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ERICACEAE 
PERNETTYA PHILLYREAEFOLIA (Pers.) DC. Prodr.7: 587. (Ar- 
butus phillyreaefolia Pers. Syn.1: 483.) (Vo. 190g.) Thisis 
the same as xo. 766, Rusby 2027, Mandon 553, and a specimen 
collected by Ba// in western Patagonia. Bang 2047 may be the 
same, and is placed here provisionally. 
PERNETTYA PARVIFOLIA Benth. Pl. Hartw. 219. (JVo. 72907.) 
This is the same as Rusby 2023 and Triana’s New Grenada zo. 
GAULTHERIA CONFERTA Benth. Pl. Hartw. 219. (Vo. 7905.) 
he same as 70. 707. 
GAULTHERIA BRACHYBOTRYS DC. Prodr. 7: 595. (os. 1906 
and 2002.) The same as Rusby 20174. 
Clethra elongata sp. nov. 
Branchlets ped stout, tomentellate, and densely leafy at the 
summit; petio -2 cm. long; blades 0.8-1.5 dm. long, 3-6 cm 
broad, Ash eee acute at the base, very short-pointed and acute 
at the apex, obsoletely serrate, the teeth mere projections of the 
veins; nee rather thin, but rigid, above glabrous with the midrib 
ondaries pops auel and deeply channelled, 
secondaries very prominent: We tertiaries meeting about mid- 
pedicels bracted at the base, the bracts linear, about 2 mm. lon 
abruptly deflexed; pedicels 3-5 mm. long, slender, ee 
calyx-tube nearly hemispherical, 2 mm. broad, the lobes 
long, ovate, obtuse, indistinctly 3—5-nerved ; petals 3.5 mm ong. 
‘cA stout tree 30 to 35 ft. high, with very pleasantly Bagiaat 
white flowers, in forest mould.” Uchimachi, Coroico, July 20, 
1894. (Vo. 2351.) 
MYRSINACEAE 
MyrsiINE GUIANENSIS (Aubl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 402. 
(Rapanea guianenszs Aubl. Pl. Guian. 1: 121.) (Vo. 2049.) 
The same as xo. 146. 
Peckia purpurea sp. nov. 
Stems stout, coarsely angled, purple, finely speed: petioles 
1.5-2 cm. a ng, stout and broad, purple; blades 1.5-2.5 dmu long, 
4. . broad, oblanceolate, tapering into the petiole, abruptly 
sree eee the point acuminate and acute, entire, thin but rigid, 
