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sta regularly and equally tapering to both ends, acutish, entire, 
ute, coriaceous, the midrib above not prominent, of a brighter 
"green than the leaf-surface, underneath prominent, the venation 
inconspicuous, coarsely reticulate; pedicels geminate, from 
broad, dark-colored, the lobes (4) bright green, about the same 
length, triangular-ovate, uto petals nearly twice the length of 
the calyx-lobes; fruit not s 
Vic. Guanai, July, 1892 ien Near Æ. glaucescens Camb. 
LECYTHIS ANDINUS An n. 
Petioles 2-3 long, excessively stout; blades 2-4 dm 
long, 7-14 cm end oblong-lanceolate with slightly produced 
base and ve ry short abrupt blunt point, coriaceous but not thick, 
glabrous, dao green above, pale underneath, midrib sharply promi- 
nent above, underneath very stout and several-ribbed, the primaries 
about 25 pairs, anastomosing less than 1 cm. from the margin ; 
panicle diffusely branched, the branches stout, much and sharply 
wrinkled, light brown; pedicels very short, as broad as long; 
calyx-tube (in flower) 5 or 6 mm. long, turbinate, the limb 1 cm. 
broad, divided midway, the lobes broadly ovate, rounded ; petals 
(color?) coriaceous, obovate, 2.5-3 cm. long; fruit not seen. 
Mapiri, July—Aug., 1892 (1522). Very near Jenman's 4155, 
from British Guiana. 
MELASTOMACEAE. 
(Communicated by Dr. A. Cogniaux.) 
Arthrostemma campanulare (Naud.) Tr. Melast. 35 (Heteronoma cam- 
panulare Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. (IIL.) 16: (1851) 153. Espirito 
Santo, 1891 (1221). 
Tibouchina Rusbyi Cogn. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 17: 54. Espirito 
Santo, 1891 (1246) — Rusby's 2339. 
Tibouchina granulosa angustifolia Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 17: 
54. Espirito Santo, 1891 (1166) — Rusby's 2245. 
Adelobotrys ascendens (Swz.) Tr. Melast. 67. (Melastoma ascendens 
Swz. Fl. Ind. Occ. 2: 772). Between Tipuani and Guanai, 
Dec. 1892 (1702). 
Miconia calvescens DC. Prod. 3: 185. Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 
(1160) — Rusby's 2264. 
Miconia dodecandra (Desr.) Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 14: 4 (Melas- 
toma dodecandra Desr. Lam. Encyc. 4: 46). Mapiri, July- 
Aug., 1892 (1487). 
