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hirsute above, hirsute below, the principal veins 3 or 4 pairs; 
umbels long-peduncled, axillary, solitary, 1.5 cm. in diameter, floral 
leaves few, narrowly oblong, the pedicels shorter than the flowers, 
like the peduncles and calyx white-hirsute; calyx-lobes tapering 
from the base, 3.5 mm. long, glabrous within, the tube very short; 
disk consisting of numerous papillae; corolla pilose without, glab- 
rous within, the tube hemispherical, angled, the lobes 4 mm. long, 
triangular-lanceolate; crown divided into 5 oblong-ovate lobes 3 
mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, the upper fourth 2-parted, not append- 
aged within; hyaline terminal appendages nearly as long as the 
anther, nearly twice as long as the linear callosities of the pollinia, 
obovate with rounded apex; stigma-appendages very narrow, ex- 
tending 3 mm. beyond the stamens; follicles 7 cm. long, 1 cm. 
broad, lanceolate, the apex long-tapering but obtuse, tomentose, 
not apparently muricate; body of seed light brown, 3.5 mm long, 
.2 mm. broad, strongly flattened, the base ovate, rounded, erose, 
strongly muricate, one face concave, the other convex, its central 
row of tubercles forming a slender slight keel. 
Yungas, 1890 ( 394a and 425 ). This species is very near G. 
capitata ( Mart. et Zucc.) Kuntze, but so far as I can see all the 
specimens from Guiana and Bolivia in the Kew herbarium placed 
under the latter name are G. andina. 
ASCLEPIAS COCHABAMBENSIS Sp. n. 
Pale, glabrous except a slight pubescence upon the top of the 
age, whose sub-rotund apex is inflexed; fruit not seen. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (982). 
The same collected by Bridges, but the locality not given. 
