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SEEMANNIA CUNEATA Sp. n. 
Closely short-strigose and purple throughout; rhizome oblique, 
short, stoutish, sparsely hairy, bearing short whitish fleshy imbri- 
cated scales ; stems .5-1 m. or more high, erect, stoutish, simple, 
the internodes of very irregular length, the eoe much elongated ; 
eaves ternate, ovate, 5-8 cm. long, 2-3 c road, the taper- 
ing cuneate base passing into a petiole 1-2 cm. long, the apex 
acute; entire, thickish and sub.rigid, thickly and closely strigose ; 
peduncles stout, erect, about 2 cm. long; calyx-tube turbinate, 
4 mm. long, the lobes sub-equal, 6 mm. long, narrowly lance-lin- 
ear, tapering from,the base to an acute point, erect, rigid; corolla 
scarlet, tomentose, nearly 1.5 cm. long, half as broad, the base ob- 
lique, declined and gibbous on the upper side, the body cylindrace- 
ous, the mouth slightly contracted, the lobes very short, erect- 
a 
ellate, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse; ovary sub-truncate ; disk 
annular, sinuately lobed ; fruit oval-ovoid, 6-10 mm. lon 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1212). The same as Rusby's 1100 but not 
1101. It differs from S, zeruifolia Regel in the cuneate petioled 
leaves, longer and more rigid peduncles and smaller and narrower 
flowers. A different species, with leaves rounded at the base and 
scarcely petioled, was mixed with this in distribution. 
Koellikeria argyrostigma (Hook.) Regel. (See no. 275.) Between 
Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1720). 
DIASTEMA LATIFLORA Sp. n. 
Herbaceous, green or purple, vety sparsely short.pilose, flow- 
ering when 2 or 3 cm. high, at length 3 dm. high or more, simple 
or sparingly branched, erect; leaves varying eee with 
the size of the plant, at length 1.5 dm. long and .75 to I dm. 
broad, the broad margined petioles one-third of the SOM. 
ovate, "the base very abruptly contracted, t , coarsely, 
irregularly and deeply crenate- serrate, the teeth obtuse, longer 
than broad, very thin, the venation coarse and broad; ‘pedicels 
loosely cymose-paniculate, 2 cm. or more long, slender, erect ; 
calyx 7 or 8 cm. long, lobed two-thirds of the way, the tube in 
fundibular-campanulate, the lobes obovate with rounded apex and 
acute sinuses, strongly herbaceous, in flower spreading or reflexed, 
D fruit again erect; corolla (rose-purple?) sparsely hairy, 1.5 cm. 
, I cm. across t the obliqu e mouth, conspicuously curved, cam- 
Paslate. lobed nearly to thé middle; filaments capillary, purple, 
nearly equalling the corolla; fruit not seen 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1392 (1728). The same 
as a specimen collected in Ecuador by Dr. Sinclair, and one of 
