(474) 
TOURNEFORTIA OBscURA A. DC. Prodr. 9: 517. ‘*A shrub 
about 5 ft. high, with greenish-white flowers; in mud and clay.” 
Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2470.) The same as fusby 
1922. 
Tournefortia ovalifolia sp. nov. 
Branchlets elongated, stoutish, purple, harsh, with very short, 
stout, scattered hairs, the hairs of the inflorescence, calle and corolla 
ecoming more slender and soft; petioles about 1 cm. long, broadly 
channeled, dilated at the base; blades 0.6-1 dm. long, 3-6 cm. 
broad, oval, abruptly slightly produced at the base and abruptly 
and acutely short-pointed, thin, dark-green, the venation not prom- 
inent above, the midrib and 10-12 pairs of strongly gece: 
secondaries prominent underneath, yellowish or purplish; pedunc 
2-3 cm. long, stout; cyme successively bifurcating, the fae 
elongated and stout and the cyme pneu very broad; mili 
i 2-3 mm. apart; pedicels 2-3 mm. long, stoutish; calyx 
- lo m. broad, deeply parte a. the base truncate, the 
ince lanceolate, erect; corolla-tube cylindraceous, 5 mm. long, 
mm. br as pressed, the lobes 1.5 mm. long, rotund-oval; 
style 3 mm. long, very stout, the stigma 1 mm. long, conical, 1 
mm. broad and annulate at the base; fruit (mature?) globose-ovoid, 
3 mm. long and broa 
‘© A small plant with green flowers; scarce in forest-mould.” 
Unduavi, September 4, 1894. (Wo. 2 
HELIOTROPIUM INUNDATUM Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 40. 
(Vo. 2848.) 
Heliotropium (Orthostachys) Bangii sp. nov. 
Gray-pilose with rather short, appressed hairs; stems numerous 
from a short base, eon 1-1.5 dm. long in my specimens, 
slender ; ce 3-7 mm. long, broad; blades 1.5-3 cm. long, 
0.5-I cm. broad, oval- ae ‘acute at the base, blunt or heise at 
the summit, bright-green, the midrib and 2 or 3, pairs of secondaries 
impressed above, at least in the young leaves, very prominent and 
strongly pilose underneath; cymes in the upper axils, 3-5 mm. 
long, racemiform; pedicels 2 mm. long; calyx campanulate in 
flower, parted to the base, the lobes 2 mm. long, oval, obtusish; 
corolla-tube 1 mm. long, campanulate with contracted summit, the 
lobes nearly 1 mm. long, spreading, white; anthers less than o. 5 
mm. long, ovate, short-acuminate, reaching to the base of the lobes; 
pistil o.5 mm. long; ovary brownish-yellow, globose; stigma about 
half as large as the nite ane a little more than 2 mm. broad, a 
little less than 2 mm. long, compressed, umbilicate at the apex, 
re at base, Sea the nutlets closely coherent in pairs. 
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LVos. r977 and 2505 are the same. 
