ae ‘ BuLLETIN OF Tue New York BoranicaL GARDEN VoLuME IV, 1905-1907 BULLETIN The New York Botanical Garden VOLUME IV WitH 14 PLATES LIBRARY Se ae ie NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN. PUBLISHED FOR THE GARDEN At 4t Nortu Queen Street, Lancasrer, Pa. w Era Printinc Compa PRESS OF THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPAN? LANCASTER, PA. OFFICERS, 1907. PRESIDENT—D. O. MILLS, ee piece CARNEGIE, TREASURER—CHARLES F, COX, SECRETARY—N. BRITTON. BoARD OP MANAGERS. 1. ELECTED MANAGERS. HON. oo BROWN, J. PIERPONT MORGAN, ANDREW CARNEGIE, ORG. PE Ni W. BAYARD ae cere A. SCRYMSER, ERT W. DE FOREST, ROB Ww. JOHN I. KANE, py THORNE D. O. MILLS. 2. EX-OFFICIO MANAGERS. THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, THE MAYoR OF THE City oF NEw York, HON, GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. 3. SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS. PROF. L. M. UNDERWOOD, Chairman. DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, PROF. JAMES F, KEMP, PROF, C. F CHARLES F. : HON. EGERTON L, WINTHROP, Jr. GARDEN STAFF, N. L. BRITTON, Director-in- Chief. . A. MURRILL, first Assistant. DR. jenn K. SMALL, Head Guan of the Museums, » Curator. R, ARTHUR HOLLICK, Curator. DR. MARSHALL A. HOWE, Curator. ROBERT S. WILLIAMS, seed Curator. DR. WILLIAM J. ee Consulting lias SCHILLING, JOHN R RIN. a Land Engineer. siesta Ss. ee ECK erk and Accountant, R. JOHN A. SHAF ER, ve m Custodia: PERCY WILSON, pase pes ‘@Wembers of the Corporation. Grorcz S, Bowpo1n, Davip LyDI«, Pror. N. L. BritTon, Epcar L. MARSTON, Hon. ADDISON BRown, D. O. MILLs, Dr. Nichotas M. BuTLer, J. Przerront MorGAn, ANDREW CARNEGIE, THEODORE W. MYERS, Pror. C. F, CHANDLER, GrorceE M. OLcoTT, WILLIAM G. CHOATE, Pror. Henry F. OsBoRN, CuHARLEs F. Cox, Lowe i M. PALMER, Joun J. CROoKE, Gzorcz W. PERKINS, W, BAYARD CUTTING, James R, PITCHER, James B. Forp, Rr. Rev. Henry C, Porrrr, RosBEeRT W. DE FOREST, Percy R. PYNE, Henry W. DE Forest, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, CLEVELAND H. DopcE, WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, SAMUEL W. FAIRCHILD, Pror. H. H. Ruszy, Gen. Louis F1ITzGERALD, James A. SCRYMSER, RICHARD W. GILDER, Henry A. SIZBRECHT, Hon. Tuomas F. GILroy, WILLIAM D. SLOANE, Hon. Hucu J. GRANT, NELSON SMITH, Henry GRAVES, JAmEs SPEYER, Henry P. Hoyt, Francis L. STETSON, ADRIAN ISELIN, JR., Dr. W. GILMAN THOMPSON, Morris K. Jzsup, Louis C, TIFFANY, Joun I. Kane, SAMUEL THORNE, EUGENE KELLY, JR., Pror. L. M. UNDERWOOD, Pror. JaAMEs F. Kemp, GEORGE W. VANDERBILT, Joun S. Kennepy, Hon. Ecerton L, Winturop, JR., Pror, FREDERIC S. Lex, WriiiaM H. S. Woon. Hon, SetH Low, TABLE OF CONTENTS LIBRARY NEW YorK BOTANICAL GARDEN. No. 12. MAY 8, 1905 PAGE Report of the Secretary and Director-in-Chief for the year 1904 I Report of the Assistant Director . - 18 Report of the Curator of the Museums ad ae anen - 35 Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economic Collec- tions : . ; . : : . 48 Report of the itaaae : ; ; . . + 51 Report of the Head Gardener - 41 Report of the Superintendent of Buildings aa Geese - 8 Schedule of Expenditures during 1904 . : . . 86% Report of the Scientific Directors. + 92 Report of the Committee on Patrons, eliows a Menten + 95 Report of the Treasurer . . : . . . . - 110 NO. 18. JUNE 265, 1906 BoTanicaL CONTRIBUTIONS: Contributions to the Flora of the Bahama Islands, II. B RITTON. [Jssued separately, August 24, on . : New American @bisiiine ipa, By M. Hoetis and M. A. Howe (with plates 80-93). [Jssued separately, March 17, 1906.) . . 128 Contributions to the Flora of the rene Oren Il. By N.L. Britton. [Jssued separately, March 19,1906.] 137 A Revision of the North American Vernonieae. By Henry Arian Gueason. [fssued separately, June 4, 1906.] . : : . . . . - 144 The Chareae of North America. By Cuariies Bupp Rosinson. [Jssued separately, June 13, 1906.) .« 244 vii NO. 14. DECEMBER 7, 1907 BotTanIcAL CONTRIBUTIONS: An Enumeration of the Plants Collected in Bolivia by Miguel Bang. Part 4. ith Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By Henry H. Ruspy. Sad iliac aaa 55 7907. ‘ : . 309 Index. - 471 vill VOL. 4 No. 12 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [ISSUED MAY 8, 1905] CONTENTS: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DiIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF FOR THE YEAR 1904. Report of the Assistant Director : Report of the Curator of the Museums and Herbarium . Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economic Collec- tions . Report of the Librarian. Report of the Head Gardener. : Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grane Schedule of Expenditures during 1904 . REPORT OF THE ScIENTIFIC DirEcTorS REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PaTRONS, FELLOWS, AND MEMBERS . REpoRT OF THE TREASURER BULLETIN The New York Botanical Garden Vol. 4. No. 12. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR- IN-CHIEF FOR THE YEAR 1904 (Submitted and ordered printed January 9, 1905.) To THE Boarp or ManacGers or THE NEw York Bo- TANICAL GARDEN. Gentlemen: Ihave the honor to submit herewith my report as Secretary and Director-in-Chief for the year ending Janu- ary 9, 1905. The development of the Garden has gone forward continu- ously in all departments during the year just ended. Con- struction work, in accordance with the general plan adopted in 1896, has been actively prosecuted, and the value of this original study of the project has continued to be apparent. Noteworthy additions have been made by gift, purchase, and exchange, and through explorations, to the collections of liv- ing plants, the museums, library, and herbarium. The num- ber of visitors has materially increased, and we have had a larger number of special students and investigators making use of our equipment than ever before. Our permanent funds have increased about $2,500, and the sums borrowed from them for development during the early period of construction operations have now been nearly repaid. The annual and life members of the Garden now number 1,108, an increase during the year of 14. Gifts of money by many friends of the institution have enabled us to secure important additions to the collections, which our ordinary income would not have (1) (2) permitted; the large number of 360 different persons have contributed either money or material, exclusive of annual membership dues. The city has enabled work on roads, paths, bridges, and grading to be continued uninterruptedly, by an additional appropriation of $75,000, which became available for expenditure in the late summer, but it has not increased the allowance for general maintenance of grounds, buildings and collections, which stands at $70,000 for 1905, the same as for 1904, and is too little for the proper upkeep of the Garden in its present state of development. Construction of Roads and Paths Work on the main park driveway west and north of the museum building has been prosecuted at intervals and is now so far advanced that this road may be completed and opened for use early in the spring, there only remaining its final sur- facing and rolling to be done; this will complete all the Telford McAdam roadway planned west of the Bronx River, except the connections with the two bridges under construc- tion across the railway at the Mosholu Parkway and Wood- lawn Road, the earth filling and retaining walls for which have not yet been made, though part of the filling needed at the Mosholu Parkway approach has been put in place and the dumping there is being continued during the winter. On the east side of the Bronx River a considerable part of the grading required for the driveways was done in 1903, and most of the filling needed for the easterly approach to the long bridge across the valley of the Bronx has been made during the last few months; this work is going on dur- ing the winter. The driveway approach to the public con- servatories, which had been considerably cut up by the hauling of heavy building material for the cut stone steps of the conservatory terraces and for the large tanks for water plants in the court of the conservatories, was resurfaced during the autumn. The service road to the power house was also completed. Path building has gone forward on a large scale. The (3) completion of the steps and tanks at the conservatories per- mitted the building of the paths planned on the conservatory terrace and of those leading to it, including the resurfacing of those previously built. Parts of the path system between the valley of the herbaceous garden and the hemlock grove were completed, and the Telford foundations of other por- tions were laid. Path approaches were built to the public comfort station at the elevated railroad station, and to the power house. The path east of and paralleling the driveway east of the museum building was completed as far north as practicable before the building of the lake bridge. The Telford foundations for the path which will connect the Mosholu Parkway and Woodlawn Road approaches was mostly laid, as was also that for much of the path system on the fruticetum plain to connect these approaches and the path system south of the museum building with the long bridge; also a part of that on the north meadows to connect the upper bridge with the other bridges, buildings and entrances. The stone for the foundations of all these driveways and paths has been furnished by our own grading operations and more is being excavated during the winter from a quarry behind the museum building where necessary grading is going forward. Bridges The steel and stone upper bridge across the Bronx River at the northern end of the Garden near the Newell Avenue entrance, built under a contract of the Department of Parks, was satisfactorily completed in the spring; during the sum- mer, after the earth filling at its ends had well settled, the Telford foundation for the driveway was laid across it and the curbstones set in place. Work on the rubble stone five-arched long bridge, across the valley of the Bronx River north of the hemlock grove, has been prosecuted throughout the season under a contract of the Department of Parks, and all but the middle arch has been completed; this work should be finished by June or July; all the rubble stone used in this structure has been fur- (4) nished by grading operations northeast of the public conser- vatories, the rock being excavated by the contractor. The contract for the building of the one-arched stone bridge to carry the main driveway across the valley of the lakes northeast of the museum building, was awarded by the Commissioners of Parks on January 5, 1905, to Jos. Gallo; the expense of this work is about $37,000, and it should be completed within a year. Work on the abutment and retaining walls of the bridge at the Mosholu Parkway entrance has gone forward during the season under a Park Department contract, but lack of appro- priation has compelled the Department to defer the comple- tion of this structure; the work is far enough advanced, how- ever, to permit some of the earth filling to be made during the winter. The bridge across the railway at Woodlawn Road has been completed during the season, but no appropriation has as yet been made to enable the Department of Parks to construct the approaches to it. Grading Grading operations immediately around the public conser- vatories were continued during the early part of the season, and essentially completed in September; this work included the completion of the terrace on which these buildings stand, and the topsoiling and sowing of the grounds adjacent, to the south and east. The knoll southeast of these buildings was completely topsoiled and sown, and thus prepared for the planting of conifers as contemplated by the general plan. Small areas near the Southern Boulevard entrance, between the traffic road and paths, were graded, topsoiled, and sodded or sown; some work still remains to be done at this entrance, including the finishing of the two rocky knolls, at each side of the traffic road; this has been deferred, however, awaiting the rebuilding of the Southern Boulevard now in progress by the Highways Department of the borough. The surplus rock of the excavations just north of the pub- lic conservatories made necessary to form the finished surfaces (5) there, has mostly been used in the construction of the long bridge by the contractor, Mr. Leahy, who has excavated and carted it; some has gone into the Telford foundations of the driveways. A small amount still remains to be excavated, and as soon as this is accomplished in the spring, it is pro- posed to do the final work in grading at this point, and to top- soil and sow the area still denuded. Portions of the grounds south of the museum building along the paths leading from it to the herbaceous garden and the public conservatories were topsoiled and sown or sodded. An area at the extreme southwestern corner of the Garden, at the elevated railway station, was regulated, graded and sown, as were also the immediate surroundings of the public comfort stations and the power house. The path-building work east of the valley of the herbaceous garden, and east of the museum building, already referred to, necessitated considerable grading and sodding. Much of the topsoil and sod required to form the finished surfaces in these grading operations has come from the strip- ping of land within the lines of roads and paths, either moved directly into place, or taken from stacks where previously accumulated, but several hundred loads were obtained, for the digging and hauling, from contractors who were grading grounds during the spring and summer for streets and build- ing sites along the Mosholu Parkway west of the Garden. No sod nor topsoil has as yet been purchased. Much grading has been done along the driveways and paths under construction north and northeast of the museum building, including a heavy earth filling at the north end of the upper lake, where work is still going on, the material being brought from the rear of the museum building. At the Woodlawn Avenue Bridge, preparation for the fill- ing needed in building its approaches has been made, by taking out the topsoil and distributing it to areas between the main driveway and paths where needed. In 1896, at the time the temporary construction railroad for the Jerome Park Reservoir was build through the grounds, (6) a dirt embankment several hundred feet long was made by the contractor through a valley from the eastern end of the trestle nearly to the Garden barn; the abandonment of this railway by the contractor during the past summer has given opportunity for using this embankment as filling for the driveways at the east end of the long bridge, where it is now being hauled; its removal will restore this valley to its orig- inal form. The abandonment of this railway has also made it possible to regulate and grade the grounds just west of the arn. Drainage and Sewerage The laying of the drain from the cellar of the museum building to the upper lake, commenced late in 1903, was com- pleted in the spring; this work necessitated cutting through rock to a depth of about 14 feet for a considerable distance, and putting in a 10-inch earthenware pipe, which now com- pletely controls the drainage of the building and will ulti- mately come into use for the drainage of the court. The sewer connection east of the Bronx River, on which work was commenced last winter, was also completed in the spring, providing satisfactory sewerage of the barn and also making it possible to build a public comfort station on the east side of the grounds, where the need of one is beginning to be ap- parent, A sewer connecting the public comfort station at the ele- vated railway approach with the large drain at the power house was laid early in the season. The 12-inch land drain east of the Bronx River, laid sev- eral years ago, was continued to the east end of the long bridge, outflowing into the river, before beginning the earth filling required for the approach at this point. Catch-basins and short drain-pipe connections from them to drains already laid, have been built at a number of places. Some drain-pipes were laid, and others relaid at the new propagating greenhouse at the nurseries. these sewer- and drain-pipes have been carefully plotted on our location plan, so that their position may be known in (ee) the future. Further details of all this work will be found in the report of the Superintendent of Grounds, hereto ap pended. Water Supply No extension of the water-pipe system has been made during the year, but it is intended to extend the main 6-inch line along the driveways north and east of the museum build- ing as indicated on the general plan, during next season. Buildings Detailed accounts of the operations on buildings will be found in the report of the Assistant Director hereto appended. Construction work during the year included the completion of the range of propagating houses, by the building of an additional greenhouse, and completing the original plan, which was, however, modified by including a large and commodious cellar under the new structure. This work was finished and the building putinto operation during the summer. Two completely equipped public comfort stations were built at the approach to the elevated railway station, under the contract awarded toward the end of 1903 to Springsted and Adamson; these were completed and opened to the public on july ¢:. At the power house, an overhead structure for delivering ashes into a concrete ashpit just west of that building was completed late in the year; this avoids the heavy work of wheeling the ashes up the runways. In order to supply additional stalls for horses, a modifica- tion was made of the interior structure of the stable, during the autumn, which has proven to be a great convenience. A contract for furnishing and setting the bronze fountain in front of the museum building, from the studies and moulds of Mr. Carl E. Tefft, the sculptor, was awarded to the Roman Bronze Co. of Greenpoint, N. Y., by the Com- missioners of Parks, December 29, 1904. It is expected that this work may be completed in about four months. (8) Plants and Planting The report of the Head Gardener, hereto appended, shows that 12,053 species of plants were represented in the collec- tions during the year, an increase of 451 species over the record of 1903. A large number of specimens have been replaced by better ones of the same species, and the number of individual plants cultivated in the conservatories has been somewhat reduced by the elimination of imperfect specimens or of duplicates, many of which have been sent to other in- stitutions in exchange. The increased areas taken into cul- tivation, and the largely increased areas of lawns and finished banks, necessitate greater expenditure in maintenance. The capacity of the public conservatories for the housing of plants has been nearly reached, and I now recommend that plans be prepared for the construction of another range of greenhouses, as contemplated by the original plans and studies made in 1896 and 1897. I referred to this approach- ing need in my annual report for 1902 (BULLETIN N. Y. Bor. Garp. 2: 412). As there stated, the cost of this proposed structure should be very much less than the range already built, on account of much less height being required. With the intention of building an additional range of glass, the present range was designed essentially for tropical plants of large or of considerable size, deferring the construction of smaller houses to the future. This proposed new structure should have a floor area at least as great as the present range, and even with this development, we would not have as much glass as has been found necessary at the Royal Gardens at Kew, England, where a very much milder climate permits the cultivation of many more species out of doors. t will be recalled that the modification of our original studies, made by the Park Commissioners in 1897, caused the abandonment of the first suggested site of the present glass building and their construction where they now stand, and the position first selected for them has proved to be very de- sirable for parts of the collection of conifers and for the mor- phological garden. It seems desirable from the present de- (9) velopment of the Garden that this proposed new greenhouse should be built east of the Bronx River, in order to establish it at a considerable distance from the present conservatories and from the museum building, and to provide a prominent feature on the east side of the ground, which will probably soon become easily accessible from the south by the extension of the rapid transit system. It will be desirable to design this proposed new structure in such a way that it may be built in sections, necessitating no very heavy expenditure during any one year, and to include in it provision for space for considerable floral display. I therefore recommend that authority be given me to con- sult with the Commissioner of Parks relative to a site for this structure, and to have plans prepared for it, to be submitted to you and to the Commissioner of Parks. A detailed account of the gardening operations will be found in the report of the Head Gardener, hereto appended. Library The report of the Librarian, hereto appended, shows that the collections of books was increased during the year by 1,166 bound volumes, and by a large number of pamphlets ; of these bound volumes 694, or considerably more than one half, were presented to the Garden. Contributions of money used for the purchase of books and credited to the Special Book Fund have been made as follows: Andrew Carnegie. .........c.cccceeeseeneeeeetee teenees $300.00 D. O. Mills 100.00 Mortimer L. Schiff 100.00 Samuel Sloan...... 100.00 Isaac N. Seligman 100.00 Geo. S. Bowdoin 100.00 Lowell M. Palmer.....cccccccecccceeeescecceene seeeeees 100.00 obt. M. Thompson 100.00 Mrs. George Whitfield Collord 100.00 George Foster Peabody............ cceceseeeceeee eee 100.00 Wm. D. Sloane 100.00 Geo. M. Olcott 50.00 (10 ) W. B. Dickerman........cccecsceeeeesee cereeeeneeeees 50.00 . E. Parsons 50.00 Miss Grace H. Dodge 25.00 S. S. Palmer. 25.00 Miss Eva V. C. Morris 25.00 Miss Martha Potter............cccceseseeeeeeee seeneeeee 15.00 Total $1,540.00 Exchanges of publications with other institutions have been largely extended, so that the number of societies, gardens, museums and other institutions now sending us their publica- tions is about 455. he building up of our library has, on the whole, gone forward satisfactorily, through the liberal aid which has been given by many friends of the Garden. In order to make the collection as complete as that of the larger botanical libraries of the Old World, it will be necessary to expend considerable more money, however, and to so arrange our finances as to always be able to secure a rare work when it is offered. Some of the older literature is of course practically unattainable, and the amount that is becoming beyond our reach is increasing from year to year. We should certainly aim to make the library as complete as possible in pure botany, and in its related sciences of horticulture, agriculture, forestry, and such portions of general biology as apply to plants, and I believe that no greater service could be ren- dered to these subjects in America, than by some provision by means of which our library should be perfected. The library of the British Museum of Natural History in London is probably the most complete collection existing ; the method chosen by the trustees of that institution some years ago, was to select a responsible firm of bookdealers, and give them authority to secure any work not already ob- tained, payments for such accessions being made at the con- venience of the Museum. This firm has twice offered to act for us in the same way, but I have never seen my way clear to bring this matter to your attention, on account of the very considerable sum which would have to be set aside to meet (11) the necessary expense, nor is it practicable now for me to recommend this course with our present income. It will soon be necessary for us to consider increasing the shelf capacity of the library, as the shelves already provided will not accommodate more than about 2,000 additional books. The architect’s plan for increasing the shelving has always been to construct a set of bookcases above those already built in the stackroom, by means of a steel frame, thus bringing the collection on two levels, and floor beams of sufficient strength to permit this were used when the building was constructed. Museums and Herbarium The incorporation of additional specimens into the collec- tion has gone forward actively, and the accumulated quantity of specimens hitherto stored has for the most part been in- stalled, or distributed to other institutions, the total additions to the permanent collections amounting to 102,716, of which 60,552 were obtained during the year, and 42,164 were previously stored. The museum cases are ample to receive the natural growth of the collection for some time, but we now need additional herbarium cases, which it is hoped may be obtained during the year. The growth of the herbarium has been very rapid, owing to the great number of specimens that have been given to the Garden, and the several private herbaria which have been purchased, so that the nucleus of a collection of dried plants comparable in size and importance to the larger ones of the Old World has now been formed. Dr. Rusby informed me when he returned from Europe in the autumn, that he thinks the size of our herbarium is now between one fourth and one third that of the Royal Gardens at Kew. The very rapidity of our accumulation of speci- mens has prevented their critical study in many instances, and it is proposed, now that the specimens secured have nearly all been mounted, to devote special attention during the next year to their study and arrangement, looking for- ward to a much less rapid accumulation of material in the in the immediate future. (12) The report of the Curator of the Museums and Herbarium, hereto appended, describes in detail all the work of this department. Laboratories The uses of the laboratories and the work of students and of visiting investigators who have been given facilities for study, are described in the appended report of the Assistant Director. Lectures The system of public lectures delivered in the lecture hall of the museum building on Saturday afternoons during the spring and autumn, has been continued with satisfactory results, the audiences numbering from fifty to somewhat over five hundred persons. It is desirable to increase the number of lectures as rapidly as the means therefor can be obtained ; the Saturday afternoon series might profitably be extended to every Saturday in the year, and other lectures, designed with special reference to the needs of teachers and their pupils, might be given with advantage. Exploration The policy of sending members of the staff, or special agents, to various parts of the world for the purpose of col- lecting living plants, seeds and specimens, has been con- tinued, with great advantage to the collections, and the addition of a very large amount of important information to the sciences of botany and horticulture. During the year this part of our work has been accomplished by means of appropriations from four general fund and by the following contributions of money credited to our special exploration fund W. Bayard Cutting $320.45 J. Pierpont Morgan........ 300.00 D. O. Mills 200.00 Mrs. Matilda W. Bruce 200.00 James B. Ford 150.00 Geo. W. Perkins 150.00 James Speyer 150.00 (13) John Innes Kane 150.00 Charles Lanier 150.00 H. C. von Post. 100.00 R. W. de Forest........cccccccecsenee es ceeeeee eeneeeees 100.00 H. L. Terrell 100.00 Samuel N. Hoyt 100.00 Louis Marshall 100.00 F. N. Warburg 100.00 Grant B. Schley 100.00 James A. Scrymser..... 100.00 Louis C. Tiffany......... 100.00 Samuel Sloan 50.00 Zenas Crane 50.00 Edgar L. Marston 50.00 Geo: .B: Hopkins. ..22é2¢:05.5i0.ccisaeciecee oe eadd 50.00 Miss Elizabeth Billings.................scsceeeeee conve 50.00 A. F. Estabrook 50.00 A. G. Agnew 35.00 Samuel P. Avery, Jr 25.00 Henry F. Walker 25.00 Wm. Church Osborn 25.00 John Crosby Brown 25.00 Bernard G. Amend 25.00 Wn. Stratford 10.00 Mrs. Lawson Valentine 10.00 Mrs. James H. Aldrich 10.00 C. Temple Emmet 10.00 James Douglas 10.00 Miss Jennie R. Cathcart 3.00 Total $3,183.45 The results of the several explorations have been duly re- corded in our JOURNAL, and only a summary of them is nec- essary here. Work in the Philippine Islands, commenced late in 1903, has been continued during the year by Mr. R. S. Williams, a special agent of the Garden, in codperation with the resi- dent botanists of the Insular Government. Three large con- signments of specimens and seeds have been received from (14) him, and I have put their study and arrangement in the hands of Mr. C. B. Robinson, who has been serving for part of the time as a resident research scholar. In addition to or- ganizing the material sent in by Mr. Williams, and arrang- ing it together with other collections from the Philippines, Mr. Robinson has entered upon the work of compiling a catalogue of the Philippine flora, based in part on the speci- mens and in part on the literature of the subject. Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Assistant Director, spent parts of January and February in the southern part of the valley of the Colorado River, and on the northeastern coast of Lower California, securing a considerable number of the very inter- esting plants of this little known region, a large number of photographs and some herbarium specimens. I explored subtropical Florida, accompanied by Mrs. Brit- ton and by Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Assistant Curator, during parts of March and April, in continuation of work previously done in that region by Dr. John K. Small, Curator of the Museums, and Mr. Geo. V. Nash, Head Gardener, and Dr. Howe and I visited the island of New Providence, Bahamas, in April, with Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Curator of Botany in the Field Columbian Museum; my stay on New Providence was only for two days at this time, but Dr. Howe and Dr. Millspaugh conducted an exploration by means of a sloop from New Providence northwestwardly to the western Ba- hamian cays, and thence to Miami, Florida. The results of this Bahamian exploration showed that our knowledge of this archipelago was still very incomplete, and in my report on this work I recommended that we organize a detailed botani- cal survey of the Bahamas. It became possible for me to follow up this recommendation by visiting New Providence again during parts of August and September, where I was assisted by Mrs. Britton, and by Mr. L. J. K. Brace, a resi- dent botanist; a large collection was made at this time which has since been somewhat critically studied, and proves to contain many species of interest and of novelty. The Bahamian exploration was further continued by Mr. Nash, (15) Head Gardener, assisted by Mr. Norman Taylor, a garden aid, who proceeded to Inagua, one of the southern islands of the archipelago, in October, being absent about five weeks, and securing a collection which contains more of interest and of novelty than was thought possible; Mr. Nash’s report on this work will be published in the January issue of the Jour- NAL. I have again continued this investigation by sending Mr. Brace in December to Abaco, the northeastern island of the group; he is under instructions to spend about a month there, and return to Nassau about the middle of January. I desire to take further part in this field work by making an examination of the Great Bahama Island, the most north- western island of the Bahamas, and devote the month of Feb- ruary to this work; this island can be reached by a vessel from Nassau, and inasmuch as Dr. Millspaugh can accom- pany me at this time, the expense of this boat would be much less than if we went alone. Further work in subtropical Florida was accomplished in May by Dr. Small, assisted by Mr. Percy Wilson, and Dr. Small again visited the same region in November. Each visit to this peculiar region discloses the existence there of species either new to science or not hitherto known except in the West Indies, and, notwithstanding the number of trips that we have made there, it is probable that the novelties are not yet exhausted. Investigations Botanical and horticultural studies upon the collections have been prosecuted by all members of the staff and assist- ants, and also by forty-five students, and by many visit- ing investigators from other institutions. Practically the en- tire time of members of the staff not required for preparation and installation of the collections is given to study, and im- portant and substantial contributions to knowledge have been made, some of which have attracted international attention. Accounts of the research work accomplished will be found in the reports of the several officers, and a statement of the work (16) of students in the report of the Assistant Director, hereto ap- ended. The provision for members of the staff to visit other institutions has again proved most valuable, the most note- worthy event of the past year being a study by Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Assistant Curator, of the collections of algae in European museums, an account of which has already been published by him in our JouRNAL. Research Scholarships Research Scholarships have been granted to three persons for a total of ten months, in accordance with the action of the Board of Managers at the annual meeting in January, 1903. Dr. J. C. Arthur, Botanist to the Agricultural Experiment Station and Professor of Plant Physiology and Pathology, Purdue University, held a scholarship for a month, during which time he made some critical studies of the Uredinae (rusts) for the purpose of completing his investigations of the polymorphism of these interesting parasites which spend por- tions of their life-cycle on different species of plants. Dr. Arthur’s studies are also to be used in the description of the group in the North American Flora. He has contributed many specimens of these fungi to our collections. Dr. J. E. Kirkwood, Assistant Professor of Botany in Syracuse University, held a research scholarship for two months, during which period some further studies on the em- bryology of the Cucurbitaceae were pushed to an advanced stage of completion and some bibliographical work on the subject was accomplished. Mr. C. B. Robinson, who held a scholarship for one period of four months and a second period of three months, engaged in the study, installation and arrangement of the collections from the Philippines, and in the preparation of a monograph of the stone-worts (Characeae), made possible by the great collection of these plants presented to the Garden some years ago by Dr. T. F. Allen. (17) Preservation of Native Plants The income of the fund of $3,000 established by the Misses Caroline and Olivia E. Phelps Stokes in rgo1 for the protec- tion of wild flowers, has been expended in part in the print- ing and distribution of essays upon the subject, which have received wide attention and favorable comment, and in part in defraying the expenses of the series of lectures, delivered in eight cities by Dr. C. E. Waters, Treasurer of the Wild Flower Preservation Society. It is believed that the existence: of this fund and the expenditure of its income are having a. salutary effect, in calling attention to the many reasons why natural scenery and native plants should be preserved. Administrative The action of the Board of Managers in promoting Dr. D. T. MacDougal, First Assistant, to the position of Assistant Director, which took effect on June 1, has been of very great advantage in the administration of the institution. I referred to him all details of maintenance, and have since then been able to give more time to the work of construction and to the oversight of the installation of the collections. This division of administrative duties is a natural one, and has operated satisfactorily. I have also been able to give time to the study of the West Indian collections, to the preparation of manuscript for the North American Flora, and to personally directing the studies of others. Reports Appended I submit also reports by the Assistant Director, the Curator of the Museums and Herbarium, the Curator of the Economic Collections, the Librarian, the Head Gardener, the Superin- tendent of Buildings and Grounds, and a schedule of ex- penditures under appropriations by the Board of Managers. Respectfully submitted, N. L. Britton, Director-in- Chief. (18) REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Dr. N. L. Brirron, DirecTor-1n-CHIEF, Str: I have the the honor to present the following report for the year ending January 1, 1905. In accordance with the appointment conveyed by the Di- rector-in-Chief, the duties of the Assistant Director, entailing a supervision of the maintenance of the Garden, were as- sumed on June I, 1904. Roads, Paths and Grounds The roads and paths of the Garden have been kept in order by employees of the Department of Parks in accord- ance with the act of organization of the Garden, two men being employed in restoring the surfaces of the walks and driveways: a force which is hardly adequate to the task, how- ever, and it will be necessary that an addition to this detail be made by the Department if the driveways are to be kept in good average condition. In September and October the Department was able to furnish screenings, which were applied to the repair of the surface of the roads and paths in various parts of the grounds. The lawns, terraces, plantations and borders have been mowed, rolled, cultivated and kept in order by laborers and gardeners, as detailed in the reports of the Head Gardener and Superintendent. The area under high cultivation hav- ing been increased by large extensions in various parts of the Garden, the care of the grounds now demands an in- creased force of laborers and gardeners. The usual number of trees in the woodlands have reached maturity, or have been uprooted by the wind and have been removed. ‘The precautions found necessary for the protec- tion of the Hemlock Grove have been observed, with the re- sult that this forest may be reported to be in a very healthy condition. It may be necessary to take steps for the preven- tion of too much disturbance of the humus, which is an ex- (19) tremely important factor for a forest of this character. This may be done by directing visitors along indicated paths. The constantly increasing number of visitors to the Garden and the completion of extensions to the roads, paths and col- lections, has made necessary some additions to the details for guard duty with the result that the total number on duty on holidays and other special occasions now numbers 26. In addition to this unavoidable increase, it has been necessary to provide attendants for the public comfort stations near the entrance to the terminal station of the Manhattan Elevated Railway, and to appoint two special guards by whom the grounds were patrolled from 7 A. M. until 8 P. M. daily during the summer season. Some service has been rendered by the patrolmen attached to the 41st precinct, but no special detail has been made for any part of the Garden except upon certain occasions. It is highly desirable that some favorable action looking toward the more complete protection of the Garden be secured from the Commissioner of Police. It is to be noted that the amount of damage to the collec- tions has been very small, and it is gratifying to be able to report the growth of a healthy sentiment on the part of the public as to the preservation of the collections and of the nat- ural features of the grounds. On several occasions, intelli- gent visitors have been known to prevent thoughtless persons from injuring lawns, wild plants, and objects on exhibition. The existence of such a sentiment has done much to supple- ment the inadequate guard service we are able to provide. On the other hand, the deposition of newspapers and rub- bish of various kinds in the grounds has increased to such an extent that one man is no longer able to clear up the litter resulting from this carelessness. It is necessary that vigor- ous measures be taken to abate this growing nuisance. The cabs and hacks which wait for passengers at the entrances continue to be a source of annoyance to visitors by persistent soliciting, and of damage to the roadways by the disregard of the regulations governing licensed vehicles. It is to be seen from the foregoing that a material increase (20 ) in the number of employees of the Park Department for the care of the roads and paths, and of the laborers, gardeners, guards, and police for the care of the plantations, the preser- vation of the natural features of the Garden and the regula- tion of visitors and vehicles, is necessary. The Museum A number of important repairs and alterations have been made in the museum, which improved the condition of the building and made possible an increase in the efficiency of several phases of the work of the Garden. The completion of the drain leading out from the subcellar of the lecture hall has resulted in a much drier condition of the entire basement of the building, and in an improvement of the sanitary con- ditions in general. A number of sinks have been moved from the uppermost floor to various points where needed, and the large aquarium in the physiological laboratory has been re- moved to the experimental greenhouse in order to facilitate some special investigations. ‘Two masons were employed in repointing the joints in the cornices and walls, in October, November and December, by which several bad leaks were stopped. This work was also extended to the balustrades, steps, and walls of the approach. No serious repairs having been made to the surfaces of the walls in the interior of the building since its erection, the painters were employed almost constantly during Sep- tember, October and November, in cleaning the surfaces and painting the same with a mixture of white lead and zinc. The phanerogamic herbarium, the cryptogamic her- barium, the hallways and rooms east of the Director’s office have been treated in this manner, as well as the Direc- tor’s administrative office on the first floor, and it is proposed to extend the method over the entire building. The upper part of the unused elevator shaft has been converted into a storeroom for the janitors. The photographic darkroom has been provided with large panels of orange and ruby glass in the door and overhead, which increases its usefulness. A (21) large shallow sink of especial construction has been provided in the physiological laboratory for use in investigations upon the influence of gas upon plants Four oak vertical files have been added to the equipment of the library for the purpose of containing the large series of illustrations at present in the cryptogamic herbarium, and a single vertical filing case has been placed in the office of the Assistant Director for the purpose of preserving scientific correspondence. In addition a special file has been provided for the paid vouchers of the institution which are stored in the publication room. The flagstaff over the main entrance, which was shattered by a stroke of lightning in July, 1903, has been repaired and put in good order by splicing the uninjured basal portion of the shaft. By a recent regulation, the colors are hoisted at 10 A. M. and lowered at 4.30 or 5 P. M., being displayed during the period in which the museum is open to visitors. It has been found necessary to detail two janitors for con- stant duty on the uppermost floor to meet the needs of the staff in the administration and care of the laboratories, library and herbaria. Conservatories The conservatories have been cared for in the usual man- ner. Houses no. 2, 3, 13 and 14 were repainted in the interior during the summer. New shades have been put in place as detailed by the Head Gardener. The breakage of glass during the year has been very small. It has been necessary to line up several batteries of steam pipes during the year and the doors at the main entrances demand constant attention from the carpenter and painter. Some important adjustments and replacements of broken parts of ventilat- ing apparatus were carried out by Hitchings and in November. During many days in the year the crowd in the conserva- tories taxes the capacity of the aisles to the utmost, but the system of regulation is so effective that visitors have been able to inspect the collections without inconvenience at any time. (22) Constant attention to the labels of the plants reduces the mis- placement of these important adjuncts to an exhibit to a minimum. Propagating Houses The propagating houses were maintained with only unim- portant repairs. An area of 2,500 square feet immediately south of the propagating houses has been enclosed with wire netting eight feet in height, to protect the experimental cul- tures for the study of the origin of species that have been in progress for some time. Power Plant The heating and power plant has been maintained with a minimum of repairs. Only one break in the heating system has occurred, and this necessitated cutting off the steam from the museum for two days only. The trouble was due to a defective joint in the main and was put in order at slight expense. During the summer the entire system was overhauled by the chief engineer, a number of frames and grate bars being replaced under the boilers. The certificate given by the manager of the inspection department of the United States Casualty Company, after the annual inspection, was accom- panied by a letter stating that the entire power plant with its boilers, pumps, dynamos and other machinery were in ex- cellent condition and showed unusually good care and in- telligent handling. Stable The stable now furnishes accomodations for ten horses, and has been kept in order by the replacement of some of the floors and of the sloping approaches at the entrances. Repair Shop The repair shop has well repaid its maintainance. One man has been able to keep the tools and implements of the laborers and mechanics in order and to execute other simple repairs. It is still necessary to have horse-shoeing and re- (23) pairs to complicated machinery done outside, in places with special facilities for such work. A new forge and anvil were added to the equipment in November. Publications The JouRNAL has been published monthly during the year. The completed volume contains viii + 242'pages with 5 plates and 41 figures. The publication is devoted to a current account of the various activities of the Garden, including non-technical descriptions of scientific results obtained, or- ganization, and additions to the collections and exhibits, progress of construction within the grounds, accessions of all kinds and accounts of the explorations which are now being prosecuted so vigorously. Buuuetin No. 10, comprising pp. 175-2847 of Vol. III, was issued March 22, 1904. It is devoted wholly to the reports of officers and committees for the year 1903. BuLvetin No. 11, completing Vol. III, consists entirely of scientific papers. Three of these papers have been pub- lished separately in advance. The first, Mycological Studies, II, by Prof. F. S. Earle, was issued June 30, 1904; the second, The Comparative Embryology of the Cucurbitaceae, by Dr. J. E. Kirkwood, was issued October 7, 1904; the third, Additions to the Palaeobotany of the Cretaceous Forma- tion of Long Island, No. I, by Dr. Arthur Hollick, was issued December 10, 1904. The completed BuLLETIN will be published early in 1905. ContTrRiguTions as follows have been reprinted from vari- ous periodicals during the year: No. 51. Notes on Bahaman Algae, by Marshall A. Howe. No. 52. The Polyporaceae of North America—VII. The Genera Hexagona, Grifola, Romellia, Coltricia and Coltri- cella, by William Alphonso Murrill. No. 53. Delta and Desert Vegetation, by Daniel Trembly MacDougal. No. 54. Chemical Notes on ‘ Bastard” Logwood, by Benjamin C. Gruenberg and William J. Gies. (24) No. 55. Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora — XI, by Per Axel Rydberg. No. 56. The Polyporaceae of North America— VIII, Hapalopilus, Pycnoporus and new monotypic genera, by William Alphonso Murrill. No. 57. Studies in the Asclepiadaceae— VIII, A new species of Asclepias from Kansas and two possible hybrids from New York, by Anna Murray Vail. No. 58. Relationship of Macrophoma and Diplodia, by Julia T. Emerson. No. 59. Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora — XII, by Per Axel Rydberg. No. 60. The Polyporaceae of North America —IX, /no- notus, Sesta and monotypic genera, by William Alphonso Murrill. No. 61. On P%sonia obtusata and its allies, by N. L. Britton. Lectures Two series of public lectures have been given, one in the spring and one in the autumn. Cards are sent to all mem- bers and an invitation is given to meet the Director and staff for a tour of an hour and a half around the grounds, planta- tions, and in the conservatories. The attendance at these lectures has been very gratifying, although unfavorable weather has reduced the number present in some instances. The full list of subjects and lecturers is given below. April 30. ‘‘ Japan, the Land of Lacquer and Bamboo,” by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh. May 7. ‘‘ The Form, Habits and Relationships of the Cac- tuses,” by Dr. N. L. Britton. May 14. ‘The Vegetation of the Delta of the Colorado River, and of Baja California,” by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. May 21. ‘‘ Explorations on the Yukon River, Alaska,” by Dr. Arthur Hollick. May 28. ‘* Arctic and Alpine Plants,” by Professor F. E. Lloyd. June 4. ‘¢Carnivorous Plants,” by Professor H. M. Richards. (25) October 1. ‘¢ The Origin of Species as Illustrated by the Evening Primroses,” by Professor Hugo de Vries. October 8. ‘¢ The Botanical Exploration of the Bahamas,” by Dr. N. L. Britton. October 15. ‘*A Summer at the Desert Laboratory,” b Professor Francis E. Lloyd. October 22. ‘* Botanizing in the Austrian Tyrol,” by Dr. October 29. ‘‘ Life-History of a Fern,” by Professor L. November 5. ‘‘ Fossil Plants of the Vicinity of New York,” by Dr. Arthur Hollick. November 12. ‘¢ The Effect of Wounding on Plants,” by Professor H. M. Richards. November 19. ‘‘ Hybrids; Their Nature and Behavior,” by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. In addition to the above, lectures have been given before the Horticultural Society of New York at the meetings held in the museum, by permission of the Board of Managers. At the request of the Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief, gave a lecture on Cacti to an audience sa aa of members of the latter institution on December 7, 1 In addition, a number of ee anes age been held for the advanced pupils of the public schools, and guides have been furnished for parties which have been brought to the Garden by teachers for the inspection of the collections. Material for nature study has also been furnished to a num- ber of schools on request. The botanical conventions, held bi-weekly in the library, continue to be a source of great profit to the entire staff and to the botanists of neighboring institutions who attend them. The meetings in question afford an opportunity of presenting the results of investigations at an early moment and also give opportunity for discussion by specialists in every branch of the subject. The following subjects have been presented during the year: (26) January 20. Dr. Arthur Hollick, ‘‘ Palaeobotanical Ex- plorations in Alaska.” February 3. Professor H. M. Richards and Dr. D. T. MacDougal, ‘‘ Influence of Carbon Monoxide on Plants.” February 17. Dr. M. A. Howe, ‘A Collection of Algae from the Bahamas.” February 17. Dr. P. A. Rydberg, ‘‘Some Features of Plant Distribution in the Rocky Mountains.” March 2. Miss Ada Watterson, ‘‘ The Effect of Chem- ical Irritation on the Respiration of Fungi.” March 16. Dr. D. T. MacDougal, ‘‘ Explorations in the Delta of the Rio Colorado and in Baja California.” April 6. Professor H. M. Richards, ‘‘The Responses of Protoplasm, with especial reference to the lower plants.” April 20. Dr. N. L. Britton, ‘‘ Explorations in Florida, and Distribution of the Antillean Flora.” October 19. Dr. D. T. MacDougal, ‘‘The Mutants of the Evening Primroses.” November 2. Dr. Arthur Hollick, ‘¢ Discoveries of Fossil Plants on Long Island.” November 16. Mr. Ira D. Cardiff, «* The Development of the Sporangium in Botrychium.” November 16. Dr. N. L. Britton, ‘‘ Professor Engler’s Views of the Origin and Distribution of Plants in Northern Africa.” Meteorological Observations Meteorological observations have been continued through- out the year and the records have been added to the series which has been kept continuously since 1900. The total precipitation for 1904 amounts to 47.01 inches. The total period between the latest occurrence of freezing temperature in the spring and the earliest in the autumn was 167 days, compared with 168 days in 1902 and 170 days in 1903. In addition to the ordinary standard instruments a thermograph which records the soil at a depth of 12 inches, and the air, has been added to the equipment. elliptic, ro~20 cm. long, 1-6 cm. wide, acuminate, narrowed at the base into a short petiole, sharply serrate to nearly entire, glabro us or scabrellate along the margin above, glabrous or puberulent beneath; inflores- cence usually very large, 2-4 dm. across, loose, tebe ei . or peduncle » 8-13-flowered ; involucre obpysam > 3-4 ae irr egularly imbricated in few series, all erect, oblong or oblong- lanceolate, acute or ae hanetee or ciliate; Dea puberulent in the furrows, 3 m g; pippye dull-purple, 6 mm. long, the outer series usually Tene in color Type locality: ‘+ Carolina.” Distribution: South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, in swamps and wet places along the coastal plain. Vernonia oligantha Greene, based on Tracy’s 7339, from Palmetto, Florida, and represented also by collections of Keeler at Neptune and Alden at Fort King, is apparently only a depauperate or shade form, with smaller proportionately wider leaves, and smaller inflor- escence with fewer heads. The involucre is in all respects like the type. Some specimens with narrow nearly entire leaves, such as Harper 1936 from Baker County, Georgia, appear very different from the normal form in habit. (ix) Species-group Glaucae Leaves broad, usually rather abruptly narrowed at the base; heads many-flowered; scales acuminate into short filiform tips; pappus straw-colored. One species in the lower Appalachian mountain region. 88. Vernonia Giauca (L.) Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1633. 1804 Serratula glauca L. Sp. Pl. 818. 1753. Vernonia noveboracensis latifolia A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 37: 89, in part. 1884. (219) eae noveboracensts tomentosa Britton, Ill. Fl. 3: 302. 1898. erect, glabrous or nearly so, 10-16 dm. high; leaves nar- a Se lanceolate or elliptic- bene to almost ovate, 10-25 cm. long, 2 m. wide, short-acuminate, sharply and saliently dentate, abruptly narrowed at the base into a short margined peti- ne a ° or triangular-ovate at the appressed base, acuminate, some o with a filiform tip 2-5 mm. long; achenes prominently Abbeds ees oe 3.5 mm. long; pappus tawny or straw-colored, 6-7 Tyee localien: ‘‘in Marilandia, Virginia, Carolina.” Distribution: from southeastern Pennsylvania to Georgia and Alabama. The species is distinguished at once by the characteristic and constant structure of the involucre and color of the pappus. There is, however, great variation in the foliage. Some plants have nar- rowly elliptic-oblanceolate leaves 2 by 10 cm., others broadly ovate leaves 5 by 13 cm., or even 10 by 25 cm. Both types are found throughout the range of the species. Vernonia glauca Britton (Mem. Torrey Club 5: 311. 1894) is identical with V. glauca Willd., but V. gfauca Britton, as used in the Illustrated Flora, refers to an entirely different plant, if indeed to any one definite plant at all. The involucral scales in the latter, as described, are similar in shape to those of V. a/téss¢ma, but that species very rarely has less than 20 flowers in each head. The leaves resemble those of V. ovadifolia, but here the scales are different. Some plants of V. flaccidifolia have been distributed under this name, but the range as given in the Illustrated Flora extends too far north for that species, which also has about 21 flowers in the head. (x) Species-group Moveboracenses Tall species with thick stems, ample foliage, lanceolate leaves and wide inflorescence; heads many-flowered; scales all acumi- nately narrowed into spreading or recurved tips; pappus purple or tawny-purple. The two species are distributed along the Atlantic coastal plain from Massachusetts to Mississippi and inland to the Allegheny mountains. ( 220 ) $9. VERNONIA NOVEBORACENSIS (L.) Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 95. 1803 Serratula noveboracensis L. Sp. Pl. 818. 1753. Serratula praealta Vernonia praealta Michx. £. ¢ Chrysocoma tomentosa Walt. Fl. Car. 196. 1788. Vernonia tomentosa Ell. Sk. 2: 288. 1824. Vernonia noveboracensis tomentosa Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 311. 1894. Stem erect, 10-20 dm. tall, oo or thinly pubescent ; ee lanceolate, 10-18 cm. long, 5 -4 cm. wide, acuminate, narrowed elow, sessile or short-petioled, ae serrate to nearly enure. glabrous or scabrellate above, puberulent or thinly tomentose be- neath, eopcly on the veinlets; ; inflorescence flattened, ie 1-3 m. wide; heads sessile or cue gees 29-47- (usually 34-) flowered ; aa volucre campanulate, 6-7 mm. high; scales ei abruptly tapering to a long filiform tip; achenes nearly g oe 4-4.5 mm. long; pappus purple or rarely tawny-purple, 6-7 m long. Type locality: ‘+in Noveboraco, Virginia, Carolina, Canada, Kamtschatca.” Distribution: Massachusetts to West Virginia and Mississippi, mostly near the coast. The number of synonyms under the species name indicates to some extent the uncertainty which has characterized the treatment of Vernonia noveboracensis during the past hundred years. There is scarcely one of the large species of the central, eastern, or western states that has not at some time been confused with it. The plate and careful description of Dillenius in the Hortus Elthamensis make it perfectly clear to what form the Linnaean name applies. But Linnaeus also recognized another of Dillenius’ species, Serva- tula praealta, differing from the type only in the shorter appendages of the involucral scales. The identity of this plant was in doubt for many years, until finally in 1829 Lessing showed its similarity to V. noveboracensis. Walter’s Chrysocoma tomentosa has been still more puzzling. His meagre description ‘‘herbacea, caule tripedali, foliis alternis lanceolatis dentatis subtus tomentosis,” shows no essential difference from V. xoveboracensés. Elliott, in transferring the species to the genus Vernonia, gave a fuller account, describing a plant with nar- ( 221) rowly lanceolate, sharply serrate leaves, tomentose and hoary be- neath, and with the scale-tips ‘‘ twice as long as those of any other species I have seen.” Again, there is nothing to distinguish it from V. novebdoracensis. It is also worthy of note that Elliott was not at all certain of the identity of his plant with that de- scribed by Walter. After seventy years Britton reduced it to a variety, but, strangely enough, his description in the Illustrated Flora and in the Manual refers mainly to V. glauca. After de- scribing V. noveboracensis with leaves 5-12" wide he says for the variety: ‘* Leaves * * * broader; * * * some scales sometimes merely acute,” both characters directly at variance with Elliott’s description, and agreeing scarcely better with Walter’s. More re- cently E.S. Steele * has discussed the matter, and regards the name V. tomentosa Ell. as belonging to a hydrophile form of the south At- lantic coast, with linear-lanceolate leaves, sparsely and finely serrate and gray-tomentose beneath. In his opinion it is a distinct species. My own examination of the two sheets in the National Herbarium to which Steele referred disclosed no differences sufficient to warrant its separation. Small’s distinction of a straw-colored pappus in V. tomentosa is not supported by herbarium evidence. Two sheets so labeled in the Columbia herbarium have immature heads which had not flowered, and the third, with tawny pappus, is clearly V. glauca. 90. Vernonia Harperi sp. nov. stout, erect, angled er striate, puberulent, simple below, divaricately branched above, 1 m. tall or higher; leaves numerous, thin, spreading or ascending, lanceolate, 12-18 cm. long, 1.6-3 cm. wide, acuminate, narrowed below into short petioles, sharply den- margin, the lateral veinlets prominent; upper and bracteal leaves smaller; inflorescence very large, 3 dm. across, very lax, open, irregular; heads long-peduncled to nearly sessile, 13-14 mm. high at maturity, with 55 flowers or more; involucre broadly campanu- late, 7-9 mm. high exclusive of the awns; scales green, closely and regularly imbricated, appressed at the triangular-ovate base, arach- pappus; achenes minutely pubescent on the ribs, 3.5 mm. long; pappus dull-purple, 6 mm. long, the outer series indistinct. Type: Harper 1424; in the herbarium of the New York Botani- cal Garden. Distribution: Coffee County, Georgia, Harper 723, 142¢. * Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 14: 81-82. OI, ( 222) Vernonia Harperé is distinguished from V. noveboracensts by the larger and looser inflorescence, the larger heads, the more numerous flowers, and by the greenish scales rather gradually nar- rowed at the tip. . (xi) Species-group Pulchellae Leaves linear to broadly oblong, usually scabrous above; heads medium-sized, with 21 flowers or rarely more; scales acuminate or filiform. Coastal plain species of the southern Atlantic coast in the United States. gi. Vernonia acaulis (Walt.) nom. nov. Chrysocoma acaulis Walt. Fl. Car. 196. 1788. Vernonia oligophylla Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 94. 1803. Type locality: ‘+in Carolina.” Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, in the coastal plain. Michaux recognized two varieties, verza and autumnalzs, based on minor details of the inflorescence of no taxonomic importance. 92. VERNONIA PULCHELLA Small, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 145, Tog tem erect, simple to the inflorescence, leafy, pubescent, 4-7 dm. high; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 4—7 1-1.6c¢ t flowered; involucre campanulate, 5-7 mm. high; scales lanceo- late, pubescent, loosely oeatd in few series, appressed below, acuminate into a recurved or spreading filiform tip; achenes 3 mm ete, strongly ribbed, hirsute on the angles; pappus tawn Type locality: ‘*on sand-hills bordering the Altarate River swamps in Liberty County, Georgia.” Distribution: South Carolina and Georgia. 93. Vernonia recurva sp. nov. erect, brown, pubescent below, glabrate above, striate, simple to the inflorescence, 7 dm. high; internodes short, about 1 cm. long below to 2 cm. above; leaves mostly near the base, firm, ascending, linear or oblon -linear, acute at the tip, rounded, closely sessile and somewhat dilated at base, revolute at the margin, with a few minute callous teeth, scabrous and puberulent above and be- ( 223 ) neath, amuaae veined with faint es veinlets; principal leaves 5-7 ¢ ong, 0.4-0.9 cm. wide, the upper leaves reduced to 2 cm. long, cad 0.2 cm. wide, or those of the inflorescence still smaller; inflorescence terminal, open, loosely branching, 15 cm. across; heads about 20, all pedicelled, about 21-flowered, 11-12 mm. high at maturity; involucre 8 mm. high, campanulate-cylindric ; scales dull-purple, the outer short, loose, linear, the intermediate a inner lanceolate an ong-acuminate to oblong-lanceolate and abruptly acuminate, nearly glabrous, appressed at the base and ending in a loose, spreading or recurved, filiform appendage 3-6 mm. long; achenes strongly ribbed, minutely hispid on the angles, 3-5 mm. long; pappus twice as long, tawny, the outer series minute. ype: “larper 2009, dry pine-barrens, Hortense, Wayne County, Georgia; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Vernonia recurva is distinguished from V. scaberrima, its =] a nearest relative, by the narrower revolute leaves, the larger heads, the recurved scales, and the narrower involucre. From V. pud- chella it is separated by the narrower leaves, which are merely denticulate and with the characteristically dilated base. 94. VERNONIA SCABERRIMA Nutt. Gen. 2: 134. 1818 Vernonia brevifolia Raf. New Fl]. N. Am. 4: 77. 1836. Shas angustifolt oe Gray, sei Fi.r?: 91. 1884. rect, 3-6 dm. one simple to the inflor nce or sparingly ac stem glabrous or Lanner tiene ae leafy; leaves narrowly oblong, closely sessile, with a rounded to truncate or tips; achenes hirsute, 2.5 mm. long; pappus tawny, about twice as long Type locality: ‘+ from South Carolina to Florida.” Distribution: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. (xii) Species-group Angustifoliae Leaves usually linear or narrowly lanceolate and scabrous above; inflorescence regular, depressed or flattened; heads small, 13-21- flowered; scales acute to acuminate. Certain species disagree in (224 ) one or more of the preceding characters, but the general habit of the plants, coupled with their distribution, clearly indicates their relationship. All are coastai-plain species of the southern Atlantic coast of the United States, except one endemic in the Bahamas. 95. VERNONIA ANGUSTIFOLIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 94. 1803 Chrysocoma graminifolta Walt. Fl. Car. 196. 1788. Vernonia graminifolia Mohr, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 6: 759. 1901. Erect, 5-10 dm. high, simple to the inflorescence; stem striate, glabrous, pubescent or short-hirsute ; spite crowded, all narrowly near, 5-10 cm. long, with revolute margins, scabrous above, sparing'y pubescent bene ; inflorescence ample, rather compactly many-headed; involucre campanulate, 6 mm. high; scales gla- brous or ciliate, lance-ovate, reddish or purple, appressed or the short-acuminate tips slightly spreading; achenes 2-3 mm. long, furrowed, pubescent; pappus purplish. Type locality: ‘‘in aridis apricis sylvarum Carolinae.” Distribution: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala- bama, Florida, Mississippi. There is considerable variation in foliage and involucre among the specimens examine Biltmore 3669° has a narrowly cylindric involucre and tawny pappus, but is otherwise like the type. Zarle @ Earle 98 from Auburn, Alabama, has the lower leaves flat, over a centimeter wide and saliently toothed. The upper leaves are lin- ear and revolute. Others from the same place, like Earle ¢& Baker rr7z, have lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, entire leaves, sometimes I cm. across. They are a little revolute, and since the plant differs from the type in no other way it may be regarded as a mesophytic or shade form of the species. Although the oldest specific name for the species is Walter’s graminifolia, the use of the binomial V. graminifolza Mohr is antedated by V. graminifolia Gardner, applied in 1847 to a Bra- zilian species. 96. Vernonia dissimilis sp. nov. Stem stout, thick, erect, 8-11 dm. high, strone ly striate, gla- brous above, pubescent or short-hirsute below; leaves numerous, pe oe or ascending, sessile, narrowly lanceolate, 10-15 —2 cm. e, acuminate oth ends, sharply serrate, Tse pubescent with short white hairs beneath, pinnately veined with conspicuous lateral veinlets; upper leaves gradually reduced in size, (225) nearly ae see aaa terminal, flattened, rather oe heads about 21-flow , 8mm. high at maturity, sessile 0 n pedicels seldom over I. ey ne long ; involucre campanulate, a mm. high; scales closely imbricated in few series, all appressed, ovate-lanceo- late, strongly arachnoid-ciliate, obtuse, subacute, or the outer sharply acute, exposed portions dark-red; achenes sharply and piece! ribbed, hirsute on the angles and somewhat resin ous, 2.5 mm. lon pappus 5 mm. long, bright-purple, the outer series inconspicuous. ype: Larle & Baker 17189, from Auburn, Alabama; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. The species is closely related to V. angustzfolda, from which it is distinguished by the taller and coarser habit, the broad, flat, serrate leaves, the proportionately smaller and more irregular corymb, the arachnoid involucre, the blunt scales and the more brightly colored pappus. In general habit and gross appearance, so far as can be shown by herbarium sheets, the two are entirely distinct. It is to be regretted that no notes are available on its ecology, since both species live together in the same county. 97. Vernonia concinna sp. nov. Stem apparently erect, simple, striate, green, glabrous, § dm. high; leaves numerous, thin, divaricate, oblong-linear or narrowly oblanceolate, flat, entire or with minute callous teeth, acute, nar- rowed to a sessile base, bright-green and glabrous above, paler beneath and sparsely pubescent with short white hairs, the principal leaves 10-12 cm. long, 0.8-1.2 cm. wide, the upper somewhat re- duced; inflorescence ree subumbellate, flattened, 1 dm. across, resembling that o . angustifolia; heads about 13-flowered, 1 little ciliate, triangular-acute or mucronate, the inner oblong-lance- olate, the outer narrower, the basal slightly spreading; achenes mi- nutely pubescent, 3 mm. long; pappus purplish-tawny, 5-6 mm. long. Type: Nash 1759, from Eustis, Lake county, Florida; in the herbarium of Columbia University. The same collection is in the National Herbarium, numbered 223166. Vernonia concinna is also closely related to V. angustifolia, as is shown by the shape of the involucre and character of the inflor- escence, as well as by its geagraphical distribution. It is abun- dantly different in the smooth, flat, lax leaves and the acute scales. Some forms of the latter species resemble V’. concénna in the shape of the leaves, such as Harle & Baker 1777 already mentioned, but they invariably have acuminate scales and scabrous leaves, some or all of which are revolute. ( 226 ) 98. VERNONIA BLopceTri Small, FI. S. U.S. 1160. 1903 Vernonia angustifolia pumila Chapman, Bot. Gaz. 3: 5. 1878. Stem slender, aie faintly striate, eaten or nearly so, simple or branching from the base, 2-6 dm. high; leaves numerous and crowded belo ow, ie and scattered above, the largest at or near the base of the stem, spreading or eae firm, linear or narrowly lanceolate, 4-8 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, obiiee or acute, entire or minutely denticulate, glabrous above, very sparsely short-pubescent beneath; upper leaves much smaller; inflorescence loose, irregular ; heads all peduncled, about 21-flowered, 8 mm. high at maturity; involucre broadly campanulate or Pee 5 mm. high; scales ew, appressed, very loosely and irregularly imbricated, lanceolate, acute or subacute, glabrous or nearly so, the exposed portion red or purple ; achenes 2.5 mm. long, sharply ribbed, pubescent in the furrows; pappus yellow, twice as long as the achenes Type locality : Pine EL Florida. Of the seven sheets in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden four have the narrow leaves and acute scales of the type, as characterized above. The other three, Small & Wilson 1878, Cur- tiss, and Small & Carter 771, have the lower leaves obtuse or even rounded at the apex, much broader and shorter, the length being only three to six times the width, and the scales sharply mucro- nate or even acuminate. Additional field study may prove this to be a distinct species. The use of Chapman’s varietal name for the species is prevented by the publication of the name V. pumila for an African species. 99. VERNONIA INSULARIS Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 184. 1g0 Perennial by a horizontal rootstock; stem herbaceous or suffru- ticose, glabrous or minutely puberulent in the inflorescence, erect, -10 dm. high, simple or spain Re branched; leaves numerous, narrowly oblong-linear, 6-10 c avai o.$—1.2 mm. wide, obtuse or n base, one-nerved or with faint en veinlets, green and essen- tially glabrous on both sides, the upper somewhat smaller; inflores- margins, the outer lanceolate, sharply acuminate, the inner oblong, abruptly acuminate or mucronate; achenes 2 mm. long, striate, sparsely pubescent; pappus tawny, 6 mm. long, the outer series minute. ; Type locality and distribution: Bahama Islands. (227 ) UNCERTAIN OR ExcLuDED SPECIES Vernonta Achyrocoma Lessing ieee 313. 1829. (Achy- rocoma tomentosa Cass. Dict. Sci. N Nat. 26: 21. 1823.) Vernonia artstata (Cass.) Lessing, Linnaea 4: 313. 1829. (Lepidaploa aristata Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 26: 17. 1823. Vernonia hypoleuca DC. Prodr. 5: 27. 1836. Differs from all known North American species in having opposite three-nerved and three-lobed leaves, and probably does not belong in the Ver- noniede. Vernonia tnuloides DC. Prodr. 5: 62. 1836. Vernonta profuga DeNot. Ind. Sem. Hort. Genuen. 1840. Vernonta toluccana DC. Prodr. §: 30. 1836. A form with opposite leaves and peculiar inflorescence, probably not belonging to the Vernonteae. 8. EREMOSIS (DC.) gen. nov. Turpinia La Liave & Lex. Nov. Veg. Desc. 1: 22. 1824. Not Turpinia Humb. & Bonpl. Monosis § Eremosis DC. Prodr. 5: 77. 1836. ? Llerasia Triana, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 9:37. 1858. ? Critontopsizs Sch.-Bip. Pollichia 20-21: 430. 1863. Heads 1-3-flowered, or rarely 5-flowered; involucre cylindric or narrowly turbinate, the inermont scales frequently deciduous with the achenes; receptacle subconvex; corollas tubular, regularly ie e aggregated in close round- -topped cory mbose clusters terminating the branches and forming a compound panicle. Type, Monosis salicifolia DC An American genus, related on the one hand to Vernon/sa, from which it is separated by the character of the inflorescence and the number of flowers in the head, and on the other to Oliganthes, from which it differs in the capillary pappus. eads 1-flowered or rarely 2-flowered. Leaves of a broad type, their width at least half ie nes very abruptly short-acuminate ; scales of the involucre acute, bse the midvein prolonged into a consi dons mucro. liosa Leaves essentially as above, acute or acutish at oe eas all acute: pale- own or straw-colored, rounded or subacute at the apex, not mucronate. . £. pallens, Leaves of an oblong or lanceolate type, at least 2.5 times as long as wide (except in &. Steetzit) ; scales acute or subacute, not mucronate. (228) Leaves densely tomentose beneath. Leaves oblong, rounded at base, 2-4 cm. wide. E. tomentosa. Leaves narrowly elliptic, tapering at the base. . £. tarchonanthifolia. Leaves glabrous or sparsely hairy below. Leaves ovate, 3 cm. elas or more. Leaves elliptic, 2 les: eaves eens beneath ; eee light-brown ; scales glabrous at the ti 6. E. leiophylla . Leaves pubescent beneath, especially in the axils of the veins ; involucre purplish ; scales more or less tomentose at the tip. £, salicifolta ** Heads 3- pulbene inner scales deciduous. Leaves pilose on the veins bene 8. £. barbinervis. Leaves densely tomentose beneat! te Scales densely tomentose, greenish or gray. Achenes light-brown Achenes Gan earn or nearly black. Scales nearly glabrous, purplish. Scales glabrous above, tomentose at the base. 12. £. purpurascens, Leaves glabrous or thinly pubescent beneath. Leaves 2.5 cm. wide or less Leaves 4 cm. wide or more. 4. *** Heads 5-flowered. 15. £. cease 5. £. Steetzii. . £, letocarpa. md ow by S Sy 3 is) vs Ns 13. £. emai EH 1. Eremosis foliosa (Benth.) nom. nov. Monosis foltosa Benth. Pl. Hartweg. 19. 1839. Vernonia foliosa Sch.-Bip. Pollichia 18-19: 161. 1861. Not V. ase Gardn. 1846. Low shrub; branches finely tomentose, becoming glabrate with — jee broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, 4-7 cm m. wide, abruptly short-acuminate, entire or with a few scattered ea acute to subcordate at base, thinly tomentose on both sides or becoming glabrous above; involucre 5 mm. high; outer scales short, triangular-ovate, thinly tomentose, the inner lanceolate, glabrous or puberulent, purple, tipped with a mucro 0.5 mm. long; achenes villous; pappus white, the inner series 7-8 mm. Type locality: ‘*to the north of the town of Mexico.” Distribution: central and southern Mexico. 2. Eremosis pallens (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. Vernonta pallens Sch.-Bip. Pollichia 18-19: 161. 1861. by, with terete or faintly striate glabrous branches; leaves numerous, elliptic, entire, acute at both ends, glabrous on both sides, ( 229 ) 4-5 cm. long, 1.1-1.8 cm. wide, with glabrous petioles 3-4 mm long ; heads almost sessile or with short i eduncles 1-2 mm. ong: involucre narrowly turbinate, 5 mm. high, pale-brown; the outer scales ovate, the inner oblong, all ee and rounded or subacute at the tip, not mucronate; achenes 2.5 mm. long, sparsely villous with short hairs; pappus sees 7 mm. long, the inconspicuous outer series less than half as lon Type locality and distribution : “Mesics: The single specimen examined is from the Meisner herbarium and is labeled “ Monosts parviflora Bartl. Mexico. Ex. Mus. Bot. Gétting. Com. cl. Bartling, 1838.” Lremosis pallens and £. foltosa constitute a natural group, re- sembling each other in general habit and in the shape of the leaves. Of the two Z&. pallens approaches most nearly the remaining mem- bers of the genus. 3. Eremosis tomentosa (La Llave & Lex.) nom. nov. Turpinia tomentosa La Liave & Lex. Nov. Veg. Desc. 1: 22. 1824. Monosts tomentosa DC. Prodr. §: 77. 1836. Vernonia Monosis Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 507. 1844. ? Vernonia paniculata DC. Prodr. §: 23. 1836. Shrubby, the stem, branches, pedicels, petioles and lower surface of the leaves covered with a close dense gray tomentum; leaves minutely oe above, entire, acute, abruptly narrowed to truncate at the base; inflorescence hemispheric, terminating all the upper branches and f orming a huge leafy pyramidal panicle 2-4 dm. long and 1-3 dm. wide; heads “sessile or on short t peduncles; involucre cylindric, 5-6 mm. high; outer scales ovate, acute, tomentose, the inner oblong, acute, glabrous, or pubescent at the apex and margin, the exposed portion purple; achenes 3 mm. long, villous with erect hairs; pappus white, the inner series 6-7 mm. Type locality: ‘*habitat in monte excelso de Quinzeo prope Vallisoletum.” Distribution: central and southern Mexico. This species is well represented in American herbaria and the following more recent collections are referred to it: Pringle 2439, Seler 1751, Duges 476a, Conzatti 117. It has usually been dis- tributed as Vernonia paniculata DC., which, in fact, it may be. De Candolle’s description is incomplete, since he saw neither ( 230 ) flowers nor fruit. Bentham, in Plantae Hartwegianae, intimates that they are the same, and Hemsley has more recently used the same name for the species. The use of the older name of La Llave and Lexarza is based on Hartweg 132, cited by Bentham, a speci- men of which is in the Gray Herbarium. 4. Eremosis tarchonanthifolia (DC.) nom. nov. Monosts tarchonanthifolia DC. Prodr. §: 77. 1836. Oliganthes Karwinskit Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 505. 1847. Vernonia tarchonanthifolia Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 507. 1847. A shrub 3-6 m. high, with terete branches covered when young with a close gray tomentum, becoming thin or disappearing entirely with age; leaves lanceolate or gehen » 5-8 cm. long, 1.5-z cm. wide, short-acuminate or acute at the apex, narrowed short peduncles ; involucre cylindric to narrowly turbinate, 5-6 mm. hi outer scales triangular-ovate ; inner scales longer with triangular ‘tips, acute or obtuse, el aaa 5 with a little tomentum near the tip; achenes villous, 2.5 mm. long; Sd yellowish- white, the inner series 7 mm. long, the: outer I Type locality: ‘¢in Mexico.” Distribution: southern Mexico, Pringle 5842, 6166; Smith 314, 3006; Conzatti & Gonzdlez 554. Eremosis tarchonanthtifolia is easily distinguished from the other members of the genus by its narrow elliptic leaves conspicu- ously covered below with gray tomentum. In most of the specimens examined the heads are 2-flowered, a peculiarity not observed in any of the others, and at maturity the inner scales are somewhat deciduous. 5. Eremosis Steetzii (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. Vernonia Steetziz Sch.-Bip.; Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 297. I Shrubby, the branches ieee! ribbed, puberulent; leaves ovate, obtuse or rounded, somewhat attenuate below, short- acuminate at the apex, denticulate with short callous teeth, minutely smaller, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate; inflorescence forming a hemispheric leafy panicle; heads on peduncles 1-3 mm. long; (231 ) involucre about 6 mm. high, pale- -brown, lightly suffused with purple; scales all acute or short- -acuminate, glabrous or nearly so; ania densely villous with ascending hairs, 2-5 mm. long ; Pappus white, the inner series 6-7 mm. long, the outer much short Type locality: Sierra Madre, Mexico. Distribution: northwestern Mexico, Seemann; Palmer 273. Eremosis Steetzii callilepis (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. Vernonia Steetztt calizlepis Sch.-Bip. 7. c. Described by Schultz as follows: ‘+ foliis duplo minoribus, paulo longis petiolatis, involucri squamis non tam caducis, purpurascen- tibus. An spec. distincta?” Type locality the same as for the species. 6. Eremosis leiophylla sp. nov. A shrub 3.4-5 m. high, with glabrous branches and foliage; branches brown, faintly ribbed; leaves numerous, oblong or ellip- tic-oblong, acute at both ends, entire, or with a few minute cal- lous teeth, 3-4 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide; petioles 3-4 mm. long short-peduncled, 1-flowered; involucre pale-brown, 5-6 mm. high; scales glabrous or minutely ciliate, acute, the outer ovate, the inner oblong, acute; corolla purplish; achenes short-villous, 2.5~3 mm. long; pappus white, ag mm. long, the bristles of the outer series uneven, much shorter Type: Pringle 6188, coreced November 5, 1895, on the moun- tains above Cuernavaca, state of Morelos; in the herbarium of Col- umbia University. The species is distinguished from all other members of the group by its almost entire lack of pubescence. The size and shape of the leaves is also characteristic. 4. Eremosis salicifolia (DC.) nom. nov. Monosis salicifolta DC. Prodr. 5: 77. 1836. Vernonia unifiora Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 506. 1847. V. mci Sch.-Bip. Z. ¢. 507. hrubby; branches terete, covered with a thin gray arachnoid tomentum; leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceo- ao typically -~8 cm. long by 1-2 cm. wide, acute or subacute at apex, entire or slightly undulate, punctate with resinous glands, Lee or thinly tomentose on both sides, tapering below into petioles 4~6 mm. long; lateral veins ascending, with tufts of brown ( 232 ) tomentum in their axils; heads on peduncles 1-3 mm. long; in- volucre cylindric, 6 mm. high; scales in 3-4 series, ovate to oblong, acute or subacute, purplish, the outer thinly tomentose, the inner glabrous except for a tuft of tomentum at the tip; achenes 2.5 mm. long, villous, ribbed ; ‘pappus nearly white, the inner series 6 mm. long, the outer inconspicuous, 2 mm. lon: Type locality: ‘*in Mexici montibus ad Canepa et Cuer- navaca.” Distribution: central and southern Mexico. 8. Eremosis barbinervis (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. Vernonia barbinervis Sch.-Bip.; Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 297. 1856. Stem strongly angled, nearly glabrous; leaves broadly elliptic, entire, narrowe I ie ee 7 mm. high, its scales ovate to oblong, acute, sca- rious, ciliat Type ies ee Sierra Madre, Mexico. Distribution: northwestern Mexico, Seemann. g. Eremosis leiocarpa (DC.) nom. nov. ernonta leiocarpa DC. Prodr. 5: 34. 