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flowered; mature buds nearly globular, 4 mm. long, the nearly cir- 
ae calyx-lobes almost half its length, the broadly oval glands 
cluding the slender claw, about 6 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, alent 
ees Seca ay bgt 1.5 cm. long; fruit 
long, 6-9 mm. wide; base of wing 3-4 mm broad, the neat 
paar on two thirds of the way from base to summit; glands 
broadly oval, about 1.5 mm. long. (Vo. 2872.) 
The same collected by Pearce at Chailla, 4,000 to 5,000 ft., May, 
1866, and deposited in Herb. Kew under the name B. Spruceana. 
Banisteria sanguinea sp. nov. 
Branches stoutish, beni red-purple, the younger portions, a 
the peduncles, pedicels and lower leaf-surfaces ferruginous-tom 
tose; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, stout, sub-terete, and, like the a: 
ribs underneath, red- aaa blades 5-9 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, 
oval-ovate, rounded t the base, obtuse at the apex, entire, thickish, 
le mm 1, lax; pedicels 0.5-1 cm. long, slender, erect, 
slightly thickened upward, bearing a aad of purple, oblong bracts 
about 1.5 mr length; calyx 3 m ng, uo the 
apex, plane, lightly auriculate, the margin slightly crisped; fila- 
ments bright-crimson, 2.5 mm. long, erect, slightly tapering 
upward; anthers gray, 1 mm. long, obtuse; ovaries 2 mm. long, 
ferruginous-pilose; style bright-crimson, 2 mm, long, not oblique, 
the stigma scarcely distinguishable. 
‘¢In wet forest-mould, climbing high upon trees, the flower light- 
red; scarce.” Coripata, Yungas, May 15, 1894. (lVo. 2792.) 
Banisteria cinerea sp. nov. 
Branches much elongated, slender, terete, the youngest portions 
hoary; petioles 1 cm. long, stout, flat or shallowly grooved upon the 
upper oe the two ellipsoidal glands a at the junction eas ae blade, 
2 mm. long, black; blades 0.8-1.2 dm. long, 3.5— broad, 
oblong ae oval, blunt at the base, abruptly ere cumia and 
acute at the apex, entire, coriaceous, above dark-green, drying 
brown, ae ee shining, the midrib grooved, underneath sil- 
very-gray with an exceedingly fine tomentum, but not shining, the 
stout, terete midrib and 7 or 8 pairs of slender secondaries prom- 
other in a coarse reticulation; flowers panicled, racemed upon the 
