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ent in pairs, pilose, tapering to the summit, nearly as long as 

 the corolla-tube, the anthers very broad and flat, not coherent. 

 Disk of two opposite broad truncate or sub-rounded scales a 

 third of the length of the ovary, which is half as long as the 

 calyx, obliquely ovoid, glabrous. Style neaily i cm. long, 

 filiform, the stigma oblique, obscurely 2-lobed. 



"A shrub 3 to 4 feet high, with orange-red flowers, in damp 

 and shady ground to 5,000 feet. Collected near Valparaiso, 

 4,000 feet, March 21." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 

 I399-) 

 Besleria tenuifolia. 



Younger portions and lower leaf-surfaces when young, 

 puberulent. Stems weak and slender, leafy to the summit. 

 Petioles and leaves very unequal, the former up to 6 cm. long, 

 very slender. Blades 6 to 18 cm. long, 2.5 to 8 cm. wide, in- 

 equilaterally ovate and abruptly short-acuminate at both ends, 

 obsoletely serrate, very thin, the venation slender, lightly 

 prominent above, the midrib narrowly 3-sulcate on both sur- 

 faces, the secondaries about 7 on each side, more or less de- 

 current on the midrib. Peduncles axillary, short, unequal, 2 

 or 3-flowered, the pedicels very slender, unequal. 



Calyx-tube crateriform, very short, the lobes 5 to 7 mm. 

 long, broadly and inequilaterally ovate, acute or short-acumi- 

 nate, thin. Corolla 2 cm. long, slightly gibbous at the base, 

 strongly ventricose at the summit, 5-lobed, the lobes 3 mm. 

 long, semi-circular. Disk of 2 very oblique scales, very short 

 at one side and gradually increasing in length toward the other, 

 then abruptly elongated into narrow obtuse appendages. Ovary 

 conical, longer than the calyx. Filaments attached 6 mm. 

 above the base of the corolla, dilated at the base and connate 

 in pairs, all the anthers coherent. Summit of ovary contin- 

 uous with the style, which nearly equals the corolla and is 

 abruptly flexed near the summit. Fruit spheroidal, 12 mm. 

 broad. 



"A shrub to 4 feet, with orange-red flowers and red fruit, 

 in low damp forest near the coast at San Diego, May 12." 

 (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 2672.) 



Gesneria onacaensis. 



Leaves, etc., shortly and minutely strigose. Leaves irregu- 

 larly crowded at the ends of the branchlets, 15 to 30 cm. long 

 and 5 to 7 cm. wide, inequilaterally lance-oblong with the base 

 gradually narrowed into a pseudo-petiole, and with acute sum- 

 mit and' finely and unequally dentate margin, very thin, deep- 

 green, the slender venation inconspicuous, the secondaries 

 very slender, 16 to 20 on a side, strongly ascending, falcate. 



