Wy. 
5-winged, the wings produced, at the base, acutely beaked; disk 
short, white, fimbriate-divided; glands 5, short, slightly 2-lobed ; 
ovary 3 or 4 am ong, compressed, ovoid, green. Pedicels. in 
fruit 2-2.5 cm. long, very stout; follicles 2.5-3 dm. long, contin- 
uous, terete, peck slightly falcate; seeds I cm. long, 3 m 
broad when flatte ned out, lance-oblong, strongly compressed and 
boat-shaped, keeled upon the concave surface, the keel extending 
from the apex two-thirds of the way to the base, the coma 2-2.5 
cm. long, ample, tawny, shining. 
Near snow-line, Mt. Tunari, 1891 (1120). 
ASCLEPIADEAE 
Gothofveda Dombeyana (Decne.) Kuntze, Rev: Gen. Pl: 420 (?). 
Between Guanai and Tipuani, April-June, 1892 (1395). 
Although this plant appears to agree in every respect with the 
above, it is entirely lacking in the appendages to the pollinia 
which are characteristic of Gothofreda, and it may have to be re- 
moved from this genus. 
Blepharodon. mucronatum (Schlecht.) Decne. in DC. Prod. 8: 603. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1275). 
Ditassa robably new, but: not to be determined without 
flowers. Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1711). 
SCHISTOGYNE ATTENUATA Sp. n. 
Grayish-puberulent or the upper indes sub-glabrous ; 
stems twining, slender, the internodes. 1—1.5 dm. long; petioles 
1.5—2 cm. long, rather stout ; blades sa cm: long, 3-4. cm. broad, 
ovate, with strongly cordate base, the sinus closed by the overlap- 
ping rounded lobes, and with long attenuate apex, thin, veins incon- 
spicuous, or the 5 or 6 primaries slightly conspicuous beneath ; pe- 
duncles 2.5—3 cm. long, stout, about 5-flowered, the pedicels seta- 
ceous-bracted, in flower about 1, in fruit 2 cm. long, more or less 
; bud 5 mm. long, broadly ovoid, eid acuminate at 
turity; calyx-tube none, the lobes 5-7 cm. long, — 
tapete to an acute point; corolla-tube esed ed, a 
herent to the corolla-tube, of five squamae which are fleshy-thick- 
ened, upright, oblong with an indistinct lobe on each side Sex the: 
apex, and a blunt appendage on the inner face, two-thirds the 
length. of the calyx-lobes ; autber-appendagés white, membran- 
aceous, oval, extending to the base of po branches of the stig- 
matic appendage, two-thirds. as (fes as the remainder of the col- 
umi callosities linear; stigmatic SAONE bright. ipse 
