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SAXIFRAGEAE. 
Hydrangea scandens Poepp. ex DC. Prod. 4: 666. Between Guanai 
and Tipuani, Apr._June, 1892 (1437). 
ESCALLONIA BRIDGESII sp. n. 
y armed with short stout more or less recurved 
prickles; branchlets short, very stout, red, very coarsely and bluntly 
ngled; leaves very erous, scattered and crowded at the ends 
of the short branchlets, extremely irregular in size, the largest 
about I : . broad, obovate with narrowed base 
and rounded apex, very finely serrate, thickish and rigid, glabrous 
above, puberulent on the principal veins underneath, the primaries 
I2 to 15 pairs, very irregular and crooked, venation very promi- 
nent and coarsely reticulate underneath; panicles terminal and in 
the upper axils, on peduncles about one-fourth their le ngth, 
broad and lax, the branches divaricate or slightly recurved, the 
rhachis and branches strongly angled, puberulent; bracts green, 
linear-oblong, acute, longer than the pedicels, nearly equalling the 
flowers; pedicels divaricate, 2-3 mm. long; calyx-tube hemis- 
pherical, 2.5 mm. broad, 5- angled or costate; the triangular-ovate, 
acuminate acute lobes about as long as the tube; petals white, 
ovate-oval with rounded apex, nearly twice the length of the calyx- 
lobes; style nearly as long as the calyx-teeth, stout, angled, the 
stigma peltate, lobed, nearly 1 mm. in diameter; fruit not seen. 
By the action of water the leaves are turned to a greenish- 
indigo color. 
Turedon, 1391 (1130). Also collected in Bolivia by Bridges. 
ESCALLONIA ADSCENDENS Sp. n. 
Glabrate; apparently an alpine dwarf, spe qued branched, the 
babes grises blackish, ses branchlets red; leaves eren ed, 
—7 mm. lon mm. broad, obovate, apu ng to the ses- 
sile or wes peace base, the apex rounded, Dicas Bay retuse 
or short-pointed, serrate or crenate-serrate, revolute, thick and 
rigid, minutely puberulent when young, faintly papillose, the mid- 
rib impressed above, very prominent beneath, the venation indis- 
tinct; flowers solitary at the ends of the branchlets, the very short 
red peduncle continuous with the broadly turbinate angled calyx- 
tube, which is 3 mm. long, nearly 4 mm. broad, and dark colored; 
calyx- -limb yellowish white, 6 mm. broad, lobed more than ha f- 
5 to the base, the lobes triangular, acuminate and acute, rigid, 
green; petals 5 or 6 mm. long, obovate, veiny ; ovary depressed, 
the style very stout, oT 4 min. long, the stigma peltate, 1 
mm. broad ; fruit not seen 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1089). The same as Mandon's no. 
603 and also collected by Pearce at Ayacucho, 12,000 to 13,000 ft. 
