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tins. Amazonas, Brazil. Ricardo de Lemos Froes 21471 (Mata do Igarape do 

 Massabo, Cabarv. Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil) agrees very well with the photo 

 of the type of F. brevifoMa, but also ties up with Wurdack & Monaehino 39733 

 and some of the Guiana material of F. guyanensis. The XYBG specimens of 

 F1418 and F2113 from British Guiana, cited as F. gracilis (Benth.) Muell.-Arg. 

 in Bull. Torrey Club 75: 554 (1948), are of F. guyanensis. KiUip & Smith 30151 

 (Manaos, Amazonas, Brazil), cited by Woodson as F. riedelii Muell.-Arg., and 

 Ducke 1980 and 420 (Manaos). which are similar to the Killip & Smith clolection, 

 are probably also conspecific with F. guyanensis. The leaves of these specimens 

 are not altogether eglandular; there are small glands or gland-sears at the base 

 of some leaf-blades. It is suspected that glandulosity is a somewhat variable 

 character in F. guyanensis, as are the size and shape of the sepals, the size of 

 the corolla, and the kind of indumentum. Tn reference to F. riedelii, Woodson 

 states (p. 177) that the type specimen was collected by Riedel and cited as from 

 Serra d' Estrella. "It will not be surprising, therefore, if the specimens cited 

 from Amazonas may eventually be proved to represent a distinct species." 



Galactophora pulchella Woodson. 



VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Maguire $ Wurdack 34481, Alto Rio Orinoco, infrequent in 

 scrub near Yapacana cano laguna, northwest base of Cerro Yapacana, elev. 150 m, March ]6, 

 1953, shrub 0.5-1.5 m, flowers pink. Maguire, Wurdack Bunting 37595, Bio Pacimoni, rare in 

 savanna on right bank of Rio Pacimoni 50 km above mouth, 100-140 m elev., Feb 7, 1954, 

 shrub 1.5 m, flowers pink. Maguire, Wurdack 4' Bunting 37609, Rio Siapa, Casiquiare, along 

 Cano Hechimoni (8 km above mouth of Rio Siapa), 100-130 m elev., Feb 9, 1954, shrub 2 m, 

 flowers pale pink, the tube outside basally deep rose. 



The species was determined from description and photo of the holotype speci- 

 men. Sprue* 37 18, Cano Pimichm, Amazonas, Venezuela I the citation in the 

 original description is an error). The three collections cited above are all from 

 the phytogeographical province of the type locality. The corollas are manifestly 

 setose. The proper (infrastaminal) part of the corolla-tube is up to 1.5 cm long-. 

 Some of the leaves are narrow, only 1.5 cm wide; while many of the leaves are 

 "abruptly rounded and obscurely cordate,'' as described, several are somewhat 

 narrowed and acutish at the base. 



Galactophora pumila Monaehino, sp. nov. Figure 16. 



Frntex, 0.1-0.3 m altns ; caulibus primo puberulis; foliis oppositis subsessili- 

 bns coriaceis elliptico-oblongis subglabris, 2-4 cm longis, 0.7-1.4 cm latis, ad 

 basin obtusis, ad apicem rotundatis vel obtusis; nervis secundariis venisque ob- 

 senris; inflorescentiis 1- vel 2-floris; sepalis lanceolatis, 8-10 mm longis, 1.5-2 mm 

 latis, plerumque glabris ; corolla infundibulariformi, tubo ca. 12 mm longo. gula 

 15 mm longa extns glanduloso-setosa, intns infra staminum pubescent!, lobis 

 corollae 15 mm longis; staminibus ad apicem tubi insertis; antheris 4-5 mm 

 longis; ovario glabro. disco annulato subundulato; frnctibus gracilibus. 9-15 cm 

 longis, glabris. 



Dwarf erect shrub 0.1-0.3 m tall, the stems slender, young parts pubernlent 

 with minute spreading hairs ; 'leaves opposite, almost sessile (the petiole about 

 1 mm long), rigidly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, narrowed toward the obtuse 

 base, rounded or obtuse and sometimes apiculate at the apex, thick and some- 

 times subrevolute at the margins, 2-4 cm long, 0.7-1.4 cm wide, glabrous except 

 for the sparsely pubernlent petiole and leaf apex, often punctate beneath, the 

 midrib sunken on upper side, slightly raised beneath, the secondary nerves and 



