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Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec. (1673). 
Obs. Ex affinitate Nectandrae Riedelii, psammophilae et prae- 
sertim Srittonii, floribus tamen permanifeste strigoso- omen, 
ne reliqua proferam, optime distincta. 
PROTEACEAE. 
Rhopala Gardneri Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 5: Part 8, 3. pd. 3r. 
Mapiri, July-Aug., 1892 (1528). 
Panopsis Spruce! Meissn. Ms. in Herb. Kew. 
Branches light gray, the young growth, like the petioles and 
inflorescence red-ferruginous-tomentose; leaves sub-verticillate, 
the petioles stout, broad, 1 cm. long, the blades .75-1.5 dm. long, 
2—5 cm. broad, oblong, inequilateral, the base acute, the apex 
apiculate; entire, thick, bright green above, reddish underneath, 
prominently reticulate ; peduncles terminal, erect, stoutish, bear- 
ing solitary or verticillate racemes about 1 dm. long; flowers ir- 
regularly distributed, the pedicels 3-5 mm. long, divergent, not 
bracted; bud clavate-pyriform, obtuse, 3 mm. long; perianth di- 
vided to the base, the 3 divisions 4 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate, 
the apex rounded, strongly recurved and spirally twisted, the sta- 
mens nearly as long as the perianth, inserted near its base, the 
filament nearly as broad as the perianth-division, the anther less 
than 1 mm. long; pistil red-tomentose, the ovary I mm. long, the 
stout style nearly 5 mm. long, the stigma capitate. 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1686). The same 
as Spruce's no. 1817 and very near P. rubescens Pohl. 
Loranthus flexile Rusby (See no. 468). Between Tipuani and 
Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1659). 
Loranthus eugentoides H.B.K. (See no. 6). Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 
(1155). 
STRUTHANTHUS NUDIPES Sp. n. 
Glabrous, the leaves papillose on both sides; branchlets 
slender, terete, ne aides ho A ise about 5 mm. lon ng, broa 
blades 2.5-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, ovate with rounded fake 
and acute apex, entire, thick ind coriaceous, dark-green, the vena- 
tion indistinct; spikes 4-6 cm. ong inclusive of the strongly 
angled weak peduncles, which constitute from a half to three- 
fourths of their length, loosely flowered, the flowers ternate, the 
trio and the flowers sessile, the rigid bracts 1 €— long, broadly 
ovate, very acute, bractlets ra bud 4 mm. long, narrowly 
clavate-pyriform, obtuse; calyx 1 mm. long, the "tube hemispher- 
ical, the limb reduced to a whitish | sub-entire ring; petals six, 
distinct, 5 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, plane, naked, 
