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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTAKICAL GARDEN 



3 cm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate and acute, mostly acute at 

 base, shortly and bluntly serrate, very thin, of a light and bright 

 green, the secondaries mostly 4 on each side, slender, rather 

 crooked, strongly upcurved, the venation loose and obscure. 

 Pedicels solitary in the axils, or occasionally 2 to 4 crowded to- 

 gether at the ends, 5 to 7 mm. long, filiform, with or without one 

 or two obscure very narrow bracts below the middle. Calyx 

 pubescent, 3 sepals 1.5 mm. long, ovate, acuminate and acute, the 

 two others only about half as large. Large petal yellowish, 5 to 

 6 mm. long, the broad claw nearly twice the length of the emargi- 

 nate limb, its basal, saccate portion broader than the limb. The 

 two lateral petals about half as long as the larger one, inequi- 

 laterally ovate, the claw nearly obsolete, the fourth and fifth 

 petals only about half as large as the lateral ones. Stamens at 

 first coherent, with the appendages closely connivent over the 

 stigma, at length completely separated by the growth of the 

 ovary. Stamens 3 mm. long, the acuminate appendages a little 

 longer than the sessile anthers, the two larger anthers glandular, 

 but not spurred at the base. Stjde equaling the stamens, slightly 

 dilated, curved. 



Huachi, 3,000 feet, //. //. Rushij, September 21, 1923 {no. 

 682). Species very near C. sessiliflora O. Kuntze, but distin- 

 guished by its slender pedicels. 



Calceolaria balaensls 



Youngest portions minutely puberulent. Stems woody, the 

 branches slender, rigid, widely spreading, the leaves opposite. 

 Petioles 5 to 10 mm. long, slender, grooved above. Stipules 

 ovate, 4 mm. long, thick and rigid, deciduous. Blades to 1 dm. 

 long and nearly half as wide, obovate with acute base and ab- 

 ruptly short-pointed obtuse summit, obscurely sinuate, thin, 

 pale-green, glabrate, the midrib and secondaries mostly im- 

 pressed above, sharply prominent beneath, the secondaries 8 to 

 10 on each side, widely spreading, then strongly falcate-ascend- 

 ing, connected by very numerous crooked tertiaries. Flowers 

 few, racemose at the ends of short branchlets. the bracts subu- 

 late, acute, about 1 mm. long. Pedicels about 2 mm. long. 

 Sepals small, lanceolate. Largest petal 5 mm. long, the claw 

 about a third of its length, the sac short and angular. The other 

 petals a little shorter, narrow, the claw short and broad. An- 

 ther-appendages lanceolate, yellow, unequal, longer than the 

 anthers, the anthers sessile, distinct. 



A single specimen, Bala, 0. E. Wliife, without definite data 

 (nn. 1479). 



