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five-cleft, the branches nearly 4 mm. long; fruit (in young state) 
unarmed, puberulent, lanceolate, tapering. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1254). Perhaps the same as Mandon’s 
. no. 858. 
VINCETOXICUM UMBELLATUM sp. n. (Sect. Cynoctonum). 
ous, except the minutely puberulent inflorescence ; 
branchlets stoutish, faintly striate, the internodes 2-3 cm. lo ong; 
petioles 7-10 mm. long, slender; blade es 3-5 cm. long, I. s cm. 
broad, spent: inequilateral, obtuse, flaccid, the midrib and 3 or 
4 primaries conspicuous, the other veins indistinct, coarsely reticu- . 
late; inne axillary, solitary, scarcely 1 cm. long; umbels 
about 2.5 cm. in diameter, rather loose, the pedicels nearly as long 
as the peduncles, acutely angled; calyx 3 mm. long, divided 
nearly to the base, the lobes lanceolate, tapering to an acute point ; 
glands oblong, scarcely exceeding the tube; corolla-tube about 
half the ép ia ofthe calyx, hemispherical or broader, the lobes 
4-5 mm. long, ovate, ono: -acuminate ; crown cup-shaped, 2 mm. 
long and nearly as broad at the summit, free from the corolla, 
membranaceous, 5-lobed half-way to the base, each lobe again 2- 
beak of the stigma entire, twice or thrice the length of the stamen- 
column, much curved or twisted ; fruit not seen. 
Vic. Sorata, Nov., 1892 (1620). The same as Mandon's no. 
(356?) and also collected by Pearce in Bolivia. 
The solitary pistil is apparently the result of abortion, as a 
withered second pistil was found in one flower. 
Fischeria Martiana Decne. in DC. Prod, 8: 601 (Gonolobus M. Hook. 
f. Bot. Mag. A. 4472). Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892. 
(1654) — Rusby's 936. 
LOGANIACEAE. 
BUDDLEIA CANESCENS sp. n. 
De short yellow-tomentose throughout, except the 
minutely papillose upper leaf surfaces; branchlets elongated, terete, 
slender, strongly ascending ; petioles 1. 5-2 cm. long, stout; blades 
51.5 dm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, lance-ovate, acute, thickish, entire, 
the venation inconspicuous, the short, crooked primaries com- 
municating near the margin ; peduncles .5—1.5 cm. long, stout, the 
flowers sessile in dense compound capitate cymes, the bracts ob- 
long, mostly about equalling the 4-merous flowers; calyx 5 mm. 
ong, campanulate, glabrous within, the lobes short and broad, 
