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Asclepias Weddellii Fourn. Ann. Sci. Nat. (VI) 14: 381. Yungas, 
1890 (612). 
Metastelma parviflorum (Sw.) R. Br. Mem. Wern. Soc. 1: 52 (1811). 
(Cynanchum Sw. Fl. Ind. Oc. 1: 537.) Vic. Cochabamba, 
1891 (989) — Pearce's specimen from Pelechuco. 
Ditassa lanceolata Decne. in DC. Prodr. 8: 576. Yungas, 1890 
(479). 
Morrenia brachystephana Griseb. in Goett. Abhandl. 19: 205 (1874). 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (986 
GONOLOBUS ELLIPTICA sp. n. 
Roughish-hirsute throughout with spreading hairs; stems slen- 
der, rough-fissured, the cork orange without, light brown within; 
branchlets purple, the internodes some longer, some shorter than 
leaf with petiole; petioles and blades of each pair slightly unequal, 
the former 1-1.5 cm. long, the latter 3-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, 
oblong to oblong-ovate, only slightly cordate with broad sinus, 
the apex varying from acutish to rounded or retuse, dark green, 
strigose both um dimus veins about 5 pairs; umbels closely 
sessile, of 5-10 very dark purple flowers; calyx rotate, the lobes 
purplish green, Kos SE 3.5 mm. long, nearly 2 mm. broad, 
obtuse, faintly 5-7-nerved, the disk inconspicuous; corolla rotate, 
the lobes 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, oval, the apex rounded or 
minutely notched, many-nerved, pilose without, thickish; crown 
colored like corolla, saucer-shaped with incurved margin, 5-lobed; 
essential organs forming a disk-shaped mass not projecting above 
the crown, brown, with stellate purple center; fruit not seen. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (992). 
Not closely related to any other species. Distributed as 
^ Ibatia." 
LOGANIACEAE. 
BUDDLEIA ANDINA Britton, Ms. 
much branched small tree, densely short-tomentose, the 
ultimate branchlets erect and striate; leaves sessile, on new shoots 
4-8 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, on older wood 2-3 cm i^ ng by 
5-10 mm. broad, lance-oblong, both ends obtuse, entire, thick. but 
flaccid, above dark green and rugose with deeply impressed veins, 
below white or yellow with prominent veins, the primary 6-8 pairs 
heads on short stout erect peduncles, or mostly sessile in a 
pair of leafy bracts, globose, dense, in flower 8-12 mm., in fruit 
12-20 mm. in diameter; bracts linear, oblanceolate, about t de? 
length of the calyx, and, like it, densely hirsute; calyx 
long, nearly 4 mm. broad, campanulate, 4-angled, lobed cdd 