1836. Frutescent; branches terete, tomentose when young, glabrate with age; leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 8-14 cm. long, 2 wide, acute, entire or dentate, narrowed at base, pulverulent or nearly glabrous above, densely cinereous-tomentose below ; petioles 1.5 cm. long; inflorescence large, leafy-bracted; heads very nu- broadly triangular-ovate, obtuse, densely tomentose, ae inner be- coming oblong, with the arachnoid tomentum only on the obtuse tips; achenes 2.5—3 mm. ones glabrous, pale-brown, faintly striate ; pappus white, 6-7 mm. lon Type locality: ‘¢in Mexico” Distribution: the mountains of southern Mexico and Guatemala. 10. Eremosis melanocarpa sp. nov. Frutescent, height unknown; branches terete, densely tomen- se when young, feo thinly tomentose or glabrate with age; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about 10 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, entire or obscurely toothed, acute or acuminate, narrowed at base, scabrous-pubescent or thinly tomentose above, densely cinereous- (233 ) tomentose beneath, especially along the veins, where t the hairs are brown in color; 5-2.5 cm. long; inflorescence pyramidal, dense; heads closely aggregated, sessile or nearly so; involucre narrowly campanulate, 3 m. long; scales all obtuse or rounded, the outer broadly ovate or triangular, densely tomentose, ae inner broadly oblong, tomentose at the apex and margin; ac 5 mm. long, glabrous, dilated above, dark-purple or ee ne pappus white, 5 m ng. Type: Heyde é “Luc 3416, from Depart. Santa Rosa, Guate- mala; in the herbarium of Columbia University. Other specimens referred here are Maxon & Hay 3594, from Guatemala, and Seler 2727, from Chiapas, Mexico. Closely related to &. /eczocarpa, from which it is separated by the denser and more abundant tomentum and the character of the achenes. 11. Eremosis Palmeri (Rose) nom. nov. Vernonia Palmert Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: ror. 1891 A bush with many stems, 1-1.5 m. high, eee sericeous- alsa cent, the old wood becoming glabrous; leaves lanceolate, 7-16 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, entire, or sometimes ee ee some- what pubescent aooues densely so beneath; inflorescence forming large pyramidal clusters; heads s short-peduncled ; involucre cylin- 1 sively longer, scarious, glabrous, acute, with a prominent midvein ; achenes (immature) pubesce oan pappus white, 4 mm. lon Type locality: ** Alam Distribution : etree tie Mexico, Palmer 387 (type). The amount of pubescence on the leaves seems to be variable and specimens with relatively little are quite similar to &. tr¢flosculosa. 12, Eremosis purpurascens (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. Vernonia purpurascens Sch.-Bip. ; en Rep. 2: 945. 1843. ? Vernonia paniculata DC. Prodr. §: 1836. Type locality: ‘*ad St. Pedro eee in provincia Oaxaca.” No specimens have been seen which could be referred to this species. Schultz’s description is almost identical with that of V. paniculata. 13. Eremosis triflosculosa (H.B.K.) nom. nov. Vernonia triflosculosa H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 40. 1818. Gymnanthemum congestum Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 20: 110. 1821. ( 234 ) Vernonia triantha Schauer, Linnaea 19: 714. 1847. Vernonia luxensts Coulter, Bot. Gaz. 20: 41. 1895 Vernonia dumeta Klatt, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 35: 277. 1896. Shrubby or peieinete 3 m. high; branches striate, thinly pubescent or glabrescent; leaves rather numerous, oblanceolate to elliptic, tapering a ce acute, entire or nearly so, 8-12 cm. long, -3 cm. wide, green above, ‘paler below, ee ental glabrous on both sides, the midvein prominent; inflorescence conic or hemi- spheric, the heads very numerous, aggregated by twos and threes on short peduncles; involucre cylindric, 4~5 mm. high; scales loosely imbricated, the outer subrotund or ovate, the inner oblong, all scarious, acute, glabrous or nearly so on the back, minutely ciliate; achenes 3 mm. long, pubescent; pappus white, 5 mm. long. Type locality: ‘*crescit in montibus Mexicanis prope Acag- uisotla, alt. 500 hex.” Distribution: from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. 14. Eremosis Heydeana (Coulter) nom. nov. Vernonia Heydeana Coulter, Bot. Gaz. 20: 42. 1895. tem woody, striate, puberulent or glabrate ; leaves elliptic or ate, mm. high; scales ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, ciliate; achenes glabrous or minutely glandular, 3 mm. long; pappus white. le locality: San Miguel, Uspantan, Depart. Quiché, Guate- ma © eel hag fleyde & Lux 3392 (type), and Mexico, Syzth The original anne indicates 6-flowered heads, but all those examined have three flowers. The broad, ovate leaves are the most characteristic feature of the species. 15. Eremosis Shannoni (Coulter) nom. nov. ae Shannoni Coulter, Bot. Gaz. 20: 42. 1895. s long-oval, eee pointed at each end, petioled, entire, ae Tide 5-flowered, somewhat closely corymbose and pedi- cellate: involucral scales in five or six rows, the inner ones elongated- oblong and obtuse, the outer * * * broadly ovate and acutish, * * * achenes glabrous.’ (235 ) Specimens of this species have not been examined, but the scanty description corresponds so regs with the generic characters of Eremosts that it is included h Type locality: Depart. ae aes alt. gigt ft. 9. OLIGANTHES Cass. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1817: 10. 1817; 8: 58. ae H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 44. 1818. 1-8-flowered, aggregated in dense corymbiform panicles are twisted towards the apex. Shrubs or small trees, with usually broad eal leaves and dense panicles resembling those of Etrem Type, ‘0. triflora Cass. A genus of tropical America, containing several species which vary greatly in the structure of the pappus and which were formerly included in five different genera. As limited by Bentham and Hooker the genus is too close to Prptocoma. Heads 1-flowered. 1. O. discolor. Heads 8-flowered. 2. O. oxylepis. 1. OLIGANTHES DIscoLor (H.B.K.) Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 502. 1847 Dialesta discolor H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 45. 1818. Stem closely cinereous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, to cm. long, 5 cm. wide, acuminate, entire, narrowed at the base, rugose and gla- brate above, tomentulose beneath, especially on the veins, and with umerous short hairs; heads 1-flowered, densely aggregated on outer obtus ae ovate, the inner oblong, acute; achenes glabrous, 1.5 mm. long; outer pappus of about 5 short ovate fimbrillate scales, the inner of flat twisted scales 2.5 mm. long. Type locality: ‘* in calidis prope Honda Novo-Granatensium.” Distribution: Costa Rica, Pittzer 4970, south to Colombia. 2. OLIGANTHES OXYLEPIS Benth.; Benth. & Hook. Gen. Pl. 2: 233. 1873 Heads 8-flowered; leaves dentate. No specimens seen. Type locality: Yucatan. (236 ) to. PIPTOCOMA Cass. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1817: 10. 18147 Heads about 8-11-flowered; involucre campanulate; scales im- bricated in several series; receptacle flat; corollas regularly 5- cleft; anthers sagittate, obtuse at the base; achenes 5-angled ;’ pappus double, the outer of short scales, the inner of elongate, linear, somewhat twisted, caducous scales. Shrubby; heads in ter- minal corymbiform clusters; leaves ferruginous-tomentose beneath. A monotypic genus of Hispaniola, Porto Rico, and St. Thomas, closely related to Oliganthes, from which it differs in the many- flowered heads which are somewhat larger and less closely aggre- gated thanin that genus. Schultz did not consider these differences sufficient to warrant their separation, and united the two under the name Oliganthes. PIPTOCOMA RUFESCENS Cass. Zc. 1817 Eupatorium domingense Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 3: 412. 1826. Oliganthes rufescens Sch.-Bip. Pollichia 20-21: 338. 1863. rubby, freely branching; stems angled, thinly cinereous or canescent, the young shoots strongly angled and ferrugineus; leaves Saegeea ea obtuse, narrowed at the base, 4-5 cm. long, 5 e, green and finely stellate- Gel eae above, reticu- bee cael ee densely feracinote beneath; petioles 3 mm. long; involucre 4 mm. high, its scales closely imbricated, ovate, obtuse, all tomentose, the inner at the apex only; achenes nearly glabrous, 2mm. long; pappus yellowish-white, 5 mm. Jong. Type locality: Hispaniola. Distribution: Hispaniola, Porto Rico and St. Thomas. 1z. BOLANOSA A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 82. 1852 Heads large, many-flowered, I-2 cm. across, Single, or 2-5 in gra lually shorter; receptacle flat, bearing oblong, conduplicate, scarious scales 6-8 mm. long; corolla regular, §5-cleft; achenes irregularly angled, obtusely ro- -tibbed, turbinate, truncate; pappus in pee series, the outer of short flat linear acuminate scales, the inner f long linear scales. Floccose or tomentose herbs; leaves gienute, sessile A onoe pied genus of western Mexico. Botanosa Coutteri A. Gray. é. ¢. Stem erect, leafy, simple to the inflorescence or with a f branches in the axils above, floccose with white wool, becoming glabrous below; leaves ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic- ( 237) oblong, 5-10 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, remotely ee ie Warrowed to a subsessile base, glabrous above, or floccose when young, densely fulvous-tomentose beneath; the upper eee gradually reduced to 2-3 cm. in length; involucre white-floccose ; Cc a the bristles slightly ciliate, the outer series 4 mm., the inner 9 mm ong. Type locality: ‘‘ Bolanos, northern Mexico.” Distribution: Jalisco, western Mexico. 12. STOKESIA L’Herit. Sert. Angl. 16. 1785 Heads many-flowered, on terminal peduncles; involucre de- pressed-hemispheric, its scales imbricated in several series, the outer with foliaceous spreading tips, the inner membranous, appressed; corolla 5-cleft, the central ones nearly regular, the marginal ones much larger and appearing ligulate; achenes 3--4-angled, truncate ; Herba leafy stem; leaves alternate, the ane ae the upper sessile and clasping ; heads large; corollas A monotypic genus of the See United States. STOKESIA LAEVIS (Hill) Greene, Erythea 1: 3. 1893 Carthamus laevis Hill, Hort. Kew. 57. pl. 5. 1760. Stokesia cyanea L’Herit. Sert. Angl. 17. 1788. Type locality: ‘+ Carolina.” Distribution: the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, from South Carolina to Louisiana. 13. ORTHOPAPPUS gen. nov. ads 4-flowered, aggregated into glomerules Saal pate by 1-2 bract-like leaves; involucre of eight scales arranged in decussate pairs, the two outer pairs much shorter than the inner, and the alternate pairs conduplicate; corolla as in Hlephantopus L.; achenes 1o-striate; pappus of about 30 uniform bristles, very slightly enlarged at the base. Herbaceous; principal leaves basal, the cauline sears or bract-like; inflorescence spicate or the lower glomerules pedunc Type, peer angustifolius Sw The generic name refers to the straight uniform bristles of the pappus, a feature which distinguishes it from the nearly related genera Hlephantopus and Pseudelephantopus. ( 238 ) Orthopappus is the only genus of the group Zlephantopeae in which the pappus consists of numerous simple bristles. In the other genera they are limited in number, and more or less modified into scales at the base, or twisted and contorted towards the apex, or dis- posed in two evident series. So far as known the genus includes but one species, O. angustifolius, which however is very variable and may include several distinct forms. The first recognition of the generic rank of the species was by Lessing, who included it, under the synonym £. guadriflora, in his new genus Zlephantoszs. The first species described in that genus was Llephantoszs bzflora, which must remain as the type, and to which the name still applies. Alephantoszs bifiora Lessing has a biseriate pappus, the scales of the outer series short and per- sistent, those of the inner long, flat, slightly twisted, and deciduous. The achenes of both species were figured by Lessing, and show the distinguishing characters well. In the same paper Lessing also de- scribed Hlephantopus angustifolius Sw. The description agrees throughout with that of Alephantosts guadrifiora, and his error was certainly due to the immature achenes of his specimens of Z. angustifolia. De Candolle followed Lessing in the use of the genus Llephantoszs and included in it Swartz’s Alephantopus an- gustifolius without recognizing its identity with Alephantoszs guadrifiora. Schultz, in Linnaea 20: 517 (1847), left Elephan- topus angusttfolius in Hlephantosis, which he regarded as a sec- tion of Llephantopus, and created the new section Zlephantopsis for Lessing’s Llephantosis biflora. In the last treatment of the genus C. F. Baker (Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 12: 43. 1902) also includes Elephantopus angustifolius under Elephantosés, and is obviously in error when he states (page 45) that it is the type of the genus. As a matter of fact the name Zlephantosis belongs to EZ. biflora, and Elephantopsis is merely a synonym. Accordingly Elephan- topus angustifolius of Swartz, here considered generically distinct, is left without a generic name, for which Orthopappus is now proposed. Orthopappus angustifolius (Sw.) nom. nov. Elephantopus angustifolius Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 115. 88 1788. Elephantopus nudifiorus Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 2390. 1804. ( 239) Elephantosis guadrifiora Lessing, Linnaea 4: 323. 1829.” Elephantosis angustifolius DC. Prodr. 5: 87. 1836. Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: from Cuba and Mexico south through the West Indies and Central America to Paraguay and Bolivia. 14. ELEPHANTOPUS L. Sp. Pl. 814. 1753 Heads 1-5-flowered, aggregated into glomerules of one to several heads AME ded by 1-3 foliaceous bracts; involucre of four decus- sate pairs of scales, the outer two shorter, the alternate pairs con- duplicate; receptacle flat or nearly so; corolla-tube slender, the limb unequally 5-cleft with a much deeper fissure on the inner side ; achenes truncate, ribbed; pappus of about 5 bristles dilated at the base. Herbs with leafy or scapiform stems, alternate or basal leaves, and corymbed pedunculate glomerules. Type, Zlephantopus scaber L. About 14 species of tropical and subtropical distribution, rarely extending into the temperate zone, and mostly confined to the western hemisphere. Bracts prolonged at the apex into a ligulate tip. 1. £. pratensis. Bracts acute to acuminate, not prolonged into a ti Pappus-bristles abruptly dilated into ee or ‘broadly triangular bases. Stems leafy. Leaves oblong-elliptic to ovate, exceeding 2 cm. in width. 2. &. mollis. Leaves narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, — rem. wide. . &. dilatatus. Stems nearly scapos . £. nudatus. Pappu ee dilated into narrowly triangular base s lea . CAYO: olin intanus a se leafless, or with a few reduced ioe subtending ranches. Scales densely villous with long hairs. 6. £. elatus. Scales not densely villous. Leaves softly pubescent below, pubescent or glabrate above. . tomentosus, Leaves scabrellate above. 8. E. scaber . ELEPHANTOPUS PRATENSIS Wright; Sauvalle, Anal. Acad. . Habana 6: 177. 186 Stem branching from the base, erect or ascending, 1-4 dm. high, Tucan went especially below, or becoming glabrate above; leaves narrowly oblanceolate, entire, obtuse, acuminate at the base, glabrous or pubescent; glomerules mostly solitary on long peduncles ; ( 240 ) bracts 2-3, cordate-orbicular with a prominent ligulate tip 5-10 mm. long. Type locality and distribution : Cuba. 2. ELEPHANTOPUS MOLLIS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 26. 1818 Type locality: ‘* crescit in provinciis Cumanae et Caracas.” Distribution: from Cuba and Lower California south into South America. 3. Elephantopus dilatatus sp. nov. Stem erect, 3 dm. high, hirsute with brown hairs, densely so below, bearing several leaves separated by short inte: rnodes near the base and others scattered above; leaves thick, narrowly oblong- oblanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, 9-12 mm. wide, acute or subacute, remotely serrulate with low erect Sa long-attenuate below, sparsely pilose with stiff appressed hairs on both sides, but especi- broadly ovate, acuminate, prominently reticulated, pilose, equaling or shorter than the heads; involucre 7 mm. high; scales abruptl acuminate into a cuspidate tip, nearly glabrous below, glandular and a bristles very oo dilated ie into depressed broadly tri- angular bases Type: Lttzer 3733, bords du Rio Ceibo, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica; in the Gray Herbarium. In the shape, size and pubescence of the leaves it resembles very closely the Brazilian /. rzparius Gardn. but differs in the larger broader bracts and the short broadly dilated bases of the pappus-bristles. 4. ELEPHANTOPUS NUDATUS A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 15: 47. 1879 Type locality : Oxford, Delaware. Distribution: from Delaware and Maryland south to Florida and west to Louisiana and Arkansas, mostly near the coast. 5. ELEPHANTOPUS CAROLINIANUS Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 2390. 1804 Elephantopus violaceus Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 517. 1847. Type locality : ‘+ habitat in Carolina, Florida, Jamaica.” Distribution: from New Jersey west to Illinois and Kansas, south to Florida and Texas, and apparently in Mexico andthe West Indies. (242 ) 6, ELEPHANTOoPUS ELaATUS Bert. Misc. Bot. 11: 21. 1851 Stems erect, rather sparingly branched, 5-10 dm. tall, leafless or with 1 or 2 cauline leaves, hirsute- pubescent, becoming densely tomentose — basal leaves spatulate, oblanceolate or oblong, 1.5-2.5 dm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, obtuse, crenate, densely pubesc cent below ; Ren 1-1.5 cm. high, about equaled by the broadly ovate or triangular, short-acuminate, densely gray- pees bracts ; scales densely villous with erect white hairs. Distribution: South Carolina to Florida, thence west to Alabama and southern Arkansas. 7. ELEPHANTOPUS TOMENTOSUS L. Sp. Pl. 814. 1753 Elephantopus nudicaulis Poir. Encyc. Suppl. 2: 543. 1811. Llephantopus nudicaulis Ell. Sk. 2: 481. 1823. Lilephantopus carolinianus simplex Nutt. Gen. 2: 187. 1818. Type locality: ‘* habitat in Virginia.” Distribution: from North Carolina, southeastern Kentucky and Tennessee, south to the Gulf and west to eastern Texas. 8. ELEPHANTOPUS SCABER L, Sp. Pl. 814. 14753 Stem erect, 2-4 dm. high, branching from the base, hirsute-pu- earn achenes 3~4 mm. long, glabrous on the ribs, hirsute in the furr Type ie : *¢ habitat in Indiis.” Distribution: tropics of the Old World; sparingly introduced into the West Indies, Central America and South America. The last two species are very closely related, and are scarcely distinguishable except by the broader, softer leaves of the former and the geographical distribution. By Schultz and some other botanists, they have been combined. DousBTFUL SPECIES Elephantopus litoralis, EL. glaber, &. colimensts Sessé & Moc. Fl. Mex. 216 (1896), are probably all synonyms of Pseudelephan- topus spicatus (Juss.) Rohr. (242 ) 15. PSEUDELEPHANTOPUS Rohr, Skrivt. Nat. Selsk. Kiob. 2: 213. 1792 Distreptus Cass. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1817: 66. 1817. — Dict. Sci. Nat. 13: 366. 1819. Heads 4-flowered, aggregated into sessile glomerules of 1-5 heads subtended by usually two bract-like leave 8 ; involucre of four pairs of decussate scales, the first and third pairs pape oe the outer two pairs shorter than the inner; corolla in Hlephantopus ; achenes 1o-striate, flattened; pappus of 5-15 bale, the two lateral ones longer and thicker than the intermediate ones and plicate or contorted at the tip. Stems leafy, freely branching; leaves dilated and clasping at the base; inflorescence terminal, of panicled spikes. Type, Alephantopus spicatus Juss. The genus is well characterized by the sessile glomerules of few heads and the dissimilar pappus-bristles bent or twisted near the tip. Besides the single North American species, which is very variable and may cover several distinct forms, the Bolivian Spirechaeta funckté Turcz. may also be included in the genus. PsEUDELEPHANTOPUS SPICATUS (Juss.) Rohr, Skrivt. Nat. Selsk. iob. 2: 213. 1792 Elephantopus spicatus Juss.; Aubl. Pl. Gui. 2: 808. 1775. Distrepius spicatus Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 13: 367. 1819. Type locality: ‘¢ la Guiane frangoise.” Distribution: from Cuba and central Mexico south into South America. 16. ROLANDRA Rottb. Coll. Soc. Med. Havn. 2: 256. 1775 Heads 1-flowered, subtended each by a chaffy bract and aggre- crown. Stem herbaceous, leafy; leaves alternate, white-tomentose th. A monotypic genus of tropical America. ROLANDRA FRUTICOSA (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 360. 1891 Lichinops fruticosa L. Sp. Pil. 815. 3. ftolandra argentea Rottb. Coll. Soc. Med. Havn. 2: 258. 19975. rect, sparingly branched, 2-8 dm. high, finely puberulent ; ieee eee to elliptic, 3-10 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate, entire or undulate, ee below into short pubescent petioles, (243 ) ces above, tomentose beneath; glomerules numerous, dense, 1.5 ¢ n diameter; involucre 4-5 mm. high, the outer scale slightly eee the inner and each tipped with a straight or bent spine; achene glabrous, 2 mm. sa pappus o.5-1 mm. long, of numerous unequal fimbriate segmen Type locality: ‘* habitat in ee ica meridionali.”’ Distribution : from Porto Rico south through the West Indies to Brazil. 17, SPIRACANTHA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 28. 1818 Heads r-flowered, aggregated into glomerules of 12-20 heads, each subtended by a coriaceous spinous bract ; inflorescence capitate, of several glomerules, subtended by 3 or 4 foliaceous bracts; invo- lucre of 5 or 6 scales in two series ; corolla 4- or 5-lobed ; style 2-lobed, with short branches; achene slightly compressed, oe 5- nerved; pappus of numerous stout erect unequal scales. Stem suffruticose, branching, bearing the spiny capitate glomerules on axillary or terminal peduncles A monotypic genus of tropical America. SPIRACANTHA CORNIFOLIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 29. 1818 Stem low, loosely branched, pubescent, 2-4 dm. high; leaves petioled, ovate, acute, entire, sparsely pubescent above, pale and rae rounded at the apex and bearing a squarrose spine one-third ne-half the length of the bract; heads 3-4 mm. high; scales linear, thin, glabrous, sharply acuminate, 1-nerved, 3 mm. long beset at the base with hairs of the same length; achene obovoid, cba, 2mm. Type locality: ‘* crescit in umbrosis humidis ad portum Sapote prope Rio Sinu Distribution: from Yucatan south to Colombia. (244) The Chareae of North America By CHARLES Bupp ROBINSON The Characeae form a group of slender aquatic plants of very wide distribution, inhabiting fresh, brackish, or very rarely salt water. They are of varied size and habit, their color depending to a considerable extent upon the absence or presence of incrusta- tion, ranging thus from an intense bright-green or dark-green to grayish. They generally form large masses and grow submerged at depths up to at least 12 meters, but most often 2 meters or less, frequently in pools of such a nature that they completely dry at some seasons, the plants accordingly being subjected to extreme changes in environment. They are often very fragile, both when living and dried, whence one of their common names, Brittle- worts; they are also frequently called Stoneworts. Most forms have an unpleasant odor, resembling that of sulphuretted hydrogen. They constitute an extremely natural group, with no very near rela- tives. Among themselves with a comparatively simple structure they present a great variety of differences, which have made their specific limits difficult to ascertain. Sexual reproduction takes place by means of antheridia and odgonia. The odgonium originates as a naked cell which elongates and divides by horizontal walls into three, of which the apical be- comes ultimately the odspore, and the middle or stalk cell under- goes no further division, but is usually concealed in the developing sporocarp. The basal cell of thethree forms five superficial cells, from each of which a cell begins to grow upward to envelop the odsphere. Each enveloping cell divides into an upper and a lower; the latter elongates and becomes spirally twisted, but does not again divide. These cells of the lower tier closely invest the odsphere, which after fertilization b the odspore, their lines of contact showing in later development asa series of more or less distinct ridges or striae upon the spore. The number of striae thus seen is accordingly five times the number of turns made by the spiral envelope in the length of the spore, this number ranging from one to three or very rarely more, though nearly definite for a given species. In prac- tice it is always more convenient to count the striae. The five cells (245 ) of the upper tier elongate but little and form the crown-cells, which are however raised above the odsphere by the growth of the lower cells, and sometimes again divide by transverse walls, thus forming two superimposed rows, each of five cells. This is taken as the primary basis for dividing the Characeae into two subfamilies, the Chareae with five crown-cells and the Nitelleae with ten. These are further separated, the former into four and the latter into two genera, according to the relative positions of the antheridia and oégonia. Both genera of the Nitelleae, Witel/a and Tolypella, are well represented in North America, the latter perhaps attaining its best development here, though of the Chareae the typical genus Chara has alone been reported. Characeae are either monoecious or dioecious. In Chara the an- theridia are the terminal cells of metamorphosed leaflets, while the odgonia arise from the basal cells of the leaflets, on their upper side. In the monoecious species both kinds of organs are thus in close proximity to one another, except in a few where the antheridia and the odgonia are at different leaf-nodes though borne on the same plant. Inall cases the antheridia tend to develop first, and often fall off before the odspores mature; great caution must therefore be ex- ercised in calling species dioecious. After fertilization the odgonia increase greatly in size, owing to the growth of the oédspore and the enveloping cells; the resulting body is here called the sporocarp. The absence or presence of cortication, often a conspicuous fea- ture, was originally considered the chief distinction between the genera, but this has been found misleading. Cortication is never found except in the Chareae, but even in this subfamily many species are entirely uncorticated, one of these apparently having its closest re- lationships with one of the highest groups of Chara e development has long been known. On germination, the odspore divides transversely to its long axis into two cells, a larger which has no further function than to part with its contents to serve as food for the young plant, and a smaller which again divides into two by a wall parallel to the long axis of the spore. One of these two becomes the primary root. The other elongates and divides into a few cells, two of which become nodes, and from the lower of these a number of rhizoids are formed, The upper node divides into two cells, each of which separates off a superficial layer of cells. The first cell of the latter to be formed produces by its successive divisions the entire permanent plant, which thus obviously origi- (246) nates not as a direct growth from the spore, but as a bud from the pro-embryo. The remaining cells of the upper node give rise merely to rudimentary leaves. The development of new cells from the growing point proceeds uniformly throughout the entire plant, from the first division in the first formed pro-embryonic superficial node-cell until the cessation of growth, which is more or less indefinite, especially in perennial species. The growing point or apical cell first divides transversely into two, a new apical cell, and what is known as the segment-cell, the former enlarging somewhat and again dividing similarly an indefinite num- ber of times. The segment-cells thus formed have a uniform history. Each divides by a transverse wall into two, and the lower of these be- comes elongated, its ultimate length being most often from 2 to 10 cm., but it never undergoes further division. Such cells are the in- ternodes. The node or upper division of the segment-cell elongates very slightly, but is capable of division and from it all the remaining parts are produced. It first divides into two, then each of these sep- arates off a superficial cell, which divides into a variable number of cells. These latter, following the same plan of division as the apical cell of the stem, proceed to form long slender organs, called leaves, which maintain the same succession of nodes and internodes, but their number is usually fairly definite in any given species. In the genus Chera,a cell segmented off from the inner side of that node- cell which forms the first of these leaves, often gives rise to a branch, which exactly repeats the history of the stem. Branches may be formed at any node, and may even in their turn give rise to branches, in which case the plants may appear bushy in spite of the slender- ness of their stems. This appearance is also, and much more fre- quently, due to luxuriant growth of the leaves or leaflets. From the leaf-nodes leaflets are produced, but these do not divide and are never corticated. On the anterior side of the leaf-nodes, too, the sexual organs, antheridia and odgonia, are borne, and the leaflets surrounding these, known as bracts when the Characeae were con- sidered to be flowering plants, are perhaps better called (though this name too is unsatisfactory) bracteoles. They are usually larger than the leaflets at the sterile nodes. aking any individual node into consideration, leaflets or bracteoles may be similar or very dif- ferent; when the latter is the case, the posterior are nearly always the smaller, often greatly reduced, or even wanting. ( 247 ) From the superficial nodal cells of the stems of the Chareae two other classes of outgrowths may arise, simultaneously with the leaves. Outside of the basal cell on which the leaves are borne, a whorl of cells is cut off, which in some species remain undivided, in others form two whorls, or in one non-American species three, lying superimposed in the direction of the axis of the plant. These are here called stipulodes. They sometimes remain quite small; more frequently they elongate without division, resembling the leaflets and the spine-cells. All of the Nitelleae and some of the Chareae are entirely without cortex, but the great majority of the latter possess one of varying complexity. Sometimes both stem and leaves are corticated, less often the stem only. When present, this cortex originates from the node-cells at the same time as the leaves or leaflets, and completely surrounds the internodes, growing step by step with them so that they are completly enclosed. In extremely rare cases cortical cells are produced which incompletely cover the internodes, as regards either length or circumference. In its most perfect development the cortex of the stem is formed in the following way. From the basal nodal cell of each leaf one cor- tical cell grows upwards and one downwards on the surface of the stem-internodes, meeting similar cortical cells from the stem-nodes above and below. The number of these cortical cells is thus the same as that of the leaves, except that no ascending cell is produced by a leaf in whose axil a branch is formed. The original cortical cells cut off nodes and internodes from a terminal cell as in other cases, and, as before, the internodes elongate, often very consider- ably, but do not divide. The cortical node-cells divide into a deeper one in contact with the stem-internode, and three lying side by side on the surface. The two lateral of these form secondary cortical cells which grow both upwards and downwards, separating the pri- mary ones, meeting corresponding cells from the cortical nodes above and below, and contiguous to similar secondary cells pro- duced by the primary nodes of the rows to the right and the left. It is obvious that the total number of rows of cortical cells is then three times the number of the leaves; the stem is therefore said to be triply corticated. This fact can be ascertained by actually counting leaves and cortical rows. Further, the secondary cortical cells never divide, hence nodal cells are found only in the primary rows, and in most cases the nature of the cortex can be quickly learned by as- (248) certaining how many rows of secondary cells, if any, lie between two successive primaries. There is yet another aid. The central one of the three superficial cortical node-cells sometimes is small, sometimes large, but very often grows out into a papilla or by further elongation into a spine-cell which may be very long and conspicuous. Spine-cells are never borne except at a cortical node- cell, hence they are often of assistance in locating the latter. Spine- cells usually occur singly, more rarely in pairs or threes, and become more scattered as the cells become mature through the elongation of the intervening cortical internodes. They can never occur except upon corticated stems. It is unusual to find such perfect or regular development, and deviations from this type are of high diagnostic value in separating species or at least groups of species. In some cases secondary cells develop on both sides of a primary but grow very much more in one longitudinal direction than the other ; sometimes they are formed on one side only ; sometimes no secondary cells occur, in which case the spine-cells are usually very well developed. The first of these is undoubtedly a case of abnormal triple cortication, but as the num- ber of cortical cells seen in a cross-section would be about twice that of the leaves it has sometimes been described as double; the second case is true double cortication; the last single. All these would cause a reduction in the number of cells seen in a transverse section; at times, however, the ends of two secondary cells slip past one another, thus increasing the number between the primaries for a part of the distance. In most species when they differ the primary cells are larger or more prominent than the secondary; sometimes the reverse is the case. The cortex of the leaves is much simpler. The number of rows is either once, twice, or thrice that of the leaflets; but all the cortical cells of the leaves are derived from the leaf-nodes, for the cells sent upwards and downwards do not form nodes and inter- nodes but remain undivided, meeting similar cells from the next underlying or overlying nodes near the middle of the internodes. No cortical cell, however, grows upwards on the leaf from its basal node, so that the lowest leaf-internode is corticated only by the cells descending from the leaf-node above it; in some cases these too are wanting and the lowest node of the leaf remains uncorticated. The terminal internodes of the leaves are often uncorticated. The permanent plants are anchored by long hyaline rhizoids 1 ch grow downwards from the lower nodes of the stem. w ( 249 ) Reproduction is normally sexual. In some of the dioecious spe- cies, antheridia are very rarely found and development must in many cases be parthenogenetic. Vegetative multiplication also takes place in various ways: by bulblets, formed upon either stem or rhizoids, by branches with naked base, or by branches similar in all respects except origin to the pro-embryos. The systematic eccentricities of the family are of this nature. When thoroughly understood a great majority of the plants collected will fall with perfect distinctness into a few well-marked groups, though more than one under the prevailing nomenclature is spoken of as aspecies. Yet within the limits of these groups the differ- ences may be very considerable and of the most varied nature. Even a so-called variety may come to comprise plants which show many distinguishing characters. Further, the grouping thus pro- duced sets at defiance all laws of geographical distribution. Chara fragilis Desv. is reported from all of the continents; Chara gymnopitys A. Br. was originally described from Tasmania, C. gymnopitys keukensts Allen from Lake Keuka in New York State. Here the species and so-called variety are very different, though certainly in the same group; in the other case plants from Asia and America greatly resemble one another. Again, the dioecious C. cazescens Loisel. is widely distributed in Europe, but male plants have been collected on extremely few occa- sions. It occurs in eastern America, although here male plants seem unknown. But in the west of America, from the Saskatche- wan to California, there occur two extremely similar species, C. Azr- suta Allen and C. evoluta Allen, unquestionably monoecious, and another species frequently identified with the last has been collected in central Asia. C. canescens, generally known by its later name C. crintta Wallr., in its European acceptation is an aggregate spe- cies, but were it not for this one seemingly constant character C. evo- Zuta would certainly not be the first species to be segregated from it. It is at present the custom to divide these blanket species into ‘¢ forms,” and when this is done the latter are almost always found to have a well-marked distribution, limited only too often to a single pool. But so far as evidence is available, there is every reason to believe that each form retains its peculiarities constant for long periods of time. It might seem that the proper course of procedure is to raise these forms to specific rank, but to this there are objec- tions. The number of resulting species not only would be very (250 ) great, but it would be impossible to characterize them. The aim here has been to take a middle course. The wide view of species seems entirely untenable, but the effort throughout has been to make the segregations conservatively. Definite measurements are essen- tial to the descriptions and often afford valuable characters. But a Chara has but a few nodes and internodes, of necessarily different ages, and the upper ones almost always have different dimensions from the lower and more mature. The data given here are intended primarily to represent the latter, but also to include all parts which have assumed a quasi-final form. Much emphasis has been laid by others upon the size of the spore, and this is often a good char- acter. But spores, like other things, are of different sizes at dif- ferent ages, and it is extremely desirable to have perfectly mature material. Unfortunately it is often impossible to tell whether a spore is fully mature or not, as the final appearance is reached before it attains its full size. The observer should guard against another source of error. Be- sides the normal sporocarps there are found in many species others of a different shape, usually nearly globular except for the crown- cells, the odspores yellow or orange in color, often glistening, and crowded with starch. Their true significance is not clear, but they afford no characters of systematic importance, except that as a rule the crown-cells resemble those of the normal sporocarps, and the striae upon the odspore, though fainter, seem to be of the typical number forthe species. Odspores which are either globular or yellow should be viewed with suspicion. A few species in other respects quite distinct are here described with such odspores. In these cases it is believed that although the species will prove good, and can be recognized by the vegetative characters, the description wil require future emendation. The brown oéspores of some of the best-known species are not to be confused with the yellow ones above mentione The most plaucible explanation of the name Chara is that it was used in ancient times in southern France and northern Italy for Ca- rum and other allied plants. From the resemblance of its whorled leaves to the inflorescence of the umbellifers, the true Chara was first included, and now monopolizes the name. It is much more often said to be a literal rendering of, the Greek yapd, joy or delight, supposed by some to indicate their fondness for water, by others their effect when observed by the eye alone; others connect (251) it with the idea of a star, as it had previously been given to a con- stellation. All are guesses, as no explanation was given by Vaillant, who, in 1719, introduced the name. The species were previously and indeed subsequently included in other groups, Agu7setum and Hippuris especially, now known to be very different, but all plants of more or less similar habitat and habit. The first mention is by Pliny in his Natural History as an Lquisetum ‘* with leaves like a pine”; but the more modern history of the genus dates from Caspar Bauhin’s Pixax Theatri Botantct in 1623, where it is called ‘‘ Hgutsetum foetidum sub aqua repens,” and placed between Starganium and Arundo. In the first edition of the Genera Plantarum, 1737, Linnaeus places them in the Algae between Pilularéa and Fucus; and in the first edition of the Speczes Plantarum, 1753, they are so retained, with four species, though now between Lichen and ZYremella. In 1478, however, Linnaeus transferred them to the flowering plants among the Monoecia Monandria, and this view became very prevalent and persisted for many years. Most of his immediate successors, how- ever, followed his earlier opinion and treated them as cryptogams. By Adanson, in 1763, they were included in his family Ara (aroids), which comprised such genera as Potamogeton, Isoétes, Alga (= Zostera), Callitriche, Myriophylion, Ceratophyllon, and Pluvialis (= Natas), between the two last of whic ara was placed. In 1789, A. L. de Jussieu put them in the Naiades, between Aztpuris and Ceratophyllum; Ventenat, in 1799, in the ferns after Hguzsetum. The first author to separate them into a family by themselves was Richard, in the botanical account of the voyage of Humboldt and Bonpland, 1815, where they were placed between Marsileaceae and Piperaceae. Their affinity with the Algae has now long been conceded; not universally, however, as Lindley and others have placed them with the mosses, while several writers have considered them to belong to the vascular cryptogams. As a matter of fact they do not approach very close to any other group, but probably find their nearest affinity with the Coleochae- taceae among the Chlorophyceae, and they should either be made the ee order of this group, as is done in Engler and Prantl’s diez, or made into a separate subkingdom, as by ee He The researches which led to a correct understanding of the family were carried on by Wallroth, 1815; Waucher, 1821 ; Kaulfuss, 1825 ; (252) Bischoff, 1828; Pringsheim, 1862; Nordstedt, 1865; and de Bary, 1871. Especial reference must be made to Alexander Braun, who illuminated every phase of the subject. The species were previ- ously very imperfectly understood; many of them were aggregates of little-related forms, but his investigations laid a firm base for all future work. Unfortunately, when a former species or specific name seemed unsatisfactory to him, he promptly discarded it, dealt sim- ilarly with names given by himself, and counted mere herbarium names and casual mention as the equivalent of publication. The names adopted by him are still in general use, though in many cases they have been departed from in this paper. More recent works of taxonomic importance are by Migula upon the Characeae of Europe; by H. and J. Groves upon those of the British Isles; and by Nordstedt, whose descriptions include several American forms. The first generic division was by Agardh in 1824, who separated Nitella from Chara, taking as the distinguishing character the ab- sence of cortex, still often, though wrongly, so considered. The real nature of these two genera was first shown by Braun, who at a later date, separated Lamprothamnus from Chara. He also made Tolypfella a subgenus of Vitella; this was raised to generic rank by von Leonhardi, in 1863, who at the same time similarly treated Lychnothamnus, first recognized as a section of Chara by Ruprecht in 1845. Chara obtusa Desv., placed subsequently in Vetella and Lamprothamnus, was the last of the accepted genera to receive recognition, which came from Hy in 1889, as Mtellopszs, and Migula in the succeeding year applied to it the name Zolypellop- szs, which, however, as a subgenus dated back to von Leonhardi in 1863. One other genus, Charopsis, to comprise uncorticated Chareae, was proposed by Kiitzing in 1843, with Chara Braunii as the type, but this character did not justify segregation, as he himself speedily saw. The first American reference to this group dates back as far as 1696, when Sloane, in his catalogue of plants of Jamaica, identifies a plant from that island as the Aguzsetum foetidum sub agua repens of Caspar Bauhin, already mentioned. His species was probably C. haztensis Turpin. The first continental American species to be recognized was Chara foliolosa, sent under this name from Pennsylvania by Muhlen- berg and described by Willdenow. American botanists confused (253) with this the widely different C. Schwednitzd7, distributed by the collector after whom it is called. Braun was from an early date in correspondence with American collectors, especially Engelmann, and almost all publications here have been profoundly influenced by him. Dr. T. F. Allen of New York has been by far the most assiduous collector and student of the family on this side of the At- lantic; he accumulated a very large herbarium, which has made the present paper possible. He projected an extensive work, to include all American representatives of the group, but was unable to com- plete it. Many species were collected by Charles Wright, botanist of the Mexican Boundary survey, in 1851-2. These passed through the hands of Engelmann, Braun, and Allen, and have often been cited. The only paper yet published, intended to comprise all North American representatives of the family, was by Halsted, in 1879. The collections upon which it was based were mainly from New England and the total was only 24: JV2tella 8 species, Tolypella 1 species, and Chara g species and 6 varieties. In Fragmente einer Monographie der Characeen, compiled from Braun’s notes by Nordstedt after the death of the former, and published in 1882, there are North American identifications under 39 specific headings, 21 in Witella, 3 in Tolypella, and 15 in Chara, besides which many varieties and forms are recorded. n important paper covering a limited range is that of Woods in the Flora of Nebraska, in which 5 species of JVétedla and 7 of Chara are described and figured. SYNOPSIS OF THE GHNERA OF CHARACEAE Crown-cells in two superimposed rows, each of § cells ; cortex and stipulodes wanting. Su bfamily NITELLEAE. Antheridia terminal on the primary ray and secondary divisions of the leaf. Antheridia lateral on the nodes of the leaf, or within the ae of the bh 2. Tolypella whorl. - Lypella. Crown-cells in a single row. Subfamily CHAREAE. Stipulodes none. 3. Nitellopsis. Stipulodes present, sometimes reduced. Sporocarps below the antheridia. 