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mm. is narrow and petiole-like, the upper portion ovate, strongly 

 revolute, obtuse, obscurely crenate, thick. Calyx thick and 

 rigid, 3 mm. long, divided about half-way, the tube ovoid, 

 strongly 5-costate, the lobes 5, somewhat unequal, ovate, acute 

 and pungent. Corolla not found. Ovary ovoid, 2-l6bed, the 

 lobes obscurely 2-lobed. Style 2.5 mm. long, slender, parted 

 more than half way, the remainder not readily divisible. Nut- 

 lets 2, or when 4, two of them smaller, nearly i mm. long, 

 oblong, lightly curved, black, shining. 



"Payta, Peru, on shore, July 25, 1901." (R. S. Williams, 

 No. 2913.) 



Coldenia elongata. 



Densely gray-pilose with spreading hairs and slightly his- 

 pid. Petioles to 7 mm. long, rather stout. Blades to 7 mm. 

 long, 4 mm. wide in the dried state, with the rriargins strongly 

 revolute, oval-ovate and obtuse at both ends, pinnately lobed, 

 the lobes about 5 on each side, ovate, obtuse, thick and rigid, 

 concave beneath. Flowers densely massed on the short-branch- 

 lets, the masses leafy. Flowers sessile. Calyx 5 mm. long, 

 five-cleft nearly to the base, the divisions linear, deep-green with 

 a dense and long indumentum. Corolla lobed about half way, 

 the tube campanulate, 1.5 mm. long, the lobes broad and 

 rounded. Stamens 5, sub-equal, the anthers very short, fili- 

 form, inserted into the upper part of the tube, the anthers 

 included, largs, broadly oval, attached at about the middle of 

 the back, versatile. Ovary very small, depressed, 4-lobed, the 

 style exserted, the lower two-thirds stout, the upper third 

 slender, tapering, the small stigma minutely 2-lobed, but separ- 

 able below. Nutlets spheroidal, 0.5 mm. broad, brown, smooth 

 and shining. 



"Dry hillsides, Yura, Bolivia, 8,400 feet, August 10, 1901." 

 (R. S. Williams, No. 2562.) 



Coldenia sps. 



No. 2521, from Arequipa, Peru, 7,500 feet, which is smaller 

 in every way except as to its larger, black nutlets, is probably 

 distinct, but I am unable to find any flowers in proper state for 

 dissection. 



Aegiphila stricta. 



Inflorescence minutely puberulent. Branchlets slender, 

 straight, obtusely angled and shallowly sulcate, the internodes 

 3 to 5 cm. long. Petioles 8 to 10 mm. long, sub-erect, the 

 lower portion sharply keeled, annulate at the base. Blades 5 

 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, oval 01 slightly obovate, abruptly 

 and very shortly produced into the petiole, abruptly contracted 



