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ovate. Petioles about 2.5 cm. long, the blades (only the upper 

 seen) 20 to 25 cm. long, 8 to 10 cm. wide, oblong, short-acumi- 

 nate and acute at both ends, entire, thin, deep-green, the very 

 slender venation prominent beneath, the secondaries about 15 

 on a side, besides short intermediate ones, widely spreading, 

 then strongly falcate, the finer venation loosely reticulate. 

 Panicle terminal, 18 cm. long, the peduncle a third of this 

 length, pyramidal, loosely branched and flowered, without 

 bracts, the bractlets sparse, subulate, very small. Pedicels 

 filiform, 6 mm. or less long. Calyx-tube turbinate, longer than 

 the triangular-ovate teeth. Corolla infundibular, i cm. long, 

 the tube slightly gibbous at the base, the lobes ovate, erect, 

 small. Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla, the 

 filaments glabrous, about half the length of the linear anthers, 

 which are 2 mm. long, the style very slightly exceeding them. 



"A large bush with smooth, livid-green branches. San 

 Buena Ventura, 1,400 feet, November 3, 1901." (R. S. Will- 

 iams, Bolivia, No. 663.) 



The same collected by Pearce in Ecuador. 



Rudgea longirostris. 



Glabrous. Branches slender, quadrangular. Stipules 6 mm. 

 long, ovate, acute, the lower portions connate to a varying 

 degree. Petioles to 15 mm. long, slender, sulcata. Blades 6 

 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. broad, lanceolate with acutish base 

 and stomewhat abruptly acuminate and acute summit, the 

 venation prominent beneath, the principal secondaries about 

 II or 12 on a side, with intermediate shorter ones, strongly 

 falcate-ascending and uniting to form a thickened margin, the 

 remaining venation finely and strongly anastomosing. Panicle 

 terminal, broad, very loose and open, the bracts very narrow, 

 regularly attenuate from the base, the bractlets ovate and 

 acuminate. Pedicels slender, some as long or longer than the 

 flowers. Calyx 2.5 mm. long, the turbinate-tube less than half 

 the length, the limb cupulate, broad, the margin very shortly 

 toothed. Corolla salver-form, the tube 5 mm. long, cylin- 

 draceous, the throat a little dilated, obscurely ribbed, the 5 

 lobes about half the length of the tube, ovate, strongly recurved, 

 strongly horned on the back near the summit. Stamens m- 

 serted into the strongly pilose tube of the corolla, the filaments 

 short, the tips of the anthers exserted. Style exserted, shortly 

 2-fid, the branches recurved. 



"A small slender tree or shrub, 6 to 15 feet high, with green- 

 ish-yellow flowers and blue berries. Moderately common in 

 damp mountain forest. Sierra del Libano, about 6,000 feet, 

 January 10." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1819.) No. 