4. Lamprothamnus, Sporocarps ahaty the ecanciien 5. Lychnothamnus, Sporocarps above idia or in dioeci P on the upper side of the nodal cell of a leaflet. 6. Chara (254) The Chareae are alone included in the scope of this paper, and of the four genera, Chara is the only one so far collected in North America. The genus, as here divided, is represented in North America by 50 species, besides many aberrant forms, some of which will doubtless be shown by further study and better material to be worthy of addition to the number. Of these 50 species, 1 is known from Greenland, 11 occur in Canada, 37 in the United States, 17 in Mexico or Central America, and 8 in the West Indies. No one species is however known from all of these divisions, and this remains true even if Braun’s specific limits be accepted, in which case the nearest would be his C. gymnopus, which has its northern limit in Lake Champlain, is well represented in the United States and Mexico, and is much the predominant form in the West Indies and in Central America. CHARA L. Sp. Pl. 1156. 1753 Charopsis Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. 319. 1843. (Type, Chura Brauniz C. C. Gmelin.) Annual or perennial algae, inhabiting fresh, brackish, or salt water, usually gregarious, often fetid. Stems composed of nodes icf ts former. exual paeene oe by aaiheridia aa oégonia, a latter in monoeci ous species lying above the antheridia. Stems uncorticated or corticated, the n er of cortical rows 1-3 times the number of leaves, the primary cortical cells forming nodes and inter 8 eaves also uncortic or corticated, but all cortical cells formed from the node-cells of the leaf. Plants with or poe ooo incrustation; this is most frequent in corti- cated spec Type species: Chara vulgaris L. KEY TO THE SPECIES Stems entirely uncorticated. Stipulodes forming a single whorl. n + 1 + r. +t +} +. ; posterior leaflets nearly r r always wanting. (255) se aeuie short and slender ; odspores almost always shorter than 0.5 m 1. C. pallida. Stipulodes longer and broader ; odspores 0.5-0.6 mm. long. 2. C. Braunit. Bracteoles at least as long as the mature oe Stipulodes forming a double whorl i Sonmeinieee — eee at least in Fe C. Brittontt n part. icated stem-internodes very sy aaa covered by the cells. Teton bracteoles 0.1-0.3 m g. 8. ypnoides. Anterior bracteoles 0.4-0.7 mm. a g. 9. C oe Corticated stem-internodes completely covered by th cells, or almost so, Stems ae corticated, or very small secondary pees cells some- times Stipulodes ae a single whorl; leaves entirely uncorticated. 4. C. crinitiformis. ss NA — a double whorl ; leaves at least partly singly co: ted. Pee nite Odspores with 14 or 15 striae 5. C. hirsuta oo with 10-12 striae. 6. C. evoluta 7. C. canescens. Stems eects cone cated. tipulodes forming a single whorl ‘ 16. C. Morongit. Stipulodes forming a double whor. Primary cortical cells more prominent, sae Sis with calcareous coating. nh and secondary cortical cells of nearly equal me . C. Schaffnert. es ia cells wider ae secondary. Posterior bracteoles very short, or none uC Gain: Posterior bracteoles not very short. . C. excelsa. Odspore without calcareous coating 13. C. baltica, Secondary cortical cells more prominent. Posterior bracteoles usually twice as long as wide. 14. C. intumescens, Posterior bracteoles little longer than wide, often teu 15. C. vulgaris. Stems wea corticated, but by imperfect development of some of the s ary cells, usually appearing doubly corticated ; stipulodes ae single whorl ; at least the basal leaf- “internode uncorti- cated. Monoe Leaves cnirely uncorticate Ja d. Plants only slightly incrusted, usually light-green. (256) Stipulodes 0.6-1.1 mim. long. Odspores with 8 or g striae. 16. C. Morongit. Odspores with rr or 12 striae. 17. C. Schneckit. Stipulodes 1.75-3 mm. long. O éspores with 8 striae. 18. C. coronatiformis, Odspores with 6 piel 19. C. Curtissii. Stipulodes 3.5-8 mm. long. 20. C. longifolia. Plants somewhat ere aces grayish. . C, keukensis. Leaves more or less corticated, the aaa internode excepted. Leaves with one corticated internode. Stipulodes 0.2-0.25 mm. long. 22. C. mexicana. Stipulodes 0.8-1.1 mm. long. 17. C. Schneckit. Leaves with more than one corticated internode. Odspores 0.4 mm. long. 23. C. Liebmanni, Odspores 0.5 mm. long. 24. C. Robbinsiz. Dioecious. Spine-cells very short, confined to has stem-internodes. . longifolia. Spine-cells conspicuous on all Pree eee Leav over 2.5cm.long. 25. C. Loricmaunis 26. C. Nordhoffiae Stems usually very regularly triply corticated ; stipulodes forming a ouble whorl. Leaves entirely uncorticated. Posterior bracteoles not greatly reduced. 34. C. inconstans. Posterior bracteoles greatly reduced. 37. C. guatemalensis. Leaves, or at least the lowest leaf-internodes, doubly corticated. Monoecious. Odspores brown. 27. C. leptosperma. OGspores black. Primary and secondary cortical cells of a size ; no spine-cells, Sepiites rar’ 28. C. Primary cells larger than ee apine- -cells or at least papillae present. 29. verrucosa. Dioecious. Spine-cells well developed; posterior leaflets moderately deve 0. C. as; elope 3 pera. No spine-cells ; ; posterior leaflets greatly reduced. 31. C. Macounii. Leaves, at least some of them, triply corticated, at least in part; the lowest leaf-internode always uncorticated Antheridia and odgonia borne at the same nodes. Leaflets at the lowest leaf- ie see to ovate, not ven- tricose, similar to the other: (257 ) Some or all leaflets well developed. Lowest leaf-internode 2-6 times as long as bro Posterior a little reduced, eae than sporocarps., Spine- “cells j inconspicuous. 32. C. cubensis. Spine-cells conspicuous. 33. C. elegans. Posterior bracteoles considerably reduced, shorter than sporocarps. Corticated leaf-internodes 3 or fewe 34. lane Corticated leaf-internodes 4 or m lightly incrusted. ipulodes at least as long as the basal leaf-internode, Posterior bracteoles not very short. 35. C. filicaulis. Posterior bracteoles often very short. 36. C. fertilissim: ss pase shorter than the basal leaf- internode. 38. C. carmenensis. Heavily Cae 39. C. Hickst Lowest leaf-internode only slightly eine than broad. Posterior bracteoles only slightly ced ; striae on odspore Io or 11. stella Posterior bracteoles half length of ee striae 06 140ri5. 41. C. Sanctae-margaritae Posterior Sas much less than half length of 42. C. foltolosa. All ia - aedie nodes greatly reduced. Cc. 3. hattensis. Leaflets at the lowest leaf-node ventricose, usually different from the others. Leaflets at sterile nodes not very short, 0.16 mm. or more, 44. Cc nae al Leaflets at sterile nodes not exceeding 0.1 Striae upon odspore 8-10. 45. C. in ha Striae upon oéspore I2- a. 46. C. trichacantha. Antheridia and odgonia borne at different nodes of the same eaves, Anterior bracteoles longer than the sporocarps. 8. C. formosa. All bracteoles shorter than the sporocarps. Upper whorl of stipulodes 0.56-0.82 mm. long, concealing the uncorticated basal leaf-internode. 49. C. sejuncta, (258) Upper stipulodes 0.92-1.5 mm. long, but not concealing the uncorticated basal sa intercede oO. C. compacta. 1. Chara pallida sp. nov. C. coronata Braunid forma novi-mexicana A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. har. 111. I C. coronata Braunit tenera A. Br.; Allen, Am. Nat. 16: 361. 1882. Cc. coronata i ne pene Am. Nat. 16: 362. pl. g. 1882. us: 5-20 cm. high, totally unincrusted, or sometimes alternate with and equal in number to leaves, sometimes incon- spicuous, 0.25-0.75 mm. long, 0.07—-0.1 mm. wide: leaves 7-10 in —-25 mm. long, containing 3-5 eee besides the ter- minal cell; leaflets at sterile nodes usually very small, the bracteoles much shorter than or rarely nearly eee the sporocarps, 0.3—0 mm. long, 0.05-o.1 mm. wide, the posterior very short or more often wanting : antheridia 0.26-0.32 mm. in diameter ; sporocarps or in pairs, 0.7-1 mm. long, 0.4-0.48 mm. wide; odspores 0.42—0.52 mm. lo ong, 0.31-0.35 mm. wide, iy 5-7 rather coarse and prominent striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.12-0.21 mm. high, .2-0.25 mm. wide at base, the individual eile ovate or Sub hea spherical with a peaked apex, or subpyriform. Type collected at Silver City, New Mexico, by H. H. Rusby, 1880; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Distribution: New Mexico to central Mexico. Illustrations: Am. Nat. 16: 362. f. 2; pd. 4. Exsiccatae: Allen,Char. Am. Exsicc. zz. 2. Cuara Braunu C. C. Gmelin, Fl. Bad. Alsat. 4: 646. 1826 C. coronata Ziz; Bisch. Krypt. Gewich. 26. 1828. C. coronata Braunit A. Br. Flora 18: 60. 1835. Charopsis Brauniti Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. 319. 1843. noecious : 6-20 cm. high, without pee oat cortex, or mene stipulodes forming a single whorl at each node, alter- nate with and equal in number to the leaves, ty 0.4-0. 8 mm. long and 0.17-0.21 mm. wide, but a even on a single pees leaves 10-12 in a whorl, 1.2-1.8 mm. long, composed o internodes, besides the short terminal cell; erie at sterile nodes up to 0.4 mm, long, or entirely wanting; bracte oles 0. long, 0.08-o.2 mm. wide, the posterior very rarely eae all (259) shorter than the pahtanl on sporocarps 0.7-0.84 mm. long, 0.45- 0.53 mm. wide; odspores 0o.5-0.6 mm. long, 0.35-0.4 mm. wide, with 6 or a striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.1-0.1 oO. ee at base, the individual cells lanweolaté to ovate, usually connive Type fear ‘Caienihe Baden, Germany. Distribution: Vermont to Mi naceata and Indian Territory; Europe, Asia, and Africa. Illustrations: Am. Nat. 16: 362. f.2; 367. f.9; Bisch. Krypt. Gewach. dl. 2, f. 5, a8 C. Braunii;-loc. cit. f. 7, as C. coro- nata ; Kitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: Ad. 237, f. a-e; Migula, Ce Deutsch. Omi Schw. f. &7-&}; Migula, Ce Char. Eur. f. 68, 69; Woods, Flor. Neb. 1: £2. 30. f. 2, 4. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 72. The common American species of this group is C. Schweznztzit, typical specimens of which are quite distinct from the European Brauntt in several important characters. here are also puzzling intermediate forms, but most of these are referable to . Schweinttzit, to which also belong several of the plants placed by Braun and Allen under C. Braunz?. There remain a few of northern distribution which seem practically identical with Euro- pean specimens. The southern hitherto assigned to this species are here somewhat tentatively separated. 3. CHara Scuweinirzu A. Br. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 1: 353. 1834 C. coronata Schweinitzii A. Br. Flora 18: 60. 1835. C. Braunii foliolosa Wallm. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Handlingar 1852: 286. 18 4. Monoecious: variable in size and habit, 0.1-1.5 m. high, 0.7-1.3 mm. in diameter, usually gala bright- to olive-green, entirely unincrusted or much more rarely lightly or heavily i incrusted, never corticated, and therefore without ape: -cells: stipulodes forming a single whorl at each node, alternate with and equal in number to the leaves, usually 1.5-3.5 mm. long, and about 0.5-1.5 mm. wide: leaves 8-11 in a whorl, 0.8—5 cm. long, usually exceeding the cor- responding stem-nodes, containing 4-6 internodes, besides the short terminal cell; leaflets usually verticillate, the posterior shorter but nearly always oe the anterior bracteole $ 1.3~2.5 mm. long, slightly exceeding to three times as long as the sporocarps, those at sterile nodes usually much shorter, often very small : antheridia and odspores 0.52-0.65 mm. long, 0.33-0.4 mm. wide, with Q-II striac ; ( 260 ) whorl of crown-cells 0.15-0.18 mm. high, 0.2~-0.25 mm. wide at base, the individual cells pyriform Type locality : North Carolina. Distribution: Quebec and Florida to British Columbia and Cali- ornia, Illustrations: Am. Nat. 16: 364. f. 5; 365. f. 6 (?); 366. f. 7, &; Allen, Char. Am. fl. 3; Woods, Flor. Neb. 1: Al. 70. f. 2, 355-7 Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 8, 27, 7¢; Tilden, Am. Alg. 256, 529; Collins, Holden, & Setchell, Phyc. Bor. Am. &22. This species was originally based upon material sent to Europe by Schweinitz, wrongly labeled C. foléolosa Muhl., which is very different. A sheet so named in his handwriting, now in the her- barium of the New York Botanical Garden, is however a Vitella, while another labeled by him C. xdifica is C. Schwetnitztt. 4. Chara crinitiformis sp. nov. C. excelsa Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 43. 2. 20, in part. 1882. Probably dioecious, but only maturing sporocarps have been seen : about ro cm. high, without calcareous incrustation ; stems 0.7 mm. in diameter, regularly singly corticated ; spine-cells frequent, usually in pairs, rigid, 1.2-1.6 mm. long, o. 16-0. 2 mm, — very acute and sometimes falcate at the apex: stipulodes form a single whorl at each node, twice as numerous as the leaves, sie to the spine-cells: leaves 10-12 in each whorl, 6-8 mm. long, entirely ably more mature 0.63 mm. long and 0.56 mm. wide, tage whorl crown-cells depressed-hemispheric, 0.1—-0.13 m igh, 0.23-0 Tee eee at Canadaigua Lake, New York, by T. F. Allen, August, 1881; inthe herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Distribution: Only known from type collection. Exsiccatae: C. excelsa Allen was distributed in nhs Char. Am. Exsicc. as ~o. 75, and small quantities of this were doubtless in- cluded, as the specimen here described was obtained from undistrib- uted material of that number. C. excelsa in all the more important characters belongs to the coz¢rarza group, but some portions of the description were based on C. crénttiformis. ( 261 ) 5. Cuara uirsuta Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 301. A/. z0, 77. 1900 Monoecious: 0.5-0.6 high, moderately incrusted; stem 0.26-0.62 mm. in diameter, singly alent ar primary cells almost or completely covering the stem except in the youngest in- lon nee mm. wide at base; lower internodes of the stem usually 1.5-2 , but reaching a cm. in length, the apical 3 or 4 together on ae. exceeding 1 cm. in length: stipulodes ane a double whorl at each node, comparatively short, those in the upper whorl 0.38-0.56 mm. long, 0.035-0.05 mm. wide, those in the lower 0.26—-0.37 mm. long, 0.03-0.04 mm, hile : leaves 1 10-12 in a whorl, half this near their apices, cortex single, completely covering the leaves or leaving irregular, elongated Senna cee 6-8 at ai sterile nodes, forming a similar whorl at the 0.4-1.4 m long, 0.07-0.09 mm. wide, the bracteoles sens a length of 1. a mm., all Herp exceeding - mature sporocarps, the anterior the longest : antheridia 0.3-0.35 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 0.84-1 mm. long, 0.31-0. a wide; odspores 0.63-0.65 mm. long, 0.23-0.25 mm. wide, truncate at both ends, with a or 15 striae; whorl of crown- cells about o. og mm. high, 0.18 m wide at base, the individual cells nearly square, but with rounded aisles. Type locality: Lakeside, San Diego County, California. Distribution: Only known from type locality. Illustrations: Bull. Torrey Club Zoc. czt. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. rza. 6. CHara EvoLuTa Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 41. pl. zo. 1882 Monoecious: (1 cm. fide Allen) 7-15 cm. high, very slightly in- single, in pairs, or in threes, often forming whorls around the stem, linear : or linear-lanceolate, 0.3-1.6 mm . long, 0.08—0.16 mm. wide: stipulodes forming a eoabie whorl at each node, somewhat Meee linear, those in the upper whorl 0.5- wide, those in the lower whorl one-half to two- thirds of this cna: leaves 9 or 10 in each whorl, 4-6 mm. long, 0.2-0.27 mm. wide, con- taining 4 or 5 singly cOfticated internodes, and an iscOrcicaked one- or two-celled tip; leaflets unequal or nearly equal, but all developed, 0.45-1.4 mm. long, those at the fertile similar to those at the sterile ( 262 ) nodes, except that the former often have a short additional leaflet or pre-bracteole on each side of the odégonium, as in C. caxescens, these usually 0.25-0.4 mm. long: antheridia 0.31-0.34 mm. in diameter ; 0.72—-0.88 mm. long, 0.4-0.5 mm. wide; oéspores oval, .58-0.68 mm. long, 0.33-0.37 mm. wide, with 10-12 incon- spicuoue ae whorl of crown-cells -I-0.14 mm. high, 0.2-0.22 mm. wide at t base, the individual mi somewhat connivent or be- coming pe "apparently easily deciduou Type — Red Deer Lakes and ne west of the Saskat- chewan, Albert: Distribution : ies to South Dakota and California. Illustrations: Bull. Torrey Club doc. czt.; Woods, Flor. Neb. I: pl. 34. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 76. 7. CHARA CANESCENS Loisel. Not. Fl. France 139. 1810 C. crintta Wallr. Annus Bot. 190. 1815. — Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 2: 10. 1871; 9: 40. pl. 78. 1882. — Halsted, Proc. Bos- ton Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 181. 1879.— A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 137. fl. 7. f. 222, 222. 1882. C. crinita americana Allen, Char. Am. pi. 2. 1879; 5. pl. 2. O. Dioecious, antheridia very rare on European specimens, and as yet unknown on American : 6-15 cm. high, dark-green, or becoming ce) slightly ; stems 0.28—0.44 mm. in diameter, singly corticated, the cor- tical cells usually short and parallel to the direction of the stem, the cortical node-cells normally bearing three spine-cells, o.4-1.6 mm. long, 0.07—0.09 mm. wide, obtuse to subacute at the apex, often hid- ing the stem, much more rarely somewhat distant : stipulodes form- aS a double whorl at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.48-0.75 m. long, 0. ee og mm. wide, those in the lower equally wide but eae 0.25-0.53 mm. long: leaves S-1oin each whorl, 5-§ mm. long, singly ee except the uncorticated tip, which resembles the ultimate whorl of leaflets by which it is surrounded; leaflets and bracteoles similar to one another, 0.5-1.4 mm. long, usually 6 in smaller than the others, becoming at the extreme reduction only one- fourth the length of the mature sporocarps: sporocarps 0.7-0.8 mm, long, 0.42~-0.5 mm. wide; odspores elliptic or obovate-elliptic 0.53-0.63 mm. long, o. 310-3 8 mm. ve with 9-11 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.08—o.0 . high, 0.13-0.18 mm, wide at base, the individual cells conniv ae or satay spreading. Type locality: Toulon, France. ( 263 ) Distribution : Massachusetts to Long Island; Europe, Asia, and rica. Illustrations: Bull. Toy Club doc. e¢t.; A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. Joc. czt.; Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: pl. 69. f. 7; Migula, Char. Deutsch. Osten: Schw. /. 87-90; Migula, Consp. Char. Eur. f. 73-75; E. & P. Natiirl. Planzenfam. f. 728; Allen, Char. Am. Joc. ctt. 8. Chara hypnoides sp. nov. Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia probably always borne upon the same leaf-nodes: 3-5 cm. high, cespitose, not incrusted ; cortical node-cells sometimes forming oval to depressed- -globose papillae, 0.03-0.1 mm. long: stipulodes often i inconspicuous, form- ing a double whorl at each node, the number in each whorl twice I in long, those in the lower oval to globose, 0.05-0.1 mm. long: leaves —§ in a whorl, often entirely uncorticated and then usually 3-celled and not developing nodes and internodes, or uncorticated but form- ing nodes and internodes, or the first one, two, or three internodes singly corticated, the cortex-cells in contact with one another later- ally or more or less separated, terminal leaf-cells sometimes only 0.1 mm. long, ovate; leaflets at the sterile nodes reduced to papillae, or the anterior fascicled and attaining a length of 0.4 mm.; anterior bracteoles 0.1-0.3 mm. long, shorter than the sporocarps at any stage, the lateral and posterior bracteoles still shorter, not exceed- ing 0.175 mm., usually less: antheridia early deciduous, 0.32-0.3 mm wide, with 8 striae, the es 0.07-0.I4 mm. high, ee globose. Type collected in shallow water in the crevices of rocks, along the borders of an island on the east side of Lake Nipigon, Ontario, by John Macoun, zo. 6, July 16, 1884; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Distribution: Only known from original collection. A distinct and very curious species, placed by Dr. Allen near the dioecious C. zmperfecta A. Br. from Algeria; probably even closer to European specimens of C. dzssoluta A. Br.; with impor- tant resemblances to and sharp distinctions from both. ( 264 ) g. CHARA INCONNEXA Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 40. pl. 17. 1882 Monoecious, ye antheridia and the odgonia at the same leaf- nodes: 3.5-4.5 cm. high, mo derately incrusted; stems 0.17-0.37 mm, in eae entirely uncorticated below, above singly corti- cated, the cells not adjoining laterally, and therefore not completely covering the stem, secondary cortical rows not developed, though compressed into a single whorl, or entirely wanting: leaves 7 or 8 in a whorl, 1-2 cm. ‘long, those at the lowest node uncorticated, nitelloid, not forming nodes and nod: usually composed of two .i diameter ; mature sporocarps 0.9-1.1 mm. long, 0.56-0.6 mm. wide; odspores 0.54-0.6 mm. long, 0.4-0.42 mm. wide, with 8-10 striae; aii ea each about 0.09 mm. high and 0.12 mm. wide, some- what truncate. Type pois Storm Lake, Iowa. Distribution: Only known from original collection. Nlustration: Bull. Torrey Club loc. cét. 10. CHARA SCHAFFNERI A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 146. 1882; as subspecies » Monoecious : resembling i in habit C. fragilis ui Gel2 but dif- fering very widely from it in the nature of the cortex and spine- at right angles to their length, rarely slanting ; spine-cells a scattered, projecting horizontally, or in the upper part of the inter- node weak, sloping downwards, conical, very sharp, 0.06-0.1 se mm. long, at the base eae mm. w ide (Braun’s description reads ‘*1.05~-6 mm.,” supposed to be a misprint for preceding) : stipu- lodes forming a double whorl at ae node, more strongly developed than in C. fragilis, those in the er whorl somewhat longer as those in the lower, appressed respectively to the leaves ‘and t cending and straight, or slightly incurved, or the tip occasionally squarrose, about o.18 mm. in diameter, containing 4-6, usually 5, ( 265 ) corticated internodes of almost ne length, the basal ‘internode neither shortened nor uncorticate a I- or 2-celle anes leaf-tip, whi chi is somewhat shorter han, or sometimes as long as, t lo 3 crown-cells rather short and blunt, sometimes connivent, sometimes slightly diverging, 0.07—-0.1 mm. hi gh, 0.14 mm. wide. Type locality: Valley of Mexico. Distribution : Mexico. . CuarRA CONTRARIA A. Br.; Kiitz. Phyc. Germ. 258. 1845 Monoecious: 10-50 cm. high, lightly or more often heavily in- 0.5~3 cm. long, sometimes entirely uncorticated, or more often with I-5 corticated internodes, and an uncorticated 1-5-celled leaf- aay leaflets usually very short, rarely ria ng o — mm, eee ae rior ncarly always the longer ; anterior bracteol $0. 6- ere the internodes both above and below are uncorticated; an- theridia 0.3-0.58 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 0.88-1.1 mm. pore? 0.5-0.65 mm. wide; odéspores black or dark-brown, 0.6-0.72 mm. long, 0.35-0. “49 mm. wide, with 10-13 striae; whorl of crown- Sei 0.12~-0.16 mm. high, 0.22-0.28 mm. wide at base, the individual cells oblong, Founded at the apex, erect but not connivent. Type locality: Germany. Distribution: Quebec and Alaska to Mexico; Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, according to Braun. Illustrations: Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: p/. 6z; Jour. Bot. 19: AZ. ( 266 ) 224. f. 2-2c; Migula, Char. Deutsch. Oesterr. Schw. f. 99-r0¢; Migula, Consp. Char. Eur. f. 8¢-89; Woods, Flor. Neb. 1: pd. 72. Exsiccatae : Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. ¢-6, z9; Tilden, Am. Alg. z2z; Collins, Holden, & Setchell, Phyc. Bor. Am. 797. 12, CHARA EXCELSA Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 43. dé. 20. 1882 Spectes inguirenda ; as originally described a curious mixture, the sibly reducible to C. coztrarza, but requiring further collections: MOR GC CIOUS : 6-14 cm. high, grayish from the somewhat heavy incrustation; stems 0.2-0.62 mm. in diameter, mostly regularly doubly cy with the primary cells of greater diameter and more prominent, or with the ends of two secondary cells intervening lae: stipulodes forming a double whorl at the nodes, those in oa upper whorl 0.09-0.61 mm. long, those in the lower 0.12-0. ong, or wanting entirely at nodes ee between uncortica ted pele leaves 7 or 8 in a whorl, 0.8-3.2 cm. long, containing usually 3 or 4 doubly corticated pee iy with an uncorticated 2- or 3-celled i. the longest leaves with only one corticated inter- n uncorticated 5-celled leaf-tip, or some leaves entirel uncorticated but still fertile; leaflets or at ae the apa ex- tremely variable, - bracteoles the anterior 1.1-2.15 mm. long, usu- ally far exceeding the sporocarps, the ae aoe O.1-0 mm. long: caeendis 0.32- 0-35 mm. io meter ; sporocarps o.8-1.05 mm. long, 0.44-0.6 mm. wide; aaa 0.54-0.75 mm. long, 0.38-0.44 mm.wide, these figures imperfectly representing the neck, crown-cells being 0.2-0.25 mm. high; odspores with 11- Type locality: Canadaigua Lake, New York. Distribution: Only known from original collection. Illustration: Bull. Torrey Club éoc. czt. excl. f. A. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 75. Many of the most glaring discrepancies of this description are due to the difference between the two forms, but not all, as great varia- tion may occur upon a single leaf. Both forms may be abnormal, and the species, even with C. crénttiformzs excluded, is of very doubtful value. ( 267 ) Chara intermedia A. Br. (not ‘the oldest name) has been re- ported from America by several authors, and many sheets so named are in the Allen herbarium, the range thus assigned being from Maine, Quebec, and Alaska, to New Jersey, Texas, Mexico, South- ern California, and even Chile. A careful examination of every determinable sheet so named in the Allen herbarium has enforced a profound conviction that this species is not found in America. The true C, zxtermedia should be characterized, as distinguished from C. contraria, by better developed stipulodes and spine-cells, by having all the leaflets at sterile nodes nearly equally developed, and the posterior at fertile nodes not greatly reduced; the odspores should be dark-brown, 0.66—0.82 mm., very rarely under 0.7 mm. long, 11-striate. The American plants usually have inconspicuous stipulodes; spine-cells are extremely rare ; the leaflets can very rarely be considered equal, and then only when all are very small; the pos- terior bracteoles are greatly reduced; repeated measurements of odspores, apparently fully mature and from widely separated local- ities, gave lengths from 0.51-0.665 mm., mostly 0.58-0.65 mm., only two getting within the minimum limits for the species. They are, moreover, much more slender than the European plants. On the contrary, so far as can be judged from dried material, the plants have the pinkish-green color of C. zztermedia, the odspores are dark-brown and never have the sooty color so common in C. con- trarta, and there are 11 or 12 striae. None of the three collection numbers doubtfully assigned to this continent by Braun have been seen, but from his description, and the examination of plants un- doubtedly similar from kindred localities, it is believed they also are to be excluded from the species. It is hard to believe that they really represent C. contrarza, but that is certainly their nearest affinity, and they are so placed for the present. C. hispida L. is reported from New York State, but no Ameri- can material so assignable has been seen, and it is not here included. 13. CHARA BALTICA (Hartm.) Fries & Asp.; Bruz. Obs. Gen. ar. I1, 19. 1824 C. hispida baltica Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl. 376. 1820. Monoecious: marine, or in brackish water, 2-90 cm. high, not Meer incrusted; stems mostly 0.6-0.8 mm. but reaching 1.5 mm. in diameter, with typical eae aia: the primary cortical rows projecting somewhat ond the secon ary; spine-cells num- erous on all stem-internodes, tone coe or in fascicles of 2-4, of ( 268 ) variable size and shape, at the extreme their length greater than the diameter of the stem: stipulodes forming a double whorl at each node, well developed, resembling the spine-cells, those in the upper whorl generally somewhat longer than those in the lower: leaves 8-11 in a whorl, 0.5—10 cm. long, containing 5-7 internodes, doubly corticated except usually one, more rarely 2 or even 3, termi- nal internodes, which are uncorticated, the leaf-tip 1-3-celled; leaf- lets variable, at sterile nodes the posterior not or only slightly shorter than the rest, as bracteoles the lateral the longest, fae from less than the length of the sporocarps to ten times the length of the latter, the posterior from mere papillae to almost the length of the anterior: antheridia o.5—o.8 mm. in diameter, rarely less than 0.55 mm. ; sea large, ovate to ovate-globose, with a maximum length of 1.3 mm. and width of 0.8 mm.; odspores without cal- careous cea. black or brownish-black, . 4¥-0.86 mm. long, 0.45-0.5 mm. wide, with 11-14 striae; whorl of crown-cells about 0.24 mm. high, 0.22 mm. wide, the individual cells oblanceolate. Type locality: Scandinavia. Distribution: Greenland; shores of the Baltic and England. Braun says that the Greenland plant has greatly elongated inter- nodes, short leaves, and small spines. Tila stratione: Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: pl. 67. f. 2, pl. 64. f. 73 Jour. Bot. 19: pl. 224. f. z-zc; A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. pl. 7. f. 232; Migula, Char. Deutsch. Oesterr. Schw. f. 774-217; Migula, Consp. Char. Eur. p/. gg-ro2. 14. Chara intumescens sp. nov. C. foetida crassicaulis Halsted, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 1847. 1879. C. crassicaulis Woods, Flor. Neb. 1: 127. p7. 37. 1894. Not C. crassicaulis Schleicher. Monoecious: very similar in habit and closely allied to C. cras- stcaulis, 12-35 cm. high, dull- or slightly brownish-green, sees heavily incrusted; stems 0.63-1.25 mm. in diameter, doubly cated, the secondary cortical rows more prominent than the eae but all of nearly equal diameter, 0.08—-0.15 mm., in young inter- e saa only; the cortical node-cells bearing spine-cells 0,13-0.35 m. long, = often papillae only, or in a Mexican plant spine-cells eae -7 mm. long: stipulodes forming a double whorl, but some- what sanable in length even at a single node, those in the upper whorl 0.21-0.49 mm. (ong those in the lower 0.16-0.45 mm. long: leaves 6—10, usually 9 in a whorl, 0.9-1.5 cm. long, containing sometimes 1, usually 2 or 3, rarely ve doubly corticated a ( 269 ) followed by an uncorticated 2-4-celled sry which is not divided into nodes and internodes, the lowest of the uncorticated cells below is corticated; the anterior bracteoles very rarely shorter than, usually exceeding, more often greatly exceeding the sporocarps, I.1-2.4 mm. long, 0.1-0.32 mm. wide, the longer usually also the wider, posterior bracteoles 0.12-0. mm. long, 0.06-0.1 0.96-1.1 mm. long, 0.54-0.6 mm. wide; odspores 0.56-0.63 m long, 0.39-0.44 mm. wide, with 10-13 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.15-0.19 mm. high, 0.25-0.3 mm. wide at base, the individual cells ee eae or suborbicular, truncate at the apex, usually slightly spreadin Type collected a a saline marsh, fed by water from a sulphurous spring, ae Beach, Great Salt Lake, Utah, by P. A. Rydberg and E. C. Carlton, zo. 6979, July 15, 1905; in the herbarium of ce New York Botanical Garden Distribution: Gaspé; N. W. Canada (without definite locality) to Mexico. Some Ontario collections are doubtfully referred here, but may barely possibly be the true C. crassicaulis. Tlustration: Woods, Flor. Neb. loc. czt. 15. CHARA vuLcaRris L. a Pl. 1156. «1753 C. foetida A. Br. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 1: 354. 1834. Monoecious: of varied habit, 4-40 cm. high, bright-, pale-, or wnish-green, lightly or somewhat heavily incrusted, as a ru exceptionally fetid even for the genus; stems 0.5-1.2 mm. in diam- eter, doubly corticated, the secondary cortical rows somewhat wider and more prominent than the primary, the cortical node-cells form- ing small ee or eat) rarely short spine-cells : stipulodes forming e whorl at each node, but very slightly ieee usually inconspicuous, — 0.1-0.15 mm. long, less often rea ing 0.2 mm., those in the upper whorl ease slightly longer than oe in the lo ower: leaves 6-11 in a whorl, 0.8-3 cm. long, containing 1-4, ae 3 or 4, corticated internodes, er an uncorticated 1-5-, usually r 4-celled leaf-tip, the leaves in the lowest whorl and sometim mes Sewioc uncorticated, but then without differentiation into nodes and internodes ; antheridia, odgoni a, and leaflets borne only where at least the preceding internode is corti icated; the anterior bracteoles most frequently 4, sometimes shorter than the sporocarps, but usually very much longer, 0.8-4.5 mm. long, the posterior very small, ovate or orbicular, o.o8—o.11 mm. in length and nearly or quite of equal (270) width, or entirely wanting: antheridia 0.25-0.55 mm. in diameter ; sporocarps 0.75-1.1 mm. long, 0.45-0.6 mm. wide; odspores light- brown to black, 0.42-0.63 mm. long, 0.28-o0. fail mm. wide, with 10-14 striae; whotl of crown-cells 0.1-0.2 mm. high, 0.21-0.28 mm. wide at base, the individual cells oblong, pans Type locality : Europe. Distribution : Very widely distributed throughout North America, though with a more southern range than C. fragzlzs, and apparently not in the West Indies. Nearly cosmopolitan; the commonest of all species of Chara Illustrations: Bauhin, Prodr. ed. 2. 25. f.; Schnitzl. Iconogr. Fam. dl. 4; Kiitz. Tab. Phyc.7: pl. 58. f. 7; pl. 59; pl. 60. f. 7; J. E. Smith, Engl. Bot. 5: pl. 376; Ganterer, Oesterr. Char. J. 2. f. 13; Jour. Bot. 18: p/. 208. f. 8; Migula, Char. Deutsch. Oesterr. Schw. f. 727-126; Migula, Consp. Char. Eur. f. 106-z71; Woods, Flor. Neb. 1: Ad. 32 Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 77, 28; Tilden, Am. Alg. 120, 254, 36 The American representatives of this species seem to have larger antheridia and sporocarps than the European. The minimum dimensions for these organs given above were taken from Migula. 16, Chara Morongii sp. nov. Monoecio 4-5 cm. high, yellowish- -green to dull-green, seed slightly rene stems 0.26-0.38 mm. in diameter, with ve irregular cortication, the primary cortical node- cells usually fornine secondary cells formed; the cortex usually appearing double, or more rarely triple or single ; ae -cells linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, or triangular, 0.1-0.35 mm. long, 0,05-0.08 mm. wide, mostly acute at the apex: stipulodes pee a single whorl at each node, twice as many as the leaves, 0.6-1 ss ong, 0.1-0.12 mm. wide, linear-lanceolate, acute at the apex : s 6 or 7 in each whorl, 2-4 mm, long, contain ning 2-4 areas fe cee the terminal cell, en- tirely uncorticated, about o.15-0.25 mm. in diameter ; pee nearly equal, very similar to the stipulodes, 0.7-0.9 mm, long, 0.12-0.14 mm. wide, acute or rarely obtuse at the apex, as bractoles nearly twice the length of the sporocarps : antheridia 0.23~0.26 in diameter ; sporocarps, probably immature, nearly spherical fee from the crown-cells, the largest 0.42 mm. long, 0.39 mm. wide; odspores 0.32 mm. long, 0.33 pe wide, with 8 or 9 striae; whorl of crown- high, about 0.12 mm. wide at the base, the individual cells lanceolate- oblong, spreading (271) Type collected at Bar Lake, Michigan, by Thomas Morong, xo. ro, 1882; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Distribution: Only known from the original collection. 17. Chara Schneckii sp. nov. Monoecious: 8-13 cm. high, somewhat yellowish-green, slightly incrusted ; stems 0.45-0.5 mm. in diameter, the cortex unusually frequent above, 0.22-0.48 mm. long, 0.05-0.07 mm. wide, some- what obtuse at the apex: stipulodes forming a single whorl at each node, twice as many as a ele: 0.8-1.1 mm. long,'o.09-0. 12mm. ° cs ° at oO any p ‘3 ue) ce c 0Q p or ot ao oO hp oS oO ey on 5's = =] 9 iS) _ EX) < oO 5 s, these 5-10 mm. ong, pelea, of 4-6 cnedee entirely uncorticated, or occasion- ally the second lowest internode double corticated; leaflets 1~ m. wide, at the uppermost node about half this, shorter than the terminal cell of the leaf, as bracteoles 1144-2 times as long as the sporocarps: antheridia o 0.21-0.23, mm. in striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.07-0.09 mm. high, 0.14-0.15 mm. wide at base, the individual cells triangular-ovate, suberect. Type collected at Mount Carmel, Ilinois, by J. Schneck, Aug. 17, 1895; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden: Distribution: Only known from original collection. 18. Chara coronatiformis sp. nov. Monoecious : very similar in habit to C. Schwezuztzzz, but closely allied to eukensts, with which it agrees in the , the num- ber of stipulodes, and the entirely uncorticated leaves : 5—7 cx gh, stem m. in diameter, almost destitute of incrustation; 0.07 mm. wide: stipulodes larger than in C. keukenszs, 1. 