60 New Species of South American Plants 



about 1.5 cm. long, slender, striate, the blades 8 to 12 cm. long, 

 2 to 3 cm. broad, regularly lanceolate with obtuse base and 

 acuminate and acute summit, entire, thin, deep-green above, 

 ferruginous beneath, where the slender venation ispromiient, 

 the secondaries about 14 on each side, widely spreading and 

 hghtly falcate. Flowers few on my specimen, terminal, the 

 bractlets of the panicle very small. Pedicels sharply angled, 

 short, unequal. Sepals 6 mm. long and two-thirds as broad, 

 ovate, lightly striate, the broad middle portion ferruginous, the 

 rather broad purple margins glabrous. Petals a half longer 

 than the sepals, purple, densely long pilose within. Stamens 

 numerous, the phalanx stoutly stipitate, about 5 mm. long, the 

 free portions of the filaments short. Styles half the length of 

 the ovary, distinct, slender, the stigmas large, white-pubescent. 

 Sacupana, Venezuela, April, 1896. (Rusby and Squires, 

 No. 141.) 



Calceolaria hirsuta. 



Densely long-pilose throughout. Branches ascending from 

 a decumbent, apparently woody base, 4 dm. or more high, 

 slender, sparingly branched, terete, striate. Stipules 5 to 7 

 mm. long, lanceolate, obtuse, striate. Leaves to 4 cm. long 

 and 2 cm. wide, the lower and upper smaller, obovate, con- 

 tracted at the base into a very short petiole, mostly obtuse, 

 thin, yellowish-gray-green, the venation not prominent, the 

 secondaries, about 5 on a side, strongly ascending, the margin 

 serrate with obtuse teeth and acute sinuses. Flowers several, 

 in a terminal but apparently lateral fascicle, but only the fruits 

 present in my specimen. Fruiting calyx to i cm. long, the 

 lobes somewhat unequal, lance-ovate, long-acuminate, the mar- 

 gin bearing several linear teeth. Vestiges of the somewhat per- 

 sistent petals remaining. Capsule a half or two-thirds the 

 length of the calyx. Seed spheroidal, somewhat compressed, 

 whitish, smooth. 



"Rare in sheltered places at the base of rocks, under 

 bushes, etc. On open grassy hillsides, 4 miles northeast of 

 Masinga, 500 feet, November 8. Not observed elsewhere. 

 Flowers whitish or cream-colored." (Herbert H. Smith, Co- 

 lombia, No. 2018.) 



Species near C. Poayia (St. Hil.) O. Kuntze. 



Calceolaria curvirostra. 



Finely puberulent. Stems erect, stoutish, terete, leafy. 

 Stipules 3 to 4 mm. long, ovate, acute. Petioles 3 or 4 mm. 

 long, stout. Blades to i dm. long and 3 cm. wide, the lower 

 smaller, lanceolate with acute base and abruptly acuminate 

 summit, the acumination rather long and narrow; thickish, 



