few, on slender pedicels 
shorter than themselves; calyx 4 mm. long, divided two-thirds to 
the base, the lobes ovate, acuminate, acute; corolla 6 mm. long, 
the petals very short-clawed; filaments lightly coherent to near the 
summit, broad, membranaceous, shining, brown, a little more than 
1 mm. long; anthers 1 mm. long, broadly ovate, usually flattened ; 