52.1 mm. long, 0.17-0.2 mm. wide: leaves 1 cm. Jong, their lower inter- nodes about | 0.35 mm., the upper 0.2 mm. in diameter; leaflets at median nodes 1.7-1.9 mm. long, reduced at the uppermost es mostly 0.16-0.19 mm. wide, not exceeding the diameter of the long, 0.44-0.46 mm. wide; odspores orange, spherical, o. 35-0. 37 mm. long, 0.35-0.38 mm. wide, the striae 8, almost imperceptible. (272 ) e: ‘ Van Buren Co., August, 1838, ex herb. I. C. Martin- dale”; in the herbarium of the New York ‘Botanical Garden. Believed to be from southern Michigan. Distribution : Only known from original collection. 19. Chara Curtissii Allen, sp. nov. [Bull. Torrey Club 7: 107, nomen. 1880] Monoecious: 10-15 cm. high, lightly incrusted; stems 0.5-0.6 mm. in diameter, somewhat irregularly corticated, the cortical node- cells more usually giving | off secondary cells on both sides, but sometimes on one side only, these secondary cortex-cells being nearly always of less diameter than the ag "and of ver unequas length, sometimes becoming very narrow, the cortex, essentially triple, thus appearing double or even single ; nee te scattered, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 0.2-0.44 mm. long, 0.06—-0.09 mm wide: stipulodes forming a single whorl at each node, twice the number of the leaves, foliose, 2-2.8 mm. long, 0.26-0.32 mm. wide, narrowly ee acute at the apex: leaves 8-10 in a whorl, 1-1.2 mm. long, 0.39-0.46 mm. wide, usually containing four internodes, besides the terminal cell, entirely ,uncorticated ; leaflets at each node subequal or very unequal, as ee eoles attain ing a maximum length of over 2 mm., usuall —o.3 mm. wide: narrowly elliptic, greatly exceeding the ee ee ant. heridia 28-0.35 mm. in diameter; uated a — probably due to incomplete maturity, the oldest 0.57—0. long, 0.5 mm. wide, odspores 0.4—-0.42 mm. Tone oO. rs 39 mm. wide, with about 6 striae; whorl 6f crown-cells 0.08—o.12 mm. high, 0.2 mm. wide at base, the individual cells ovate, very nae and obtusely beaked. Type collected in a shallow saw-grass pond, 2 or 3 miles east of the Halifax River, Volusia County, Florida, by A. H. Curtiss, May 25, 1879; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Distribution: Only known from original collection. Illustration: Allen, Char. Am. 55. /. 50, as C. flaccida. 20. Chara longifolia sp. nov. Monoecious or appearing dioecious: 15-30 cm. high, bright- green, very slightly incrusted ; stems o.8—1.2 mm. in diameter, cor- tication irregular, the primary rows often ee straight, the node- sometimes none, irregular interstices occasionally found ; a Wasi found only on the youngest internodes, ovate, 0.17~0.47 mm. long, 0.14-0.18 mm. wide, on the lower internodes represented only by anal papillae, or more often entirely wanting: stipulodes forming (273 ) a single whorl at the upper sana probably exceeding the leaves in number, apparently early deciduous, se or oblong-ovate, when full-sized 3.5-8 mm. long, o. ee . wide : Eee gor ioina whorl, about 6-10 cm. long, containing 3-5 internodes; leaflets somewhat unequal, 2-5 mm. long, 0.5-0.6 mm. wide: antheridia m. wide; odspores 0.45 mm. long, 0.38 mm. wide; whorl of crown-cells 0.17 mm. high, 0.22 mm. wide at the base, the indi- vidual cells ovate, shortly and obtusely beaked. Type collected in Stafford County, Kansas, by M. A. Carleton, no. 302, July 11, 1891; inthe herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Distribution: Indiana to Iowa and Kans A very distinct species, probably meat to ve FHlornemannii, but at once distinguished by the absence of spine-cells from the mature internodes. In habit it greatly resembles C. odtusa Desv. = iVitel- lopsis stelligera (Bauer) Hy, or Zolypellopszs stelligera (Bauer) Mig., but lacks the starch-stars and is otherwise very different. 21. Chara keukensis (Allen) C. aaa keukensis [Keukents| Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 20: 120. 1893. Monoecious : -8 cm. high, well incrusted; stems 0.38-0.53 mm. in diameter, ements triply corticated, the cortical node-cells number of the leaves; spine-cells few, inconspicuous, when mature Oo. m. long, 0.05—0.1 mm. wide: stipulodes forming a single whorl at each node, twice the wees of oe TOvEs) 0.9-1.42 mm ee 0.1-0. oe mm. wide, acute at the a : leaves mostly 8 ina whorl, 5-8 long, entirely eae containing 2-4 a Mee teades 8, those at sterile nodes 0.7-0.9 mm. long, o.1- 0.14 mm. wide, this often exceeding the diameter of the sippermont internodes of the leaves, as bracteoles much longer, sometimes ex- ceeding 2 mm., surpassing the mature sporocarps: antheridia .25-0. 28 mm. in diameter; mature sporocarps 0.6-0.65 mm. long, 0.33-0.4 mm. wide; odspores oval, black, 0.44~0.4g mm. long 0.28-0.33 mm. wide, with 2 some ewhat faint striae whorl of crown- .og—o.r1 mm. high, 0.14-0.16 mm. wide at base, the indi- vidual cells ovate or nearly hemispheric, ei well separated at their tips Type locality: Lake Keuka, New York. (274) Distribution: Central New York and Welland County, Ontario, to western Lake Erie and southeastern Illinois. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 26. 22, Chara mexicana (Allen) C. hydropitys mexicana Allen, Bull. piel Club 20: 120. 1893. Monoecious : ae cm. high, dark-green, slightly incrusted; stems 0.3-0.46 mm. in dia meter, essentially triply corticated, sec- ene! See alls aie developing more or less on both sides of the primary, though usually very unequally in the two longitudinal directions, often quite irregular, when most regular appearing as if doubly corticated except opposite the cortical node-cells ; spine-cells scattered, a variable, linear-lanceolate to ovate or triangular, 0.05-0.32 mm. long, 0.04-0.07 mm. wide, acute at the apex: stipu- lodes fae a single whorl at each node, twice the number of the leaves, 0.2-0.25 mm. long, 0.06 mm. wide, linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate: leaves 9 or ro in a whorl, 9-10 mm. long, composed of 5 or 6 internodes, of which the lowest one and the terminal one or two are ce aay and the 3 (rarely 4) intervening wee cor- ticated, the lowest nternode 1.1 -1.5 mm. long, 0.22-0.26 mm. wide, the eee ae corticated internode of nearly the same dimen- sions; leaflets at any node nearly equal, 0.66-0.86 mm. long, 0.09- 0.12 mm. wide, linear-lanceolate, acute, as bracteoles about one and a half times as lon the mature paras : antheridia 0.23- 0.25 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 0.57-0.6 mm. long, 0.36-0.38 mm. wide; odspores o 2 ear 0.24 mm. wide, with ro striae; whorl of crown-cells short, 0.07-0.09 mm. high, 0.I-0.12 mm. wide at base, the individual cells ovate, ascending. Type collected in a still pool of a mountain brook, north Mexico, by C. G. Pringle, November, 1886. Distribution: Only known from original collection. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. ¢6. 23. Chara Liebmanni sp. nov. C. hydropitys perfecta A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 133. 1882. onoecious : Seis in sae tothe South American C. hydropz- thys Rchb., 12.5-18 cm. high; stems 0.4-0.42 mm. in diameter, the lowest nodes ee spherical, destitute of leaves, the cortex- cells little twisted, difficult to count, apparently very similar to those of the others of the group; spine-cells acute, about 0.05 mm. wide, the length of the longest lower ones greater than the diameter of the stem: “stipulodes forming a single whorl, twice the number of the leaves, space thicker than the spine-cells, similar o ee leaflets : leave es mostly 10 in a whorl, usually containing 6 inter- nodes, of which the lowest is here 0.3 mm. thick and pee (275 ) twice as long as the succeeding internodes, which are about the same length as one another, a little narrower than the uncorticated one, doubly corticated except the terminal one or sometimes two; leaflets 6-8 at all nodes, at fe fertile 7 or 8, at the uppermost still 6, which are almost as long as the apical cell of the leaf, the lower ones somewhat shorter and narrower than the leaf-inter nodes, about twice as long as the sporocarps, not ventricose, wider than the spine-cells: antheridia 0.2-0.22 mm. in diameter ; sporocarps some- what oblong, about 0.6 mm. long, 0.36-0.38 mm. wide; odspores black, 0.38-0.4 mm. long, 0.28-0.3 mm. wide. Type locality: Potrero de Ponsoquitla, near Mirador, Mexico. Distribution: Mexico to Lagoa Santa, Brazil, fde Braun. 24. CHara Rossinst Halsted, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 183. 1879 Cc. pilge Sie septentrionalis Nordst.; Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. C. a. majuscula Nordst. in A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 134, in part. 1882. ? C. nudifes Wallm. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Handlingar 1852: 293. 1854. If so, the oldest name. Monoecious : 9-18 cm. high, somewhat yellowish-gr een, slightly or moderately incrusted ; stems 0.3-0.9 mm. in diameter, essentia ally node in the other, the cortex thus being numerically double and ‘so appearing if viewed casually; cortical cells usually long, spine-cells therefore distant, usually 0.6-1 mm. long, 0.0g-0.1 mm. wide: stipu- long, the whorls distinct or somewhat overlapping at the apex, each leaf containing 6 or 7 internodes, the lowest internode of variable dimensions, 1-3 mm. long, 0.16-0.55 mm. wide, uncorti- cated, always wider, usually much so, than the succeeding ones, of whi ch the next 2-5 are doubly corticated, leaving 1-3 uncorticated apical ones; leaflets of any whorl su equal, re 1.2-1.5 mm. long, 0.11-0.16 mm. wide, about twice the length of the mature sporocarps, the terminal leaflets about two-thirds this length: antheridia 0.23-0.3 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 0.73-0.8 mm, high, o.1-0.18 mm. wide at base, the individual cells ovate, some- what erect or very widely spreading. Type locality: Apponaug Pond, Rhode Island. (276 ) Distribution: Rhode Island to New Jersey and Illinois. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. zo. The species as here conceived is somewhat polymorphic, the New Jersey plants being considerably more robust than those from Rhode Island and Connecticut. Agreement on the more essential characters seems however sufficiently close to warrant their union. Nordstedt identifies with this a plant from Vera Cruz, Mexico, which appears from the description to be somewhat different. Turckheim 606, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, is also somewhat closely allied, but too imperfect for accurate determination and description. Chara Martiana Wallm. Kong). Vet.-Akad. Handlingar 1852: 294. 1854, would certainly be, from the description, a species of this group. Wallman published it supposing it to be C. Mar- tiana A. Br., a dioecious species of the gymnopus group from South America, which, however, had not then been published, though casually mentioned. The name therefore belongs to Wall- man’s plant and Braun’s must be renamed. Wallman’s description is as follows: ‘©CyH. MarTiana: Caule subtilissime striato, striis rectis, in sicco collapso, plano, inferne subnudo, superne aculeolato, aculeis sparsis, minutissimis, diametro caulis multo brevioribus; involucro densissimo, spinulis uniserialibus, patentibus, acicularibus, caulis diametro longioribus; verticillis discretis, patenti-divaricatis, 10-12- radiatis ; ramentis caule duplo augustioribus, 7—-8-articulatis, genicu- lis constrictis, nodosis, obscurioribus, usque ad apicem bracteiferis ; internodio basali proximis 2~3-plo breviori, monosiphonico, nudo, ceteris inordinate alternatim simpliciter et composite tubulosis; ramulis intercalaribus brevissimis ; bracteis angustissimis, cuspidatis, interioribus 4: 2 longioribus, aequalibus, nuculam subaequantibus, 2 minoribus itidem aequalibus, nucula multo brevioribus, aversis abbreviatis, saepe obsoletis. Monoica. *¢ Ch. Martiusii AZ. Braun, ined. — Ch. Martiana, idem Schwei- zer. Char. ‘¢ Amerika, Guatemala! Ifran Aged sind till Apothekaren Zhe- denius, hvilken benaget meddelat densamma.”’ Nordstedt, however, has seen the original specimen, and says that the description is partially wrong; that the stipulodes form a double whorl, and that the plant really is C. sejumcta. It is not here cited as a synonym of that species, because two specimens from re- (277 ) lated regions, one from Mexico, the other from Colombia, while both too fragmentary for description, are yet clearly sefusctae in a wide sense, but if here described would be treated as distinct. 25. CHara Hornemannu Wallm. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Handlingar 1852: 288. 1854 C. ceratophylla Halsted, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 182. 1879. Not C. ceratophylla Wallr. Dio 12-40 cm. high, pense yellowish- or dark-green, cee facristed: stems 0.7-1.5 mm. in diameter, essentially triply rticated, the cortical seek often developing secondary cells on err sides, but these usually elongating in one longitudinal direc- tion only, the cortication thus appearing double, the primary cortex- cells somewhat larger and more prominent than the secondary; spine-cells very conspicuous, somewhat scattered on the lower parts of the stem, crowded near the apex, attaining a length o mm., lodes forming a single whorl at each node, twice as many as the — or fewer, similar to the spine-cells, 2.5-ro mm. long, 0.35- wide: leaves 8-10 in a whorl, 1-2.5 cm. long, usually containing 4 internodes, entirely uncorticated ; leaflets 2~4 mm. long -25-0.5 mm. wide, as bracteoles similar, much exceeding the sporo- carps : antheridia 1-1.2 mm. in diameter; mature sporocarps I-1.3 mm. long, 0.65-0.8 mm. wide; odspores 0.56~-0.8 mm. long, 0.4- 0.48 mm, eos with 5-7 striae; whorl of crown-cells about 0.175 mm. high, 0.2 mm. wide at base, ovate, the cells connivent. Type igesige: : Crab Island, West Indies. Distribution: Tropical and subtropical America from southern Florida and New Mexico through the West Indies and Mexico to southern Braz He ‘Kitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: pl. 48. f.z; A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. fl. 2. f. 74; pl. 3. fo 75 (?). 26. Chara Nordhoffiae (Allen) C. Hornemanni Nordhoffiae Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 299 pl. 12,73. 1900. Dioecious: closely allied to C. Hornemanniz Wallm., but of somewhat different habit, owing to the longer internodes and more eae mes leaves: 0.25-0.5 m. high, not incrusted; stems 1-1. 5 iameter, cortex much as in C. Hornemannzt, but the pri- mary cortical cells distinctly more prominent than the secondary ; spine-cells few on the lower internodes of the stem, more frequent but not crondes oe usually about 5 mm. long, but reaching a maximum length of 9 mm., 0.36-0.44 mm. wide: stipulodes forming (278 ) a single whorl at each node, mostly 6-9 mm. but becoming 12 mm long, 0.44-0.53 mm. wi e, about twice the number of the leaves, the 0.6-0.72 mm. long, 0.32—-0.44 mm. wide, with 5-7 prominent striae. Type locality: Lakeside, San Diego County, California. Distribution : Only known from type collection, and a species of very doubtful validity. Many of the measurements relied upon by Dr. Allen to separate it from C. Hornemannii were erroneous, and if further collections should show that the narrowness of the fruit is due to immaturity, it must be reduced to the status of arather luxu- riant form. The fruit of both species is insufficiently known and for that of C. Hornemannii Dr. Allen may have relied upon Braun’s figure, which does not resemble any fruit on plants of this species in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Braun de- scribes the odspore of C. Hornemannii as i0-striate. : Illustrations: Bull. Torrey Club Zoc. ct. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. ste num. 27. CHARA LEPTOSPERMA A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 184. J. 4. ff. 93-96. 1882 Monoecious: resembling in habit C. fragilis brevifolia A. B golden-green to occasionally dark-green, or greenish-brown, aiohey incrusted, not very fragile; stems very slightly twisted, 0.45-0.5 mm. in iameter, or the lowest internodes attain ning a maximum of of the stem, primary and secondary cells equally wide and promi- nent, the secondary cells with horizontal terminal walls; spine-cells small but distinct, fpdeed aca stipulodes forming a double whorl at each node, those in the lower whorl as long as the upper, 0.35- mm. long, about 0.06 mm. wide, less pointed than the leaf- lets: leaf-whorls distant, the ee nearly upright, but eee incurved, 7-9 in whorl, about 1 cm. long, containing 6-7 doubly corticated erodes. of about equal le ength, 3, or 4 of them fertile, and an uncorticated conical terminal cell; leaflets present at all nodes, but at sterile nodes very short and inconspicuous, almost upright, ‘papilla- like, moderately pointed, the two anterior the longer, as bracteoles the two anterior about same length as the sporocarps, somewhat longer than the two lateral, moderately pointed, 0.08-o.11 mm. in width: aang about o diameter ; sporocarps slender, 0.83-0.85 mm. long, o. a 37 mim. wide; odspores golden-brown and ae 0.55-0.6 mm. long, 0.3 mm. wide, with 11 or 12 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.18— 0.19 mm. high, and of equal width, the individual cells one connivent. (279) Type locality: Between Morro and Rancho nuevo, Dept. Vera Cruz, Mexico. Distribution: Mexico Illustrations: A. Br. loc. czt. This form, of very doubtful specific value, is distinguished from C. fragilis by the golden, not black, odspores, the more slender sporocarps, and by having well-developed stipulodes in spite of the short bracteoles. 28, Cuara FRAGILIS Desv.; Loisel. Not. Fl. France 137. 1810 Cc. ya hl Sp. Pl. 1156, in part. me onoeci polymorphic, 2.5-75 cm. high, slightly or moder- ately incrusted, eee wee bearing bulblets ; stems 0.35-0.85 m spicuous, never bearing spine- -cells and very rarely papillae: stipu- lodes greatly reduced ee inconspicuous, ae a dou each node, or more or less undeveloped : s 6-9 in a whorl, 4-30 mm. long, eos 5-8 doubly sal ate internodes, and an uncorticated 1- or 2-celled tip; the posterior and sometimes all the leaflets at the sterile nodes wanting, the anterior however often ae] = o ie o = ct ct. im ° i= og oa wn ina ° 5 ice 4 s o we 1 ° i we p n ion 4 p ° ct Q o sa o a ° 5 _ S ° S o long, 0.36-0.48 mm. wide, with 10-14 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.14-0.2 mm. high, 0.17-0.25 mm. wide at base, the individual cells oblong, usually truncate at the apex, usually erect and connivent. Type locality: Paris, France Distribution: Canada, United States and Mexico, but apparently not in the West Indies; cosmopolitan. Illustrations: Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: A2. 54, 55; Flora Danica 16: pl. 2796, 2797; Jour. Bot. 18: pl. 207, f. z; Migula, Char. Deutsch. Oesterr. Schw. f. 746, 747; Migula, Consp. Char. Eur. Sf. 134, 132; J. E. Smith, Eng. Bot. Supp. 2: f/. 2762; Ganterer, Oesterr. Char. p/. 2. f. 75, 76; Oltmanns, Morph. Biol. Alg. £7. 207; Woods, Flor. Neb. 1: 2. 75; E. & P. Natiirl. Pllanzenfam. i; pl. 209. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 27; Collins, Holden & Setchell, Phyc. Bor. Am. 7798. igula, Groves and others, cite among the synonyms of this ( 280 ) species C. glodularzs Thuill. Flore Env. Paris. ed. 2. 472. 1799, and C. cafillacea Thuill. Joc. czt. 1799. From the descriptions it seems very probable that both are forms with abnormal sporocarps. If one or both are identical with C. fragzlzs the latter name must be replaced, but without absolute certainty it is here considered in- advisable to make any change in what is perhaps the longest-estab- lished and most widely accepted specific name in the genus. 29. CHARA VERRUCOSA Itzigsohn, Bot. Zeit. 8: 338. 1850 C. delicatula Ag. Syst. Alg. 130. 1824. Not C. delicatula Desv. 1810. C. fragilis delicatuda von Leonh. Oesterr. Arml.-Gew. 90. 1864. Monoecious : 5-30 cm. high, rather slightly incrusted; stems 0.33-0.53 mm. in diameter, regularly triply corticated, the primary cortical cells clearly of greater diameter than the secondary cells, and projecting somewhat beyond them, the secondary cells occa- sionally somewhat irregular, sometimes leaving only a single secon- dary cell between two primaries; cortical node-cells auficieatly con- spicuous, usually forming papillae, pote becoming short spine-cells : = cach the stipulodes of the upper whorl! well developed, 0.12-0.42 m. long, those in the ed nearly always shorter, usually 0.09— oO. oe mm. long, sometim ened! inconspicuous : peels or 8ina whorl, 4-21 mm. long, co eee ing 3-9, much most frequently 8 or 9, doubly corticated faerodes: and a 1-3-celled ee apex; posterior leaflets undeveloped, or reduced to mere papillae, the bracteoles variable, 0.28-1.4 mm. long, more often exceeding the mature sporocarps: antheridia 0-35-0-56 mm. in diameter ; eae mm. long, 0.47~0.6 m oe with li- 13 striae ; whorl of crown- cells 0.1-0.24 mm. hi es o.18-0.26 mm. wide, the individual cells oblong-lanceolate to ovate, mostly connivent. Type locality: Germany. Distribution: Maine and New York to Alaska and California; urope. Ulustrations: Jour. Bot. 18: ~/. 207. f. za; A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 7. 7. f. 269, 270; Migula, Char. Deutsch. Oesterr. Schw. Z48 ; Migula, Consp. Char. Eur. f. 7377; Fl. Dan. 16: pl. 27 Exsic : Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 22; Collins, Holden & Secchetl, en Bor. Am. zzgg. The latter plant, from California, diverges aaa from typical material, the former contains some C. aspera (281 ) 30. CHARA ASPERA Willd. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin Mag. 3: 298. 1809 C. aspera nitidula A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 175. 1882. us: 10-18 cm. high, dull- or pale-green, very slightly in- crusted, bulblets sft ¢ present stems 0.33-0.45 mm. in diameter, triply corticated, but the secondary cells often developed in one longitudinal direction only, or for short distances only in either or both directions, the stems oe numerically about doubly corticated ; spine-cells variable, linear to ovate, 0.12-0.9 mm. long: stipulodes 0.05-0.1 soa wide: leaves 7-10 in a whorl, 6 15 mm. long, con- taining 5-7 doubly corticated internodes, wi ith an extremely varia- ble 1- or 2-celled uncorticated tip, this last acute to square-cornered at the apex; all leaflets at any node i eloped, but the anterior the longer, at sterile nodes usually 0.35-0.52 mm. long, but at young nodes sometimes less, the posterior aay one-half to one-third this length; lateral bracteoles almost Pele peasaans the antheridia and probably the odgonia, usually 0.63-0.96 mm. long, rarely less : an- theridia 0.4-0.57 mm. in diameter ; Re immature sporocarps seen merican material, but according to Migula and Allen, when mature 0.75-0.9 mm. long, 0 0.4-0.55 mm. wide; odspores 0.44-0.65 mm. long, 0.28-0.4 mm. wide, with 11-16 striae ; whorl of crown- cells according to Migula 0.08 mm. high, 0.14 mm. wide at base, but in the immature American sporocarps 0.14 mm. high, 0.16-0.18 mm. wide at base, the individual cells lanceolate, ascending. Type locality: Warnemiinde, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. Distribution : Newfoundland to Long Island, also New Mexico; also Europe an F rica. The New Mexican plants are rather different from orien ones, but themselves vary, and are better not separated at present. Illustrations: Bull. Torrey Club 9: f/. az, f. A, 7-37, 7; Kiitz. Phyc. Tab. 7: p/. 52. f. 7; Jour. Bot. 18: pl. 207, f. 4; Migula, Char. Deutsch. Oesterr. Schw. A/. 734, 135; Migula, Consp. Char. Eur. f. 279, 120; Grev. Crypt. Fl. 6: 27. 339. Exsiccatae: Collins, Holden, & Setchell, Phyc. Bor. Am. 7796. 31. Chara Macounii Allen, in herb. C. aspera Macounii Alien, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 44. f/. az. f. B, gO. ious, or in extremely rare cases oe and oégonia on afer nodes of the same leaf: 5-10 cm. high, dull- -green, slightly incrusted, bulblets often present ; eee oo. 44 mm. in diamcter, corticated as in C. aspera, but the spine-cells reduced to papillue, ( 282 ) 0.04-0.1r mm. or very rarely 0.18 mm. long: stipulodes also re- duced, ovate or oblong, those in the upper whorl usually 0.09—0.16 mm. long, rarely peed more or ay than eee those in the eee whorl 0.05-0.14 mm. long: leaves 6— ho long, the lower 3-8, usually 6 or 7, ed doubly cotiated, the uncorticated tip 1-3-celled; posterior leaflets reduced to me papillae, 0.035-0.085 mm. long, the anterior 0.09-0.26 mm. lo ae in both cases rarely near the upper limit given, as bracteoles in male plants the anterior 0.18-0.32 mm. long, or about one-half the exceeding or shorter than the probably immature sporocarps: an- theridia seen up to 0.62 mm. in diameter; most red mature ena o.7 mm. long, 0.45 mm. wide, its odspore 0.42 mm. long, wide, striae probably 8—10; whorl of crown-cells o.1— O.12 mm. , 0.2 mm. wide at base, the individual cells ovate- globose, not eee connivent. Type collected by John Macoun, zo. 76, at Long Lake, Saskatche- wan, July 8, 1879; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden De bucon: Vermont to Saskatchewan. Illustrations: Bull. Torrey Club doc. czé. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 27. Originally considered a distinct species by Dr. Allen, but he was persuaded to reduce it to a variety of C. aspera, which is its nearest ally. It seems to be distinct, however, by having shorter stipulodes, by the reduction of the spines to papillae, by the similar reduction of the posterior leaflets, and by shorter bracteoles. Probably also the striae upon the odspore are fewer than in any form of genuine C. aspera. 32. Cuara cuBensis Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 21: 163. p/. 789. 1894 Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia borne upon the same leaf- nodes, the lowest rarely on that between the Meee er basal and the lowest of the corticated internodes, usually on t aes ee the two lowest corticated internodes: rather pale -gree m. high, slightly incrusted; stems 0.6-0.84 mm. in eae gare corticated ; spine-cells o.2-0.9 mm. long, but inconspicuous, linear, acute: cy forming a vers = at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.84-0.96 mm. long, very nearly equaling the length of the pee basal fee internode, coe es ee lower whorl oO. ae 6 mm. long: leaves 12-15 in a "whorl, 2- oe con- taining 6-9 internodes, the basal one uncorticated, tie xt two or anciae three triply corticated, the remainder oe or ( 283 ) more rarely the pane entirely uncorticated, the uncorticated basal- leaf internode 0.9-1.15 mm. long, -o ceeding poricuied eee odes approxiinately 2.5 mm. long, and the uncorticated ones, except the last, 56.5 mm. long; leaflets at sterile nodes usually slightly unequal, o.4-1.1 mm. long, as lation the anterior and lateral usually the longer, 1— - mm. long, the poste- rio m. pe all exceeding the spor ee antheridia —O. meter; only ea es sporocarps on type ma- terial, the best cased of these 0.6-0.68 mm. long, 0.38-0.44 mm. ‘wide, with odspores 0.42-0.46 mm. long, 0.35-0.4 mm. wide, said by Allen to be 0.6 mm. long; fig I ohoey edt 12-14; whorl of crown-cells 0.12~0.16 mm. hig 17-0.21 mm. wide at base, the individual cells lanceolate, ae at te apex, widely spreading Type locality; Guaiman (?), Cuba. Distribution. C Illustration: Bull. etey Club Joc. czt. Placed by Allen with either C. folzolosa or C. zeylanica, but it is evidently near and possibly too near C. ¢xconstans. 33. Chara elegans (A. Br.) C. gymnopus elegans A. Br.; Allen (Bull. Torrey Club 2: 10. 1871; hyponym), Char. Am. f/. 7. 1879. Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia at the same leaf-nodes, the lowest occurring on the node between the uncorticated basal and the lowest of the corticated internodes of the ou 15-25 cm. ee light-green, only moderately incrusted; stems 0.6-0.9 m ameter, triply corticated, the primary eee cells ae ee than the secondary, comparatively short, 0.55-0.6 mm. long when full length, adjacent ones nearly of equal length, so that the spine- cells borne at the cortical node-cells appear to form whorls around in stem, aoe ten such whorls in each internode; spine-cells 1-1.6 long, .I-0.12 mm, wide at the base: stipulodes forming a doable ase at each node, those in the upper whorl reaching a length of over 1.8 mm., exceeding in length the uncorticated basal internode of the ra eed of lower whorl 0.9 mm leaves 9-12 in a whorl, 1.4-1.8 cm. long, containing 7— 9 internodes, all triply corticated, eee the basal internode, and one or more at 0.7 m g; leaflets at sterile nodes nearly equal, o.5-1. long, as bracteoles the anterior 3 ong, the posterior usually a little less, 0.77-1. m. long, always exceeding and by Allen 0.6-0.75 mm. long, 0.4-0.5 mm. wide, but apparently nearly always larger, 0.84-1.27 mm. long, 0.43-0.75 mm. wide; ( 284 ) odspores 0.56-0.8 mm. long, 0.38-0.5 mm. wide, with 12-15 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.21-0.23 mm. high, 0.21-0.25 mm. wide at base, the individual cells lanceolate, their apices obtuse, usually widely separated Type locality: Peekskill, New York. Distribution: Essex County, Massachusetts, to Lakes Champlain and Saratoga and the Hudson River. Illustrations: Allen, Char. Am. f/. 7. 1879; fl. z. 1880; Bull. Torrey Club 27: p/. 75. f. 5. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 27. plant from New Haven, Connecticut, agrees with this in prac- tically every character, except that the dimensions are smaller with hardly an exception. Considerable variations in size are therefore to be expected. 34. Cara inconsTans A. Br.; Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: 28. pl. 70. f. 2. 1857 C. (tnconstans) Oerstediana A. Br. Monatsber. Kénigl. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin 1858: 367. 1858 C. Crigeriana A. Br. Monatsber. Kénigl. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin 1858: 368. 1858. C. Oerstediana A. Br.; Allen, Char. Am. 3. 1880. C. gymnopus inconstans f. Orstediana A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 193. 1882. C. gymnopus inconstans f. Crigertana A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 193. 1882. C. gymnopus inconstans A. Br.; Allen, Publ. Bot. Field Columb. us. 1: 286. 1896. C. zeylanica tnconstans H. & J. Groves, Jour. Linn. Soc. 33: 323. 1898. Monoecious, the antheridia and odégonia borne ie ee upon the three lowest leaf-nodes: 4.5-15 cm. high, ashen or pale-green, or 0.6-0. triply corticated; spine-cells variable, 0.07-0.8 mm. long, acutish : stipulodes forming a double whor] at ‘each node, those in the upper whorl o.4-0.9 mm. long, nearly always shorter than the uncorti- cated basal apalatie of the leaves, stipulodes of lower whorl 0.28- 0.68 mm. long: es g-12 in a whorl, 5-15 mm. long, contain- ing 5-7 ee. tee the apical cell, of which ‘the lowest one is uncorticated, the next 1-3 triply corticated, and the remainder uncorticated, or the leaves of the lowest oie aie) pee cated ; uncorticated basal internode 0.56-0.9 mm. long, or 2-6 tim as long as broad, nearly equaling or ae ce the lowest of te (285 ) corticated internodes, the latter usually about 1 mm. long; leaflets at sterile nodes 0.18-1.25 mm. long, according to Braun the anterior i s 5 0. 4mm. wide; mm. long, 0.28-0.3 mm. wide; striae on entire side of sporocarp 14-15; crown-cells elongated, cylindrical, or shorter, erect or diverging. Type locality: Trinidad, West Indies. Distribution: Trinidad and Central America. Illustration: Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. loc. czt. Following Braun, the Trinidad and Nicaraguan plants are placed together. Some of the measurements are from plants collected by Wright in Lake Nicaragua, certainly Oerstediana, and by Gaumer in Yucatan, which are nearer to Crigeriana. Additional mature material must be collected before the true status is finally determined. 35. Chara filicaulis sp. nov. Monoecious, the antheridia and oégonia borne together upon the leaf-internodes, including that between the uncorticated basal and the lowest of the corticated leaf-internodes: probably 0.4-0.5 m. high, ne or the older internodes becoming grayish, very slightly incrusted; stems 0.4-0.52 mm. in diameter ultimately triply corti- cated, but the ere cells developing irregularly, so that the youngest internodes often seem doubly corticated, or rarely two primary cells are not separated by secondary ones ; or on the contrary, ping past one another, three secondary cells may intervene between two onlay apical stem-internodes short, beset with spine-cells 0.88-1. ee . long, 0.04-0.09 mm. wide, older eae becoming 5-1ocm. long, with scattered spine-cells : "stipu- lodes oe dou ea at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.7-0.88 mm. long, 0.07-0.09 mm. wide, 1-14 times as long as the ere basal sia internodes, stipulodes of lower whorl 0.52-0.6 mm. long: leaves 8-10 in a whorl, 1.2-1.8 cm. long, con- taining 8—10 internodes, all triply corticated except the basal one and the terminal cell, uncorticated basal internode 0.44-0.7 mm. long, 0,2~0.25 mm. wide; leaflets at sterile nodes 0.17—-0.45 mm. long the eal usualy distinctly longer than the posterior, as bracteoles the anterior 0.85~—1.25 mm. long, slightly exceeding the sporocarps, posterior bade: 0.19-0.23 mm. long: antheridia rather early deciduous, 0.37-0.42 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 0.84-0.95 mm. long, 0.37-0.47 mm. wide; odspores 0.63-0.75 mm. long, 0.32-0.42 mm, wide, with 12-14 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.11-0.14 mm. ( 286 ) high, 0.15-0.17 mm. wide at base, the aoe cells lanceolate, somewhat erect or more often widely spre: Type collected in the Everglades, Florida, by A. H. Curtiss, February, 1852; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical arden. Distribution: Only known from original collection. 36. Chara fertilissima (A. Br.) : C. gymnopus fertilissima A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 192 1882. Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia borne upon the same leaf-nodes, including that between the uncorticated basal and the lowest of the corticated leaf-internodes: of medium size, golden to green in color, collapsing when dry, brittle; stems triply corticated ; spine-cells visible only on the upper whorls, often decidedly whorled, double whorl at each node, those in the upper whorl covering the neta ree basal internode of the leaves: leaves 12 or I in a basal internode about twice as ane s wide; fertile leaf-nodes with about 3 posterior, short, or even very short bracteoles, and 4-6 elon- gated ones, the pair most anterior the longest, usually longer than, often twice as long as the sporocarps, very acute, 0.08-0.09 wide: sporocarps pen ee 0.87-0.92 mm. long, o. pe 43 mm. wide, with 14 striae; odspores 0.6-0.65 mm. long, 0.3-0.34 mm. wide, black, the striae barely visible; crown-cells short, erect. Type locality: Martinique. Distribution: Only known from original collection. 37. Chara guatemalensis (Nordst.) C. gymnopus guatemalensis Nordst. Hedwigia 27: 193. 1888. poe pena. the antheridia and odgonia borne together upon the r 3 lowest leaf-nodes: about 30 cm. high, golden-green, some- oe glistening, not incrusted; stem about 0.5 mm. in diameter, triply corticated; spine-cells very short, acute: stipulodes acute, about 0.1 mm. in diameter, forming a double whorl at each Rais those in the upper somewhat longer than those in the lower, but not, or only at the youngest nodes, covering the uncorticated al internode of the leaves: leaf-whorls separate, composed of about 10 leaves, 1-2 cm. long, with 6-8 internodes, entirely uncorticated, cell short, acute; leaflets 0.075-o.1 mm. in diameter, acute, at fer- tile nodes 7, the 3 posterior short, somewhat projecting, the 2 lateral ( 287 ) almost as long as the sporocarp or somewhat shorter, the anterior usually somewhat longer, leaflets at esd nodes shorter : antheridia 0.5 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 1 mm. long; odspores 0.62 mm. long, 0.42-0.45 mm. wide; crown-cells 0.2 mm. high, often conic- cylindric, sometimes still shor Type collected at Laguna - Ysabal, Guatemala, by G. Ber- noulli, zo. 79, August, 1870. Distribution: Guatemala, Honduras. 38. CHARA CARMENENSIS Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 21: 164. /. mg0. 1894 Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia borne upon the same leaf- nodes, including that between the uncorticated basal and the lowest of the corticated leaf-internodes : about 25 cm. high, light-green, very slightly incrusted; stem 0,5-0.7 mm, in diameter, triply corti- cated, spine-cells s lender, 0.1-0.82 mm. long, or less often reduced - small papillae: stipulodes forming a double whorl at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.66-0.88 mm. long, considerably shorter than the uncorticated sae serene stipulodes of lower whorl 0.38—-0.52 mm. long: leaves 8-10 in a whorl, I.5-2 cm. long, con- taining 7-9 internodes, = which ihe lowest one, the apical cell, and the internode next below i it are always or nearly always uncorticated, the remaining internodes triply corticated, uncorticated basal inter. node 1.05-1.7 mm. long, 0.25-0.45 mm. wide; leaflets at sterile nodes about Da 0.12-0.42 mm. long, as bracteoles the anterior —1.15 mm. long, exceeding the sporocarps, posterior bracteoles 0.12-0.35 mm. long: antheridia 0.3-0.4 mm. in diameter; sporo- 0.16 m wide at base, the individual cells orien rounded or almost truncate at the apex, erect but not conniven Type locality : Carmen Island, Gulf e pie Mexico. Distribution: Only known from original collection. Hlustration: Bull. Torrey Club doc. czt. 39. Cuara Hicxsy Allen, Bull."Torrey Club 21: 2. zor. 1894 C. inconstans Hickstana Allen, loc. czt. 164. Monoecious, the aaa and archegonia borne upon the same leaf-nodes, occurring at the node between the uncorticated basal and lowest corticated eee about 4 cm. high, oe heres — proportionately heavily incrusted, resembling keukensts n habit; stems o.5-0.66 mm. in diameter, cortication in most os arts very regularly triple, but at intervals becoming irregular, secondary cortical cells failing to develop, or primary cells running ( 288 ) diagonally across the stem, or interstices being left, or the ends of two secondary cells well overlapping, primary cortical rows being adjacent, or separated by one, two, or three secondary cortical cells ; spine-cells rather numerous, 0.1-0.4 mm. long: stipulodes forming a ae sae at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.58-o . long, rarely equaling, usually much shorter than the uncorti- ee) basal a ee of the leaves, el age at the lower nodes of the stem, stipulodes of ea whorl 0.32-0.4 mm. long: leaves about 10 in a whorl, 4- . long, containing 5—7 internodes, which are triply ea ae the basal one and rarely the apical one, which are uncorticated, as is also the ae -celled leaf-tip, length of uncorticated bale internode o 1.8 m » when mature 0.6-0.92 m eee as a rule slightly pani the ree aad but often shorter than the em, posterior bracteoles 0.26-0.37 mm. long, the lateral fatemmediats in length: antheridia 0.32-0. ea mm. in diameter; sporocarps 0.8-0.9 mm. long, 0.5-0.58 mm. wide; odspores 0.54-0.65 mm, es 0.33-0.37 mm. wide, with a striae; whorl of crown-cells -I mm. hig -14-0.18 m wide ‘at base, the individual eels ovate, bere at the gee diverging. Type locality: Munith, Jackson County, Michigan. Distribution: Only known from original collection. Illustration: Bull. Torrey Club doc. cét. 40. Chara stellata sp. nov, Monoecious, the antheridia and oégonia borne together upon the three lowest leaf-nodes : probably about 25 cm. high, dark-green, very lightly incrusted; stems oe 2-0.63 mm. in diameter, triply corticated; spine-cells somewhat rigid, spreading, 0.3-1. long, 0.05-0.11 mm. wide, but the great majority 0.7-1.2 mm. long, 0.07 mm. wide, of almost unchanging diameter except near some in either aborting, though this is most unlikely to be a con- stant character, those in the upper whorl 0.85-1.3 mm. long, much exceeding but not concealing the ee basal leaf-internodes ; ; stipulodes of lower whorl 0.4-0.68 mm. long: leaves 7-9 in a whorl, about 1 cm. long, containing 7-10 internodes, triply corti- node below the apical cell, which are uncorticated; uncorticated basal leaf-internode usu ily 0.4. node of nearly the same length, at the fertile nodes the anterior pair I-1.5 mm, long, exceeding the rest, which are nearly equal, the pos- ( 289 ) terior hardly reduced, 0.6-1.1 mm. long, all usually sone the sporocarps : antheridia es early deciduous, none seen with a greater diameter than 0.27 mm.; sporocarps 0.75-0.88 mm. ue 0.4-0.46 mm. wide, with 10 or 11 light striae; whorl of crown- cells 0.o9g-0.11 mm. high, 0.16-0.18 mm. wide at base, seen as a whole appearing nearly flat-topped, the individual cells globose- ovate, connivent or sometimes spreading. Type eit by Edward Palmer, zo. 705, at Durango, Mexico, April to November, 1896; in the herbarium of the New York Bo- tanical Garden. Distribution: Only known from original collection. A plant with much the habit of C. Senctae-Margaritae, but approaching in some ways even more closely to C. elegans. 41. Chara Sanctae-Margaritae (Allen) C. gymnopus Sanctae-Margaritae Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 303. Al. I¢; 415, f. I-4. 900. poate nena the antheridia and oédgonia borne upon the same leaf- nodes : . m. high, light-green, moderately but often unequally pater ae 0.6-1 mm. in diameter, triply sana. see ter- minal oe bee with, the lower ones less so or nearly desti- tute of, spine-cells, the length of the latter usually 0.7-1 mm. ee lodes forming a double whorl at each node, those in the upper linear, acute, about 0.7 mm. long, 0.125 mm. wide, usually nearly twice the length of the uncorticated basal internode of the aoe stipulodes of the lower whorl of similar width, ba only 0.35-0. mm. long: leaves 10-12 in a whorl, 1-1.5 mm. long, containing 8-10 eipeage all ane le corticated except the el one, and the terminal o or sometim ae hich are uncorticated; leaflets at all eee oa eaicge 0.3-0 mm. long, those at any node the same size or more often the eee the longer, similar as brac- teoles, the anterior 0.96—1.2 mm. long, exceeding the sporocarps, usually slightly, but core nee one and a half times their length, posterior bracteoles 0.3-0.6 mm. long: antheridia about 0.35 mm. in diameter, often early deciduous; sporocarps 0.8-1 mm. long and 0.4-0.44 mm. wide, odspores 0.63-0.68 mm. long, ee mm. wide, with 13 or 14 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.14-0.2 high, 0.16-o.2 mm. wide at base, the individual cells eres ovate, rounded at the apex, ascendin Type locality: Lakeside, San Des County, California Distribution : Central and southern California. Illustration: Bull. Torrey Club doc. edt. ( 290 ) 42. CHARA FOLIOLOSA Muhl.; Willd. Mém Acad. Roy. Berlin 1803: (Cl. Phil. Exper.) 