CaPPARIS BANGII sp. n. 
Minutely scabrous throughout, the sepals light gray outside ; 
branchlets terete, flexuous, the internodes about 1-2 cm. long; 
stipules setaceous, caducous; petioles 5~7 mm. long, broad; blades 
5-8 cm, long, 2-4 cm. broad, ovate with rounded base and short- 
pointed obtusish apex, coarsely sinuate-dentate toward the apex, 
coriaceous and rigid, above dark green and finely lepidote, under- 
neath pale, venation inconspicuous above, the midrib and 
pairs of primaries somewhat prominent underneath; flowers solitary 
in the axils, on stout angled gray peduncles 1.5 cm. long ; bud ob- 
long, obtuse; sepals valvate, free, 2 cm. long, linear-oblanceolate, 
obtuse, gray without, reddish (?) and scurfy within; petals a little 
exceeding the sepals, apparently rose-colored; stamens very 
numerous, shorter than the pistil; fruit not seen 
Tipuani, Jan., 1893 (1642). 
VIOLARIEAE. 
Viola verontcacfolia Pl. et. Lind. Ann. Sci. Nat. (IV.) 17: 121 
Vic. Mapiri, 12,000 ft., Sept., 1892 (1578) — 823. 
Viola pygmaea Juss.; Poir.in Lam. Encyc.8: 630. Vic. Mapiri, 
12,000 ft, Sept., 1892 (1579 and 1579a). Also collected by 
Mandon and by Pearce in the Andes of Yungas. 
ViorA Bancu ( = V. nivalis Benth. Pl. Hartw. 160, not R. & S.). 
Sorata, Nov., 1892 (1616) — Mandon's 940, and collected by 
Jameson and others in Ecuador. 
RINOREA VIRIDIFOLIA Sp. n. 
Glabrous, fruticose, much branched, the branches and branch- 
lets slender, ascending, grayish-brown; leaves opposite; petioles 
3-10 mm. long, dark, stout; blades of the pair slightly unequal, 
4—IO cm. long, 1.5—5 cm. broad, oblong to oval or obovate, wi 
sub-rotund or “blunt base, abruptly pointed dotat apex and slightly 
sinuately serrate margin, the teeth rounded; bright green both 
sides, membranaceous ; racemes terminal, about 2. 5—4 cm. long ex- 
clusive of the peduncle, which is one-half as long, loosely flow- 
ered ; bracts scarious, two-fifths the length of the pedicels, broadly 
ovate, keeled; pedicels erect, stout, thickened above, dark, 2-3 
mm. long; mature bud lance-ovoid, obtuse, nearly 5 mm. long; 
sepals one-fourth as long as the petals, nearly semicircular, oinik 
petals lanceolate, yellowish with whitish recurved rounded e 
stamens entirely distinct; scale at back of filament nearly as long 
e filament, oval, with rounded apex; anther as long as fila- 
ment; appendage of connective triangular-acuminate, acute, form- 
ing two broad wings to the anther, the terminal subulate portion 
