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Columnea Boliviana Rusby (See no. 515). Mapiri, July-Aug., 
1891 (1551). 
COLUMNEA OBLON {GIFOL IA sp. n. (Sect. Pentadenia). 
Branches purple, thick but weak, hirsute above, the internodes 
2 or 3 cm. long; petioles .5—1 cm. long, very broad; blades .5-1.5 
dm. long, 2.5—5 cm. broad, the pair moderately unequal, oblong, 
inequilateral, the base obtuse, the apex acute ; coarsely and shortly 
serrate, densely short-strigose, purple underneath ; pedicels 7-10 
cm. long, slender, ascending, recurved; calyx densely strigose, I.5 
cm. long, cleft nearly to the base, the lobes linear-lanceolate, taper- 
ing from base to apex ; corolla red-purple, tomentose, finely many- 
nerved, 5 cm. long or more, 1.5 cm. broad (as pressed), the tube 
dioit: lightly curved, expanding gradually into the ventricose body, 
the mouth slightly contracted and lobes erect-spreading, about 1 
cm. long ; stamens slightly exserted, the anthers globoidal, broader 
than long; style about as long as the corolla, dilated at the sum- 
mit, the stigma truncate with circular summit; fruit not seen. 
Vic. Mapiri, Jan., 1893 (1744). Near C. strigosa. 
BESLERIA ROTUNDIFOLIA sp. n. 
Glabrous; stems thick but weak, strongly sulcate, the inter- 
nodes 4—5 cm. long; petioles 3-5 cm. long, broad; blades 1.25 to 
cuneate, distantly beset with very small sharp salient spok 
flowers loosely paniculate-cymose in the upper axils and a in 
summit, the cymes mostly long-peduncled, 3 or 4 cm. lo ein 
bracted, the pedicels .5—1 Hb long, enlarged upward, strongly ae 
ar and sulcate; calyx 6 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, the tube 
very short, saucer-shaped, the lobes unequal and — am 
ovate, obtuse, more or less keeled, coriaceous or cartilagino 
corolla red-purple, 1 long, 6 mm. broad, the base oblique ind 
ventricose, the body «inde straight, the inouth slightly contracted, 
the small dosl lobes spreading; stamens short; disk short, cupu- 
late, sinuately lobed, deficient on one side ; ovary broadly conical ; 
fruit globose, 5 mm. in diameter 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (t 250). Very similar to B. Apri 
Rusby, but certainly distinct. 
NAPEANTHUS ANDINUS Sp. n. 
Sparsely strigose-hirsute; stem rhizomatous, dit. stout, the 
leaves crowded at the summit; leaves S .3-1.5 dm. long, 1-3 cm. 
broad, equilateral obovate with Jon ong tapering petiole-like si 
and acute apex, obsoletely serrate, deep green, thin; peduncle 
filiform, recurved- udis g, 2-5 cm. long, bearing two or e 
branches, the bracts oblong-lanceolate, 5 mm. long, the pedicels 
filiform, 1-2 cm. long ; calyx 5 mm. long, lobed two-thirds of the 
