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Willoughbya cordifolia (L) Kuntze, Rev. Gea. Pl. 372. Between 
Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.—June, 1892 ( 1497 ). 
Willoughbya jursutissima (DC.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 372. Between 
Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.—June, 1892 ( 1331 ). 
Willoughbya psilostachya ( DC.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 372, in syn. 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec. 1892 (1730) = Rusby's 
1701, 1702 and 1703. : 
Willoughbya scandens (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 372. Espirito 
Santo, 1891 ( 1267.) A form near var. darbinervia. 
WILLOUGHBYA DIOSCOREOIDES sp. n. 
Branches stout, purplish brown, finely and sharply many- . 
angled, glabrous; petioles (only two seen) 4 cm. long, dark pur- 
ple, verrucose, the blades 2 dm. long, 1.5 dm. ibid. ovate with 
beautifully rounded base, abrupt apical. acumination I—2 cm. 
long, and entire slightly revolute margin, coriaceous, glabrous 
both sides, very pale above and brownish beneath, 5-ribbed from 
above, rather prominently reticulate beneath ; panicle of indefinite 
size, in my specimen 6 dm. long including the long peduncle, very 
loose and open, its lower branches 1 dm. apart, the latter at the 
base laterally keeled and abruptly upwardly and downwardly di- 
lated, the lower dilation adnate to the petiole of the floral leaf, 
nde b 
anit sie sag in rudem interrupted spikes about 3 cm. long, sub- 
expanded, the pappus and corolla scarcely equalling the involucre ; 
scales oblong, obtuse, chartaceous, light brown, 3-costate; akene 
blackish, with minute whitish costae, stout, oblong-obovoid, nearly 
half the length of the corolla; pappus copious, white, coarse; 
corolla-tube proper about one-half the length of the upper por- 
ion. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 ( 1256). 
Species very near W. Bangu Rusby, but differing particularly 
in the form of involucre and its scale-characters and the relative 
length of the flowers. 
WILLOUGHBYA FERRUGINEA Sp. n. 
Climbing, stems sharply many-sulcate, and like the petioles 
and principal veins on the underside, densely hirsute with ferru- 
