(433 ) 
Duranta Pearcei sp. nov. 
A shrub with slender ascending branchlets; branchlets, inflores- 
cence and lower leaf-surfaces ferruginous-velvety, the upper leaf- 
surfaces chased puberulent; internodes about 12 mm. long; 
petioles 3-4 mm. long, stout; blades 4-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, 
oblong-ovate, ea or lightly cordate at the base, acute, see 
thick, the Aeop picenie about 8-ro on each side, connect- 
ing near margin, the stout midrib and venation lightly promi- 
nent sr en tt panicles terminal, pyramidal; flowers not seen 
fruiting porns 2 mm. long, very slender, somewhat thickened 
upward; calyx persistent after the fall of the fruit asa thick, circu- 
ae black, disk- a body 0.5 mm. broad, the lobes obscure, semi- 
reular; fruit mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, pyriform with 
ee naire ee and rounded summit, ner ferruginous. 
‘« About 3 m. high, in dry gravelly soil.” Near Coroico, Yungas. 
(No. 2406, but distributed as 2806.) Also collected by Pearce at 
Callican, 8,000 to 9,000 ft. 
LABIATAE 
OcIMUM MICRANTHUM Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 630. (Vo. 
2542. 
MESOSPHAERUM BREVIPES (Poit.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 525. 
ig brevipes Poit. Ann. Mus. Par. 7: 465. 1806. (No. 
2612 
Mesosphaerum pallidum sp. nov. 
Finely strigose; branches slender, erect, ees odie “gray, 
obtusely quadrangular and striate, the internodes 5- . long; 
petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, consisting of the narrowed Tea bees. 
ades 4-8 cm. long, 1-3 cm. broad, obovate, rather abruptly con- 
tracted into the narrow base, obtusish to blunt at the apex, coarsely 
serrate with obtusish teeth, pale-green, thick, the venation lightly 
prominent above, more so un erneath, the secondaries a about 7 
bracts 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, ovate, blunt, long-pilose; calyx 
pilose, 1.5 mm. long, lobed about half-way, the tube turbinate, dark, 
the pale-green lobes lance-oblong, obtuse, the apices lightly inflexed ; 
corolla-tube 2 mm. long, lightly sigmoid-curved, the 
as large as the lateral, which are connected with the lower to form 
the anterior lip; lower lobe twice the length of the others, narrow, 
pole tua containing the rather large anthers; nutlets nearly 1 
, obovoid, the apex rounded, deep-brown, minutely 
eT “slightly shining. 
