366 MEMOIRS OF THE XEW YORK BOTANICAL GAUDEX 



Stenostephanus boliviana 



Veins of the lower leaf-surfaces, inflorescence, etc., puberu- 

 lent. Branchlets slender, qiiadranoular, silicate. Leaves to 3 

 dm. long, 1.5 dm. wide, ovate, abruptly contracted into an acumi- 

 nate, subsessile base and into a short acute terminal acumiiia- 

 tion, entire, thin, very sparsely and minutely strigose above, 

 puberulent on the veins beneath, the secondaries about lo on 

 each side. Inflorescence terminal, thyrsoid. Bracts ovate, acu- 

 minate, rigid, the bractlets smaller and narrower. Pedicels 1 to 

 2 mm. long. Calyx-tube crateriform or nearly hemispheric, 2 

 mm. wide, after anthesis becoming contracted above the ovary 

 and depressed-globose in form. Calyx-teeth 3 mm. long, subu- 

 late and attenuate from the base. Narrow portion of the corolla- 

 tube al)out equaling the calyx, slightly enlarged upward, then 

 abruptly dilated into the ventricose throat, which is 1 cm. long 

 and 8 mm. broad, slightly curved and with the mouth slightly 

 contracted. Upper lip of corolla 5 mm. long, narrow, entire, 

 erect or recurved, the lower lip shortly 3-lobed, the middle lobe 

 a little smaller, the lobes ovate, obtuse, about 3 mm. long. Sta- 

 mens 2, attached to the base of the corolla, exserted, more than 

 twice as long as the corolla, one shorter than the other and with 

 a smaller anther. Anthers 1-celled. Style filiform, about equal- 

 ing the stamens, the stigma small, entire. 



Ixiamas, 1,500 feet, Martin Cardenas, December 12, 1921 {no. 

 1905). 



Dianthera graminifolia 



Sparsely short-pulierulent. Stems slender, simple or 

 branched from the base, weak, irregularly angled, erect or as- 

 cending. Leaves sessile, tapering into a short petiole-like base, 

 very unequal, the upper usually longer, to 7 cm. long and 5 mm. 

 broad, lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse or obtusish, entire, thin, 

 deep-green, roughish with sparse, very short hairs on margin 

 and midrib, the venation obscure, the secondaries about 7 or 8 

 on each side, strongly falcate-ascending. Spikes axillary, mostly 

 exceeding their leaves, very slender, long-peduncled. I3racts to 

 1 cm. long, linear, attenuate. Cah'x at length nearly 1 cm. long, 

 divided to the base, the lobes subequal, lance-linear, attenuate, 

 the midrib prominent. Open corolla more than twice the length 

 of the cahof, bluish-purple. Dissection material wanting. Cap- 

 sule light-brown, exceeding the calyx, broad, acute, the base con- 

 tracted. 



