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body ovate, narrowed above to an elongated lanceolate or linear tip: 
corolla white, narrowly campanulate, 6 cm. long, strigose-pubescent in 
broad bands without: stamens hardly equalling the corolla, the filaments 
somewhat dilated below and pubescent with loose spreading hairs: ovary 
glabrous ; the style slender, equalling the corolla; stigma 3-lobed: cap- 
sule depressed-ovoid, 1} cm. high, 3-celled, 6-seeded; seed ovate, 6 or 
7mm. long; covered with short ferruginous pubescence. — A very showy 
plant, growing in low places among the mountains, January, 1895 
(no. 483). 
Ipomcea Palmeri, Watson, var. platyphylla. Leaves larger than 
in the type, the largest leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 1 dm. long, 3 em. wide 
peduncles bearing 1 to 3 dull-white nocturnal flowers : seeds oblong or 
oblong-ovate, 10 to 13 mm. long, more densely black-pubescent than in 
the species. —In high valleys among the mountains, January, 1899 
(no. 415). 
Ipoma@a ritipes, Benth. ex Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vii. 274. A 
dainty little vine with minute yellow flowers. Among underbrush on 
high hills, and along arroyos, November, 1894 (no. 109). 
Convolvulus secundiflorus. A delicate vine; stems twining, 
covered with scattered pilose hairs: leaves elongated, ovate-lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, deeply cordate, glabrous or granular-pubescent, with thin 
whitish and pilose margins, 2 to 4 cm. long, on pilose petioles 5 to 13 mm. 
in length: the 2-3-flowered racemes axillary, secund: the glandular 
peduncles 1} to 3} cm. long: bracts minute, subulate: pedicels glandular, 
4 to 9mm. long: calyx glandular and pilose without, 3 mm. long ™ 
flower, becoming elongated to 4 or 5 mm. in fruit ; sepals elongate-lanceo- 
late with subulate muriculate tips: corolla blue, glabrous, 9 mm. high, 
with the 5 angles acuminate: stamens unequal, the three longest 45 m™™- 
high, and equalling the style: stigma linear-oblong: seed pale brow”, 
muriculate, barely 2 mm. long. — Among grass in the town, October; 
1894 (no. 32). 
Cordia (Dasycephalz) perlonga. A shrub with very hard 
fine-grained wood, the dark brown bark dotted with orbicular or oblong 
white lenticels: young branches appressed-hispidulous and villous: le 
short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely and unequally serrate above 
the cuneate entire bases, 6 to 9 cm. long, 14 to 24 cm. broad ; above dark 
green, appressed tuberculate-hispid; beneath white-villous, app 
hispid on the veins: peduncles subterminal, becoming 1 or 2 dm. long; 
villous and sparingly hispidulous : heads at first globular, becoming short 
_ oblong, in fruit 2 or 3 cm. long: calyx narrowly campanulate, white 
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