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pores looking inward and laterally and continued downward 

 into sutures. Ovary small, broadly ovoid, obtuse, the style 

 exceeding the stamens. Fruit (matuie?) 2 cm. long and nearly 

 as broad, obovoid, with rounded summit, apparently red. 



"A shrub to 6 feet in damp clearings, 6,000 feet. Sierra del 

 Libano, January 20. Moderately common here but not ob- 

 served elsewhere. Corolla white." (Herbert H. Smith, Col- 

 ombia, No. 1 181.) 



Bassovia calceolarioides. 



Glabrous, the stems flexuous, coarsely sulcate, the inter- 

 nodes in my specimen 2 to 3 cm. long. Petioles 4 to 6 mm. long, 

 stout. Blades 7 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. broad, inequilateral, 

 lanceolate to oblanceolate, the oblique base obtuse to sub-ro- 

 tund, the summit abruptly acuminate and acute. Thickish, 

 dark green, the slender venation lightly prominent underneath, 

 the secondaries 8 or 10 on each side, some of them indistinct, 

 strongly falcate and connecting near the rjiargin. Small basal 

 leaflets reflexed, mostly 2 or 3 together, to 10 mm. long, ovate 

 to rotuiid. Fascicles mostly 3-flowered, the pedicels very short 

 and stout. Calyx 6 to 9 mm. broad, broadly campanulate, 

 divided half way or more, the lobes ovate, short-acuminate. 

 Corolla I cm. long, broadly campanulate, lobed two-thirds of the 

 way, the lobes broadly ovate, acuminate. 



" Suffruticose, 2 to 4 feet high. Moderately common in 

 an abandoned clearing. Sierra del Libano, 6,000 feet, March 8. 

 Flowers creamy-white." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 

 1184.) 



Bassovia ferruginea. 



Young portions coarsely pilose with yellowish hairs. Stems 

 thick but weak, flexuous, irregularly angled, mostly with a 

 small sessile leaf at the base of the principal one, of the same 

 form. Petioles about 6 mm. long, stout, the blades of the 

 principal leaves 4 to 10 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. broad, the small 

 sessile ones 3 to 5 cm. long, and half as broad, all lanceolate 

 with acute base and long acuminate and acute summit; entire, 

 thin, dark-green, the stout venation conspicuous on both sur- 

 faces, especially beneath, the secondaries 5 or 6 on each side, 

 strongly ascending. Flowers subsolitary, the pedicels about 

 2 cm. long. Calyx-tube campanulate, about 3 mm. long and 

 4 or 5 mm. broad, with 10 strong green nerves, the margin 

 truncate, bearing 10 linear teeth, shorter than the tube. Cor- 

 olla divided nearly to the base, the lobes i cm. long, lanceolate. 

 Stamens half the length of the corolla, the filaments very short, 

 the anther oblanceolate, with broad truncate summit, btyle 

 a little exceeding the stamens. 



