220 
Yungas, 1890 (551) — Rusby's 2381, but apparently not the 
same as Rusby's 2380 and 2382. 
Amblyanthera brachyloba Muell. Arg. Linnaea, 30: 423 (1859-60). 
Yungas, 1890 (461) — Rusby's 2585. 
LASEGUEA Mannoni Britton, Ms. 
Branches slender, red-brown, scabrous ; petioles 2-4 or 5 cm. 
long, the older scabrous like the branches, the younger white- 
villous; blades S-12 cm. long; 5-9 cm. broad, broadly oval to 
rotund-ovate, the base cordate with narrow sinus, the apex very 
shortly and very abruptly pointed, acute, entire, above dark green, 
slightly scabrous, below white, densely short-tomentose, prin- 
cipal veins about 7 pairs, ne parallel, slightly curved, the 
lowest pair with several large branches radiating downward ; 
racemes long-peduncled, notes as the lower flowers fall, dense, 
the pedicels stout, 1 cm. long, like the rhachis and young peduncles, 
roma calyx varying from a little less to a little more than 
cm. long, with scarcely any tube, the linear divisions 2 mm 
bad. finely tapering, light brown, pubescent within and without, 
open in the bud; corolla in some racemes a little longer, in others 
a little shorter than the calyx, deep maroon except the tube, 
which is colored like the calyx, funnelform, contracted just below 
the stamens, and slightly just below the lobes, which are 3 m 
long, oblong-oval, obtuse, within bearded just below the lobes: 
filaments very short, bearded, the anthers 5 or 6 mm. long, not 
reaching to the base of the corolla-lobes; stigma ovate, narrowly 5- 
winged, terminating in a 2-cleft subulate appendage; calyx lined 
by a ring of ligulate glands a little shorter than the disk, the latter 
of 5 nearly quadrilateral lobes, a little shorter than the ovaries. 
Yungas, 1890 (402). 
DiPLADENIA sp. probably undescribed. Yungas, 1890 (249). 
ASCLEPIADEAE. 
Sarcostemma incanum A.DC. Prodr. 8: 542. Songo, Nov. 1891 
(985). Distributed as * Amblystigma.” 
Gothofreda eriantha (Decne.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 420 (Oxypet- 
alum erianthum Decne. in DC. Prodr. 8: 584. Yungas, 1890 
(615) — Morong's 655. 
GOTHOFREDA ANDINA sp. n. 
Ste rect, 2-4 dm. long, flexuous, scale or sparingly 
biche ben densely hirsute with divergent hairs ; lower leaves 
reduced, the others 3-4 cm. long, with petioles 5 mm. long, 1-5 
cm. broad, oblong-ovate, cordate with a broad sinus, acute, scabrous- 
