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broad, reflexed ; united portion of filaments nearly 1 cm. long, free 
portion I cm., the anther-cells broadly oblong, 2 mm. long, 
parallel, the anthers separate; style thick, curved, much shorter 
than stamens, the stigma oblique, gibbous, fringed; glands in my 
specimen destroyed by insects. 
Yungas, 1899 (515)— Rusby's 1352 and 2488, but not Rusby's 
2487. : 
‘COLUMNEA (SYSTELOSTOMA) LATISEPALA sp. n. 
Branches thick but weak, light brown, narrowly winged, retrorsely 
hirsute, densely so above; leaves distinctly unequal, the petioles 
broad, 1.5-2 cm. long, densely hirsute, like the pedicels and calyx; 
the blades 8-12 cm. or more long, 3-8 cm. broad, oval to rotund- 
beneath pale, strigose and the veins hirsute, midrib and veins 
broad, the latter 8-10 pairs ; pedicels stout, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, diver- 
gent or deflexed; calyx hirsute, nearly 4 cm. broad, 3 cm. long, 
amply gibbous upon the upper side, the lower side declined, the 
lobes herbaceous, inequilaterally ovate, somewhat acuminate, erect, 
serrate and ciliate; two of the disk-lobes larger, connate, separate 
at the apex; the handsome purple corolla 4-5 cm. long, 3-3.5 cm. 
broad at the mouth, strongly declined, the lobes large and rounded, 
spreading, the lower lacerate. 
Songo, Nov. 1890 (869). A most handsome plant, unlike 
any other, except an undescribed species collected by Pearce. 
‘COLUMNEA (COLLANDRA) ASCENDENS sp. n. 
Strigose-hirsute throughout, branches ascending, thick, ob- 
scurely angled, leaves and flowers crowded, erect-spreading ; leaves 
sub-sessile, the. minor scarcely discernible, the major 1.5-2 dm. 
ong, 4-6 cm. broad, falcate-oblong, both ends short-acuminate, 
acute, closely and sharply serrulate, finely strigose both sides, 
curved and branched; flowers solitary, on very short and thick 
pedicels, mostly not bracted; calyx hemispherical in outline, I 
cm. long, 13 mm. broad, the lobes ovate, acuminate and acute, 
serrate, densely hirsute within and without; glands 5, the two 
broader united, the others longer, all minutely notched at the 
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