86. A/. z. f. 2. 1805 C. foliosa Pers, Syn. Pl. 2: 530. 1807. ? C. compressa Kunth; H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 45. 15. ?C. baal Humboldtiana A. Br. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 264. 45+ C. pera Muhlenbergit A. Br. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. §: 264. 184 C. polyphylla minor Kitz. Sp. Alg. 522. 1849. ? C. polyphylla Humboldtit Kiitz. Sp. Alg. 522. 1849. C. — Wallm. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Handisgar 1852: 297. C ; Dippy Humboidtit A. Br, Monatsber. Konigl. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin 1858: 360. 1858. C. gymnopus Humboldtii A. Br.; Allen, Char. Am. 2. 1880. C. depauperata Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 21: 167. Al. r92. 1894. Monoecious, the antheridia and oégonia occurring at the same leaf- nodes: 15-60 cm. high, lightly or moderately incrusted; stems .6-1.2 mm. in diameter, triply corticated; spine-cells often nu- papillae to slender cells nearly 2 mm. long: stipulodes oe a double whorl at ae node, those in the upper whorl 0.56-1.3 mm., most frequentl -o.8 mm. long, usually exceeding but not con- cealing the uncotiated basal internodes of the leaves; stipulodes of lower whor 2-0.84 mm. long, from one-half to three-fourths the length of he. corresponding stipulode of the upper whorl: leaves 10-15 in a whorl, 12-35 cm. long, containing 10-20 internodes, the latter when mature ‘ints corticated, except always the basal one, "and rarely one or more at the apex, which are uncorticated; young leaves said to be sometimes aia uncorticate d; the uncorticated basal in- ternode 0.4—1 mm. long, and of equal or slightly less diameter ; leaf- lets at any sterile node ann D 0.17-0 m. long, those at the node between the uncorticated basal and the Peet of the sales inter- nodes similar to the rest, as bracteoles the anterior 0.7—-1. m. long, usually shorter than but sometimes a little exceeding the sporocarps the posterior much shorter but still well developed, 0.14-0. long: antheridia 0.38-0.56 mm. in diameter; sporocarps ee 7 mm. wide; odspores long, 0.4-0.5 mm. wide, with 11-15 striae; whorl of crown-cells high, 0.21-0.23 mm. wide at base, the individual cells lanceolate, nearly erect but not counivent. Type locality : Pennsylvania. Distribution: Pennsylvania to South America. (291 ) Illustrations: Mém. Acad. Roy. Berlin Joc. c¢t.; Kiitz. Phyc. Tab. 7: pl. 77, f. 1 (C. compressa); Bull. Torrey Club 21: J. 192 (C. depauperata, a very abnormal condition). Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 2¢. Sometimes very luxuriant forms occur which seem referable to this species, though the vegetative organs have dimensions much in excess of the maximum figures given above. Those so seen were not in mature fruit, and exact determination was impossible. This was the first species of the gymnopus group to be described, making its appearance in 1805, simultaneously with, but placed be- fore C. zeylanica Willd. As C. compressa (the identity is very probable, but not quite certain), it was again described in 1815. C. haitensis appeared in 1826, C. ¢ndica in 1827, C. verticillata in 1832, C. armata and C. polyphylla in 1835. No species of the group has ever been found in Europe, but as the other continents were explored botanically each yielded new forms, all closely allied, but still a little different. At first Braun believed that they could be kept specifically distinct, but by 1844 he changed his views and ranked them as subspecies, choosing as the specific name C. poly- phylla, which thus in his hands temporarily acquired a wider mean- ing, only to drop out of nomenclature altogether, except as a syn- onym. In 1847, casual reference is made by Braun to a C. gymno- pus, in 1849 this is located as Egyptian, but no description appeared before 1868, when the name was published with a “double sense, First the Egyptian plant is given this name and then reduced in a note to varietal rank, and Chara gymnopus extended to cover all triply corticated plants having the lowest leaf-internodes uncorti- cated. If any regard at allis given to priority of publication, C. fymnopus is antedated by 63 years, and numerous names. Yet H. and J. Groves seem to be the only writers who do not use it to-day, their choice being C. zeylanica. If, as here, the units are consid- ered to be species, much of the nomenclatural difficulty vanishes. Allen, at first following Braun, accepted all forms as varieties of C. gymnopus, later he emphatically asserted their specific rank, finally he seems to have reverted to his original position. 43. CHARA HAITENSIS Turpin, Dict. Sci. Nat. Veg. Acot. Ad. ror. (Livr. 40: pl. 7). 1826 C. polyphylla A. Br. Flora 18: 7o. 1835. C. Michauxit A. Br. Am. Jour. Sci. 46: 93. 1844. (292 ) C. polyphylla Michauxté A. Br. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 264. 1845. C. ( polyphylla) Michauxité A, Br. Monatsber. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin 1858: 362. 1858. C. gymnopus Michauxid A. Br.; Allen, Char. Am. 2. 1880. C. polyphylla A. Br. Am. Jour. Sci. 46: 93. 1844; and sub- sequent publications before 1868, in part only. Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia borne upon the same leaf- nodes, including that between the sas aor anoni basal and the lowest of the corticated leaf-internodes: 10-40 cm. high, La ta - grayish, lightly to heavily fee robust; stems diameter, triply corticated; spine- -cells few except on youngest ne lanceolate, not exceeding and usually considerably shorter than the uncorticated basal leaf-internodes: leaves 12-16 in a whorl cm. long, usually containing 10-13, internodes, all the latter triply corticated except the basal one, and the apical cell, which are un- corticated; leaflets at all nodes greatly reduced, 0.15—0.3 mm. long, usually near the lower limit, or much more rarely those at the upper- most leaf-nodes 0.5 mm. long, as bracteoles the anterior pair 0.5—1.2 mm. long, always shorter than the sporocarps, Dies bracteoles greatly reduced or obsolete, usually 0.o8—o.2 m m. Tong, very rarely somewhat longer: sporocarps o.98-1.4 mm. long, 0.63-0.75 mm. wide; odspores 0.6-0.9 mm. long, 0.35-0.56 mm. wide, er 12-16 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.16-0.19 mm. high, o.17-0 wide at base, the individual cells lanceolate, erect or rea, some- times early deciduous Type locality : Haiti. Distribution: Illinois and Virginia to Mexico, the West Indies and South America. Illustrations : Dict. Sci. Nat. doc. c¢t.; Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: pé. 77. fr 2. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 9, from Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and Mount Carmel, Illinois. There seem to be two forms in this, represented by the two spe- cific names by which the species was first known, C. haztensts having somewhat longer leaflets and posterior bracteoles than C. polyphylla. The extreme forms are fairly distinct, but there is considerable variation on single plants and many intermediates occur. Still longer leaflets and bracteoles would bring the plant within the limits of C. folzolosa, and this in turn links though not closely with C. elegazs. More difficult are some forms most frequent in the Mississippi valley, which lie between typical C. ( 293 ) polyphylla and C. trichacantha, and are here doubtfully assigned to the former. They may not unlikely prove different from both. C. hattensts is well represented by Nash & Taylor, no. 7470, San Michel to Marmelade, Haiti, August 6, 1905. 44. Chara conjungens (A. Br.) C. (polyphylla) conjungens A. Br. Monatsber. Kénigl. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin 1858: 363. 1858. C. gymnopus conjungens A, Br. (; Allen, Char. Am. 2. 1880; name only) Fragm. Monogr. Char. 94. 1882. Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia borne upon the same leaf- nodes, the lowest at that between the lowest and second of the corti- cated leaf-internodes : 15-50 cm. high, light- or bluish-green, moder- ately incrusted; stems 0.63-1.5 mm. in diameter, triply corticated ; spine-cells 0.3—-1.5 mm eee stipulodes dace a double whorl at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.7-0.82 mm. long, equaling or exceeding the uncorticated basal ia ener stipulodes of ower whorl 0.44-0.62 mm. long: leaves 11-14 in a whorl, 1-2 cm. long, containing 9-12 eee. all triply corticated, except the uncorticated basal one and the leaf-tip, which also is uncorti- cated, the uncorticated basal internode Ae 14 times as long as wide leaflets at sterile nodes 0.16-0.23 mm. long, those at the lowest leaf. node ventricose, different from those at succeeding nodes, as brac- 0.23 mm long: antheridia 0.35-0.4 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 1.1-1.24 mm. long; odspores 0.72-0.78 mm. long, 0.48-0.54 mm. wide, with somewhat connivent crown-cells. Type locality: Caracas, Venezuela. Distribution: Texas to South America. The measurements given above are taken in part from Braun’s descriptions, partly from Miller zo. 354, Orizaba, Mexico. Plants more or less referable here have been collected from as far north as Lake Erie. They are probably better placed with C. haztensis, and may be distinct from both. No South American material of this species has been available for examination. 45. CHARA INDICA Bertero; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 47: 346. 1824 C. polyphylla guadeloupensis A. Br. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 264. 1545. C. polyphylla Berterot A. Br.; Kitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: 24. pl. 57. .Z. 1857. C. polyphylla subglabra Kiitz. loc. ctt. 30. pl. 76. f. 2. 1854. C. (polyphylla) Berterot A. Br.; Monatsber. Kénigl. Akad. Wissensch, Berlin 1858: 364. 1858. ( 294 ) C. gymnopus Berterot A. Br. (; Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 7: 107. 1880; name ony) Fragm. Monogr: Char. 195. 1882 Monoecious, the anth d borne upon the same leaf- nodes, the fee t at that a the first and second lowest corti- cated leaf-internodes: elongated, lightgreen, slightly inerasted fe o.7-1 mm. in diameter, very regularly triply corticated, t cortical cells very long, at least on ae internodes, the end si of the secondary cells very oblique, thus interposing a third cell between two consecutive primaries, though for a comparatively short distance; spine-cells 0.25-0.82 mm. long: stipulodes forming a double whorl at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.5-1.1 mm. long, usually slightly exceeding the Loenee este internode of the leaves, ee - pace baie -25-0. m. long: leaves 10-15 in a whorl, 1.2 g, g, containing pie internodes, all baa corticated eceoe Wee tip nt the basal one, which are uncor- ticat ed , basal uncorticated internode much shorter than the suc- ally the Bees leaf uncorticated; leaflets at sterile nodes greatl reduced, mostly 0.08-o.2 mm. long, the anterior usually a little the longer, % bracteoke the anterior ‘well developed, 0.96-1.4 mm long, e posterior very short, 0.0o8~o.16 mm. long, the antes rior fading about as far as the tops of the mature sporocarps, o often a little less, but overtopping immature sporocarps : catheridis 0.42-0.47 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 0.85-1.25 mm. long, 0.5- 0.65 mm. wide; odspores 0.57-0.68 mm. rong, oO. 35-0. 45 mm. wide, with 8-10 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.19-0.23 mm. high, Type locality: Guadeloupe, West Indies. Distribution: Bermuda to South America; Mexico, and Guate- ala. Illustrations: Kiitz. doc. cz. 46. Chara trichacantha (A. Br.) C. gymnopus trichacantha A. Br. (; Allen, Char. Am. 2. 1880; name only) Fragm. Monogr. Char. 190. 1882. Monoecious, the antheridia and oégonia borne on the same leaf- nodes: 15-30 cm. high, pale-green, glistening, slightly incrusted ; stems 0.5—-0.75 mm. in diameter, som te t irregularly triply cor- ticated; spine-cells variable, o. ene Ban . long, with an extreme diameter at base of 0.07 mm. lipelodes “forming a core whorl at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.63-0.88 mm. long and 0.08-0.1 mm. wide, slightly exceeding the Gees acued basal leaf- internodes ; stipulodes of lower whorl o. dna 49 mm. long: leaves 2 or 13 in a whorl, 1.5-2 cm. long, ¢ aining —I5 internodes all except the tip and the basal one a the latter about ( 295 ) 0.47-0.5 mm. long, 0.28-0.35 mm. wide; leaflets at sterile nodes greatly reduced, 0.05-0.16 mm. long, or almost obsolete at the upper nodes, lanceolate to ovate, sometimes ventricose, those on the node between the uncorticated basal and the lowest of the corticated internodes 0.16-0.26 mm. long, ovate, mostly ventricose, usually spreading or even reflexed, as bracteoles the anterior 0.56-0.77 mm long : antheridia 0.28-0.37 n diameter; the doubfully mature sporocarps examined 0.84-0.9. I mm long, 56- wide; odspores 0.63-0 mm. long, 0.4-0 m as with 12-14 m. wide, with 14 or 15 striae); whorl of crown-cells high, 0.16-0.21 mm. wide, the individual cells Paneer es Type locality: Main canal or Comanche Creek, southwestern Texas. Distribution: Texas to South Carolina and Florida, according to Braun and en. Several plants referred here by them, how- ever, belong to C. sejuncra, others are young stages of C. folzolosa. 47. Chara Brittonii Allen, sp. nov. (Britton, Cat. Pl. N. J. 356. 1889 ; without description) Monoecious, but the antheridia and odgonia usually though not aes at different leaf-nodes: possibly allied to C. sejuncta A. Br. ; cm mm. in diameter, different internodes varying greatly, entirely without cortex and spine-cells: stipulodes forming a ee whorl at each node, usually of nearly equal size, 0.9-1.2 mm. long, 0.04— 0.06 mm. wide, or those in the upper row oo much longer, attaining a maximum length of 2 mm., sometimes also very short: leaves 7-9 in a whorl, 5-8 mm. long (the whorls overlapping), 0. 16— m. wide, containing 4 or § per Enee the node-cells small and apparently sometimes absent; lowest leaf- internode often oval, broader than the rest, resembling ‘that of many species of the gym- nopus group; leaflets at sterile nodes usually unequal, 0.3-1.2 mm. long, or like the bracteoles, the latter o.7-1.8 mm. long, 0.035-0.06 mm. wide, far exceeding the sporocarps: antheridia 0.25-0.28 mm. in diameter ; mature ade se 0.85-0.93 mm. long, 0.6-0.65 mm. wide; odspores 0.6-0.65 mm. long, 0.4-0.47 mm. wide, with 1 striae; crown-cells ovate, o. en ees rr mm. high, closely connivent. Type collected 2 miles southwest of Sparta, Sussex County, New Jersey, by N. L. Britton, September 16, 1887; in the her- barium of the New York Botanical Garden. Distribution: Only known from original collection. Illustration: Allen, Char. Am. 2/. 537, as ‘* Britton’s Chara.” ( 296 ) 48. Chara formosa sp. nov. Monoecious, paua the rae and odégonia borne at different leaf-nodes : 4-30 cm. high, slightly incrusted; stems 0.4-1 mm. in diameter, very aie ae corticated, spine-cells only conspic- uous on youngest internodes, 0.2-0. 5 mm. long: stipulodes forming a double whorl at each node, those in the upper 0.6-0.92 mm. long, much exceeding the uncorticated jeusigen basal of the leaves, s ulodes of the lower whorl 0.23-0. m. long: leaves 10-15 each whorl, 1.2-2.5 cm. long, ee II or 12 internodes, all triply corticated except the lowest one and the apical cell, which odspores 0.75-0.82 mm. long, 0.38—-0.44 : wide, with 14-1 very faint striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.1-0.14 mm. high, 0.12- 0.21 mm. wide at base, the individual cells lanceolate, usually spreading. Type collected at Panther Pond, New Jersey, by T. F. Allen, August 1, 1880; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden Distribution: New Jersey to Iowa. 49. Cuara sgyuncta A. Br. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 26 1845 C. sejuncta brevibracteata A. Br. loc. cit. Monoecious, he he paar and oégonia almost invariably at different leaf-nodes : 8-60 m. high, only slightly incrusted; stems 0.25—-0.96 mm. in ‘dia t . very ti dred aed corticated ; spine- lower whorl usually 0.26-0.32 mm. long: leaves 9-13 in a whorl, 1.2-4 cm. long, containing 10-15 inter nodes, all of which are triply corticated except the basal one and the apical cell, which are uncor- but slightly wider than the succeeding corticated ones; leaflets at sterile nodes 0.1-0.5 mm. long, usually nearer the lower limit and (297 ) then often nearly equal on all sides of the leaf, when of greater length the anterior usually much exceeding the posterior, as brac teoles not more than two pairs well developed, often only one pair, 0.96-1.26 mm. long, 0.5-0.68 mm. wide; odspores 0.66-0.91 mm long, 0.42-0.6 mm ayes with 12-15 striae; whorl of crown-cells 12-0.2 26 m e at base, the individual cells lanceolate, ae at the apex, spreading, often very widely. Type locality: Lakes in the lowlands of the Mississippi, Illinois, opposite St. Louis, Missouri Distribution: Massachusetts and Alabama to Minnesota and Mexico; also reported from South America. Illustration: Woods, Flor. Neb. 1: pZ. 36. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. 7, 25, 39. 50. Chara compacta sp. nov. C. seguncta Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 21: 526. 18 pene es but the antheridia and odgonia at diferent leaf- nodes: 15-20 cm. high, slightly incrusted ; stem 0.75— in pean as very regularly triply corticated; spine-cells feet qaanee on lower internodes, more frequent above, 0.23-0.37 mm. long: stipulodes eornine. a double whorl at each node, those in the upper whorl 0.92-1.5 mm. long, usually not quite reaching the top of the iss basal internodes of the leaves, stipulodes of the lower ae —o.5 mm. long: leaves 12-14 in a whorl, 1.5-2.2 ong, ae 12-14 internodes, all of ns are triply corticated except the basal one and the apex, which are uncorticated, the un- corticated basal internode barrel- eae o.7-0.88 mm. long ; leaflets at the sterile nodes 0.16-0.24 mm. long, the anterior and posterior usually nearly equal, as bracteoles two pairs usually well developed, 1.12 mm. long, the latter o.2-0.48 mm. long, all shorter than the sporocarps antheridia 0.36-0.4 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 1.12~ 28 mm. long, 0.6-0.77 mm. wide, the envelope unusually thick; odspore 0 -73-0.77 mm. long, 0.48-0.55 mm. wide, with 10-12 very conspicuous striae ; whorl es crown-cells 0.21-0.25 mm. high, o. 3- 0.32 mm. wide at base, the individual cells ovate, beaked. Type collected in Lake Saratoga, New York, by T. F. Allen, August, 1894; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Distribution: Lakes Champlain and Saratoga. Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. as C. sejuncta, from both the localities named, but without number. ( 298 ) SPECIES DUBIAE VEL EXCLUDENDAE C. capfitata Elliott, Sketch Bot. S. Car. Georg. 2: 516. 1824. (Not C. capitata Nees) = C. capztellata A. Br. Am. Jour. Sci. 46: 93. 1844 =C. Hillottz? A. Br. nomen = Nitella capztel- lata A. Br. C. flexilis A. Br. Am. Jour. Sci. 46: 92. 1844. =Metella flexilis Ag. C. glabra Muhl, Cat. Pl. Am. Sept. 82. 1813. =? C. glomerulifolia A. Br. Am. Jour. Sci. 46: 92. 1844. =Vitella flomerulifera A. Br. C. humilis Riddell, Flor. W. States. 110. 1835. =? C. fragzlis. Cc. PeerAnare americana? A. Br. Am. Jour. Sci. 46: 92. 1844. C. tenuts Muhl. Cat. Pl. Am. Sept. 82. 1813. =Mitella flexilis prob., fde MS. note by Braun. C. tenuissima A. Br. Am. Jour. 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Two species recognized in the first edition, three in the second, four in the third and fourth, five in the fifth and sixth, seven in the seventh. Eaton, A., & Wright, J. Nor Ge Botany. 1840. Seven species report Eaton, D.C. Characeae. os Watson, Bot. U. S. Geol. Expl. Fortieth Par- allel 5 : 398. 71. Two species of Chara and 1 of Nitella reported. ( 302 ) eae i es of the botany of South Carolina and Georgia. 2 vols. Haas as of C. capitata Ell. Frost, C.C. Characeae. In Tuckerman, E., & Frost,C.C. A catalogue of plants growing without cultivation anaes thirty miles of Amherst Col- lege. 1875. Five species of Nitella and 2 of Char Gay, ae Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Botanica. 6 vols. 1845-1854. clavata described. ‘ Gisenhagen K. Untersuchungen iiber die Characeen. 1-145. pl. 1-3. fi I-59. Gmelin, C. e ies badensis alsatica. 4 vols. 1806-1826. Contains original description of Chara Brauniz. Goebel, be Morphologische and biologische Bemerkungen. II. 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Flora of New sbi and Andros. (Bahama Islands.) Mem. Torrey Club 12: 1-98, with map. p/. 7-79. 1902. Two ae a res reporte Northrop, J. R. Plant notes from Tadousac and Temiscouata County, Beng "Bull. Torrey Club 17: 27-32. 1890. Two species of Chara reported. Nuttall, T. The genera of North American plants, and a catalogue of the species to the year 1817. 2 vols. 18. Three species of Chara included. Oltmanns, F. Morphologie und Biologie der Algen. 2 vols. 1904, 1905 Overton, E. Beitrige zur Histologie und Physiologie der Characeen. Bot. Centralbl. 44: I-10, 33-38. p27. 7. 18 Owen, M. L. A catalogue of plants growing without cultivation in the county of Nantucket, Mass. 1888. Five species, varieties, or = of Nitella, and 5 of Chara reported. Peck, C. H. Characeae. Ann. Rep. State Cab. N. Y. 22: 55. 1869. Three species of Nitella and 4 of Chara reported. Peck, C.H. Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 26: 48. 1874. Two species of Chara reported. Peck, C. H. Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: 36. 1883. Two Seas of Chara reported. Peck, C.H. Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 38: 83, 84. 1885. One aoe of Chara and 3 of Tolypella reported. Persoon, C. H. Synopsis anaes 2 vols, 1805-1807. Chara foliosa from Pennsylva: Philippi, R.A. Reise durch aie aoe Doman Florula atacamensis seu enumeratio plantarum in i atacamense observatarum. 1-62. fl. 1-6. 1860. One species of Chara reported. Philippi, R. A. Verzeichniss der von Friedrich Philippi auf der Hochebene der provinzen Antofagasta und Tarapacé gesammelten pflanzen. i-viii, I-96. pl. 2, 2, 1891. One — of Chara reported. talo: Philippi, R. A. Catalogus as plantarum in itinere ad Tarapaca a Friderico ares lectarum. nal, Mus. Nac. Chile. Segunda Sec- cion. Botdni pairs I-96. os Z, 2. 1891 One species of Chara eported. Pieters, A.J. The pla aie of western Lake Erie. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1901 57-79. pl. rz7-20. I901 Hight species of Chara, 5 of Nitella, and r of Tolypella reported. Pound, R., & Clements, F.E. The phytogeography of Nebraska. 1898; ed. 2. 00. Twelve species of Characeae occur in Nebraska. Pringsheim, N. Ueber die Vorkeime und die age ae der Charen. Jahrb. Wissensch. Bot. 3: 294-324. Provancher, L. Flore Canadienne ou Pdescintion fs toutes ies anantss des forets, champs, jardins et eaux de Canada. 2 vols. 1862. Two species of Chara described. (305 ) Pursh, F. Flora Americae Septentrionalis. 1814. Ravenel, H.W. Nitella praelonga A. Br. Bull. Torrey Club 6: 82. 1876. Riddell, J. L. A synopsis of the flora of the Western States. 1-116. 1835. Six species or varieties of Chara described. ards H.N. Notes on the botany of Fernando Noronha. Jour. Linn. Soc. I-81. pe. 4. 1890. ne species of Nitella reported. Robinson, J. Th e flora a of Essex Co ounty, Massachusetts. I-200. 1880. 295-306. 1874. Sargent, F.L. Guide to the recognition of the peel orders of crypto- gams and the commoner and more easily distinguished New England genera. I-39. 6. Two genera of peepee included Saunders, D. A. Papers fi the Harauian Alaska Expedition, XXV. The Al Igo. igae. Proc. oe ae Sci. 3: 391-486. pl. 43-62. d. Schneck, J. Catalogue of the flora of the Wabash Valley below the mouth 7 White River, and observations thereon. Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Ind. ? §04-579. 1876. ave lyphylla mentioned. Setchell, W. A., & Gardner, N. L. ‘ane of North Western America. Univ. Calif. P bl, Bot. 1: 165-418. pf. 77-27. 1903. Two species of Chara and 2 of Nitelle reported. Sloane, H. Catalogus area quae in insula Jamaica sponte proveniunt. ars prima A Tanai plant identified with Bauhin’s Aguisetum foetidum sub aqua repens. oe H. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers d Jamaica. Vol. 1. 1707 Similar reference. Small, H.B. Botany of Bermuda. I-52. 1900. One Hagar of Chara reported. Smith, J. G., ound, R. Flora of the Sand Hill region of Sheridan and Cherry putas and list of plants collected on a sais through the Sand Hills in July and August, 1892. Bot. Surv. Neb. 2: 1-30, 1893. Four species of Chara collected. Smyth, B. B. Additions to the flora of Kansas. Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci. 13: 96-103. 1893. Two species of Chara and 1 of Nitella collected. oe C. Characeae platenses. Anal. Soc. Cient. Arg. 15: 1-14. 1883. ne te sur l’anthére du Chara et les enimicales qu’elle renferme. nu. Sci. Nat. II. 14: 65-72. pl. 5-8. 1840. Pree G. page sur les zoospores des algues et les anthéridies des cryptog: Aun. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 5-39. ff. z-75. 1851. aes J. = A auc tes to the bibliography of American Algae, Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 295-421. 1895. ( 306 ) Tilden, : - List of sents Algae pana: is Minnesota during 1895. t. Hist. Surv. Minn. 1: 597-600, 1896. re sare of Chara collected. = G. oe to the flora of Illinois. Trans. Ill. State Agric. Soc. 667-671. Tacludes Char : Pop Vaucher, J. P moire sur ae Charagnes. Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve 1: 168-179. — a ae H. The pro-embryo of Chara: an essay in morphology. Jour. Bot. 355-363. 1 de s. i. Apospory in the Characeae. Ann. Bot 177, 178. 1887 Wallman, a. Férsok till en systematisk uppstilining af vitals Chara- ceae. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Handlingar 1852 : 229-331. 1854. Translated into Sei by Nylander, W., and published as Essai aus exposition cheeeae de la famille de Characées. Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 18. I-9I. 1650. wara, L.F. Guide to the flora of Washington and vicinity. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 22: 1-265. 1881. Two species of Chara and 2 of Nitella reported. aes E. Lagoa Santa. Et Bidrag til den biologiske ee 1, Danske Vidensk. Selks. Skr. VI. Nat. Math. 6: 153-488. 7 fl. ah 1892. Three species of Chara reported. Webber, H.J. A catalogue of the flora of Nebraska. nla tena yta. Ann. Rep. Neb. State Board Agric. hig I75~302. 1890. T satay H. a Appendi= to sar pias of the oo of Nebraska. Trans. cad. S i. St. Louis 6: — 2 ge Chara oe 3 of eile reported. Willdenow, C.L. Du genre nomme Chara. Mém. Acad. Roy. Berlin 1803 : il es 0. pl. 7,2, 180, Willdenow, C.L. Species plantarum. Samatere 4: 183-187. 1805.) ed. Wille, N. Characeae. Engler & Prantl, Nat. a 12; 161-175. pl. rog-r28. Williams, R.S. The flora of a Montana pond. Bull, Torrey Club 19: 192- 1892. Two species of Nitella and 1 of Chara reported. Williams, R.S. A collecting trip to Bolivia. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 58- 6. f. 6, 7. 902. Chara used as fodder at Lake Titicaca. Wood, A. A class-book of botany. Six species or varities of Chara described, lowing Riddell. Woods, A. F. Characeae. Fl. Neb. x: 122-128. p/. 37-36. 1894. Wright, J., & Hall, J. A catalogue of plants, growing without cultivation, in the vicinity of Troy. 1-42. 1836. One species of Chara reported. ( 307 ) INDEX OF SPECIFIC AND VARIETAL NAMES americana, 262, 298. globularis, 280. glomerulifera, 298. a oe "280, 281, 282. glomerulifolia, 298. gracilis, 258. ce 255, 267. guadeloupensis, 293. ae fea 294. guatemalensis, 256, 286. 52, 254, Pe 258, 259, 302. gymunopitys, 249, 2 9, 273- 254, 283, 284, oe ees Reese eats 296. Bicone ae 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 299, 3 brevifolia, 278. Brittonii, 255, 295. ® 0 canescens, 249, 255, 262. haitensis, 252, 257, 291, 292, 293, 298, 301. capillacea, 280. eaten 256, 273, 277, 278. 290. ceratophylla, 277. clavata, 302. eerie um mpact 2 a 1, 6 ae a, 290, 291, 303, humilis, 298. conjungen 7, 293. hdropity, eee 275. contraria, 255, 260, 265, 266, 267 55, 263. alec enoa eee imperfecta, 263. coronatiformis, 256, 271. Ronee Sn 268, 269. coe 7) pn oe ee ee oie indica, 257, 2 crinitiformis, 255, 260, 266. iaieiene ae o 3: pica dengan ace intumescens, 255, 268. cubensis, 257, 282. Curtissii, 256, 272. Laur enats, Gis cseao ay pa ieeeige leptosperma, 256, 278. era Liebmanni, 256, 274. Saree longifolia, 256, 272. legans, ge 283, 289, 292. Hitlio ttii, evoluta, ae 255, 261. ace 255, 260, 266. Macounii, 256, 281. fertillissima, 257, 286. Michauxii, 291, 292. filicaulis, 257, 285. minor, 290. pecida 7: ae 255, 256, 240. flexili mucronata, 298. 68, 269, 302. Mu ieaberat 290. foliolosa, 252, 257, aoe 260, 283, 290, 292, 295, 3 nidifica, foliosa, 290, 304. bate 281. formosa, 257, 206. ordhofiae: ne 277. fragilis, 249, 256, 264, 270, 278, 279, 280, | novi-mexicana, 258. 208. udipes, 2 glabra, 298, obtusa, 252, 273. Oerstediana, 284, 285. aan 255, 258. perfecta, 274. po cypiyin 290, 291, 292, 293, 295, 306. pulchella, 264. Robbinsii, 256, 275. sabulosa, 208. anctae- "Margaritee, 257, 289. 56, 271. Sch welniel. 253) oo 259, 260, 2' spiralis, 29 7» 295, 296, a 299. ( 308 ) squamo: ae stellata, peas 8, subglabra, 293. tenera, 258. ten ma, 298. trichacantha, 257, 293, 204. verrucosa, 256, 28 verticillata, 291. vulgaris, 254, 255, 269, 279, 300. Wikstrém1i, 290. zeylanica, 283, 284, 291. Buti. N. Y. Bor. Garp. Vor. 1V. PL. 80. 1. ARCHAEOLITHOTHAMNION DIMOTUM FOSL. & WE «. LITHOTITIAMNION MESOMORPHUM ORNATUM FOSL. & HOWE Bux. N. Y. Bor. Garp. Vou. IV. Pu. 81. 1,2. LITHOTHAMNION FRUTICULOSUM AEMULANS > & HOWE LITHOPHYLLUM BERMUDENSE FOSL. & HOW Buu. N. Y. Bot. Garp. Vou. 1V. Pu. 82. 1. GONIOLITHON STRICTUM NANUM FOSL. AND HOWE 2. GONIOLITHON RHIZOPHORAE FOSL. & HOWE Voi. IV. PL. 83. Buti. N. Y. Bot. Garp. +> 7. \g A baton LITHOPHYLLUM DAEDALEUM FOSL. & HOWE Butt. N. Y. Bor. Garp. Vou. IV. PL. 84. LITHOPHYLLUM DAEDALEUM FOSL. & HOWE Butt. N. Ye Bor. Garp. Vot. IV. Pt. 85. LITHOPHYLLUM DAEDALEUM oe FOSL. & HOWE GONIOLITHON ACCRETUM FOSL Ow LITHOPHYLLUM BERMUDENSE FOSL. & nous Buti. N. Y. Bor. Garp. Vou. IV. Pr. 86. LITHOPHYLLUM (?) MUNITUM FOSL. & HOWE Butt. N. Y. Bot. Garb. Vor. IV. Pr. 87. : ats bates ma Wesere Laks J egd nh tates TRE ea pment an FA eYots ries Pinay SS me ares af na ue ARCHAEOLITHOTHAMNION DIMOTUM FOSL. & HOWE Buti. N. Y. Bor. Garp. . Vot. IV. PL. 8 oo LITHOPHYLLUM(?) MUNITUM FOSL. & HOWE 89. VoL. IV. PL Bui. N. Y. Bor. Garp. ?) MUNITUM FOSL. & HOWE ( LITHOPHYLLUM Buti. N. Y. Bor. Garp. Vor. IV. PL. go. Z, + te 7 N ] aN 1 a f ¥ A) 3 ee 2 LITHOPHYLLUM CHAMAEDORIS FOSL. & HOWE 2. LITHOTHAMNION MESOMORPHUM ORNATUM FOSL. & HOWE i \ ‘ee a BOR! ‘ as w Burr. N. Y. Bor. Garp. Vou. 1V. PL. gt. GONIOLITHON ACCRETUM FOSL. & HOWE nora Buty. N. Y. Bor. Garp. Vo. IV. PL. 92. Be Faye eee nae elias p ata Pomme Pattnt Levies aN Bip 2 Ct -( arena is gt PVA A ly aia LITHOPHYLLUM BERMUDENSE FOSL. & HOWE VoL. IV. PL. 93. Bury: N. Y. Bor. Garp. & HOWE LITHOPHYLLUM DAEDALEUM FOSL. VOL. 4 No. 14 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN (ISSUED DECEMBER 7, 1907] An Enumeration of the Plants Collected in Bolivia by Miguel Bang. rt 4. ith Descriptions of New Genera and Species. [Issued 5 S 1907.] BULLETIN The New York Botanical Garden Vol. 4. No. 14. An Enumeration of the Plants Collected in Bolivia by Miguel Bang. Part 4* With Descriptions of New Genera and Species By HENRY H. RUSBY The publication of this part completes the enumeration of all de- terminable specimens of Mr. Bang’s Bolivian collections, with the exception of the Gramineae and a considerable number of species represented by scraps only, or by single specimens, and which do not represent distributions. Among the last are a number of un- described species, which may be published in connection with the extensive Bolivian collections of Mr. R. S. Williams. The determination of Bolivian grasses demands critical study by specialists, which cannot now be given them, and the publication of these plants must be deferred. Corrections, Additions and Notes Referring to Preceding Parts 1695, ‘*CAOPIA GUIANENSIS,” appears to be C. vinipirLora (PI. & Tr.) Kuntze. 1718, ** CLUSIA sp., 5 Havetiopsis glauca sp. nov Glabrous; branchlets short, soreadine: dark-brown; leaves 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, oblanceolate or obovate, obtuse, tapering into a petiole 1-1.5 cm. long, slightly inequilateral, pale- green, thin; venation lightly-prominent both sides, the secondaries * Parts 1-3 were published in the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, as follows : Part 1. Mem. Torrey Club 33: 1-67. 1893. Part 2, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 203-274. 1895. Part 3. Mem. Torrey Club 6: 3-130. 1896. (309) (310 ) about 25 pairs, ascending at an angle of about 25° with the mid- c very loose, the branches strongly angled, the angles lightly winged ; bracts about 1 mm. long and rather broader, ovate, keeled, whitish, thick and rigid; pedicels similar, about 4 mm. long, 2-bracted at the middle and at the summit, thickened upward ; buds subglobular, about 3 mm. broad; outer sepals 3 mm., inner 6 mm. long; petals about 5 mm. long, thick, shining, the margin obscurely crenate ; united portion of filaments 1 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, dark-brown, the free portion of the filaments about 1.5 mm. long, the anthers 1 mm. long, obovate, brown with whitish margins. Apparently the same as specimens collected by Pearce. 489 is not ‘‘ EROTIUM SUBINTEGRIFOLIUM,” but a distinct species. In the Kew herbarium the specimen of the same collected by Pentland is labeled ‘* Preztera subdimidiata Planch.,” but I cannot find that this name has been published. rr5g. The authorship of CzIBA BOLIVIENSIS is Britten & Baker, not ‘¢ Britten.” 73762 and rgoz, ‘‘ HELICTERES BARNENSIS,” are oe guanaiensis sp. nov. and closely stellate-tomentose, ag branchlets sae at 0 stout; blades 5-10 cm. long, 4-6 cm. pee ovate, nee cor- iia ee flow rin pedicels 6 mm. lon Sear say e ae ore 7.5 cm. lon short, broad funnel-form dilation about 1 mm. long, and about eet = free portions of the filaments; anthers 2, blackish, about 1 - long; fruiting peduncles 3-4 cm. long, spreading and a ee capsules 2.5-3 cm. long, 1.25 cm. broad, ovoid, pbniee, are at an base, closely spiral, with 2 or 3 turns. (Nos. 1362, type, and rgor.) O35, * nana — is MIONANDRA CAMAREOIDES Griseb. Goett. Abh. 19: 874. 788, ‘* GERANIUM SESSILIFLORUM,” has been described as a new species, G. Bancu, by Ticronyaiuess in Bot. Jahrb. 21: 314. 839, ‘* BRUNELLIA BOLIVIANA Britton (?),” is Brunellia rhoides sp. nov. ‘Younger portions and inflorescence shortly ferruginous-tomentose the lower leaf-surfaces and midrib above tomentellate; branchlets (311) se stout, very coarsely angled and sulcate; petioles stout, 6-10 ae eeply sulcate; rachis 1-1.5 dm. long; leaflets mostly r 4 pairs, their spe ules 3-5 mm. long, very stout; blades -I » 2. cm broa , the lower smaller, oblong- ae. emarginate at the apex, crenate, shining above, very reticulate, the secondaries abou pairs, very slender, ending mos he si a minute apiculation; peduncles of the panicles about m. long, stout, coarsely angled, the flowering mm. broad ; pedicels less than 1 mm. long, stout; calyx-lobes 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, ovate, obtusish, thick, pilose; eee 2 mm. long, thick, attenuate, the white anthers nearly 1 . long, very broad; pistill ate flowers not seen. e same as 70 . 664, ‘* BRUNELLIA BOLIVIANA Britton, sp. nov.,” is B. ons Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 160. 1889. Dr. Britton applied the name BZ. bolzvzana to Rusby’s xo. 2577, but by an inadvertence my publication referred it to Mr. Bang’s specimen of B. Ol¢vertt. I have thus unfortunately reduced the name ‘BL. boltviana” to a synonym, and my zo. 2577 must be described under a new name. 1515, ‘*ERYTHRINA RUBINERVIA,” is E. Amasisa Spruce, Jour. Linn. Soc. 3: 202. 1859. ogo, ** Cassia sp.” is Cassia acinacicarpa sp. nov. Gray and densely short-tomentose throughout; branches green- ish, terete, ascending, densely leafy; cea caducous, not seen; petioles 1.5-2 cm. long, stout; tie 2.5-3 cm. long, bear- ing three pairs of sessile leaflets, which a 1.5~4 cm. long, 0.6-1 cm. broad, lance-oblong, inequilateral, earmold at the base, acute and stro ongly mucronate at the apex, entire, the venation obscure; peduncles . long, about 7-flowered, slender; pedicels 2 cm. long, very aes erect; sepals ovate, o obtuse, densely long-pilose without, especially on the purple, subcarinate middle portion, lightly pilose within, the largest 7 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, the smaller 6 5 mm. hee longer petals 12 mm. lon mm. broad, the ’ shorter 9 m . long, 6 mm. broad, the standard 10 mm. ong and broad; all oe strongly nerved ; longest filaments 6 mm. long, stout, their anthers 6 mm. long, or about 7 mm. if straight- ened; ovary 1 cm. long, strongly arcuately curved, the style 1 mm. long; immature fruit densely tomentose and gra Above Cochabamba. (312) 769, ** POLYLEPIS VILLOSA,” is described as a new species, P. BgssEr1, by Hieronymus, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 312. gil, ‘*WINDMANNIA ELLIPTICA,” is W. sorBiFoLIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 57 677, ‘* CUPHEA Bras. 137: 252. z005, omitted, is MENTZELIA FENDLERIANA Urb. & Gilg, Mem. Torrey Club 3: 333, ‘* BEGONIA FAGOPYROIDES ” See Rusby 686), is B. SANGUINEA Raddi, Mem. Mod. 5iz, omitted, is ctr een TRIFLORA Muell.-Arg. Flora §8: 467. 1875. Yungas, 1890. 371, ‘* VIBURNUM LASIOPHYLLUM,” is V. SEEMENII Graebn. Bot. Jahrb. 37: 435. 1906 1841, ‘* VALERIANA MICROPTERINA,” is V. POTERIOIDES Graebn. Bot. Jahrb. 37: 441. 1906. 1428, omitted, is VERNONIA ARISTOSQUAMOSA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 332. £484, ‘* VERNONIA TRIXIOIDES sp. nov.,” is included by Hieronymus in V. FULTA Griseb, Symb. 1 208, ‘* EUPATORIUM CONYZOIDES,” is described as a new species, E. suBSCANDENS, by Eierony ane; Bot. Jahrb. 22: 742. 1897. ie ‘« EKUPATORIUM CONYZOIDES,” is referred by the same author o E. CHRISTIEANUM Baker, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 67: 298. It is - same as Rusby 1622. 913, ‘*‘ ERIGERON BRITTONIANUM sp. nov.” Prof. Solms-Laubach has kindly pointed out that this is identical with E. rosuLaATUM Wedd. Chlor. And. zrz3, ‘* EUPATORIUM VENOSISSIMUM,” is OPHRYOSPORUS VENOSIS- simus (Rusby) Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 41: 271. 1905. 207, ‘* ZINNIA PAUCIFLORA,” is Z. MULTIFLORA L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1269, according to B. L. Robinson, who maintains that these are distinct species. 974, ‘* VERBESINA BripcGesi n. sp.” While my name and de- scription were in manuscript, Klatt (Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien 9g: 361) published this as ae BOLIVIANA. 340, ‘* ZEXMENIA sp.? ,” is C. MESOSTEMON Koehne in Mart. FI. 2 Zexmenia foliosa sp. nov Stems lightly, leaves bongly scabrous; stems tall and stout, sharply striate; petioles about 2 cm. long, consisting of the nar- ( 313) rowed leaf- = broadly dilated at the insertion; blades 1-1. -9 road, somewhat angularly ovate, the subtruncate base abruptly eid ine the widely margined petiole, acuminate and acute at the apex, coarsely serrate, membranaceous, dark-green above, pale underneath, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves originating a short distance above the base, the remaining secondaries about 10 pairs, slender; heads several at the summit, the slender, strongly scabrous peduncles about 2 cm. long; outer subfoliaceous bracts of the involucre varying from 1.25-2.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, apex, eas nerved; scales of the disk 1.25 cm. longs closely folded, keeled, the acuminate apex lightly recurved; akene 4 mm. long, oblanceolate, strongly flattened and narrowly winged; pappus cupulate, triangularly toothed, the lateral tooth bearing a seta mm. long; corolla 1 cm. long, the lower, narrow-cylindrical por- mm the base sagittate; style-branches slightly flattened, 2 mm. long, tipped with linear appendages nearly 1 mm. long. 500, ‘** CENTROPOGON SURINAMENSIS,” is described as a new spe- cies, C. Bancu, by A. Zahlbruckner, in Bull. Torrey Club 24: 372. 1897. 738, ‘* CENTROPOGON sp.,” and 738a, ‘* C. SURINAMENSIS,” are C. Manponis A. Zahlb. 707, ‘* GAULTHERIA CONFERTA,” is Gaultheria barosmoides sp. Stems creeping, stout, the i ae ascending, 15-2 pages ferruginous, at length deciduous hairs; petioles 1-2 . long and almost as broad; blades 6-12 mm. long, 4- mm. broad, oval or slightly ovate, the base rounded, the summit brown; pedicels extremely short, stout; flowers "about . lon calyx three-fourths the length of the corolla, divided eee to ihe base, the lobes broadly ovate, acuminate, coriaceous; corolla ovoid- conical, the teeth very small, oval, obtuse; stamens 3 mm. lon the filament broad, dilated at the base, the anther = bearing at the summit 4 hair- like awns about half its own leng th; ovary 2 mm. broad, deeply 5-lobed, the stout style nearly ni its length ; fruit 9g mm. long, subglobose, drying black. The same as xo. rgo5. (314) 393, ‘*CLETHRA BRASILIENSIS,” I now regard as C. TINIFOLIA Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 74 4403 is probably the same as the preceding, and is the same as specimens collected by Pearce at Sandillani, 7000-8000 ft., April, 1865. Itis not clear as to how great is the variation in length of bracts in the same species, in this genus. Apparently, the char- acter is extremely variable. 