(422) 
CYPHOMANDRA FRAXINELLA Sendt. in Mart. Flor. Bras. 10: 122. 
(Wo. 2248.) The same as Rusby 800. 
CYPHOMANDRA ACUMINATA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 196. 
(Vo. 2282 
VASSOBIA gen. nov. 
Calyx small, the tube short-turbinate, the limb crateriform, lightl 
and unequally lobed; corolla valvate, broadly campanulate, appar- 
ently viscid; stamens 5 (occasionally 6), included, adherent to the 
base of the corolla-tube, one higher than the others, the filaments 
much shorter than the anthers, dilated at the base, the anthers ob- 
long, straight, their cells parallel, without pores, dehiscing com- 
straight, thickened toward the summit, the stigma lightly and un- 
equally 2-lobed; fruit not seen 
A large herb (?) with simple, membranaceous, flaccid leaves and 
lax, terminal clusters of cymes which elongate by the successive 
evolution of the branches of one side. he rachis is nodose by 
the prominent scars of fallen flowers. 
This plant has cymes which much resemble those of Cypho- 
mandra, but want the thickened connective of that genus. From 
Solanum, it is excluded by the absence of anther-pores. Its flowe 
are nearly those of Poeczlochroma, but the habit, and eee 
the foliage and inflorescence, are totally different. 
Vassobia atropoides sp. nov. 
Finely viscid-pubescent, the branchlets slender and, like the foli- 
age and inflorescence, widely spreading; petioles 5-r1o or more cm. 
long; blades 10-25 cm. long, 7-18 cm. broad, obtuse or acutish, at 
the base acute, thin, drying brownish; cyme compound, the pe- 
duncles of its principal branches 5-8 cm. long; pedicels 1.25-2.5 
cm. long, dilated toward the summit, fleshy; calyx about 4~5 mm 
broad, the rounded lobes short and very broad; corolla deep blue- 
purple, about 1 cm. long, campanulate, divided one third of the way 
to the base; stamens nearly equaling the tube of the corolla; an- 
thers 3 mm. long, die oval, yellow, on very short filaments; 
fruit not seen. (JVo. 2675.) 
PHYSALIS BARBADENSIS Jacq. Misc. 2: 359. (Specimen without 
number.) The same as Jenman 5086 and Bernoulli 175 from 
Guatemala. 
PHYSALIS PERUVIANA L. Sp, Pl. ed. 2. 1670. (No. 7783.) 
