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uno paullo inferiori vel evoluto vel nullo; bracteis ovatis glabriusculis 
brevibus obtusis ; perigonio ovoideo-conico ; laciniis ovatis obtusis strami- 
neis basi lanatis supra glabratis induratis. — Narsoroueu Ist.: south- 
ern part, abundant at 600 m. alt., Snodgrass & Heller, March, 1899, no. 
346 (hb. -Gr.), and April, 1899, no. 322 (hb. Gr.). This species may 
prove a variety of F. lanigera, Anderss., with which it shares many 
characteristics. It is, however, taller, considerably more slender and less 
lanate. ‘The leaves are longer, narrower, and more acute, and the heads 
smaller and in general fewer-flowered. 
Tresineg, L. 
I. Epmonstonet, Hook. f. (3), 190; Mogq.-Tand. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 
pt. 2, 343; Anderss. (1), 164, & (2), 60.— Cmartes Ist.: Darwin. 
Endemic? <A plant in herb. Gray, labelled “ Iresine Edmonstonei, 
Hook.f. Guayaquil? Mr. Edmonston,” answers well to the description 
of this species. 
PLEctROPETALUM, Hook. f. 
P. Darwinu, Hook. f. (1), t. 2, (3), 221, & Bot. Mag. cix. under 
t. 6674, where second species is figured and genus is referred as by 
Endlicher and by Moquin to Amarantaceae ; Anderss. (1), 225, & (2), 
96. Allochlamys Darwinii, Moq.-Tand. in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 2, 463. 
— ALBemaRLE Isz.: Iguana Cove near beach, Snodgrass & Heller, no. 
646 (hb. Gr.), James Ist.: Darwin. Endemic. The single specimen 
of this problematic plant secured by Messrs. Snodgrass & Heller is 
rather fragmentary but corresponds closely with the characterization and 
figure (Journ. of Bot.) published by Hooker. In its dense (although 
fruiting) inflorescence, relatively small leaves, 4 to 5 carpels and 6 to 8 
stamens, it would seem sufficiently distinct from P. costaricense [H. 
Wendl.] Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot: iii. 12, figured by Hook. f. Bot. 
Mag. 6674. The congeneric Melanocarpum Sprucei, Hook.:f. Gen. 
P]. iii. 24 of Ecuador is said to have 2 to 3 carpels and 5 stamens. 
pean haiieg Ri Be. 
. ECHINOCEPHALA, Mogq.-Tand. DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 2, 373 
(1849); Anderss. (1), 167, & ©), 62; Rose (1), 1387; Rob. & 
Greenm. (1), 148. 7. argentea, Anderss. (0), 168. TJ. sp. Rose (1), 
137. Brandesia echinocephala, Hook. f. (3), 189. — GaLaracos 
Ips.: Habel. Axstnepon Ist.: Baur, no. 299 (hb. Gr.) ; Snodgrass & 
Heller, no. 850 (hb. Gr.), Atsemarte Isz.: southern portion, Baur, 
