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BaRNADESIA VENOSA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 69. With a 
specimen of this plant, Mr. Bang sends the following statement : 
‘«T have found this plant as a tall shrub, the stem as stout as a 
man’s leg, and full of thorns like long needles.” Sacramento, 
Yungas, August, 1894. 
Barnadesia inermis sp. nov. 
Short-pubescent; branchlets stout, flexuous, mostly about 2 dm. 
long, very leafy, erect; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long; blades 5-8 cm. 
long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, oblong, obtuse at the base, very acute or 
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underneath short-hairy, the hairs appressed, the venation prominent, 
strongly 3-nerved, the nerves continued into the midrib; peduncles 
axillary to the upper leaves, about 1 cm. long; stout, erect, about 
5-flowered; peduncles of the heads 3-5 mm. long; involucres 
campanulate, about 1 cm. lon many-serialle ed, the a: green- 
ish, acute, strongly ciliate, the inne ermost lanceolate, the outer- 
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receptacle densely short-scaly; akenes oblong, stout, pilose, 2.5-3 
mm. long; pappus coarse, rigid, very strongly plumose, tawny, 
the plume whitish; corollas 7 mm. long, fissured more than half- 
way, 5-lobed, the lobes 2 mm. long, narrow; upper portion = 
corolla reflexed or recurved; anthers 3.5 mm. long, slenderly ca 
date; style-branches very short, flattened, the apex rounded. 
“‘Climbing very high on trees in damp forest-mould. The flowers 
are yellow, with an agreable odor, and very different from those 
of 2335, which are white.” Near Coroico, Yungas, August 5, 1894. 
(Vo. 2372.) 
CuHuquiRacua FEROX (Wedd.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 1g: 
266. 189 887. 
Chuquiragua varians (Gardn.). (flotovia vartans Gardn. 
Lond. Jour. Bot. 6: 454. 1847.) ‘*A thorny climber, with 
white flowers, growing in wet forest-mould.” Calapampa, June 
24, 1894. (Mo. 2335.) 
Moquinia boliviana sp. nov. 
Shortly stellate-tomentose throughout, very slightly upon the 
upper leaf-surfaces; branches slender, fle aie slightly coarse- 
angled below, the internodes about 2-4 c ong; petioles 1-1.5 
cm. long, very stout; blades o.5-1 dm iene. 3.5-7 cm. br 
ovate, shallowly cordate at the base, rounded and mostly retuse 