717, ‘* CLETHRA BREVIFOLIA,” is Clethra cuneata sp. nov Strongly ferruginous-tomentose, the upper leaf-surfaces papillose ; much-branched, the branchlets short, ascending, densely leafy, blackish ; petioles 5-8 cm. sae very stout, dilated at the inser- tion; blades 4-7 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. broad, obovate, cuneate or acute at the base, rounded at the apex, obscurely sinuate-mar- gined, coriaceous, thick, the principal veins impressed above, very prominent underneath, the secondaries 9-12 pairs, connected by the tertiaries, the veinlete finely and strongly cae racemes 5-7 cm. long, numerous in a short-peduncled terminal umbel, densely ferruginous, the inner Meee white, smooth margins; petals m ong, 3 mm. broad, obovate, oie the base thick and broad; style stout, purple, 1 mm. long, the three stout lobes lightly recurved. Yungas, 1890. The same as Mandon 562; also collected by Lambert. Z163, omitted, is Mayepia implicata sp. nov. Branchlets numerous, weak, gray, rough-verrucose; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, stout, strongly channeled above; blades 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. road, lance-oblong, short-acuminate at both ends, obtuse, entire, rigid, labrous, the midrib impressed abo the margin; flowers densely panicled and tangled; calyx divided nearly to the base, the lobes nearly 2 mm. long, oval or obovate, with rounded summit, green, densely gray-pilose; petals 6-8 mm. long, united at the base, or even throughout, in pairs; fila- ments scarcely any; anther triangular-ovate, obtuse, 0.5 mm. long; pistil about as long as the calyx, lance-ovoid. (315) Vic. Cochabamba, 1891. 1720 is MANDEVILLA Bancitt, as published, but it now appears that Mr. Bang sent a second species under this number. If an of these were distributed, they can be recognized by the following description. They appear identical with specimens collected by Lorenz at Tucuman and labeled in Herb. Kew ‘ chttes funtformis Griseb.” But there is an Lchétes funtformzs Vell., which is not Mr. Bang’s plant. Mandevilla subcordata sp. nov. Glabrous except the finely puberulent ae and lower leaf-sur- faces; branches slender, the internodes elongated; petioles 1.25-3 cm. long, slender ; blades 6-8 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, oval to ovate, lightly cordate, abruptly short-acuminate and acute, membrana- ceous, slightly shining above, puberulent underneath, the reddish secondaries 14-16 pairs, the venation finely reticulate, not promi- dibular, the anthers about at the middle or a little higher; a lobes 3 cm. long and nearly as te. obovate; anthers 6 m long; fruit not seen Near snow-line, Mt. Tunari, 1891. r065, omitted, is MANDEVILLA Banei. 249, omitted, is (?) DipLapEentA 1LLusTRis A. DC. Prodr. 8: 483. e same form was collected by Pearce at Pintobamba, 6000- yooo feet, November, 1863. The form is less tomentose than Brazilian specimens, Glaztou 17134. 985, ‘*SARCOSTEMMA INCANUM A. DC.,” is Oxystelma Vailiae sp. nov. Finely canescent throughout; ee very slender, purplish- green, finely striate; petioles 1-2 . long, slender, lightly chan- neled above, faintly keeled inoue blades 1-3 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 cm. broad, triangular-ovate or slightly hastate, cordate by a a shallow sinus, the lobes rounded, acute at the apex, thin, pale-gree the venation slender, inconspicuous, slightly 3 -nerved by the rong: basal secondaries; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; umbels 5—10-flowered ; pedicels sna mostly longer at maturity ‘tan the peduncles; calyx green, rotate, about 8 mm. broad, divided nearly to the base, the lobes Cage acuminate a and acute; corolla sulphur- yellow with a purple eye, 2 cm. broad, subrotate, shallowly 5- lobed, the lobes triangulate ; outer crown purple, closely adnate to the corolla; scales of the inner crown about 2 mm. long, saccate, (316 ) panied laterally compressed, minutely 2-ligulate upon the inner Vie. Cociubano 1891. (Mos. 985, type, and 2005.) Thesame collected in Bolivia by Brzdges. 479, ‘* DITASSA LANCEOLATA,” is certainly not that species, and is apparently not described, but the inflorescence is too young for a determination. It was first regarded as identical with A/andon 354 and Holton 456, so-called, but these represent still another species, which is undescribed. r275, ‘*BLEpP ODO CRONATUM,” is VAILIA MUCRONATA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 542. GENTIANACEAE. At the time that the third part of this enumeration was going through the press, Dr. Gilg (Bot. Jahrb. 22: 301-347. 1896) published a large number of new species of Gentianaceae from Bolivia, and a number of my new species were among them. Being in the country, I did not learn of the publica- tion in time, and a number of synonyms resulted, as follows: rors, ** GENTIANA SPECTABILIS,” is G. Dizisiana Gilg. 1143, ‘*G. Manvonu,” is G. INAEQUICALYX Gilg. 1230, ‘*G. vIRGATA,” is G. Kusnezown Gilg. £732, **G. BANGII pec is G. ALBIDO-COERULEA Gilg. 1231, ‘*G. SEMINUDA,” is G. GYNOPHORA Gilg. 1232, ‘*G. COCHABAMBENSIS,” is perhaps G. Kuntzx1 Gilg. 1153, ‘*G. PRIMULIFOLIA Griseb.,” is G. Baner Gilg. 719, **G. puniceEA Wedd.,” . G. DISSITIFOLIA Griseb. 1562, ‘* VoYRIA polars is LEIPHEIMOS APHYLLA (Jacq.) Gilg, in E. & P . Pfl. 520, ime tue ae is MacRocARPAEA BANGIANA ilg. 697 and (?) 339, ‘¢ LISIANTHUS CALYGONUS,” are SYMBOLANTHUS BritTonianus Gilg. 1394 and 1443, ** Corpia SALZMANNI,” are perhaps C. LAXIFLORA B.K. If not, they are an undescribed species. 313, omitted, is Corp1a cide papeaadan L. Syst. ed. 10. 936. 589, ‘* IPOMOEA >is Ca A (L.) House, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 32, ‘* SOLANUM LycIoIDEs,” is S. PSsEUDO-Lycro1pES Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 193. (317) ji, ‘*SoLANUM NuDUM,” is (?) S. cymosum R. & P. FI. Per. 2: 31, pl. 260. 740, ‘*SOLANUM MONTANUM,” I can now hardly believe pertains to that species, nor have I been able to determine it. 1740, ** SOLANUM NUTANS,” is Bassovia phytolaccoides sp. nov. florescence and lower surfaces of the younger leaves minutely su ouieh- eae ulent; branches herbaceous, weak, coarsely angled ; petioles 1-2 cm. long, channeled above and, like the midrib, purple- tinted; blades 1-2 dm. long, 0.5-1 dm. broad, oval-ovate, nearly equilateral, acute at both ends, entire, very thin, deep-green, the venation inconspicuous above, prominent underneath, the 6-8 pairs deep-blue center, deeply lobed, the lobes ovate, pera costate , anthers 6 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, darker at the base; fruit eae green, globose or slightly Pie lightly 2- grooved, about 1 cm. in diameter. Aa ent December, 1892. 1210, ‘* BASSOVIA SOLANACEA,” is more likely B. anczps (R. & P.) Rusby. 1182, ‘‘ NICOTIANA GLAUCA, Club 26: 166. 157, **Cestrum Parqul,” is C. MatHEwsi Dun. in DC. Prod. 1. 6 ” is N. Russyt Britton, Bull. Torrey ” 631 and 71789, ‘*CESTRUM STRIGILLATUM,” are C. CALYCINUM Willd. ; Schlecht. Linnaea 7: 64. 1832. They are the same as Rusby 815 and 817, Spruce 4154, Mathews 1974, and specimens collected by Pearce at Coroico. gor, ‘*FiuckicGeria Fritscui.” Dr. Fritsch finds that the name Fluchigertia is preoccupied, and substitutes the name KonLert- ANTHUuS Fritscui (Rusby) Fritsch, in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. Nachtr. z5zo and 1596, ‘‘ BIGNONIA TECOMAEFLORA,” I now think must be referred to B. venusta Ker, Bot. Reg. A2. 2¢0. 1161, ‘* CRESCENTIA sp.” must be referred to C. Cujeta L. Sp. Pl. 7799, ‘* RuUELLIA HumBoLpTIaANa,” must be written R. WILLDE- NOVIANA (Nees) Lindau. 1223, ‘* RUELLIA AMOENA,” is R. PEDUNCULOSA Nees. r295, ‘* RUELLIA »’ is R. proxima Lindau, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 365. 1895. (318 ) 1354, omitted, is RUELLIA Bancit Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 102 5, * LIPPIA SCORODONOIDES.” Some specimens of L. Lycio1DEs Steud. Nom. ed. 2. 2: 54, may have been distributed with the other. 7223, omitted, is Salvia erythropoda sp. nov. Stems shrubby, the branches slender, erect, reddish, strongly quadrangular, sulcate, above pilose, the hairs most yr eflexed, or rigid, eo. and canescent both sides, eel sade ath ; flowers distantly ae taeen bractless; pedicels 5 mm. long, stoutish ; calyx tomentose, 1.25 cm. long, the tube campanulate, the lips 3 long; rolla cm. long, tomentose, scarlet; filament inflated, the anther blackish, 5 mm. lon I595, omitted, is UVIFERA eee Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 196. 222, ‘* PEpERoMIA Hiariana,” is P. sytvatica C. DC. 330, ‘*PEPEROMIA FRAGRANS,” is P. TALINIFOLIA LONGIPETIO- Lata C. DC 31, ‘* PEPEROMIA TRINERVIS,” is P. MELANOSTIGMA Mig. Syst. go. 340, ‘* PIPER BOLIVIANUM,” is P. cARACASANUM Bredem.; Link, Jahrb. Gewachsk. 1°: 61. 1820. 345, Piper LecHLERIANUM,” is P. GaupicHauplanuM Kunth, Linnaea 13: 6 1640, omitted, is Sieur GUIANENSIS Aubl. Pl. Gui. 2: 865. 1783, omitted, is SIPARUNA HYPOGLAUCA Perkins, Bot. Jahrb. 31: 352, omitted, is SIPARUNA SPECTABILIS Perkins, Bot. Jahrb. 31: 686 1777, omitted, is (?) ENDLICHERA DYSODANTHA (R. & P.) Mez, Laur. 11 &4r, omitted, as well as 7550 and z552, but not 7646, is OcoTEA ALBIDA Mez & Rusby. 1646, distributed and published as part of OcoTEA ALBIDA, is Ocotea proboscidea sp, nov. ieee branchlets slender, deep-purple, drying blackish; petioles 6-12 mm. long; blades 5-10 cm. long, 15-30 mm. wi ide, ianeeol tc. at the base abruptly contracted and then natrowed (319) into the petiole, at the summit abruptly contracted and then nar- rowed into a long, lightly curved, acute acumination, coriaceous, drying pale-green above, brown beneath, the purple midrib and cially so beneath; panicles solitary in the axils, mostly shorter than the leaves, peduncled, the Fag rachis and branches slender; staminate flowers only seen; bud globose, 1.5 mm. in diameter ; wer 3-4 mm. broad; calyx- -tube ean perianth-segments thin, oval, a little longer than their stamens; filaments of first and sile, subglobose glands near the base; fourth series very small, lance-linear, thickish, obtuse; ovary wanting Species near O. corymbosa (Meissn.) Mez. 232 and z5&4, distributed and published as ‘‘ EupHorBia GENICU- L. 803, **URTICA sSUBINCISA,” is U. MAGELLANICA Juss.; Poir. Encyc. Suppl. 4: 223. 1833. z27, ‘*URTICA FLABELLATA,” is Urtica Trianae sp. nov. Pistillate plants only seen. Tall and slender, = stems be ei sparsely prickly; petioles very slender, 0.5—2 cm. long, the blades 3-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, ovate, slightly cu abe: acute, "hin bright-green, sparsely prickly on the upper sede flabellately 5- nerved, the nerves very sle oa slightly prominent underneath ; margin deeply serrate, the t lance-ovate, cea scarcely acute; racemes pubescent, ale, no » O.5-1.5 cm. long and more than half as thick; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers 2 mm long; akene 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, ovoid, turgid, blunt, smooth. Vic. La. Paz, 1889. The same collected by Zrzaxa in New Grenada. 1237 and 17658, ‘“*ETHERIUM RACEMOSUM” (misprint for Lithanium), should be RENEALMIA MICRANTHA K. Sch. 623, ‘*SIsYRINCHIUM IRIDIFOLIUM,” is probably S. LEUCANTHUM olla. 1624, published as ‘¢ HippeastruM Manpont,” is Hippeastrum soratense sp. nov. Leaves minutely puberulent under a lens, 3-4 dm. long, cm. broad, linear or a little broader above the middle, obtuse at ee tip, strongly about 30-nerved, the ane dark ; scapes very stout, 2-3 dm. long, 1 cm. or more broad, as pressed ; bracts 4-5 cm. long, lanceolate, 1.25-1.5 cm. ee at the base; pedicels about (320 ) 6 cm. long, ee ely ovary about 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad, oblong; perianth rly 1 ‘dm . long, the tube about 4 cm. long, 1 cm. broad at the ae infundibular, the base very slender; stamens and style about equaling the ae a the anthers 6-7 mm. long; style capitate, lobed, I mm. br 1379, ‘** DioscoREA ————,” is D. MULTIFLORA Griseb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3': 35. i414, ‘* PLATYMISCIUM,” is a misprint for PLaTycERIUM. 439, ‘‘ ANEIMIA TOMENTOSA var.,” is A. BREUTELIANA Presl. Z094, ‘* PELLEA MARGINATA,” is NOTHOLAENA NIVEA Desy. Jour. Bot. 3: 93. z375a and g94¢, omitted, are THELOSCHISTES CHRYSOPHTHALMUS (L.) Norm Enumeration of Numbers Following 1769 RANUNCULACEAE CLEMATIS GraHAMI Benth. Pl. Hartw. 5. In fruit, May, 1894. 0. 2802.) The same collected by Pearce at Mufia, 7,000 ft. Nearly Mandon 866, but the anthers are not the same. CLEMATIS FLORIBUNDA Tr. & Pl. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 17: 9. 1862. (Vo. 22 ANEMONE TRITERNATA Vahl. (Vo. 7923.) The same as rogr and Rusby r RANUNCULUS PSYCHROPHILUS Wedd. Chlor. And.2: 300. (Wo. 1886.) RaNuNcULUS PRAEMORSUS H.B.K. in DC. Syst. 1: 292. (Wo. z916.) The same as Mandon 877. DILLENIACEAE DoLIocaRPUS SEMIDENTATUS Garcke, Linnaea 22: 48. 1849. A scrap without number. The same as Hostman 707, from Suri- nam, in Herb. Kew. ANONACEAE Guatteria oblongifolia sp. nov. of the branchlets and midrib ais finely ferruginous ; ace oo the internodes 2-3 cm. long; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, ; blades 1-1.5 “aa. long, 4-6 cm. broad, See blene hate Ne obtuse, the apex abruptly short-acumi- tusish, coriaceous, the veins lightly prominent above, more ocr so underneath, finely reticulate, the principal second- aries about 12 pairs; pedicels solitary in the axils, very stout, (321) thickened upward; eon a stamens wanting in i specimens, the pistils oblong, about 5 mm. long, inclusive of the short, stout stipe; fruiting pedicels 2.5 cm. long, the stipes about: 8 mm. long, the torus depressed-globose, nearly 1 cm. ee the fruits (mature?) oval, reticulate, nearly 1 cm. long. (Wo. 2 Species near G. oligocarpa. Near to, f 7 the same as, jen" man go7z, and perhaps the same as Rusby 1422. ? TRIGYNAEA MatTTHEwsii Benth. Jour. Linn. Soc. 5: 69. 1861. (Vo. 1952.) The specimens lack both flowers and fruit. MENISPERMACEAE CissAMPELOS ParEIRA L. Sp. Pl. 1031. Coroico, Yungas, Sep- tember 8, 1894. ‘¢In dry, gravelly and clayey soil, climbing to the height of ten feet; scarce.” (JVo. 2422.) CISSAMPELOS TROPAEOLIFOLIA DC, Syst. 1: 532. Coripata, Yungas, March 4, 1894. ‘*A climber ae yellowish-green flow- ers, growing in wet, clayey soil; scarce.” (Vo. 2074.) BERBERIDACEAE BERBERIS DIVARICATA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 203. (Wo. moro.) Itis the same as zo. 8637, but in fruit. The fruit (ma- ture?) is r cm. long, 7 mm. broad, oval, tipped with a stout, coni- ical style 2 mm. long and large thick stigma 2.5 mm. broad, borne on a stout pedicel, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, slightly thickened upward and subtended by persistent acuminate bracts, 7 mm. in length. Berberis paucidentata sp. nov. Specimens in fruit.) Glabrous; branches elongated, slender, flexuous, see dark-brown, leafy; stipules crowded, blackish, rigid, 3 mm. long, broadly ovate, acuminate and acute; leaves 1-2 cm. long, including the narrow petiole-like base, oval- obovate, the revolute, the venation very coarse and prominent, underneath retic- ulate; secondaries airs; fruiting pedicels 5 mm. long, stout, angled, puberulent, their basal bracts similar to the stipules, but smaller; fruit globose, about 8 mm. in diameter, blue, tipped with the globose black stigma, which is about 1 mm. broad. (Vo. 2828.) Apparently the same as Manxdon 862, which is in flower, the leaves little larger, the bracts dark-red, the sepals dark-red, 4-5 mm long, ovate, acutish, rather rigid, the petals somewhat larger, and broader (322 ) PAPAVERACEAE Bocconta INTEGRIFOLIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 119. (Vo. 2669.) The same as Rusby rz6r. CRUCIFERAE CARDAMINE OVATA CORYMBOSA Britton. (See 20. 227.) (Vo. £790 CARDAMINE CHENOPODIFOLIA Pers. Syn. 2: 195. Uchimachi, Coroico, July 17, 1894. ‘* A small plant, with greenish flowers, in cultivated ground.” (Vo. 23747.) The same as Ball's speci- men from Rio Janeiro. SisyMBRIUM HIspripuLUuM (DC.) Tr. & Pl. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 17: 63. 1862. (Zurritis hispidula DC. Syst. 2: 213.) (Wo. 1972.) The same as Rusby 1208. SISYMBRIUM LEPTOCARPUM Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 3: 139. 1833. (Vo. 2507.) The same as Rusby 1207. Stsymsprium Russyi Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 16. (Mo. 1896.) The same as Rusby 7432. Matthewsia diffusa sp. nov. Younger portions minutely aetna and apparently glandular ; stems at length 2 dm. or more long, prostrate, coarsely angled, sub-fleshy, much branched, ae petioles short an nd broad, clasp- obtuse, entire, fleshy; pedicels 2-3 m long, stout, strongly angled; peda ae 3 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, very slightly exceeded by the very thin white petals; capsules about 1 cm. long: exclusive of i stout, persistent style, which is 2 mm. long, lanceo- late, falcate, tuberculate by the contained seeds, which are oval- orbicular, flattened, greenish, 1 mm. long. (Vo. 71967.) LepipiuM AFFINE Wedd. Ann. Sci. Nat. V.1: 284. 1864. (Vo. 2802. This number and ‘‘2g02” may have been transposed for this and a fern.) The same as Mandon 927. CAPPARIDACEAE CLEOME GLaNnDULOosA R. & P.; DC. Prodr. 1: 238. Without number. The same as Rusby 7374. VIOLACEAE VIOLA PYGMAEA Juss.; Poir. Encyc. 8: 630. (Vo. 1872.) (323 ) BIXINEAE CocHLOsPERMUM HIBISCIOIDES Kunth, Syn. Pl. Aeq. 3: 214. (No. 7978.) Xylosma ovata sp. nov. (Specimens in fruit.) Younger portions of the branchlets and the veins underneath blackish-glandular, hairy, otherwise glabrous ; branchlets stout, flexuous; petioles 5 mm. long, very stout; blades 4¥-15 cm. long, 4-6 cm. broad, ovate, the base rounded, the apex abruptly short-acuminate and obtuse, nA and sub- ‘obsoletely serrate, thickish, rigid; midrib and secondaries prominent under- neath, the latter about 10 a ; axillary faces about 5—7-fruited, the blackish bractlets pune m. long, subulate, thick and rigid, the pedicels filiform, 2.5-4 ¢ m. long; fruit broadly ovoid, sade) 1 cm. long, the style very short and much broader, the sti w lobed, peltate, thick, nearly 1 mm. broad (in fruit) ; ae eae ovoid, smooth, 4 mm. long. (Vo. 2782.) ‘«©A shrub, about 6 ft. high, in wet, shaded forest-mould.” Sacramento, Yungas, August 14, 1894. POLYGALACEAE PoLYGALA SPECTABILIS (DC. Prodr. 1: 331) var. minor Cho- dat, var. nov Flowers one-third smaller than in the type. (Vo. 2803 or 2403.) PoLtycaLa anGusTiFotiaA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 405, pl. 527 (non Bennett). ‘¢Abundant in coca plantations and other culti- vated grounds.” Coripata, Yungas, March 20, 1894. Flowers white. (Vo. 2096.) PotycaLa FormosA A. W. Bennett, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 19. (No. 2674.) The same as Rusby 7908. BREDEMEYERA FLORIBUNDA Willd. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Neue Schr. 3: 412. 1801. Coripata, Yungas, April 23,1894. (Vo. 2143.) ‘+A shrub, 15—-z0 feet high, rather thin and climbing, with greenish-yellow flowers. Rather scarce, in good rich mould, river bank.” The same as Pearce’s specimens from Chairo, 4,000-5,000 ft., April, 1866. Monnina BOLiviensis A. W. Bennett, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 20 (No. 1970.) The same as Rusby 7970. Monnina PaRviFLoRA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 419. ‘* Shrub about 6 feet high, with blue flowers, growing in clayey forest (324) mould.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vos. 2445 and 2673.) The same as xo. 292 and Rusby 1909 and 7973. MonniNnaA STIPULATA Chodat, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1: . (Lo. 2805.) This number and ‘‘ 2g05” may have been transposed for this and an Adlophylus. Mownina SALICIFOLIA R. & P. Syst. Veg. 172. (Vo. 2804.) Per- haps distributed as ‘ 240g,” which is Apocynaceous; a /zstécza was also distributed as ‘+ 2404.” Monnina nigrescens sp. nov. Shrubby, the branches erect, slender, elongated, channeled, to- mentose, the internodes about 3-5 cm. long; leaves inserted by a narrow petiole-like base, 5-8 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, oblong or somewhat obovate, irregular, acute, entire, softly pubescent, especi- ally underneath, thin and flaccid, drying blackish-green; veins coarse, not prominent, the secondaries about 6-8 pairs; racemes at length long-peduncled by thefalling of the lower flowers, finally dm. in length, at first dense, nearly 1 cm. broad; bracts about mm. long, alternate; pedicels one fourth the length of the flowers, which are 3-4 mm. long; lateral outer sepals 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm ci at siete the margin thin, white-fimbriate, the lower 2.5 ong; wings green, or rbicular, strongly concave, 3.5 mm. Hee entire, me purplish-veined (about 3 pairs); keel green, nearly hemispherical, cleft about two fifths of the way, a blunt lobe about 0.5 mm. long on each side at about the middle; filaments about 1.5 mm. long, united to the middle, the anthers about 0.75 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, incurved; upper petals nearly equaling the filaments, white, puberulent at base, falcately oblong-ovate, the ; eae nearly orbicular, 4 mm. broad, cordate with the lobes acute, brown with a green, strongly reticulate margin, the apex lightly emarginate. (JVo. 28375 or 2475.) VOCHYSIACEAE Trigonia echiteifolia sp. nov. ‘Younger portions, under sides of leaves, and inflorescence, includ ing calyx, densely short-tomentose, slightly ferruginous; upper leaf surfaces minutely stellate, shining; branches elongated, slender, abso ae iia al the internodes mostly 5-6 cm. long; stipules mm. long, 2 road, linear, acuminate ae acute; petioles mm. long, ee slender; blades 5-8 cm. 2-5 cm. broad, inequilaterally Aare to eee ey ees "abruptly short- acuminate and a above bright-green, shining, the veins lightly impressed, cer gallows -white, the veins prominent, the (325) ee about 10 pairs, eine by the tertiaries; panicles axillary and terminal, loosely branched at the base, the dense eens 3-8 cm. long, 1 ae cm. broad, mostly floriferous to the ase, the branchlets mostly 3-flowered, the bracts lance-linear, mm. broad, ovate, obtuse, unguiculate, the exterior equal, 2 mm. broad, strongly pa Saale the base sub-auriculate on one side, oe 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, ovate, acute; larger petal 5 m. long, the ay rounded and recur -ved, al eee ar and pale. ees below; lateral petals 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, inequilaterally oblanceolate with rounded apex, the re white- bearded; penis eget mm. long, very irregular, subsulcate; stamens 3 mm. long, the anthers 1 mm. long; pistil 3 mm. long, sa ovary and base of ane densely long Mig ee. eee very mall. (Vo. 2872 or 2412.) Species near 7. vzl se floccosa sp. nov. nchlets elongated, slender, purplish, the younger portions sae Aocese, the internodes mostly about 3-5 cm. long; stipules erect, 1 cm. long, lance-linear, attenuate and acute, canescent, de- ciduous; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, stout, mostly recurved; blades 4-8 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad, ovate to obovate, mostly inequilateral, rounded to sub-cordate at base, short-acuminate and very acute at the apex, entire, above dark-green, white-floccose, rugose with strongly impressed veins, underneath tomentellate and ferruginous, the venation prominent, Sano the secondaries about 8 pairs; in- florescence, including uter surface of the calyx, densely short gray-tomentose ; panicles aye cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, dense, except at the base, their branchlets mostly 2- or 3- -flow ered; bracts 5-8 mm. long, lance-ovate, attenuate and acute; pedicels very short, slender; anterior sepal 16mm. long, 5 mm. br oad, ovate, obtusish, strongly concave, sessile by a broad base, the exterior mae the same length, 3 mm. broad, slightly inequilateral, the inner 7 m long, 3 mm. Bread: highly inequilateral and slightly fic. ere ointed, paler; large petal . long, pale above, yellowish with intruded folds at the Siew the broad sac purple and densely purple-bearded eas the apex rounded or lightly emarginate; anterior petals 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, oblanceolate or spatu- late, the apex eer -d, inequilateral and slightly falcate, the base bearded; the lateral very irregular, 4 mm. long, subsaccate, nO bearded; stamens 3 mm. long, the larger anthers 1 mm. lon glands 4, united in pairs, ‘red- -purple, 1 mm. long, irregularly aaa rangular, oval or orbicular; perfect stamens 5 or 6, unequal; pistil as long as the stamens, the ovary and base of the stout ae densely long white-pilose. ‘6 A climber with yellowish-white flowers. One plant found, in wet clay, at Coripata, May 14, 1894.” (Vo. 2zgr.) (326) Very near the last, but differing in the floccose and more rugose upper leaf-surfaces and young shoots, the unbranched panicles, larger flowers, coloration, more open sac and intruded folds of the large petal, and in the large, conspicuous glands. CARYOPHYLLACEAE Sirenz carrica L. Sp. Ph 417. (los. 1945 and zooz.) The same as Rusby 2476. LycuHNIs ANDICOLA (Gill.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 61. (No. 7863.) The same as Rusby 1779 and Mandon 989. ? CERASTIUM VULGATUM L. FI. Suec. 2: 158. Specimen without number. The same form collected several times by Bai; also collected by Gustav Bernoullz in Guatemala (no. 797). ALSINE NEMORUM (L.) Schreb. Spicil. 30. (Vo. zégo, and Coroico, September, 1894, xo. 2443.) ‘* Half climbing to 3 feet, in wet mould, in shade; flowers white.” The same as Rusby TIE4. ARENARIA ALSINOIDES (Michx.) Rohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 14’: 2474. (Vo. 2053.) The same as Rusby 2287, 2788 and rz89. PORTULACACEAE CALANDRINIA ACAULIS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 78. (Vo. 7903.) Same as 977. CALANDRINIA CAULESCENS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 78, p/. 526. (No. 1948.) The same as Mandon zo00 and Rusby 2601. HYPERICACEAE Hypericum stylosum sp. nov. Glabrous, perennial, the root stout, branched or simple; stems —6 dm. high, solitary, erect from an ascending base, reddish-brown, the internod —5 cm. long; branched from near the base, the branches elongated, slender, ascending at an angle of about 45°; leaves sessile, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, broad, oblong, the apex obtuse to rounded, obscurely 3-5-nerved, pale underneath, very thin ; cymes elongated, loose except at the summit, the bracts linear, — oe mm. long; pedicels 3-5 mm. long, sharply angled ; sepals 5 , lanceolate, acuminate and acute, 1-nerved; petals oval, pate ere the sepals; styles 5, distinct, stout, 3 mm. long, distinctly exceeding the stamens ; capsule ovoid, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad. ‘¢ A small plant, from 10 inches upward, in height, the flowers yellow, inrunning water.” Coripata, March 30, 1894. (Vo. 2707.) (327) Caopia crassa Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 204. (Wo. 2937.) This is apparently the same as Parker's Demerara specimen, called “*C. gudcanensis.” Caopia GLaBra (R. & P.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 59. (iVo. 2933.) GUTTIFERAE Ciusia MULTIFLORA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 200. (Vo. 2975.) Crusia RAMOSA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 204. (Vo. 2372.) Cuusia sp. (Vo. 2477. SYMPHONIA GLOBULIFERA L. f. Suppl. 302. (Wo. 2954.) The same as Rusby 1853 TERNSTROEMIACEAE RuyscHIA GUIANENSIS (Aubl.) Vitm. Summa Pl. 2: 250. 1789. (Souroubea guianensis Aubl. Pl. Gui. 1: 244. 1775. = Ruy- schia Souroubea Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 50. 1788.) ‘In rich mould, forest shade, climbing to a height of 15 or 20 feet; scarce ; flowers green.” Coroico, Yungas, 5,500 ft., September 1, 1894. (Vo. 2goz.) The same as Hayes 345. ? TERNSTROEMIA BRASILIENSIS Camb. in A. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1: 298. pl. 59. ‘* Shrub about & ft. high, in rich forest mould, scarce.” Near Coroico, Yungas, July 24, 1894. (Vo. 2360.) Also collected by Pearce at Santa Cruz, 7,000 ft., December, 1864. The leaves are larger and heavier, the calyx is lighter and the pod thinner than in 7. draszlienszs. Ternstroemia asymmetrica sp. nov. Glabrous ; branchlets short, stout but weak, widely spreading or recurved, gray, rough, very leafy toward the summit; leaves 5-5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, oblanceolate to obovate and prequel. the apex slightly and bluntly acuminate, the base tapering into a very short, stout, purple, margined petiole, thick, the margin entire, thinly revolute ; midrib sharply i impressed above e, very prominent, t I cm. Ones stout, purple; sepals rotund-elliptical, 5 mm. gle. pepe any. (Vo. 1974-) The same as xo. 877, but not 875. Differs from Z. drasil- zensts in the inequilateral leaves, and the smaller flowers, with calyx of lighter texture. Spruce 4798 is in part the same. ( 328 ) MALVACEAE MALVASTRUM CAPITATUM (Cav.) Griseb. Goett. Abhand. 19: go. 1874. (Malva capitata Cav. Diss. 5: 28. pl. 237, f. I+) (Woes. 1897 and 2052.) Matvastrum Russyi Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 64. (Vo. 2806 or 2406.) MALVASTRUM TRICUSPIDATUM (R. Br.) A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 16. (Malva tricuspidata R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4: 210.) ‘Plant 1-2 ft. high, with yellow flowers.” Coripata, Yungas, March 28, 1894. (Vo. 2771.) MALVASTRUM PEDICULARIFOLIUM (Meyen) A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exp. 1: 152. (Stda pedicularifolia Meyen, Reise 1: 460.) (Wo. 1964.) ANODA TRIANGULARIS DC. Prodr. 1: 459. ‘* Plant 3-5 ft. high, common in coca plantations.” Coripata, Yungas, March 4, 1894. (Vo. 2073.) ? Gaya GaupicHaupiana A. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1: 192. (lVo. 2221. SIDA RUFESCENS A. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1: 185. (Vo. 2807 or 2407.) The same as Rusby r45¢, published as S. wrens L. Sipa corpiroLia L. Sp. Pl. 961. (iVo. 2277.) The same as Rusby 1456 and £457. WISSADULA PERIPLOCIFOLIA (L.) Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 117, in obs. (Sida pertplocifolia L. Sp. Pl. 684.) (Vo. 2809 or 2409.) WissaDULA HIRSUTA Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 118. (Vo. 2808.) The same as Rusby 7867 Wissadula grandifolia Baker fil. sp. nov. Allied to W. hernandiotdes Garcke and W. Gymnanthemum K. Sch. Stem erect, together with petioles and peduncles covered ceolate, very acuminate, base distinctly cordate, palmately 7-9- nerved, margin entire, covered on both sides with a soft close to- mentum, under side lighter-colored ; larger leaves on specimen about 20 cm. long, 10.5 cm. broad, the smaller 8-12 cm. long, 3.5-8.5 cm. broad; petiole of larger leaves 10-11 cm. long; panicle leafy; pedicels not so long as in W. her nandioides ; fruiting pedicels about 1.5 cm. long; sepals ovate or triangular, acute, pubescent externally; petals pesee or narrowly obovate (when dried yellow), 8-9 mm. long; carpels 3-4 ata 47-8 mm. long, those examined 2-seeded; seeds about 2 - lon This plant has ovate-lanceolate, ie aida leaves which are (329) about twice as long as broad. The pedicels are shorter than those of W. hernandioides Garcke. It is quite different from W. decora recently described by Mr. Spencer Moore (Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 4: 312) from Puerto Pachico; but may be identical with W. gymnan- themum K. Sch., a plant which I only know from description, but the petioles here are more than double the length given by Dr. Schumann (FI. Bras. 12%: 446). The lamina of the leaf also appears to be very much larger. ‘«In damp soil along roads. About 6 ft. high, with yellow flowers.” Coroico, Yungas, August 2, 1894. (Vo. 2366.) ABUTILON cRispuM (L.) Medic. Malv. 29. (Sida crispa L. Sp. Pl. 685.) ‘About 5 ft. high, with yellow flowers, in wet, clayey soil. But one plant seen.” Coripata, Yungas, April 27, 1894. (Wo. 2167.) ABUTILON BENENSE (Britton) Baker fil. Jour. Bot. 31: 338. 1893. (S%da benensts Britton, Bull. oe Club 16: 153.) (No. 2622.) The same as Rusby 145. ABUTILON MOLLIssIMUM (Cav.) once, Hort. Brit. ed. 2. 53. (Sida mollissima Cav. Diss. 2: 49. pl. 14, fz.) (io. 1980.) The same as Mandon 824 Abutilon Bakeri sp. nov. Branches erect, rather slender, terete, bright-green, finely stellate- hairy, and the younger portions sparsely pilose; stipules broadly ovate, acuminate and acute, nearly 1 cm. long, foliaceous; petioles 4-5 cm. long, stellate and pilose, stoutish; blades 4-12 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, 3-lobed, the larger slightly, the smaller strongly, cordate with a closed or narrow sinus, acuminate and acute, both at the apex and at the lobes, when the latter are well developed, irregularly and unequally dentate with short, broad, blunt teeth; thin, deep-green; primaries 5-7, the lower one or two pairs de- clined, prominent on both surfaces, connected by the secondaries and these by the tertiaries; upper surface scabrous, the hairs'slightly stellate, the lower velvety; flowers about 5, semi-corymbose at the summits of the branches, the pedicels 5-7 cm. long, slender, stellate and pilose like the calyx, which is 2.5 cm. long, divided three- fourths of eg ie the lobes ovate, long-acuminate and acute; co- rolla 3-4 ¢ ellow, strongly and coarsely veined; stamens slightly ey a little shorter than the 10 styles, the stigmas ee ruit 2 cm. long, 2.5 cm. broad, blackish, pilose, strongly rane to A. sylvaticum K. Schum. and A. macrophyllum St. Hil. & Naud. (330 ) *¢ Six to ro ft. high, abundant in wet soil, the flowers yellow.” Near Coroico, July 22, 1894. (Vo. 2757.) SPHAERALCEA Manponi Baker fil. Jour. Bot. 31: 364. 1893. (No. 7927.) The same as Mandon 808. Pavontra communis A. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1: 224. ‘A yel- low-flowered shrub, 8-ro ft. high, common in dry gravelly slate.” Coripata, Yungas, February 28, 1892. (/Vos. 2067 and 7979.) Bombax (fachdropsis) Rusbyi Baker fil. sp. robably a tree; young branches almost eee Leaflets 3-7, ovate or oblong-ovate, coriaceous, base subcordate, apex obtuse or 6-16 cm. long, 6.5-9.5 cm. broad, petiolule 1.5-2 cm. long, petiole the base; petals strap-shaped, externally olive-colored or ferruginous- tomentellous, 10-12 a long; staminal column glabrous, 2-2.5 cm. long; free filaments 4-6 cm. long; anthers hippocrepiform, at least in the dried state; oe about 15 cm. long; seeds immersed in light-brown wool. Yungas, 6,000 “tt -, 1885. First collected by Dr. A. HZ. Rusby (no. 1928). Bang (no. 2282a). This is the plant referred to in Bull. Torrey Club. 16: 154 (1889) as ‘“‘“Bombax ?.” It is allied to Bombax longiflorum K. Schum. and B&B. cyathophorum K. Schum., the staminal tube being glabrous and the leaflets also gla- brous. Ihave much pleasure in dedicating this species to the dis- coverer, Dr. H. H. Rusby. (Mr. Bang’s specimens of this number were accompanied by the following note: ‘‘ More flowers and fruits to be sent next. The leaves all dropped off now, and buds already coming out.”” This note doubtless refers to the cor- iaceous leaves, which fall just as the next year’s growth commences, The specimens were followed, according to promise, by others, but the latter were evidently taken from a different tree and present marked differences. column 3-3.5 cm. long; free portions of stamens 7-8 cm. long. The original 2282 showed the follo fi proportions: leaflets 12-18 cm. long, 8-10 em. broad and less strongly cordate ; pedicels 2.75~3 cm. long, calyx 2-2.5 cm. long by 2 cm. broad (as’ nee stamen-column 3.5 cm. long, free por- tions of aes tdm. long. The form of leaves and calyx-tube and rela- tion of stamens (free portion) to tube are so markedly different that Iam inclined to think they represent two species. I, therefore, call the first and larger-leaved collection 2282, the second 2282a. H.H. R.} (331) ? Cripa Manponi Britten & Baker fil. Jour. Bot. 34: 175. 1896. This has but five leaflets. (Vo. 7949.) STERCULIACEAE Helicteres amplifolia sp. nov. Shortly stellate-tomentellate and ferruginous ; branches elongated, stoutish, flexuous, angled, the internodes mostly about 4-7 cm . ab petioles ae en ae stout, sub-terete; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, lon eae campanulate with the mouth sliehdy contracted, the lobes I long, oval, the base slightly narrower, acutish, 1I-nerved; hele deep-red, exceeding the calyx by about 5 mm., the limb oval, obtuse; stamen-column exserted nearly 7 cm.; anthers 10, 3-4 mm. 10g style alae mm. long; fruit not seen. (Vo. 2648.) Species r Hl. barnens een POLYSTACHYA (H.B.K.) Tr. & Pl. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 17: 341. 1862. (Mougeotia polystachya H.B.K. Nov. Gen. §: 328.) (Vo. 28r0 or 2gr0.) The same collected by Pearce at Coroico, 3,000-4,000 ft., December, 1865. Burchell ‘* 6697-2” may be the same. ? MELOCHIA NODIFLORA Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 97. ‘+ 4-6 ft. high, with light-red flowers, in wet cultivated ground.” Cori- pata, Yungas, April 16, 1894. (Vo. 2732.) Melochia yungasensis sp. no Pubescence minute; root dk stout, woody, a branched ; stems numerous, erect or ascending from nc crown, slen- der, 3-5 dm. long, nearly simple, the internodes ra 2em. tiene: angled, reddish-brown; stipules 2-3 mm. long, lance-ovate, acute; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, slender; blades 2.5-4 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, ovate, somewhat t inequilateral, cordate, acuminate on acute, coarsely an an d irregularly serrate, thin, bright-green above, pale and the venation prominent | underneath, the secondaries about six pairs, at an angle of about 45°, reddish ; ‘lowe ers few, on slender pedicels shorter than themselves; calyx 4 mm. long, divided two-thirds to the base, the lobes ovate, acuminate, acute; corolla 6 mm. long, the petals very short-clawed; filaments lightly coherent to near the summit, broad, membranaceous, shining, brown, a little more than 1 mm. long; anthers 1 mm. long, broadly ovate, usually flattened ; (332) ovary sub-globular, 5: -lobed, pilose, 2 mm. long; styles 5, distinct, a little more than mm. long, slender, the summits recurved; ccna small. Yungas. (Vo. 7977.) Guazuma coriacea sp. nov. Branchlets slender, ascending, terete, dark purple-brown, puber- ulent at the apex; petioles about 1 cm. long, stout; blades 5-8 cm. longs 2-4 cm. broad, narrowly ovate, the base lightly cordate, the apex long-acuminate and acute, the margin finely crenate-ser- rate, thickish and rigid, above glabrous, underneath puberulent, es- pecially on the veins; venation slightly prominent above, more so underneath, the secondaries about six pairs, connecting near the margin, the veins reticulate; pedicels (the fruiting only seen) stout, 1~1.5 cm. long; fruit spherical, or when mature very slightly de- pressed, nearly 1.5 cm. in diameter at maturity, blackish-brown, very strongly tuberculate, the tubercles about 2 mm. broad, the basal about half as large, strongly wrinkled, bluntly short-beaked ; seeds glabrous, pees 1-2 cm. long, angular. (No. 2277.) Near Rusby 1859. ann TOMENTOSA L. Syst. ed. 10. 1247. ‘* Rather scarce on dry, clayey hillsides. Flowers dark-brown.” Coripata, Yungas, arch 28, 1894. (Vo. 2775.) I believe that a number of distinct species will be found included under this name, and this may hereafter be separated therefrom CHAETAEA HIRSUTA (R. -) Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 10. (LMVo. 2205.) ?Twomasia sp. ‘Rather scarce in dry, clayey, grassy soil. Flowers light red-rose.” Coripata, Yungas, April 27, 1894. (Vo. 216g.) The specimens as they reach me are without flowers and fruit, and even a generic determination is not possible. TILIACEAE HELIOCARPUS POPAYANENSIS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 341. “A tree 20-25 ft. high and not very stout, with yellow flowers, grow- ing in wet mould and clay. The bark is very strong and is used for binding together the frame-work of houses. Abundant.” Calapampa, near Coroico, July 2, 1894. (JVo. 2705.) Luehea tomentella sp. nov. Branchlets short, stout, flexuous, blackish, terete, the younger portions thinly, the under leaf-surfaces, petioles, and inflorescence, including both surfaces of the involucre and outer surface of sepals, (333) densely oe stipules caducous, nearl m. long, ovate, aes e, concave, rigid and thick, apne carinate; petioles o. 5-1 - long, very stout ; blades 7-10 cm. long, 3- cm. broad, ae Cea ister: rounded at the ne aie or acut- ish at the apex, serrate with small acute teeth, strongly 3-ribbed, the other secondaries 4 on one side, 3 on the other, connected b the tertiaries; thick and rigid, minutely scabrous sind the venation obscure above, the latter prominent underneath; panicles terminal, broad (2 dm.), the branchlets and pedicels erect; bracts caducous, 1.5 cm. long, oval or obovate; pedicels at length 1-1.5 or even 2 cm. long, twice as stout as their ive strongly bluntly quad- rangular; buds globose-ovoid, 1 cm. or es eal bluntly 10-costate; involucral bracts 9, 2-2.5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, lanceolate, narrowed at the base, acute, thick, “val vate- ace and internally carinate in the bud; sepals 53, valvate, 3-3.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad, ovate, obtusish, strongly 3- eed. within purple and nearly glabrous: petals 5, 4 cm. ae very broadly obovate, shortly and stou tly unguiculate, oa one pales and pubes- cent at the base, strongly “veined; stamens to 2 . long, white- pilose, in 5 phalanges, each phalange ae enemall, at its base, a scale 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad at the base, divided two- thirds of the way into filiform pilose divisions similar to the fila- 2-3 mm. thick, slightly larger and strongly angled above, pilose at the base; stigma 5 mm. broad, thick and fleshy, strongly umbilicate at the base, s- -lobed, the lobes irregularly crumpled and toothed; fruit unknow ‘¢ A stout tree 40 ft. high, with white flowers, abundant in gravel clay.” Coripata, Yungas, June 24, 1894. (Wo. 2295.) Probably identical with Burchell 4778. MALPIGHIACEAE Bunchosia pilocarpa sp. nov. ranches stout, terete, glabrous, dilated at the nodes; leaves glabrous, the petioles about 1 cm. long, stout, margined, the blades 1-2 dm. long, 4-8 cm. broad, oval to obovate, the base blunt, the loose, the pedicels stout, o.5-1 cm. long, articulated and strongly glandular-tuberculate a little below the middle; calyx 7 mm. broad, broadly cup-shaped, the glands large, obovate, of the same color as the calyx, recurved-spreading at the apex; fruit light-gray, densely (334) short-tomentose, globular, or slightly narrowed above, strongl 2-grooved, the apex short-truncate, tipped with the stout style. (NVo. 2249.) Heteropteris ovalifolia sp. nov. Glabrous, except the finely ferruginous inflorescence; branches rest of the inflorescence; flowers crowded on the short branchlets, the pedicels stout, 2-5 mm. long; calyx sub-hemispherical, 4 mm broad, the sepals blunt or rounded at the apex, the glands black, nearly 2 . long, broadly elliptical; limb of the petals very broadly elliptical, 3 mm. long, the claw slender, 2 mm. long; stamens nearly equaling the style, exceeding the calyx by 1-2 mm., the anthers large and bro frui long, the seminiferous little above the middle, 7 mm. broad at the narrowest portion, which is about 4 mm. above the base, strongly nerved. ‘¢A low climber with yellow flowers, in gravel and clay.