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PsYCHOTRIA BANGII, sp. п. Branchlets terete, кыл red, leafy ; 
stipules triangular- -subulate, acuminate, 5 ong, 2 і 
broad at the base, delicate, brown with light ti сан) p 5-10 
mm. long, brown, margined; leaves 1-2 dm. or more long by 
4-10 cm. broad, oval, short-acuminate, acute, the ii cuneate, 
glabrous, above slightly shining, reticulate, underneath the ribs 
sharply prominent, er ind with rather indistinct 
smaller ones; inflorescence terminal, ae lateral, the pe- 
duncles solitary, wobei a pubescent, bnt 6 cm. long; bracts 
of the lower branches brownish, delicate, linear-lanceolate, 6 
ovate-pyramidal, 6-8 cm. long, the base 4—5 cm. broad, pubes- 
cent; flowers few, glomerate-crowded, sessile; calyx 1.5 mm. 
broad, the teeth triangular, broader than long, about equalling 
the ovary; corolla orange-colored (?), pubescent “= stiff- 
hairy at the insertion of the stamens, the tube 3-4 long, 
expanded at the throat where it is 1.5 mm. broad, the ed 1.5 
m. long, ovate, the apex rounded ; anthers white, linear, 2 mm. 
long and one-fifth as broad; ovaries separate, brown and shin- 
ing; fruit not seen 
Yungas, 1890 (асау 
PsYCHOTRIA FALCATA, sp. n. Branchlets terete, glabrous, dark brown; 
stipules brown, triangular, inequilateral, obtuse, 3 mm. long by 
2 mm. broad ; ‘petioles 1-2 cm. long, dark brown; leaves 1-2 
dm. long by 5-8 cm. wide, ovate or the lower obovate, short- 
acuminate at both ends, obtusish, rigid, dark green, not shin- 
ing, glabrous, except the midrib, which is puberulent on both 
es; peduncles sucum ы or Lagan ones by two 
smaller ones, about 3 с ng, dark n, puberulent; bracts 
narrowly linear, the уел иа ст: deir Ev upper small, seta- 
ceous; panicle lax, pyramidal, 10-12: cm. long, 8-10 cm. 
broad, the rhachis much swollen at the joints, the branches op- 
posite, strongly falcate, abruptly depressed at first, then 
strongly upwardly curved; flowers pedicelled, the pedicels 
bearing two short, broad, thick branchlets; calyx barely 2 mm. 
corolla-tube 5 mm. long, the triangular ovate obtuse teeth 
2 mm. long, two-thirds as broad; anthers 2 mm. long by one- 
fifth as broad; style cro 
Yungas, 1890 (516). A species strikingly peculiar in the 
origin of the branches of the panicle and in its crooked style. 
PsYCHOTRIA STIPULARIS, (Benth.) (Palicourea stipularis, Benth. Pl. 
Hartweg. 133). Yungas (536) = Hartweg, Peru, 749, fide 
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