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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTAiSTICAL GARDEN 



deep-green, the slender venation prominent on both sides, 

 sharply so beneath, the secondaries 6 or 8 on each side, connected 

 with one another and with the midrib by transverse tertiaries. 

 Panicles axillary, mostly about as long as the leaves, peduncled 

 or branched from the base. Pedicels 2 or 3 mm. long, slender. 

 Calyx very thin and membranaceous, the tube depressed-globose, 

 about 8 mm. wide, the limb irregularly 3-lobed. Corolla-tube 

 proper about 5 mm. long, narrow, the expanded portion cam- 

 I^anulate, straight, about 2 cm. long to the base of the lobes. 



Huachi, 1,800 feet, 0. E. White, August 14, 1921 (no. 955). 

 "A tall climber with magenta-colored flowers having little odor. 

 A very profuse bloomer and very showy." 



Anemopaegma leptosiphon 



Glabrous. Stems slender, the stipuloid appendages not 

 present. Leaves bifoliolate, the middle leaflet replaced by a 

 tendril. Petioles 2 to 3 cm. long, divaricate, stout, about twice 

 the length of the petiolules. Blade to 9 cm. long by 5 cm. wide, 

 oval-ovate, with broadly rounded or slightly cordate base, ab- 

 ruptly contracted into a short, mostly obtuse acumination at the 

 summit, entire, thick, pale-green, finely verrucose on both sides, 

 the slender venation prominent beneath, the secondaries about 7 

 on each side, strongly ascending and falcate, the finer venation 

 coarsely anastomosing. Racemes axillary, few-flowered, shortly 

 peduncled, the pedicels about twice as long as the peduncles, re- 

 curved. Calyx 10 to 12 mm. long, about 7 mm. Inroad, campanu- 

 late, thickish, muricate or verrucose, the lobes short and broad, 

 unequal. Corolla lilac-colored, about 3 cm. long when fully de- 

 veloped, the tube and throat of about equal length, the tube 

 scarcely 2 mm. wide, abruptly expanded into the throat, which 

 is 7 mm. wide, the lobes short and broad, sharply recurved. 



Dissection material wanting. 



Ixiamas, 800 feet, M. Cardenas, December 15, 1921 {no. 1926). 

 "Growing in damp soil on pampa, the flowers lilac-purple." 

 Species very near A. symmetrica, but well distinguished by the 

 peculiar leaf-surface, as well as the size and form of the 

 flowers. 



Pithecoctenium glaucum 



(Fruiting specimens.) Lower leaf-surfaces minutely stri- 

 gose or jDapillose and roughish. Branches stout, pale-gray, sul- 

 cate or angled, much wrinkled in drying, bearing one or two 



