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PILEA FILIPES Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 311. (Vo. 7788.) 
PILeA vURERIFOLIA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 312. (Vo. 
2374.) The same as Rusby rg8r. 
BoEHMERIA BREVIROSTRIS Wedd. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 1: 201. 
1854. (Vo. 7800.) The same as Rusby 1280 and 7281. 
MyRIoCARPA DENSIFLORA Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 169, in obs. 
(No. 2279.) 
PHENAX PALLIDA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 259. (Wo. 
2562.) 
MYRICACEAE 
Myrica arcuta H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 17. pl. 98 ‘¢A shrub 
15—20 ft. high growing in rather dry gravel and clay; scarce.” 
Coripata, April 4, 1894. (Vos. 2808, 20g9 and 27212.) 
CASUARINEAE 
Lacistema aggregatum (Berg.). (Piper aggregatum Berg. Act. 
Helv. 7: 131. pd. zo. 1977. Fide Swartz. — Lactstema 
myricotdes Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 12.) ‘+A shrub 
about 8 ft. high, in hedges, in gravelly soil along roadsides; 
abundant.” Coroico, August 30,1894. (Vos. 2g00 and 2552.) 
CUPULIFERAE 
ALNUS ACUMINATA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 20. (Vo. 7893.) 
BURMANNIACEAE 
Apteria boliviana sp. nov. 
Glabrous; roots pei rather coarse; stems rhizomatous at the 
base, the erect portio —4 cm. long, subfiliform, dark-blue, 
sparsely branched, ae branches erect; leaf-vestiges 2 mm. long, 
ovate, acute, sheathing by a broad base, brownish, scarious ; flowers 
late; lobes 6, about 1 mm. long, three of them broader; stamens 
inserted about the middle of the tube, 1 -5 mm. long, the filaments 
very short, thick and fleshy, the wing at the base of the anthers 
about 1.5 mm. broad, 1 mm. long, the thecae a little more than 
half the length of the wing; ovary 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, 
oval; style thick and fleshy, 3 mm. long, the branches 1 mm. long, 
broadly dilated upward, the summit rounded or subtruncate, the 
delicate appendages (of texture similar to the wings of the stamens) 
about as long as the style-branches. (Specimen without number.) 
Species near A. /lactna Miers. 
