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ticillate or scattered spikes, mostly staminate or perfect above and 
pistillate below ; spikes numerous, linear, 4-20 cm. long, therhachis 
striate and glabrous, or slightly pubescent; calyx-lobes 2, minute, 
ovate, denticulate at the apex; petals on the staminate and perfect 
flowers 2, alternate with the lobes of the calyx, obovate, with a 
short claw, denticulate or minutely fringed at the apex, 1-2 mm 
dehiscing by lateral slits; pistillate flowers I mm. lon , apetalous, 
styles 2, much exserted, papillose, wholly stigmatic ; leaves obovate 
in outline, deep green and glabrous on both surfaces, except in hav- 
ing a few scattered teeth and a slight pubescence on the nerves, 
deeply several-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute, incisely lobed and 
with many small cartilaginous teeth on the margins ; the leaves on 
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into the apices of de um the leaf tapering abruptly into a petiole. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1214) — Mandon's 598 in Herb. Kew. 
Myriophyllum Titicacense Remy, Analact. Boliv. Near snow-line, 
Mt. Tunari, 1891 (1031). 
COMBRETACEAE 
COMBRETUM GUANAIENSE Sp. n. 
Branchlets rather slender, the internodes .8-1 dm. long; e 
tioles about 1 cm. long, blades I to nearly 2 dm. long, 4-10 c 
broad, ovate to oval, the base subcordate, the apex abruptly con- 
tracted into a slender acute point, coriaceous and very thick, 
above dark green, glabrous and shining, underneath ferruginous. 
tomentose and sparingly red-lepidote, midrib and 
primaries prominent both sides, the latter strongly connected by 
e secondaries ; spikes (always ?) solitary in the axils, shortly and 
stoutly peduncled, 1.5 dm. long, densely red-lepidote ; calyx-tube 
3-4 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, strongly 4-angled, the limb about 7 
mm. long, its cylindrical portion I mm. long, the open campanu- 
late portion divided one-third of the way down, the lobes broadly 
triangular, acute, separated by rounded Pu petals yellow, 
obovate with rounded apex, nearly as long as the calyy lobes? 
stamens 8, the longest 2 cm. long; fruit not seen. 
Vic. Guanai, Apr.-June, 1892 (1320). The same as Rusby's 
number 623, collected at the same place in 1886. Near C. Au- 
bletii DC., but tomentose, and with a different calyx. 
COMBRETUM NUMMULARIUM Sp. n. 
Branchlets slender, terete, dark brown; petioles 5-8 mm. 
long, Maden .75-1 dm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, oval with rounded 
