103 
SANCHESIA PERUVIANA (DC.) (Aucylogyne P. DC. Prod. 11: 222.) 
Mapiri, July-Aug., 1892 (1473). 
LoPHosTACHYS CONFERTA Sp. n. 
Minutely and harshly strigose MMOL: stems slender and 
weak, decumbent and rooting at the base, obscurely angled, the 
internodes about 5 cm. long ; pies RI cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, 
oval-ovate, the base abruptly contracted into a margined pseudo- 
petiole 1-2 cm. in length, the apex about equally acuminate, acute 
or obtusish ; entire, dark green; spikes very dense, 3-7 cm. long, 
about 2 cm. broad, sessile ; bracts 1 cm. lon mm. broad, highly 
inequilateral, ovate, falcate, abruptly contracted into deat: acu- 
nation, green, with 4 or 5 very strong dark- nerves, 
LAN reticulate and ciliate; the 2 larger Ps edt broadly 
obovate, shortly an nd pungently pointed, scarious with stout green 
nerves and veins, strongly ciliate, unequal, the larger 1.25 cm. long, 
nearly 1 cm. broad, cleft to the base; the two smaller setaceous, 
mm. long; corollas of my flowers withered and unfit for dissec- 
tion ; Style, exclusive of ovary, more than 1 cm. long, the stigma 
c. Guanai, July, 1892 (1604). The same as is Rusby's IIIA4 
doct Magiri 
POSEEN tetragona (Vell Nees in DC. Prod. 11: 295. Be- 
tween Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.—June, 1892 (1368). 
BELOPERONE COCHABAMBENSIS Sp. n. 
Stem and leaves minutely and harshly strigose, the inflores- 
cence long-pilose; stems elongated, decumbent and rooting at the 
base, obscurely quadrangular, sulcate, green, branching, the inter- 
nodes 4 or 5 cm. long; petioles 1 or 2 cm. long, broad; blades .75— 
I dm. long, 2—4 cm. broad, ovate, the base acute, the apex regularly 
acuminate and acute, irregularly sinuate, pale green ; spikes solitary 
and sessile at the summits of the stem and slender branches, dense, 
the mass of bracts about 3 cm. long and half as broad; bracts Jeaf- 
like, 1.5-2 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, obovate, shortly, abruptly and 
pungently acuminate ipfe I.25 cm. long, the tube scarcely any, 
the lobes linear-setaceous d very pungent, more or less unequal, 
green and oper el Sabie deep red-purple, puberulent, 4 cm. 
long, the tube Ms the lobes 1.5 cm. long; stamens. nearly 
as long as the coro 
Espirito Santo, x (1215). 
BELOPERONE NUDA Sp. n. 
Coarsely and sparsely strigose, the younger os pubescent ; 
stems Pe e tall, widely branching, obtusely quadrangular 
