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and deeply sulcate, the internodes 4 or 5 cm. long ; leaves sessile 
or sub-petioled by a short margined base, 1-2 dm. long, 4-7 
cm. broad, oval-ovate, acuminate and acute at both ends, entire, 
thin, bright green, the 12-15 pairs of primaries regular, strongly 
falcate-ascending, the tip of one approximating or touching that 
next above very close to the margin, faintly connected by the 
secondaries; panicles axillary and terminal, the peduncles 1 dm. 
long, erect, angled, the floriferous portion about as long, broad,. 
the subulate-setaceous bracts 2 or 3 mm. long, the pedicels .5—1 
cm. long, erect; calyx 1 cm. long, lobed almost to the base, the 
lobes oblong, acutish, herbaceous but erect; corolla 5 cm. long, 
infundibular-cylindraceous, the longer lip 2.5 cm. long, its lobes 
5 mm. long, rounded at the apex, the middle nearly twice as broad 
as the lateral, concave-arched, the shorter lip 2 cm. long, entire; 
stamens reaching to the middle of the lips, the anther-cells 
strongly overlapping, the caudae short, broad, white and translu- 
cent; style 7 mm. shorter than the stamens, the stigma small, ob- 
tuse; mature fruit not seen 
Mapiri, July-Aug., 1ga (1511). Species near B. fragilis. 
BELOPERONE BANGII sp. n. 
ms erect, stout, terete, minutely strigose, green, swollen and 
dark purple at the joints, the internodes 3 or 4 cm. long; petioles 
I cm. long, fides eee of = abruptly contracted leaf-base ; 
blades .6-1. 25 dm. long, 3 or m. broad, ovate, acuminate and 
obtusish, entire, ve N ine. both sides, rather pale, drying 
brownish ; spikes axillary and densely aggregated at the summit, 
dense, 6 or 7 cm. long, about 3 cm. broad, sessile or stoutly pc- 
du ncled ; bracts 2 or 3 cm. long, narrowly. linear, tapering regu- 
larly to a most acute point, hispid and sparsely hirsute, gray- 
ish green; calyx 1.5 cm. long, divided nearly to the base, the 
uate pungent point nearly as long as the body, keeled, sid 
corolla 5 or 6 cm. long; the tube s slender, the lobes 
long ; stamens reaching to the middle of the corolla-lobes, dea an- 
ther-cells approximate, appendages at apex and base well 
developed. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1224). Apparently the same as Rusby’ S 
1749 from the Beni River region. It appears also to be the same 
as Traill’s 660 from San Antonio on the Madeira. 
Justicia BOLIVIANA sp. n. (Sect. Dianthera). 
brous, except the sparsely and coarsely: strigose leaf-sur- 
