(350) 
short and dense, 3-5 cm. broad in full bloom; bracts 5 mm. lon 
broadly ovate, acuminate and acute, stron gly nerved ; calyx-tube 
about 4mm. long,campanulate, the lobes of about the same length, 
regularly see lg ds acuminate and acute, the sinuses about equal- 
ing them; calyx brown, thick, oo strongly aes styles ap- 
parently shod: twice the length of the stamens; fruit n 
«¢ A slender tree 15 ft. high, bs greenish flowers, _ wet forest 
mould, scarce.” Near Coroico, July 10, 1894. (Vo. 2333.) 
Inga rugosa sp. nov. 
Shortly and densely tomentose, ferruginous or gray, the branch- 
lets oF angled; stipules not seen; petioles (only the upper- 
most seen) 5-10 cm. long, stout, very slightly margined; leaflets 
two a hes cm. apart, eubsessile, ne rachis margined; leaflets 
1.5-2. . long, 0.6-1 dm. broad, the upper somewhat larger, 
ovate, fans or obovate, i area cee at the base, acute at 
the apex, thick, the midrib lightly prominent above, strongly promi- 
nent underneath, like the 12-15 pairs of principal secondaries, each 
alternating with one or two short lesser ones, the upper surfaces 
slightly hard, the lower soft; peduncles axillary, and fascicled at 
the apex, 4-5 cm. long, very stout; heads elongated, dense, about 
: campa 
long, rigid, broadly ovate, acute; corolla about twice the length of 
the calyx, densely white-hirsute, the lobes 3 mm. long, ovate, ob- 
tuse; fruit not seen 
‘A tree zo to 30 ft. high, with white flowers, abundant in damp 
forest-mould, the timber used for building.” Calapampa, Yungas, 
July 30, 1894. (Vo. 2764.) Species near Z. Afigueliana. 
ROSACEAE 
Hirtella lightioides sp. nov. 
Branchlets stout, spreading, purple, terete, papillose; stipules 
5m 
inconspicuou long, lance-ovate; ong, very 
stout, ferruginous; blades 6-12 cm. long, 3-7 c road, ovate 
oval, rounded at the base, eee short-acuminate and obtuse at 
the apex, entire, thick and rigid, pale-green, above minutel 
scabrous and the veins lightly prominent, underneath finely stellate- 
scabrous, with the prominent veins strongly reticulate, the second- 
aries 12-14 pairs, connecting near the margin; peesasaans 
strongly ferruginous, the erect solitary loose panicles 6-10 ¢ oe 
including the peduncle, which is of very irregular length, on cm 
broad, the branches mostly cymosely a-flowered ; bracts m. 
long, lance-linear, attenuate and acute, the bractlets half as long, 
ovate; pedicels spreading, 3 mm. long, very stout, thickened 
