pointed at both ends, entire, bright-green, thin, 18-20 pairs of 
slender secondaries moderately upcurved, regu larly connected by 
straight secondaries ; peduncles 5 cm. long, lightly angled, the 
rachis more so; panicle (but one seen) about 1.2 glm. lon cm. 
broad, obviously immature, regularly pyramidal, rounded at the 
apex, ‘a ax, the branches at right angles, dilated at the Aap with 
the rachis, minutely aes bracted; pedicels 5 mm. long, slender; 
calyx-tube blackish, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, ee campan- 
ulate, the limb abruptly eis ae lobes about 1 mm. ere and 
broad, triangular, obtuse; corolla 1 cm. long, densely tomentose, 
lightly contracted near the base, then regularly infundibular, the 
lobes 2 mm. long, triangular; stigmas exserted 2 mm., flattened, 
large. (Vo. 2074, in part. 
Apparently the same collected by Sfruce near San Gabriel on 
the Rio Negro. 
Mapourea TRISTIS Muell.-Arg. Flora 9°: 458, 465. 1876. “A 
shrub 6 to 10 ft. high, growing in wet mould, in forest.” 
Uchimachi, Coroico, August 12, 1894. (Vo. 23778.) 
Cephaelis conephoroides sp. nov 
rous; branches a a ee ae weak, flexuous, 
blackish; stipules 5-8 mm. long s broad or broader, ovate, 
abruptly short-acuminate and ey oe nen rigid, appressed ; 
oblanceolate, acute at the base, abruptly contracted into a short 
attenuate point, entire, dark-green and slightly shining, thick, the 
summit, the black branches umbellate or fascicled, subtended by 
ovate, acute, spreading pidels about 5 mm. pee regularly thickened 
from "the base peak -3 cm. long, sharply quadrangular, the 
sides 1-nerved; flowers te ernate, sessile; calyx hemispherical-tur- 
binate, the limb ee erect, shortly sinuately 5-lobed, minutely 
fimbriate or ciliate; corolla- tube c cylindraceous, slightly dilated at 
about the middle, sub-contracted at the mouth, thick and tough, 
the lobes valvate in the bud with the apices fncuned. recurved in 
anthesis; stamens inserted a little below the middle of the tube, 
the filaments very short, naked except at the very base; the anthers 
eee blunt at both ends, naked; style capillary, exserted, the 
branches linear, slightly flattened, thick, blunt, recurved; eet 
one in each cell, erect, obovate, flattened, truncate, short, ‘smooth 
and shining. (.Vo. 2866 
The same as xo. 766, and Rusby 2559, both published as ‘+ Cozs- 
sarea?” Also collected by Pearce at Moro, 3,000-4,000 ft., July, 
