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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



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vel oblongo-lanceolata, 3-10 cm longa, 0.8-3.5 cm lata, acuminata, apice saepe 

 curvata, basi angustata, firma, integra, nitida, margine recurvata, utrinque 

 aliquanto parce hirsuta, pilis appressis vel ascendentibus, brunneis, usque ad 

 0.5 mm longos, costa et venis lateralibus (6-8 paribus) subtus prominentibus, 

 venulis crasse reticularis, supra obscuris, cystolithis mullis; petioli usque ad 

 1.5 cm longos, dense hirsuti, pilis brunneis, ascendentibus usque ad 0.5 mm 

 longos; spicae breves, densae, usque ad 2 cm longos, terminales, pedunculi 2-3 

 mm longi, pilosi ; bracteae et bracteolae, 10-12 mm longae, 0.5 mm latae, acumi- 

 natae, firmae, hirsutae, pilis patulis vel ascendentibus, usque ad 1 mm longos, 

 brunneis, costa prominenti, calycis segmenta 5, anguste acuminata, 5 mm longa, 

 0.75 mm lata, acuminata, glabra, marginibus albidis subhyalinis, costa promi- 

 menti; corolla purpurea ( ?) parce pubercula, 4 cm longa, basi tubo 1.5 mm lato, 

 prope os 4 mm lato, labio superiore 15 mm longo, erecto, triangulari-ovato, basi 

 6 mm lato, apice bilobato, lobis rotundatis, 0.5 mm longis et latis, marginibus 

 tuberculatis, labio inferiore 15 mm longo, basi 3 mm lato, trilobato, lobo medio 

 oblongo 8 mm longo, 2 mm lato, rotundato, stamina labio superiore corollae 

 aequalia antice declinata, lobis antherarum superpositis, rectis, connectivo 0.5 

 mm longo gracili; ovarium glabrum; capsulae ignotae. 



VENEZUELA: Bolivar: Angel Falls, Auyan-tepui; 5 Apr 1950, H. B. Kunhardt 6 (type, 

 NY) ; same place and date, H. R. Kunhardt 9 (paratype, NY). 



Justicia plectica Leonard, sp. nov. Fig. 38. 



Suffrutex, caulibus usque ad 2 m longos, implicatis, subteretibus, leviter 

 sulcatis, parce puberulis (apice dense et bifariam puberulis), pilis retrorse 

 curvatis 0.16 mm longis ; lamina foliorum lanceolata, vel ovato-lanceolata, usque 

 ad 15 cm longam et 3.5 cm latam, acuminata, basi obtusa vel rotundata, aliquanto 

 firma, parce puberula, pilis antrorse curvatis, 0.16 mm longis, praecipue in costa 

 et venis (6-8 paribus) positis, subtus costa et venis promihentibus, supra 

 obscura, cystolithis pluribus; petioli 5 mm longi, puberuli, pilis antrorse ap- 

 pressis, 0.25 mm longis, subtus aliquando pilis rectis, patulis glandulosis prae- 

 ditis; thyrsi terminales, triangulares, sessiles, usque ad 7 cm longos, basi 3 cm 

 lati, apice acuti, rhachi puberula, pilis curvatis; bracteae et bracteolae anguste 

 lanceolatae, crassae, usque ad 2 cm longas, 0.75-1.5 mm. latae, acutae, aliquanto 

 parce hirtellae, pilis ascendentibus plerumque 0.5 mm longis, apice quandoque 

 pilis rectis patulis glandulosis praeditae, costa obscura; calycis segmenta 5, 

 lanceolata^ 12.5 mm longa, 1.75 mm lata, acuminata, parce puberula, pilis 

 plerumque appressis, 0.8-0.16 longis, costa aliquanto prominenti, marginibus 

 albis; corolla aurantiaca, glabra vel in venis parce et minute hirtella, 4-4.6 cm 

 longa, tubo basi 2.5 mm lato, prope os 5 mm lato, labio superiore erecto, anguste 

 ovato, 26 mm longo, basi 8 mm lato, apice 1 mm lato, rotundato, minute bilobato, 

 lobis rotundatis, labio inferiore patulo, 3 cm longo, basi 5 mm lato, trilobato, 

 lobis aequalibus, oblongo-lanceolatis, , 2 cm longis, 5 mm latis, apice obtusis ; 

 stamina 2 cm supra os corollae exserta, lobis antherarum leviter superpositis, 

 lobo inflmo basi calcarato, cauda 0.75 mm longa, alba; capsulae clavatae, 12 mm 

 longae, 6 mm latae, 4 mm crassae, obtusae, minute et dense puberulae; semina 

 4, sphaerica, minute puberula, albida; retinacula spathulata, albida, 2.5 mm 

 longa, apice plana, rotundata, 1 mm lata. 



VENEZUELA: Amazonas: locally frequent on Isla Carestia at Saltos Carestia 7 Gallo 

 (5 km north of Sanariapo), alt. 100-120 m; woody, forming great tangles in low trees to 2 m; 

 flowers orange; 11 Nov 1953, Bassett Maguire, John J. Wurdack George S. Bunting 36165 

 (type, NY; isotype, NY). 



