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and somewhat saccate, 3% lin. long; disc somewhat verrucose- 
reticulate. Column 1% lin. long. 
Songo, 1890 (920). 
Allied to .S. plantaginea Lindl. 
SPIRANTHES YUNGASENSIS Rolfe n. sp. 
Roots fascicled. Leaves cauline, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3 
in. long, 8-10 lin. broad, gradually reduced upwards into the bracts. 
Scapes pubescent, 1 1% ft. long, spikes 3 in. long. Bracts linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 8-10 lin. long. Sepals pubescent, dorsal 
one oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 5 lin. long; lateral ones lanceo- 
late-acuminate, 5 lin. long. Petals lanceolate, acute, the inner 
margin appressed to the dorsal sepal, and thus forming a cucul- 
late hood. Lip somewhat recurved, oblong, obtuse, somewhat 
undulate, 4% lin. long, margins united to column, base adnate to 
ovary, saccate. Column 31 lin. long. 
Yungas, 1890 (451). 
Closely allied to S. io Lindl. 
Habenaria hexaptera Lindi. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 316. Yungas 
(582). 
Habenaria maculosa Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 399. Vic. Cocha- 
bamba (1239). 
SCITAMINEAE. 
Costus spicatus (Jacq.) Swartz, Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 11: (Alpinia 
spicata Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. ai 7). Songo, Nov. 
1890 (912). 
Stromanthe spectabilis Lem. Jard. Fleur. 4: pl. gor. Yungas 1890 
(513). 
STROMANTHE AUGUSTIFOLIA Sp. n. 
broad and sheathing below, gradually narrowed above and becom- 
ing separate and terete, finely and sharply many-ribbed, above 
sparsely pilose and scurfy, the blades elongated, in the dry much 
involute condition only about 5-10 mm. broad, glabrous, light- 
green, finely and beautifully transverse-striate, the straw-color 
mid-rib strong and prominent; peduncles very slender, erect Or- 
erect-spreading, the lower reaching 5 dm. in length: bracts indigo- 
blue at the base, exceeding their branches, acute; rhachis and 
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