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ILLECEBRACEAE 
Pentacaena ramossissima (Weinm.) H.& A. in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3: 
338 (1833). Vic. La Paz, 10,000 ft., 1889 (93). 
Herniaria setigera Gillies in Hook. Bot. Misc, 3: 337 (1833). 
.. Yungas, 1890 (524). 
AMARANTHACEAE. 
Amaranthus chlorostachys Willd. Amarant. 34. pl. 10. f. rg. Yun- 
gas, 1890 (231) — Mandon’s 1018 and Spruce's “ Peru bor." in 
Herb. Kew. 
Amaranthus muricatus Gillies ex Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13: 2, 276. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (952) — Miers', Buenos Ayres 1410. 
Amaranthus retroflexus L. Sp. Pl. 991. Yungas, 1890 (732) 
= Miers’, Buenos Ayres 1404. Also (?) Vic. La Paz, 1889 . 
(97). 
Achyranthes aspera L. Sp. Pl. 204, var. Yungas, 1890( 505). 
Guilleminia densa (Willd.) Mcq. in DC. Prodr. 13: 2, 338 (Zllece- 
drum densum Willd; R. & S. Syst. Veg. 4: 517 — G. ülece- 
broides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 42. pl. 518). Vic. La Paz, 10,000 
ft., 1889 (22). 
Zelanthera Mexicana (Sch. Bip.) Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13: 2, 372. 
Yungas, 1890 (682)— Mandon's 1015, Linden's 72, Vera 
Cruz and Matthews 2058, Peru. 
Alternanthera repens (L.) Steud. Nom. Ed. 2, 1, 65 (A. Achyrantha 
R. Br. Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1: 417). Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 
(963). 
ALTERNANTHERA BOLIVIANA sp. n. (954). 
Stems prostrate, creeping widely, slender, much branched, 
matted, reddish, compressed, coarsely sulcate, glabrous or sparsely 
pilose about the joints and ends; leaves conspicuously unequal, 
5-12 mm. long, 4-8 mm. broad, oval to spatulate-oval, base ab- 
ruptly narrowed, then tapering into a short petiole, apex blunt, or 
some with an acutish point, entire or obscurely sinuate, thickish, 
beneath minutely papillose or granular, the veins obscure; heads 
closely sessile, globose-obovoid, moderately compact, 7- 10 mm. 
long, the apex rounded; bracts broadly oval, concave, 2.5 mm. 
long, obscurely lacerate; bractlets of equal length, laterally com- 
pressed, keeled, acute, one side narrower; outer perianth segments 
4 mm. long, broadly oval, the apex rounded, strongly 3 or 5- 
ribbed, the inner equal in length, narrower, otherwise similar, 
