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tenuis 6 mm. longus in fauces anguste campanulatas 1.7 em. longas 
abrupte ampliatus; limbi lobi 5 subaequales cuneato-suborbicu- 
lares ad 1.1 cm. longi 1.3m. lati. Stamina 4: filamenta basi 
disjuncta et apice pilosa 7 et 13.5 mm. longa; antherarum loculi 
aequales oppositi 3mm. longi margine subsparse pilosi basi mu- 
crone ad 0.8mm. longo muniti. Stylus 2.5 em. longus; stigma 
liguliforme ad 0.8 mm. longum. — British Honpuras: shrub or 
small tree with showy pale lavender flowers, in forest, upper Moho 
River, 16 March 1907, M. E. Peck 730 (ree in Gray Herb.). — 
From B. grandiflora J. D. Smith (Bot. Gaz. xxxiii. 255 (1902)), the 
only other species with mucronate calyx-lobes, the present plant 
differs in a number of small but significant features. The flowers 
are smaller, and the sepals merely minutely puberulous, entirely 
lacking the long hairs found along the midline of at least the inner 
sepals in B. grandiflora. The filaments are shorter, less hairy at 
base and apex than in B. grandiflora and entirely separate at base, 
while in B. grandiflora the members of each lateral pair are much 
more hairy at base and united by a narrow membrane forming a 
little pocket. Furthermore the anther-cells of B. proxima are dis- 
tinctly smaller and less hairy, and the anther-appendages shorter. 
Diantuera Peckii, sp. nov. “ Basi fruticulosa 0.6-1.3 m. alta,” 
supra herbacea. Caulis subteres ad nodos paullum incrassatus 
cystolithiger bifariam hispido-pilosus pilis laxis. Folia lanceolata 
longissime attenuata plus minusve falcata basi longe attenuata 
crenato-sinuata vel subintegra utrinque viridia supra ad costam 
appresse hispida ceterum glabra cystolithigera 9.5-13.5 cm. longa 
2.3-2.6 em. lata, in petiolis hispido-piloso-ciliatis 8-15 mm. longis. 
Spicae solitariae vel binae terminales vel subterminales 9.5-1 1.3 
cm. longae bifariam pubescentes, in pedunculo 2-2.4 cm. longo; 
internodia 5.5-7.5 mm. longa; flores solitarii oppositi sessiles. 
Bracteolae laterales 2 lineari-subulatae subpungentes ad basin 
anguste ovatam et apicem sparse ciliolatae 3 mm. longae. Calycis 
segmenta 4 basi ima unita aequalia lineari-subulata subpungentia 
sparse incurvo-hispidula ad 5mm. longa. Corolla extus glabra 
10-12.5 mm. longa; tubus 6 mm. longus anguste infundibuliformi- 
campanulatus, intus facie superiore praecipue ad basin et filamenta 
adnata secundum pilosulus; labium superius porrectum apice 
paullum cucullatum emarginatum ad 7 mm. longum ad 2.3 mm. 
latum; inferius longius ad 5 mm. latum decurvatum palato con- 
