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Specimen more ferruginous than either Matthew's 3054 or my 
1240, and the leaves and flowers much larger. 
MENISPERMACEAE 
Cissampelos Parera L. Sp. Pl. 1031. Mapiri, July-August, 1892 
(1552a and 1553) — Rusby's 1444, etc. 
BERBERIDEAE. 
Berberis Agapatensis Lechl. Berb. Austr. 44 (?). A little above 
Cochabamba, 1891 (1091). 
Spines larger (some 5-parted) and leaves broader than in the 
type. 
BERBERIS PHYLLACANTHA Sp. n. 
Stout, densely branched and densely leafy, the branches at an 
lets terete, not fissured, scurfy-puberulent; spines phylloid, 12- 
24 mm. long, with well- differentiated petio ole es and veins, of one or 
two pairs of lateral and a terminal division, all similar, triangular- 
subulate and very pungent, yellowish-brown; branchlets about 6- 
leaved, the scales blackish, of similar form and markings to the 
petioles of the spines, closely appressed; petioles distinct but 
mostly concealed by the scales, 2-5 mm. long, dilated italien 
orange-colored, 5—7-costate; blades 1-2.5 cm. long, 5-15 m 
broad, obovate with cuneate base, pungent broad apex and bout 
3 pairs of large triangular pungent teeth with obtuse sinuses, mar- 
gin slightly revolute; very thick and rigid, glabrous, above bright 
or pale green and shining, underneath yellowish, the veins promi- 
nent on both sides, especially underneath; flowers mostly solitary, 
from reddish bracts 7 mm. long by 10-12 mm. broad, on scabrous 
upwardly thickened pedicels 6-7 mm. long, the sepals orange- 
yellow with a red middle portion; fruit black, glaucous, globose, 8 
mm. in diameter, tipped by the style and large stigma. 
Sorata, Nov., 1892 (1614). 
The same as Mandon’s no. 862. 
CAPPARIDEAE. 
Cleome glandulosa R. & P. ex DC. Prod. 1: 238. Espirito Santo, 
1891 (1197) — Rusby's 734. 
Cleome aculeata L. Syst. Ed. 12, 3: 232. Guanai, July, 1892 
(1585.) 
