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cymes terminal, few-flowered, the purple-angled pedicels about 1 
cm. long; ca alyx-tube 3 mm. long, turbinate, e re a the 
reflexed foliaceous lobes nearly as long as the tube, ova ob- 
vate with rounded apex, 3-nerved, the nerves purple ; soleil: (yel- 
low) about 2 cm. broad, lobed more than two-thirds of the way to 
the base, the lobes sub-orbicular, with entire crisped margin ; fila- 
ments inserted at the ase o of the tube, very stout, 4 mm. long ; 
grooved along the long axis; style brown, about as long as the 
filaments, very stout, much enlarged at the summit, the stigma 
nearly 3 mm. broad, peltate, thick, fleshy, white, irregularly lobed. 
Espirito id 1891 (1172). 
GESNERACEAE 
GLOXINIA REFLEXA Sp. n. 
Younger portions long-pilose and glandular ; stems erect or 
base very rnm the apex short, acuminate and acute; coarsely 
—I15-flowered, the pedicels about as long; calyx-tube 7 or 
8 mm. long, 2 mm: broad, cylindraceous-infundibular, the reflexed, 
herbaceous lobes about of equal length, oblanceolate with rounded 
apex; corolla (purple-white?) pubescent, 2.5 cm. long and broad 
(as pressed), open-campanulate with rounded ventricose base, and 
lightly lobed sub-equal sparsely fimbriate margin; stamens 
shorter than the corolla, the filaments capillary. 
Vic. Mapiri, Jan., 1893 (1745). It has no near relative, and 
its reference to this genus is somewhat doubtful. 
ACHIMENES ALBESCENS Sp. n. 
Finely short-strigose; rhizome oblique; stems ascending, 
weak, the nodes few and distant; leaves .75-1.5 dm. long, 2-4 
cm. broad, — bled the base tapering gradually into 
a short petiole, t apex acuminate and acute; entire, very short 
strigose both sen above whitish and papillose, underneath 
purplish; peduncles axillary and terminal, 1-flowered, 3-6 cm. 
long, very slender; calyx 1 cm. long, lobed two-thirds of the way, 
the tube broadly turbinate, lobes narrowly lance-linear, the two 
upper a little shorter and broader, sinuses broad and rounded; co- 
rolla purplish-white, pubescent, 1.5 cm. long and half as broad, 
