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the upper principal pair. Racemes in the upper axils, about 

 5-flowered, mostly shorter than their leaves (except the upper 

 ones) the peduncles very short and stout, obsoletely bracted, 

 the pedicels at length 1.5 cm. long, bearing 2 deciduous, very 

 small ovate acute bractlets below the middle, very stout, thick- 

 ened upward, fleshy, drying with sharp wrinkles, blackish, ar- 

 ticulated with the calyx. Flowering calyx-tube 5 mm. long, 

 turbinate, obtusely angled, the limb 8 mm. broad, sinuately 

 5-toothed, the teeth very short, acutish. Corolla 15 mm. long, 

 slightly ventricose below the middle and there 6 mm. broad, 

 gradually contracted to 3 mm. just below the mouth, the latter 

 again expanded to 5 mm. very shortly 5-toothed, the teeth 

 slightly spreading, obtusish. Filaments 2 mm. long, more than 

 half as broad, not connate, flat and thin, attached i mm. above 

 the broad obtuse base. Thecse muricate or papillose, 5 or 6 mm. 

 long, exclusive of the slender awn, which is about 4 mm. long. 

 Style slender, slightly exceeding the corolla, the stigma truncate. 



"A shrub, 3 feet high, in damp clearings. Sierra del Liban.o, 

 6,000 feet, January 22. Flower red; calyx hairy," (Herbert 

 H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1964.) 



Apparently the same collected by Holton at Bogota. 



Sophoclesia robusta 



Glabrous. Branches elongated, stout, terete, the inter- 

 nodes less than half as long as the leaves. Petioles 3 to 5 mm. 

 long, stout, the blades 3 to 6 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. Abroad, ovate 

 with rounded or subcordate base and obtuse summit, entire, 

 revolute, thick, drying brownish, the midrib impressed above 

 the venation slightly prominent beneath, 3-nerved, with 5 to 7 

 faint crooked secondaries on each side, the remaining venation 

 finely reticulate. Peduncles solitary in the axils, i-flowered 

 (always ?), less than half the length of their leaves, filiform, 

 finely striate. Calyx puberulent, urceolate, 1.5 mm. long and 

 broad, the lobes extremely short and broad. Corolla campanu- 

 late, about 2 mm. longer than the calyx, minutely 5-toothed, 

 the teeth erect. Style slender, long-exserted. 



Specimen unique, collected in Bolivia by M. Bang, without 

 number or locality. 



Vacciniopsis tetramera. 



Branches tomentose, the lower leaf -surf ace appressed-brown- 

 hairy and black-dotted. Branchlets stoutish, erect, blackish 

 below and roughened with leaf-scars, above purplish, angled, 

 densely leafy. Leaves sessile but with a short, narrow petiole- 

 like base, the blades 8 to 10 mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. broad, ellip- 

 tical with a slightly produced base and obtuse summit, entire, 

 revolute, thick, bright-green and much wrinkled above, brown 



