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EcuITEs PELTATA Vell. Fl. Flum. 110; 3: AZ. 32. (Wo. 2804.) 
Echites cyaniphylla sp. nov. 
Glabrous; stems very slender, purple, finely many-nerved; 
ea fee cm. long, slender, keeled; blades 0.6-1 dm. lon ng, 
—4 ¢ oad, oval, varying to ovate or obovate, mostly inequi- 
ia a ed broad but slightly produced, abruptly short-acu- 
minate and cuspidate at the apex, deep-green, the younger purple, 
the venation slender, lightly’ prominent both sides, coarsely retic- 
ulate; peduncles 2-3 cm. long, thicker at the summit, not dichot- 
omous; pedicels about 1 cm. long; calyx-tube short-cupulate, 3-4 
mm. broad; lobes 5 mm. long, lance-oblong, obtuse, faintly nerved, 
their sinuses acute; corolla greenish-yellow, hypocrateriform, the 
tube about 12 long, dilated at base and summit, the limb in 
bud broadly a and acutish, the lobes 8-10 mm. long, obovate; 
follicles 3 dm. more long, lightly curved, k, as 
5-7 mm. thic 
pressed, scarcely, pre seed 12 mm. long, inequilateraly lance- 
oblong, dark-green with white nerves and a short whitish beak, the 
coma about 1.5 cm. long, spirally twisted, white, copious. 
2267. 
Probably the same as a specimen in herb. Kew collected by 
Saunders at Bogota, but not the same as Ausby 2783, which it 
closely resembles. 
Echites Bangii sp. nov. 
eee es 1-2 cm. long, flat, striate; blades 0.7-1. 
dm. long. 3-7 cm. broad, oval or oblong, rounded to subcordate at 
the base, ae and very acutely short-pointed, thin, deep-green 
above, drying yellowish underneath, the slender midrib an 
airs of secondaries sharply prominent mee benen the latter con- 
nected by the crooked tertiaries; peduncles 3-4 cm. long, loosely 
about 1o-flowered; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, stoutish, subulate- 
bracted ; calyx-tube cupulate, 1.5 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, truncate 
at the base, the lobes 4 mm. long, ovate, ee at the ie pe 
cm. +7 . bro 
pressed, cylindrical, the middle portion eee dilated, the obs 
abruptly spreading, 1 cm. ae immature pod 4 m. long, linear 
and very slender. (Wo. ee in part, and 2054, in part. 
Arenaria was also numbered 2053.) 
? EcnirTes sp. flowers wanting. oe 
?Ecuires sp. Neither flowers nor Me oat (No. 2277.) 
Mandevilla boliviana (Britton) Rusby. (chites boliviana 
Britton; Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 219.) (Vo. 2057.) The 
same as xo. 552 and Rusby 2382. 
Mandevilla Rusbyi Britton, sp. nov. 
Coarsely and somewhat harshly short-tomentose throughout, in- 
