91 
Capsicum baccatum L. Mant. 116. Turedon, 1891 (1126) (Cult.). 
Capsicum frutescens L. Sp. Pl. 189. Espirito Santo, 1891 (1185). 
Mapiri, July-Aug., 1892 (1474) (Cult.). 
POECILOCHROMA ALBESCENS Britton, sp. n. | 
A low acne branching shrub, the branches ascending, 
scurfy, above pubescent; petioles 2 or mm. long, whitis sh, 
agria extremely variable in size, in some ew only .5-1 
n length, in others 2 or 3 cm. long, .75-1. 1. broad, oval- 
-—Z slightly inedito alitum. oe di thickish, rigid, above 
glabrous, pale, the veins pen Paes underneath very pale or whit- 
ish, papillose, the veins prominent; cymes lateral, loosely few- 
{mostly 3- or 4-) flowered, slenderly peduncled, the pedicles fili- 
form, 1 or 2 cm. long; flowe FM their size Nope tente, 
greater in the larger-leaved sein 1.5-2.5 cm. long; calyx 3 m 
ong and broad, cleft half-way to the base, the tube broadly cam- 
panulate, the lobes triangular-ovate, obtuse; cos broadly cam- 
panulate, the lobes about 7 mm. long and bro , triangular-ovate ; 
filaments inserted into the base, 2 mm. long, i anthers distinct, 
4 mm. long, lance-ovate, truncate; style a considerably ex- 
ceeding the stamens, the stigma inconspicuou 
Vic. Mapiri, 8,000 ft., Sept. 1892 (1575), = form with smaller 
leaves and flowers. The larger form is Rusby’s 2564, from which 
the above measurements of the dissection are taken. 
Salpichroa glandulosa (Hook.) Miers, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4: 
(1845) 325. (Atropa g. Hook. Bot. Misc. 2: 230.—Hook. Ic. 
pl. 106). Near snow-line, Mt. Tunari, 1891 (1048). 
LYCIUM PAUCIFOLIUM sp. n. 
A much branched, spiny shrub, the branchlets much elongated, 
slender, flexuous, horizontal or lightly ascending, whitish, glabrous, 
the spines divaricate, .5—1.5 cm. mg slender, terete, very pungent; 
leaves .5—1 cm. long, 2 or 3 mm. broad, oblong-obovate, obtuse, 
with a tapering petiole-like fari half as long as the laminate por- 
thickened upward ; bud obo void, obtuse, 4 mm. long; calyx cam- 
panulate, striate, 4 mm. long, lobed a fourth or a third of the way 
to the base, the lobes triangular, acute, the sinuses ofthe same form ; 
corolla-tube see tee twice the length of the calyx, the lobes 
obovate, obtuse, strongly reflexed ; stamens a 
little dM he corolla- "x fruit elongated: globose, 5 or 
6 mm. long. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 ( 1098) Very nearly, if not, identical 
with a specimen collected by Jameson in the Argentine. 
