237 
Bartsia laxıflora Benth, in DC. Prodr. 10: 547. Yungas, 1890 
(691)— Rusby's 1092 and 1089. 
GESNERACEAE. 
Koellikeria argyrostigma (Hook.) Regel, Fl. (1848) 250. Yungas, 
1890 (275)— Rusby's 275 and 2658. 
SEEMANNIA PURPURASCENS Sp. n. 
Herbaceous, strigose throughout, the rhizome, stem and under 
sides of the ternate leaves deep purple, roots fibrous, fine; petioles 
5 mm. long, margined, blades 6-12 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, the 
long, the flowers horizontal or more or less reflexed ; calyx cam- 
panulate, the lanceolate long-acuminate lobes 7 mm. long, more 
than double the length of the hemispherical tube, with darker 
tips; corolla bright crimson, densely villous, 2.5 cm. long, broad- 
cylindrical with slightly contracted mouth, straight, the lobes very 
short; disk annular, fleshy, sinuate; stamens attached near the 
base of corolla, reaching very nearly to the lobes, the filaments 
membranaceous.dilated and gibbous at the base, recurved at the 
apex, the anthers lightly coherent, nearly square in outline, white, 
with a red nearly square, disk-shaped connective centrally attached 
and covering about half its dorsal surface; ovary ovoid-conical, 
compressed, hirsute, about half-adnate ; fruit not seen. 
Yungas, 1890 (542). Distributed as ** Columnea." 
GESNERA SULCATA Sp. n. 
Tuberous. rhizome large, stem stout, erect, strongly sulcate, 
purple, finely strigose, sparingly erect branched; petioles very 
short and stout, densely hirsute, blades 4-6 cm. long. 3-4 cm. 
broad, ovate, acutish, crenate, thick, densely strigose above, to- 
mentose and strigose beneath, the veins broad and coarse ` fascicles 
rather many-flowered, the pedicels slender, unequal, 1-3 cm. long, 
purple, white-hispid ; flowers not examined; fruiting calyx bright- 
purple, white-hispid, short-campanulate, the lobes erect-appressed, 
rigid, the 2 lower separate, 4-5 mm. long and broad (twice the 
length of the tube), triangular, acute, the 3 upper short, united ; 
disk of 5 separate glands, the two upper large; capsule broadly 
conical, 10-12 mm. long, green, finely hispid; style persistent, on 
the mature fruit 3 cm. long, flattened and twisted; seeds very 
small, lanceolate, both ends acute, light-brown. 
