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late or oblanceolate with long tapering base and acuminate and 

 acute siunmit, thin, deep-green above, purple beneath, unequally 

 short-serrate-dentate, the venation coarse but weak, the fal- 

 cate-ascending secondaries 5 to 7 on each side. Bracts lanceo- 

 late, large, long-acuminate and acute. Calyx free, 5-parted, 

 somewhat oblique, the lobes 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, long-acuminate and acute, ciliate, foliaeeous, 2 narrower 

 and a little shorter than the others. Disk of two upper lobes, 

 connate nearly to the summit. Corolla nearly 4 em. long, con- 

 sisting of a short constricted base, an ample campanulate tube 

 and a short ex]ianded limb, the tube being moderately ventri- 

 cose near the middle and saccate at the base, the sac short, blunt 

 and slightly falcate, the limb 5-lobed, the lobes nearly equal, 

 short and rounded. Filaments distinct, adnate to the lower part 

 of the corolla, dilated at the base, subcircinately curved. An- 

 thers small, distinct, broadly oval. Ovary conic, the style fili- 

 form, shorter than the stamens, the stigma strongly 2-lobed. 

 Flowers handsome, cream-colored. 



"^Tumapasa, 1,500 feet, 0. E. White, December 6, 1921 {no. 

 1830). 



Drymonia Campbellii 



Leaves sparingly and shortly strigose. Stems stout but 

 weak, reclining or someAvhat climbing, red, the branches short 

 and stout. Leaves opposite, the slender petioles 1.5 to 3 cm. 

 long, the blades 8 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, oval and some- 

 what oblique, acute at the base and abruptly short-acuminate 

 and acute at the summit, irregularly and shallowly sinuate-den- 

 tate, very thin, bright-green above, pale beneath, the venation 

 sparse and very slightly prominent beneath, the secondaries 5 or 

 6 on a side, falcately ascending. Peduncles solitary in the axils, 

 slender, mostly shorter than their petioles. Calyx-lol)es moder- 

 ately unequal, triangular-ovate, short-acuminate and acute, 

 somewhat oblique, entire or nearly so, foliaeeous, thin, the 

 largest 3 cm. long, more than 2 cm. broad. "Corolla white ex- 

 ternally, brown within," larger than the calyx, the lobes broadly 

 obovate, crenate. 



Eurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, November 22, 1921 

 [no. 1755). 



Species dedicated to Mr. Milton Campbell, President of the 

 H. K. Mulford Company, through whose generous interest the 

 Mulford Exploration was made possible. 



