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rotate, thick, fleshy, purple, pilose within, parted nearly to the 

 base, the lobes 8 or 9 mm. long, broadly ovate, obtuse. Crown 

 of five thick, fleshy, purple, concave scales attached closely to 

 the stamens and of about equal length, the anthers with short, 

 erect, triangular, hyaline appendages. Stigma plane. Polli- 

 nia ovoid, attached by short, thick filaments to a heart-shaped 

 corpuscle, with acute summit. 



"Twining to 40 feet, the corolla white with greenish zone 

 around the throat. Occasional in damp forest, 4,000 to 5,000 

 feet. Collected at Valparaiso, 4,500 feet, February 26." 

 (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1667.) 



Phaeostemma grandifolia. 



Ferruginous-hirsute, the hairs variously curved; branches 

 stout; petioles 7 cm. long, stout; blades 20-30 cm. long, 10-15 

 cm. broad, oval, lightly cordate, acute, thin, sparsely pilose with 

 coarse hairs; pedicels 12-30 mm. long, stout, very hirsute, like 

 the calyx. Calyx parted nearly to the base, the lobes 12 mm. 

 long, 6 mm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate; corolla about 4 cm. 

 broad, purple-veined and finely white-spotted, lobed two-thirds 

 of the way, the lobes broadly oval-ovate, blunt, the sinuses 

 narrow; crown dark-purple, 8 mm. broad, sinuately 5-lobed; 

 anther appendages incurved, white-floccose on the face; seeds 

 8 mm. long, 6 mm. broad, obovate, thick, the margin coarsely 

 toothed ; coma very fine and white. 



"Fruit 6 inches long, smooth; Charopampa, 1,600 feet, 

 September 22, 1901" (R. S. Williams, No. 797). 



Gonolobus Squiresii. 



Glabrous. Stems very slender. Petioles 6 to 8 mm. long, 

 slender, flattened. Blades 3 to 6 cm. long, i to 2 cm. broad, 

 lanceolate, with acute base and acuminate and acute summit, 

 thickish, pale-green, the venation not prominent, the secondaries 

 3 or 4 on a side, crooked, forking below the middle, and connect- 

 ing distantly from the margin, the remaining venation obscure. 

 Peduncles extremely short, one or two flowered, the pedicels 

 extremely short. Calyx 3.5 mm. broad, divided to the middle, 

 the lobes ovate, obtuse, greenish with purple tips. Corolla 

 6 mm. broad, smooth, yellowish, divided two-thirds of the way, 

 the lobes ovate, obtuse. Crown short, thin, greenish, 5-lobed. 

 Stigmatic disk short-stipitate, a little more than i mm. broad, 

 purple, lightly 5-angled and slightly 5-grooved. 



Rusby and Squires, Lower Orinoco, Venezuela (No. 294). 



Gonolobus attenuatus. 



More or less pubescent throughout, the younger stems pil- 

 ose with coarse yellow divaricate or reflexed hairs. Stems very 



