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MEMOIRS OF THE XEW 



YORK BOTAXICAL GARDEN 



mostly reflexed. Blades to 15 em. long and 6 cm. wide, ovate, 

 witli the base abruptly and shortly produced into the petiole, 

 abruptly short-acuminate and very acute at the summit, entire, 

 deep-green above, gray and very softly tomentellate beneath, 

 the slender midrib and secondaries lightly prominent above, the 

 latter 10 to 12 on a side, strongly ascending and slightly curved, 

 the slender venation obscure, densely anastomosing. Peduncle 

 in only one axil of a node, shorter than the petiole, the cyme 

 hardly 2 cm. broad, densely flowered, the hirsute flowers sub- 

 sessile. Calyx-tube 3 nun. long, campanulate, the lobes some- 

 what longer, narrowly lanceolate, acutish, widely spreading, 

 about ecjual, longer than the corolla-tube, not equaling the co- 

 rolla-lobes, which are ovate, acutish, recurved. 



Rurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, November 25, 1921 

 ("no. 1185.^^ There is apparently a confusion of numbers, as I 

 have 1185 recorded as a '"Basso via 8 to 10 feet high, with white 

 flowers"). 



Watsonamra sordidiflora 



Glabrous, the branches elongate and slender, terete. Stipules 

 distinct, 5 to 8 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. Petioles 1.5 to 3 cm. 

 long, the margins strongly upcurved. Blades 1 to 3 dm. long, 5 

 to 12 cm. wide, var^4ng from lance-ovate to oval, obtuse, the 

 largest ones entire, the smaller upper ones, or some of them, 

 very irregularly erose-toothed or erose-pinnatifld. all thin and 

 membranaceous, the slender venation prominent, the secon- 

 daries 15 to 20 on a side, lightly falcate-ascending, sparsely con- 

 nected by tertiaries. Panicles terminal, shortly and stoutly pe- 

 duncled, the peduncles somewhat quadrangular, the inflorescence 

 lax, the ultimate branches and pedicels erect or nearly so, the 

 inflorescence and flowers of a cherry-red color. Pedicels slen- 

 der, somewhat thickened upward, some of them 1 cm. long, sub- 

 tended by very small rigid, attenuate bractlets. Calyx-tube, in 

 flower, about 1.5 mm. long, irregularly turbinate, lightly angled, 

 the limb aliout 2 min. broad, abruptly spreading or lis'htly re- 

 curved, erenately 5-lobed, the blackish hemispheric disk con- 

 spicuously projecting. Open flowers not seen, the buds densely 

 yelloA\'ish-scurfy-tomentose, about 1 cm. long and nearly half as 

 broad, somewhat clavate. with rounded summit and truncate or 

 umbilicate base. Stamens attached below the middle of the co- 

 rolla, at the top of a pilose band, the filaments slender, nearly 

 half as long as the linear anthers, which are attached at about 

 the middle of the back, and extend to the base of the corolla 



