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POLYGONACEAE 
Polygonum lacerum H.B.K. (See no. 130). A little below Cocha- 
bamba, 1891 (1051). 
Polygonum persicariodes H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 179. Near snow- 
line, Mt. Tunari, 1891 (1025). 
SARCOGONUM TAMNIFOLIUM (H.B.K.). (Polygonum t. H.B.K. Nov. 
Gen. 2: 180 — Muhlenbeckia t. Meissn. Gen. 2: 227.) Below 
Cochabamba, 1891 (1064). Espirito Santo, 1891 (1252). 
TRIPLARIS HISPIDA Britton sp. n. 
Branchlets pup. slender, flexuous, fistulous, stans sparsely 
long strigose-hispid with red hairs, DARS se where these have 
fallen away ; petioles 5-7 mm. long, very stout, erect, ad like the 
midrib underneath, clothed similarly * the branchlets ; "leaves 3 
dm. or more long, 1 dm. broad, oblong with oblique base and 
abruptly short-acuminate apex, entire, rigid, glabrous except for 
ng, campanulate, at length completely fissured down the 
lower side, half-way along the upper, long-pilose ; perianth pilose, 
the tube infundibular, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad at the summit, 
the lobes nearly 2 mm. long, oval-ovate with rounded apex; bla 
ments long-exserted ; fruiting calyx 3 cm. long, the tube 1.25 cm 
long, lightly constricted above the fruit, densely ferruginous- -hir- 
sute, the lobes dark red, Jesi ferruginous-hirsute, linear-ob- 
lanceolate with rounded x, the inner lobes 7 mm. long; fruit 
dark red, very mon iatras, the styles stout, Migeon. re- 
curved-spreadin 
Espirito Seats, 1891 (1169, fruit) — Rusby’s 1424, from which 
the description of the flower is taken. 
TRIPLARIS BORNE e n. 
A large tree, the b fistul flexuous, light brown, in 
upper portions minutely verrucose, the inflorescence very dens 
and long ferruginous-pilose ; petioles (only the uppermost n 
seen) 2 cm. long, very stout, channelled above like the midrib; 
blades 2.5-4 dm.long, .75-1.5 dm. broad, oblanceolate or obovate, 
the base acute and slightly inequilateral, the apex abruptly short- 
pointed; entire, thin and membranaceous but rigid, pale and above 
slightly glaucous, glabrous except upon the midrib of the Ae d 
leaves underneath, where there are a few fine hairs, the prim 
O-25 pairs, con nnected b by very slender 
inate spikes densely panicled, 2-2. 5 dm. long, about 6 mm. boad 
