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dense, cylindrical, uniform; bracts 3 or 4 mm. long and broad, 
ovate; calyx lightly pilose, 3 mm. long, lobed two-thirds of the 
way to the base, the tube campanulate, purple, the sub-equal lobes 
lighter, with dark middle portion, widely spreading, oval-obovate, 
acutish ; stamens one-half longer than the calyx, the anthers ellip- 
tical- oval, less than 1 mm. long; pistillate spikes .5-1.5 dm. long, 
the flowers not seen ; fruiting calyx densely hirsute, purple, 3.5 cm. 
long, contracted above the fruit, the outer lobes 2 cm. long, 5 mm. 
broad, oblong-oblanceolate with rounded apex, the inner 8 mm. 
long. 
Vic. Guanai, July, 1892 (1600 in fruit, 1601 in flower). This 
is possibly the same as my 1243 from the lower plains, but I think 
not. That has regularly and broadly ovate cordate leaves which 
are not glabrous. 
PIPERACEAE. 
Piper umbellatum L. Sp. Pl. 30. Vic. Guanai, July, 1892. (1607) 
—Rusby's 2173 
Piper longistylosum C.DC. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 21 : (1894) 161. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1233). 
Peperomia pseudo-rufescens C.DC. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 21: (1894) 
160. Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (11482). 
Peperomia Mandonu excelsis C.DC. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 21: 
(1894) 160. Vic. Sorata, 1891 (1299). 
Peperomia psilophylla C.DC. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 21: (1894) 
160. Mapiri, 1892 (15162). 
Peperomia umbilicata macrophylla C.DC. Prod. 16: Part 1, 394. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (125 1a). 
Peperomia hispidula (Sw.) A. Dietr. Sp. 1: 165. Between Tipuani 
and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1719). 
Peperomia magnoliaefolia (Jacq.) C.DC. Prod. 16: Part 1, 427. 
Between Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.- June, 1892 (1328). 
MYRISTICACEAE. 
Myristica sebifera (Aubl. Swz. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1129. Between 
Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1678) — Rusby's 1216. 
MONIMIACEAE. 
Siparuna Sprucei A.DC. Journ. Bot. 3: (1865) 219. Between 
- Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1640) — Spruce's 2777. 