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2458.) STIGMAPHYLLON TOMENTOSUM A. Juss. in A. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 3: 53. (Vo. 2206.) BANISTERIA ARGENTEA (H.B.K.) Spreng.; A. Juss. Arch, Mus. Par. 3: 393. 1843. (eteropierts argentea H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 164.) (Vo. 2062.) ? BANISTERIA oxycLapA A. Juss. Arch. Mus. Par. 3: 396. 1843. (Vo. 2873.) BANISTERIA SPRUCEANA Griseb. in Mart. Flor. Bras. 12*: 45. ‘* A climber on the ground, with yellow flowers, in dry, gravelly and clayey soil.” Coroico, September, 1894. (/Vo. 2457.) The same as Rusby 515. Banisteria Pearcei sp. nov. labrous, except the inflorescence; branchlets gray, densely leafy; petioles 3 mm. long, stout, margined, brown; blades 4-8 cm. long, 1.25-2.5 cm. broad, ‘lance- -oblong, the base acute to acu- minate, the summit abruptl y acuminate, acute; coriaceous, gray- green, lustrous, venation slender and lightly prominent both sides, reticulate, the secondaries about 9, strongly ascending , connecting close to the margin; inflorescence sparse, lightly ferruginous: peduncles a little exceeding the petioles, the few seen about 5- (335) flowered; mature buds nearly globular, 4 mm. long, the nearly cir- ae calyx-lobes almost half its length, the broadly oval glands cluding the slender claw, about 6 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, alent ees Seca ay bgt 1.5 cm. long; fruit long, 6-9 mm. wide; base of wing 3-4 mm broad, the neat paar on two thirds of the way from base to summit; glands broadly oval, about 1.5 mm. long. (Vo. 2872.) The same collected by Pearce at Chailla, 4,000 to 5,000 ft., May, 1866, and deposited in Herb. Kew under the name B. Spruceana. Banisteria sanguinea sp. nov. Branches stoutish, beni red-purple, the younger portions, a the peduncles, pedicels and lower leaf-surfaces ferruginous-tom tose; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, stout, sub-terete, and, like the a: ribs underneath, red- aaa blades 5-9 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, oval-ovate, rounded t the base, obtuse at the apex, entire, thickish, le mm 1, lax; pedicels 0.5-1 cm. long, slender, erect, slightly thickened upward, bearing a aad of purple, oblong bracts about 1.5 mr length; calyx 3 m ng, uo the apex, plane, lightly auriculate, the margin slightly crisped; fila- ments bright-crimson, 2.5 mm. long, erect, slightly tapering upward; anthers gray, 1 mm. long, obtuse; ovaries 2 mm. long, ferruginous-pilose; style bright-crimson, 2 mm, long, not oblique, the stigma scarcely distinguishable. ‘¢In wet forest-mould, climbing high upon trees, the flower light- red; scarce.” Coripata, Yungas, May 15, 1894. (lVo. 2792.) Banisteria cinerea sp. nov. Branches much elongated, slender, terete, the youngest portions hoary; petioles 1 cm. long, stout, flat or shallowly grooved upon the upper oe the two ellipsoidal glands a at the junction eas ae blade, 2 mm. long, black; blades 0.8-1.2 dm. long, 3.5— broad, oblong ae oval, blunt at the base, abruptly ere cumia and acute at the apex, entire, coriaceous, above dark-green, drying brown, ae ee shining, the midrib grooved, underneath sil- very-gray with an exceedingly fine tomentum, but not shining, the stout, terete midrib and 7 or 8 pairs of slender secondaries prom- other in a coarse reticulation; flowers panicled, racemed upon the ( 336) branches; panicles axillary, elongated, narrow, lax, long-peduncled, the branches subtended by very small lanceolate leaves; pedicels ae mm. eet ee sane by lanceolate, acute bracts about x 2.5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, closely subtending the shearers bud, pace at the base, the glands nearly 1.5 mm. long, nearly as broad, the sepals broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, green; claw of petal 1.5 mm. long; lim or 7 mm. long, orbicular, fringed, costate below; filaments reddish, the longer 2.25 mm. long, flattened and connate below; anthers 1 mm. long, the connective at the back expanded into a large black disk much broader than the thecae; ovary t mm. long, purple, obtusely pointed, the crest sida eae style 2 mm. long, straight; stigma distinct, whitish, trunca ‘In wet eee nae aaduac a low climber, the flowers yel- low.” (Wo. 2489.) TETRAPTERIS PAPYRACEA Tr. & Pl. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 18: 334. 1862. ‘Climbing to the height of 8 ft., in wet forest-mould. Flowers yellow.” Road to La Paz, from Yungas, September, 1894. (lVo. 2481.) GERANIACEAE GERANIUM BANGII Hieron. Bot. Jahrb. 21: 314. 1895. (Vo. The same as mo. 7 Tropaeolum infundibularum sp. nov. Glabrous; stems coarsely pete the internodes mostly 4-5 cm. mes petioles 5-8 cm. long, slender, twining; blades 6-8 cm. long, about as broad, triangular-ovate, the base truncate and lightly nee abruptly short- acuminate and acute at the apex, entire or sinuately 1- or 2-lobed near the base, pale underneath, thin but semi- pice palmately 5-nerved, or mostly with an additional pair form- e margin near the petiole, the venation coarse, rather prom- ent underneath ; ela 2 dm. or more long, very stout, tapering upward; spur 3 cm. long, 7m m. broad at the base, as pressed, the terminal 1 cm. dilsted: blunt, a oa puna eae ing portion of the orange-colored corolla nearly 1.5 ¢ 1.2 cm. broad, the lobes about 7 mm. long, broadly ha Tobe bluish ; fruit not seen. ‘¢ Abundant in wet forest-mould, climbing very high upon trees, the flowers rose and green.” Uchimachi, Yungas, July 20, 1894. (Vo. 2354:) OxaLis cornicutata L. Sp. Pl. 435. ‘* Growing in wet clay, the yellow flowers open only in bright sunshine.” Coripata, Yungas, April 15, 1894. (iVo. 2728.) ( 337 ) OXALIS NUBIGENA Walp. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 19: Suppl. 1: 320. 1843. OXALIs PpUBESCENS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. §: 240. (Mo. 28r¢ or 2414.) The same as Afandon 8517, but I think not the same as fusby 748 and 757, published under this name. OXALIs BOLIVIANA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 159. ‘‘ Grow- ing in wet mould.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2449.) The same as Rusby 756. Oxatis BARRELIERI L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 624. (Vo. 2507.) OxaLis DENDROIDES H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 250. (Vo. 2675.) The same as Rusdy 856. Oxalis Bangii sp. nov. Ferruginous-pilose; plants densely tufted, sub-acaulescent; stip- ules 4~5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, ovate, inequila ateral, acuminate, brown and scarious, ciliate; petioles 2-3 cm. long, erect; leaflets 7m and broad, triangular-ovate, obcordate with a broad, shallow sinus, bright-green and slightly ae above, purple and long-pilose underneath; peduncles two- three-flowered in m specimens, nearly as long as the pele bracts lance-ovate and acuminate, 2-3 mm. long, of similar appearance to the stipules; pedicels 0.5-1 cm. long, pilose, weak but stoutish; calyx about 5 mim. long, lobed two-thirds of the way, the lobes Peaks obtuse ; corolla about 1. 5 cm. long, yellow. (Vo. 2502.) RUTACEAE Crrrus Aurantium L. Sp. Pl. 783. Specimens taken from a **tree 20 to 30 ft. high, which gives several thousand fruits a year. The time for fruit is May, June and July, but in cold places like this, there are fruits up to November, on the same tree.” Cala- pampa, July 4, 1894. (Vo. 2309.) Cirrus vuLcaris Risso, Ann. Mus. Par. 20: 190. 1813. ‘* Much smaller than the common tree; the fruit also much smaller, with a bitter taste. Local name ‘ Mandarinos.’” Coroico, September 4, 1894. (Wo. 2472.) ZANTHOXYLUM PUBESCENS St. Hil. & Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 17: t41. ‘*A shrub, 6 ft. high, growing in shade, in gravel and clay; scarce.” (Vo. 2777.) The same as xo. g62. SIMARUBACEAE BEnJAMINA sp. ‘*A shrub about 6 ft. high in dry gravelly soil along road.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2473.) (338) » BRUNELLIA RHOIDES Rusby, azte, page 310. (Vo. zggz.) The same as no. 839. BURSERACEAE Bursera amplifolia sp. nov. Glabrous; branchlets ae eo pat ioles 3-5 cm. long, stout, sub-triangular in section; leaflets one or two pairs, when two, separated by about 3 cm.; ae nies 3 mm. long, very et he terminal about 1.5 cm long ; blad -12 ¢ 2 3- short-pointed and obtuse at the apex, entire, thickish and rigid, bright-green ; venation obscure above, somewhat prominent under- neath, the secondaries about 12-16 very unequal and irregular pairs, endee: somewhat crooked ; ag: axillary, on slender spreading reese about 2-3 cm. long, the flowering portion about 4 cm. ong, and nearly as broad, pans the bracts 1-3 mm. long, ovate, thickish, green; buds 2.5 mm. long and broad, ovate, acutish; calyx sree aa closely investing the corolla, the lobes sub- semicircular; petals 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, ovate, obtuse; stamens 2 mm. long, the filament a little longer than the anther; disk large, flat, fleshy, white, irregularly many lobed; ovary ovoid, 1 mm. long, the style short, the stigma lightly 3-lobed. ‘¢ A tree, 15 feet in height, with yellow flowers, growing in sandy and gravelly soil, nearthe river.” Coroico, August 4, 1894. (Vo. 2370.) MELIACEAE GuaREA OvALis Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 205. Fruiting specimens of what appears to be this species are received under the number 2428 (perhaps distributed as xo. 282 fruiting panicles are very lax and slender, 2 dm. or more long and about 7 cm. broad, on very stout peduncles 3-6 cm. long. The pedicels are about 5 mm. long, very stout, upwardly thickened. The fruit is fig-shaped, about 1 cm. broad, bright-brown, light-ver- rucose, The specimens are gray- or yellow-pubescent throughout, especially the veins underneath; the upper leaf-surfaces very finely puberulent. ‘“A single tree found, about 20 ft. high, in forest-shade.” Coroico, September 12, 1894. Trichilia Harmsii sp. nov. labrous, or the lower leaf-surfaces minutely tuberculate, as though strigose with the hairs aborted; branchlets stout, verrucose with the conspicuous, vertically elongated lenticels; petioles about 5 cm. long, stout, channeled, abruptly enlarged at the base; rachis ( 339) I-1.5 dm. oe the leaflets 4 or 5 pairs, ae Use their petiol- ules 2-3 mm. long, very stout, the term ong; blades udd 6-10 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, very lax, the rachis strongly angled ; pedicels very short and stout; buds 1.5-2 mm. long, rounded at the apex; calyx saucer-shaped, 1.5 mm. broad, closely investing the base of the corolla, the lobes broadly ovate; petals 1.5 mm. long, Imm. broad, oval; stamens 1.5 mm. long, the tube completely divided, densely white-pilose, the segments entire at the apex; anther nearly a third the length of the filament; ovary 1 mm. long and broad, ovate; style short and thick; stigma large, oe wie saucer- shaped, closely enclosing the base of the ovary. 0.) Species dedicated to Dr. H. Harms, who has kindly inde peat its affinity to Z. multéflora. ILICINEAE ?ILEX AMYGDALIFOLIA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 14. ‘‘ A tree 20-25 ft. high, growing in black forest-mould, on the mountain side.” Above Coripata, Yungas, April 18,1894. (Vo. 2229.) The same as specimens collected by Spruce at Tarapota. CELASTRACEAE ? MAYTENUS VERTICILLATA (R. & P.} DC. Prodr. 2: 10. (Ce- lastrus verticillatus R. & P. Fl. Per. 3: 6.) (Wo. 1774.) MayTENUus sp., apparently undescribed, but only empty capsules remain. (Vo. 792 Salacia rotundifolia sp. nov. Glabrous; branches slender, the old portions dark-purple and strongly ues the younger portions green and smooth; peti- oles oe vl stoutish, broadly channeled above; blades 5-6 cm. = cm. broad, oval to rotund, obtuse at the base, ee eee uptly, very shortly and obtusely pointed at the apex, obscurely sinuate, thickish, pale-green, the venation very slightly prominent bove, more so underneath, the secondaries about 10 pairs, the veins coarsely and pee! reticulate; peduncles of the mes 1.5-2 cm. long ; cymes 3-4 c road, loose, much branched, the branches a at vee aie ‘practed with very small, ovate bracts; pedicels 1-1.5 mm. long, very stout; calyx 2 mm ae d, very shallow, Tobed half-way or more, the lobes very broad, rounded, the sinuses acute; petals 1.5 mm. long, nearly rotund, thick ; ( 340 ) stamens a little exceeding the pistil, the filaments very broad at the base, fleshy, the joa ers very small; style cylindrical, short, half as thick as the ov: ‘* Flowers green. Climbs very high on trees in dry forest- mould.” Coroico, September 3, 1894. (JVo. 2407.) SALACIA sp., apparently undescribed, but the specimens are in bud only. ‘¢ Grows in dry mould and climbs to a height of 20 feet. Flowers greenish-yellow.” Coroico, September, 1894. (JVo. 2456.) RHAMNACEAE RHAMNUS BOLIVIANA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 15. (Vo. 2522.) Rhamnus citrifolia sp. nov. ray-tomentellate except the upper leaf-surfaces, which are bright-green, drying yellowish, and sparsely puberulent; hae caducous, 5 mm. long, lance-linear, finely attenuate; petioles 1-1.5 m. long, stout, channeled, underneath strongly wrinkled or peri costate; blades 6-10 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, oblong to oval or slightly obovate, rounded at the base, abruptly very short-pointed and mostly obtuse at the apex, finely and irregularly short-serrate, becoming entire toward the base, thickish an rigi , the midri lightly channeled above; venation slender but prominent underneath, the secondaries Io or 11 pairs; racemes sessile or short-peduncled, the bracts inconspicuous; pedicels 3-5 mm. long, spreading or re- al, 2.5—3 the-lobes of about the same length, much lighter, broadly trian- gular-ovate, acute; petals 1 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, concave, the the anther small, on a filament longer than itself; ovary densely white-pilose, 1 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad; style nearly I mm long, 0.5 mm. thick. (Wo. 1892.) SAPINDACEAE (Contributed, except Llagunoa, by Dr. L. Radlkofer) SERJANIA RETICULATA Camb. in A. St Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer.1: 359. forma genuina. (No. 2816.) The same as mo. 473. (Two plants were distributed under zo. 2876.) SERJANIA RUBICAULIS Benth.; Radlk. Monog. Serj. 254. (Vo. 2622.) SERJANIA OVALIFOLIA Radlk. quodammoxo recedens foliolis sub- integerrimis, impunctatis, epidermide mucigera. (Specimen without number.) (341 ) SERJANIA LETHALIS St. Hil. Pl. Rem. Brés. 1: 206, 235. ‘¢Growing in mould and yellow clay, and climbing to a height of 30feet or more. Flowers white.” Coroico, August 12, 1894. (No. 2377.) SERJANIA SPHAEROCOCCA Radlk. Monog. Serj. 153. (Vo. 2623.) SERJANIA AREOLATA Radlk. Monog. Serj. Suppl. n. 14. ‘* Plant grows in gravel, along roadside, and climbs to a height of about 8 feet. Flowers yellow.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Wo. 2444.) SERJANIA GRANDICEPS Radlk. Bull. Torrey Club 25: 336. 1898. (Specimens without number. ) CaRDIOSPERMUM HALICACABUM MIcROocARPUM Bl. ‘A small pliant climbing to a height of 4-6 feet, in cultivated ground. Flowers white.” Coripata, Yungas, March 28, 1894. (Wo. 2110.) PAULLINIA DASYSTACHYA GENUINA Radlk. Bull. Torrey Club 25: 337. 1898. (Wo. 28r5 or 2475.) ALLOPHYLUS PUNCTATUS (Poepp.) Radlk. Mem. Torrey Club 6: 21. (Schmidelia punctata Poepp. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 3: 38. pl. 2gg.) ‘*A tree about ro ft. high, growing in dry, gravelly soil. Flowers white.” Coroico, September 2, 1894. (Vo. 2405.) ALLOPHYLUS CINNAMOMEUS Radlk. Bull. Torrey Club 25: 336. 1898. (Vo. 2236.) CUPANIA VERNALIS Camb. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1: 387. (Wo. 2254.) MataysBa BOLIVIANA Radlk. Bull. Torrey Club 25: 336. 1898. ‘¢A tree about 15 ft. high, with white flowers, growing in rich forest, near river.” Coripata, April 23, 1894. (Vo. 2772.) Llagunoa Mandoni sp. nov. Branchlets Si dais -brown with prominent leaf-scars, the inter- nodes only about m. long; petioles 6 mm. long, margined, show- ing no indications of lateral leaflets, blades 3-6 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. broad, oval-ovate, acutish, rounded to subcordate at the base, serrate with short, broad teeth, puberulent on the veins underneath; flowers not seen; fruits solitary, the stoutish peduncles 1.25-2 cm. long; fruiting calyx- segments oval, —7 mm. long, thickish; fruits 2 cm. broad after expansion, anaes eer rey light-brow internally; seed black, 5 mm. long. (Vo. 7928.) Collected ie by Mandon (342 ) ANACARDIACEAE Duvava FASCICULATA Griseb. Goett. Abh. 19: 116. 1874. (Spec- imen without number.) The same as a specimen collected by Hieronymus at Cordoba, August 20, 1877. LoxoprerycGium sp. (Vo. 2255.) LEGUMINOSAE CROTALARIA INCANA L. Sp. Pl. 716. ‘* Grows 2 or 3 ft. high, in dry clay; the flowers yellow.” Coripata, March 18, 1894. (lo. 2069.) CROTALARIA PTEROCAULA Desv. Jour. Bot. 3: 76. 1814. “A small plant growing in dry clay and gravel, on the hills above Coripata, the flowers yellow; scarce.” March 26, 1894. (Vo. 2110.) Lupinus HumiFusus Benth. Pl. Hartw. 169. (Vo. 1836.) Lupinus PANICULATUS Desr.; Lam. Encyc. 3: 625. (Vo. 7883.) The same as Mandon 682. Lupinus cuspidatus sp. nov. Pilose, the older portions sparsely so, the hairs mostly appressed ; stems stoutish, coarsely angled; stipules 1 broad, the body lance-oblong, abruptly or gradually contracted into the narrowly linear attenuation, which comprises nearly half the length; petioles 3-6 cm. long, slender; leaflets mostly 7, the largest inconspicuous; peduncle elongated, stout; panicle about 4 cm. broad; bracts similar to the stipules, but smaller, early deciduous, the pedicels mostly 2 or 3 together, about 7 mm. long, weak; lower lip of calyx 8 mm. long, strongly compressed, acute, the apex lightly incurved, the upper 7 mm. long; corolla white or whitish, the vexillum nearly 1.5 cm. long and almost as broad, the strong folds yellow or brown, the wings 1.5 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. broad, the keel strongly incurved; fruit not seen. (/Vo. 7987.) Lupinus macrostachys sp. nov. and coarsely yellow-hirsute, the hairs somewhat shining; root vertical, elongated, slender, simple; stems 3- Zs stoutish but weak, ascending, coarsely angled, densely leafy; stipules more or less adnate the petioles at the , the free portion about 0.75 cm. long, linear-attenuate, thin; petioles 5-7 cm. long, weak; leaflets mostly 9, the largest 3.5-7 cm. long, 0.75-1.25 cm. broad, oblanceolate, acute at the base, minutely ( 343 ) pointed at the apex, the point green; leaf thin, yellowish-green, the midrib lightly epee on both sides; peduncle short, stout, coarsely angled, the raceme 1.5-4 dm. long, about 3 cm. broad; bracts blue, mostly 7-8 mm. long, linear-attenuate; pedicels about 5 mm. long; campanulate tube of the dark-blue, ‘hirsute calyx 2 mm. long, the keel 1 cm. long, 4 mm. broad when flattened out, acuminate, the upper lip 8 mm. long, its two teeth 3 mm. long, acute; corolla bright blue, the vexillum r. 25 cm. long and broad, or a little broader, the wings 8 mm. broad, the basal auricle large, rounded, the keel nearly 1.5 cm. long, the apex acute, of a ver deep blue; legume 2.5 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. broad, oblanceolate, very short-pointed, acute, rae hirsute, the persistent corolla enclosing the narrow, empty base, 2-seeded, so far as seen, the seeds 4 mm. long, oval or obovoid, flattened. (Vo. 7042.) Lupinus macrostachys sessiliflorus var. nov. Plant half as large, the flowers sessile, two-thirds of the size, the vexillum with a narrow, thickened, white s Ber (apparently ab- normal), the keel with a white base. (Vo. 2982). TRIFOLIUM AMABILE H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: pa (No. 2819.) PsoRALEA LASIosTacHys Vogel, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 19: Suppl. 1: 13. 1843. ‘+A shrub 6 ft. high growing in mould and clay, the flowers blue; not plentiful.” Coroico, July 14, 1894. (Vo. 2341. PsoRALEA MEXICANA (L. f.) A. M. Vail, Bull. Torrey Club a1: 119. 1894. (lndigofera mexicana L.f. Suppl. 335.— Psoralea Mutiséi Kunth, Mim. tor. pf. 54.) (Vo. ae ) The same as 158. ? COURSETIA GRANDIFLORA Benth. ; Oerst. Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. ro. 1853. (Vo. 1899.) The same as Mandon 707. CouRSETIA BOLIVIANA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 260. 1889. (No. 1810.) The same as Rusby 1047 and 1344. ASTRAGALUS UNIFLORUS D.C. Astrag. 243. £2. 50. (ios. 1792 and 7879.) ASTRAGALUS CAPITELLUS Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 260 1889. (Mo. 7990.) The same as Rusby ro005. CHAETOCALYX BRASILIENSIS (Vogel) Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 15): 75. (Specimen without number.) The same as Rusby 2398. AESCHYNOMENE FALcaTA DC. Prodr. 2: 322. Coripata, Yungas, March, 1894. (JVo. 2820.) AESCHYNOMENE BRASILIANA (Poir.) DC. Prodr. 2: 322. (Hedy- sarum brasilianum Poir. Encyc. 6: 448.) ‘+ Abundant in dry, gravelly soil, the flowers yellow.” Coripata, March 8, 1894. (Vo. 2082.) (344) STYLOSANTHES JUNCEA Micheli, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genév. 28°: 1g. 1883. (lVo. 2750.) ARACHIS HYPOGAEA L. Sp. Pl. 741. ‘* Requires good soil; culti- vated; local name ‘ Mani.’” Coripata, April 24, 1894. (Vo. MEIBOMIA CAJANIFOLIA (H.B.K.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 195. (Hedysarum cajanifolium H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 525. Al. 598.) (No. 1987.) The same as Rusby 965. MEIBOMIA BARBATA (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 195. (Hedysarum barbatum L. Syst. ed. 10. 1170.) ‘+ Abundant in dry, gravelly soil, the flowers pale-blue.” Coripata, March 11, 1894. (lVo 2085.) Meibomia variegata sp. nov. White-pilose, the hairs mostly es ete slender, elon- gated, purple below, striate; petioles 4-5 cm. long, slender, striate; lateral leaflets very short-petiolulate, 4-5 cm. long, 1.75-2.25 cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, minutely apiculate at the obtuse apex, entire, very thin, bright-green with an irregular, pale middle patch, the very slender yellowish venation lightly prominent, espe- cially underneath, the piney ascending secondaries about 6 pairs; terminal leaflet 0.75-1.25 cm. distant from the lateral, nearly a half larger; panicle very large, very loose and open, leafy, the very u mm. gether, about 1 cm. long, filiform ; ok ong-pilose, the tube m. long, broadly campanulate, the lobes pete te, attenuate, Ge longest 4 mm., the shortest nearly 3 mm. long; corolla nearly 8 mm. long, light-purple; stamens 7 mm. long, one free from the others, distinct at the summit for 1 mm., the pistil a little longer; ovary not stipitate; legume of about 3 joints, one suture very lightly, the other deeply sinuate, the joints about 8 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, the middle one a little shorter and nearly semicircular. (Wo. 2817.) Vicra seTIFoLIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 500. (Specimen with- out number. ) BRADBURYA sp. nov. An undescribed species of this genus was distributed, but our one specimen was lost and description cannot be written. (JVo. 2328, in part.) ERYTHRINA RUBINERVIS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: . ‘A tree about 4o ft. high, growing in wet clay; the flowers dark-red. Local name ‘ Saibo.’” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 24378.) GALACTIA GLAUCESCENS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 431. ‘* Grows ( 345 ) on dry, gravelly hillsides; the flowers pale-blue.’’ Coripata, March 15, 1894. (Vo. 2084. CANAVALIA OBTUSIFOLIA DC. Prodr. 2: 404. ‘‘ Climbing on high trees in the forest; the flowers blue.” Coripata, May 15, 1894. (Vo. 2195.) Mr. Bang’s use of the word ‘‘ blue” here is un- questionably an error, as the flowers are present and are purple rather than blue. ? PHASEOLUS TRUXILLOIDES H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 451. (Vo. 2269.) PHASEOLUS ERYTHROLOMA Mart. in Benth. Ann. Mus. Vind. 2: 132. ‘*Climbing 4-6 ft. in dry rocky and clayey soil, the flowers violet.” Abundant at Coripata, April 26, 1894. (Vo. 2163.) Phaseolus vignoides sp. nov. Shortly ferr mentose ; branches elongated, very slender; stipules 3-5 mm. long, oval, obtuse, finely nerved ; petioles 35 | cm. long, stoutish, weak; petioles a lateral leaflets 2 mm. > stout, terete, few-flowered; bracts thick, blackish, 3-5 mm. long, ovate or oval, obtuse; c calyx 1 ng, 1.5 ¢ broad at the al campanulate, lobed half-way, the lobes sub-ro- tund, the two upper completely united into one of similar form but bie and entire, thick, rigid, tomentose; vexillum 4 cm. broad, suborbicular, thickish, slightly emarginate, its claw short and spirally twisted; united portion of filaments about 2.5 cm. long, downwardly broadened, oe free portions capillary, nearly r. 75 cm. long, the anthers uniform, 1.5 mm. long, lance-oblong, obtuse; style inflated, be anes a ineath ‘the small terminal stigma ; legume (but one seen) 7 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, acute, the mar- gins slightly preeney seed 5 mm. long, 3 mm broa d. «‘ Climbing 10 to 15 ft., the flowers yellow and violet; abundant in wet mould near the roadside.” Coroico, July 8, 1894. (Vo. 2328.) (346) DoticHos Lasias L. Sp. Pi. 725. (Vo. 282r.) Dolicholus phaseoloides (Sw.). (Glycine phaseoloides Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1248.) ‘*Grows in mould and clay near roadsides, not climbing high, the flowers brownish-white.” Coroico, September 11, 1894. (Vo. 2427.) Doticuotus sp. (Woe. 2828 or 2478.) This is the same as Pal- mer 209 and Blanchet 291, which are referred to the last, but it appears to me distinct. Dolicholus ovatus sp. nov. Short-tomentose throughout; stems stoutish, coarsely angled; stipules about 7 mm. long, ovate, inequilateral, acuminate; peti- es 2-3 cm. long, stoutish, lightly channeled aboge: petiolules of the lateral ae about 3 mm. long, very stout, the blades 4-7 cm. long, 2:5-4.5 cm. broad, ovate, truncate or rounded at the base, acuminate and ae very inequilateral, thickis, the venation im- pressed above, prominent underneath; terminal leaflet 1-1.5 cm. distant from the lateral, about Se larger, proportionally broader, 3-nerved; peduncles about 5 mm. long; racemes 0.5-1 dm. long; calyx-tube campanulate, 2 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; lower lobe 1 cm. long, lance-linear and tapering eae from the base to the acute point, closely folded; lateral lobes 8 mm. long, olate, acuminate; standard 1 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, obovate, the keel 1.5 mm. long, broad, obtuse, the auricles 1 mm. long, and rounded but el gerd sae by the sharply infolded lower margin; wings 9 mm. long, the claw 1.5 mm. long, the auricle 1 mm. long, Tepecolate! obtuse, ees the body 3 mm. broad, united to the keel except about 2 mm. at the apex, the keel slightly longer; filaments united to within 2 mm. of the apex, the tenth distinct, the greenish, thick style equaling them, subulate, entire, obtusish ; legume 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, the margins slightly thickened, narrowed at the base, very short-pointe ; see eep reddish- bro own, 4 mm. long, not quite so broad, strongly flattened. ‘‘ Climbing slightly, in wet clayey soil; scarce; flowers yellow.” Coripata, March 24, 1894. (Vo. 2098.) Eriosema canescens sp. nov. escent throughout with long, soft, appressed hairs; tuberous- thickened root cylindrical or fusiform; stems several from a woody crown, 5-8 dm. high, erect, slender, simple or nearly so, angled above; stipules 1.5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, lanceolate, attenuate, sub-connate; petioles 3-5 mm. long, stout and broad; terminal leaflet o.8-1.2 dm. long, 1-1.5 cm. broad, the lateral 6-9 cm. lon: leaflets ]ance-oblong, on petiolules about equaling the petioles, ( 347 ) blunt at the base, obtuse but minutely apiculate at the apex, mone thick and rigid, the venation strongly impressed above, the midrib pilose; pod 1.5 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. broad, inequilaterally ellip- tical, minutely apiculate ; seed 15 mm. long, compressed, dark-brown with the thicker margin whit ‘Scarce, on dry gravelly hills ; the flowers yellow.” Coripata, Yungas, March 18, 1894. (Vo. 2094.) ?MacHAERIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM Vogel, Linnaea 11: 193. 1837. ‘¢ A tree 25-30 ft. high, growing in wet forest-mould, the flowers blue.” Coripata, March 14, 1894. (Vo. 2790.) The same as Rusby 23766. Machaerium Bangii sp. nov. Stems and inflorescence ferruginous-tomentose ; leaves pilose upon the veins; branches coarsely angled; branchlets elongated, dark, lightly angled; spines about 6 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad at the base, lightly recurved, ferruginous ; petioles 1-2 cm. long, stout, dilated at the insertion ; Tend ves 1.5-2 dm. long, pinnate, the leaflets 12-15 on each ae alternate; petiolules ‘about 1 mm. long, nearly as broad; leaflets 3-4.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. broad, lance- pica, rounded at the base, emarginate at the apex, thi in, dark-gr een above, yellowish-green underneath with the midrib asia aaa the venation obscure, the secondaries very numerous; panicle 3 dm. or more long and broad, loose and open; ae about 2 mm. long, stout; calyx thick, dark- purple, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, campanulate, the base rounded or truncate, the mouth oblique, the short lobes triangular, obtusish with acute wae orbicular, thick bractlets nearly half as long as the calyx; corolla dark-purple, thick, lightly pilose, abruptly flexed a little shove. the calyx; vexillum, exclusive of the short claw, 9 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, cordate at both ends ; ing 8 mm. long, exclusive of the claw, 4 mm. ae strongly auricled, the auricle semi-rhomboidal, 1 mm. broad; keel 6 mm ovary oblanceolate, acuminate at both ends, long-stipitate, pilose. ‘¢ A shrub, not very tall, the stem very thorny, the flowers light- blue. In dry, sunny, gravelly places.” Coroico, August 30, 1894. (No. 7399 9.) ‘Sometimes the Indians use the leaves instead of coca.’ ? DREPANOCARPUS LUNATUS (L. f.) G. Meyer, Primit. Fl. Esseq. ( 348 ) 238. (Pterocarpus lunatus L. f. Suppl. 317.) ‘*A shrub 10-15 ft. high, in dry, shaded locations, i flowers pale-blue, falling off very easily; scarce.” Coripata, May 4, 1894. (Wo. 2175+) CASSIA BICAPSULARIS L. Sp. Pl. 376. (Wo. 2824 and probably also xo. 2058. ?CASSIA PENDULA Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 440. (Vo. 1985.) Cassia PATELLARIA DC. in Collad. Hist. Cass. 125. p2. 76. «In and about coca-plantations and other cultivated grounds, the flowers yellow.” Coripata, March 7, 1894. (Vo. 2082.) CassIA SYLVESTRIS Vell. Fl. Flum. 169; 4: AZ. 78. (Nos. 2822 and 2823.) Cassia TOMENTOSA L. f. Suppl. 231. (/Vo. 7782.) Cassia Tora L. Sp. Pl. 538. ‘* Grows 2-5 ft. high in dry clay, the flowers yellow; scarce.” Coripata, April 26, 1894. (iVo 2I61.) Cassia Assus L. Sp. Pl. 376. (iVo. 2739.) Mimosa sSORATENSIS Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 30: 427. 1875. (Wo. 7780.) The same as Rusby 1299. ? Mimosa ASPERATA L, Syst. ed. 10. 1312. ‘*A shrub 8-10 ft. high, growing in sandy places near the river; very sensitive; flowers a light red-rose color; scarce.” Coripata, April ‘20, 1894. (Wo. 2147.) Mimosa sp. (Vo. 1872.) Acacia ( Vuldgares) boliviana sp. nov. Unarmed, pubescent; branches stout, flexuous, sharply sulcate ; reer slender, short, numerous, coarsely angled and sulcate; stipules mm. long, lance-linear, obtuse, 3-nerved, a red; petioles nou 3 cm. long, stout, sulcate, the encee a a m. ong, t dm. broad, bipinnate, the pinnae 15-20 pairs, eee the lower shorter, very short-petiolulate, the Petiolules obscurely glan- dular at the base; pinnules about 50-60 s, 4 mm. long, nearly I mm. broad, oblon » very inequilateral, Tinea at ‘the base, ob- lique and acutish at the apex, the venation obscure, dark-green; panicles mostly 1.5 dm. long, ascending, loose, the peduncles mostly 2-5-fascicled, 1-1.5 cm. long, lightly angled; heads about 1.25 cm. broad, densely flowered; buds globose, about 2 mm. in diameter; calyx campanulate, nearly 2 mm. long, the lobes oval, obtuse, thick ; ; phe 4-5 mm. long, yellow with a slight tinge of red; eee 4-6 cm. long, 1-1.25 cm. broad, the stipe about 7 ong, strongly flattened, with thickened eas, abruptly pointed, the point 3-4 mm. long g, acute; about 5-—7-seeded. (349) ‘CA shrub 10 to 15 ft. high, with white flowers, abundant in dry clayey soil and slate.” Coripata, February, 1894. (Vo. 2070, in flower; also a specimen in fruit, without number.) Pithecolobium (Semanea ?) coripatense sp. nov. Ferruginous-puberulent; branches short, stoutish, > spread- ing, coarsely angled, densely leafy ; stipules not seen; leaves bi- ee the pinnae mostly 6 pairs, the pinnules 8-10 aires petioles 2~3 cm. long, stoutish, slightly dilated at - bate the caetag sipiler ‘about 5 mm. long; pinnules subses bout 1 . long, 5-7 mm. broad, oblong- -ovate, highly anata Pe slightly ie the base ‘truncate, angularly produced upon the lower side, minutely apiculate at the apex, deep-green, thickish, the venation prominent, especially underneath, the secondaries about 7 pairs; panicles shortly I mm. long, hemispherical-campanulate, shortly and obtusely toothed, the corolla 2 mm eee campanulate, divided about to the mi iddle; stamens about 20-25. ‘© A shrub about 15 ft. high, with white flowers. One specimen found at Coripata, May 6, 1894, in dry clay, among other shrubs.” (Vo. 2176.) PIPTADENIA COLUBRINA (Vell.) Benth. Jour. Bot. Hook. 4: 341. 1842. (Adimosa colubrina Vell. Fl. Flum. 11: p/. 76.) “A stout tree, 40 ft. high, growing in wet clay and gravel, the timber good for building.” Coripata, May 8, 1894. (Vo. 2279.) INGA BOLIVIANA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 17: 9. 1890. (Mo. 986. e same as Rusby 990. INGA TENUIFLORA Salzm.; Benth. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4: 5096. 1845. (Wo. 2659.) Inga hirsutissima sp. nov. Branchlets stout, terete, densely ferruginous-hirsute with spread- ing hairs; stipules persistent, mostly a little less than 1 cm. long, mostly broader than ie ovate, truncate or subcordate at the base, slightly pointed and acute at the apex, purplish-brown, pete rae and rigid, strongly many-nerved; leaves sessile, the rachis (upper leaves only seen) about 5 cm. long, by the wings 5-7 mm. broad; leaflets sessile, 4 pairs, ee lowest 3°5 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. broad, the uppermost 6-8 cm. g, 3-4 cm. broad, obovate, slightly ine- quilateral, rounded at ee ie Bee abruptly short-pointed and acute at the apex, entire, thickich, the venation very lightly promi- nent above, more so underneath, the slender secondaries about 8 pairs ; flowering peduncles 3 cm. long, stout, strongly angled; heads (350) short and dense, 3-5 cm. broad in full bloom; bracts 5 mm. lon broadly ovate, acuminate and acute, stron gly nerved ; calyx-tube about 4mm. long,campanulate, the lobes of about the same length, regularly see lg ds acuminate and acute, the sinuses about equal- ing them; calyx brown, thick, oo strongly aes styles ap- parently shod: twice the length of the stamens; fruit n «¢ A slender tree 15 ft. high, bs greenish flowers, _ wet forest mould, scarce.” Near Coroico, July 10, 1894. (Vo. 2333.) Inga rugosa sp. nov. Shortly and densely tomentose, ferruginous or gray, the branch- lets oF angled; stipules not seen; petioles (only the upper- most seen) 5-10 cm. long, stout, very slightly margined; leaflets two a hes cm. apart, eubsessile, ne rachis margined; leaflets 1.5-2. . long, 0.6-1 dm. broad, the upper somewhat larger, ovate, fans or obovate, i area cee at the base, acute at the apex, thick, the midrib lightly prominent above, strongly promi- nent underneath, like the 12-15 pairs of principal secondaries, each alternating with one or two short lesser ones, the upper surfaces slightly hard, the lower soft; peduncles axillary, and fascicled at the apex, 4-5 cm. long, very stout; heads elongated, dense, about : campa long, rigid, broadly ovate, acute; corolla about twice the length of the calyx, densely white-hirsute, the lobes 3 mm. long, ovate, ob- tuse; fruit not seen ‘A tree zo to 30 ft. high, with white flowers, abundant in damp forest-mould, the timber used for building.” Calapampa, Yungas, July 30, 1894. (Vo. 2764.) Species near Z. Afigueliana. ROSACEAE Hirtella lightioides sp. nov. Branchlets stout, spreading, purple, terete, papillose; stipules 5m inconspicuou long, lance-ovate; ong, very stout, ferruginous; blades 6-12 cm. long, 3-7 c road, ovate oval, rounded at the base, eee short-acuminate and obtuse at the apex, entire, thick and rigid, pale-green, above minutel scabrous and the veins lightly prominent, underneath finely stellate- scabrous, with the prominent veins strongly reticulate, the second- aries 12-14 pairs, connecting near the margin; peesasaans strongly ferruginous, the erect solitary loose panicles 6-10 ¢ oe including the peduncle, which is of very irregular length, on cm broad, the branches mostly cymosely a-flowered ; bracts m. long, lance-linear, attenuate and acute, the bractlets half as long, ovate; pedicels spreading, 3 mm. long, very stout, thickened (351) upward; sepals recurved, sub-equal, 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, oval, thick and rigid, green, lightiy and bluntly keeled, ay without, glabrous within, obscurely 3-nerved; petals sub-regular, 8 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, oval, slightly inequilateral, rounded at the — vinately ‘clawed, purple, glabrous; filament-tube about 2mm. h, the perfect stamens at ee a 2 cm. long, purple, the peed cep he ee or blackish, near] m. long, the three lower filaments 2-3 mm. long, very slender, white: style filiform, about fais the filaments. ‘* A slender tree about 20 ft. high, with bright-blue flowers, scarce in dry forest-mould.” Coroico, Yungas, September 7, 1894. (Wo. 247 PRUNUS GUANAIENSIS Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 31. ‘A tree about 20 feet high, with white flowers, growing in forest-mould near river.” Coripata, April 9, 1894. (Vo. 2770.) The same as 7432 and Mandon 677. A form with narrower leaves, with cuneate base, distributed as *‘ 2770a,” may be distinct. Prunus Britronrana Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 24. (lVo. z938.) The same as S2z. Rusus Bouiviensis Focke, Bremen Abh. 4: 158. 1874. (Or Fubus sp. nov.?) ‘* Grows in hedges, and climbs to a height of 8 or 10 feet; the flowers white, the fruit edible. Local name ‘Cari-cari.?. Abundant.” Coripata, April, 1894. (Vo. 2747.) The same as Rusby 468, in part. The limits of this species are extremely doubtful. Azsdy g68 includes two forms, which may well be distinct. RUBUS BOLIVIENSIS (or sp. nov.?). ‘Along roadsides, climbing to a height of 6-10 feet, the flowers light-red.” Coroico, July 24, 1894. (Vo. 2376z.)° There is little doubt that this number represents a distinct species, but I do not care to publish it until I know it better. Rupus ciaucus Benth. Pl. Hartw. 173. (lVo. 78596.) The same as Ausby 471. Rusus mEcatococcus Focke, Bremen Abh. 4: 157. 1874. (Vos. r859a and 1859c.) The same as 2678, Mandon 662 and Rusby 470, but not Rusby 476. Rubus bullatus sp. nov. Coarsely hirsute-tomentose eee ae the stem and principal veins underneath armed with small, strongly recurved prickles; stipules becoming 1.5 cm. long, 2 cm. a irregularly ovoid, coarsely toothed, some inclined to be 3-lobed, foliaceous and of (352) similar texture to the leaves; petioles 3-5 cm. long, stout; blades 4- sinus, short-acuminate and acute, some 3-lobed with the lateral lobes much smaller and short and broad, irregularly crenate-dentate, thick, dark-green, finely and strongly reticulate, strongly bullate by the veins impressed above and very prominent underneath; panicles small and loose, with few spreading branches, leafy with small leaves similar to the stipules; pedicels nearly 1 cm. long, very po the ee slender, nearly straight; sepals occasionally prickly, 8mm. long, 5 mm. broad, ovate, abruptly short-acuminate and acute, many purplish; petals 1 cm. long (white?), strongly gated, filiform, aie. ae cNe FRAGARIA CHILENSIS Duchesie, Hist. Frais. 165; Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 4. (Vo. 1962.) Potentilla lignipes sp. nov. Pilose with long, appressed white hairs; base stout, woody, rough _ black, imbricated, ovate, acuminate scales; stems numerous, 1-4 dm. long, slender, prostrate or oe , branched, on ae the internodes mostly 3-5 cm. long; sti ipules about mm. long, 2 mm. broad, lance-oblong, ae sub-herbaceous ; petioles 5—7 cm. long, very slender; blades 1.5-2 cm. long, 2-2 cm. broad, cordate, 5-foliolate, the leaflets oblanceolate to obovate, about 5 or 6 pairs, the venation prominent below, lightly impressed above; pedicels Saeae exceeding the leaves, very slender; outer broad, obcordate, pale-yellow; stamens about 20, two-thirds the length of the sepals, the filaments stout, bright-purple, inserted into the pce white-pilose base of the calyx, the anthers ovoid, nearly 2 mm. long; ovary o.5 mm. long, reniform, shining, green, the Hone straight style more than 1 mm. long, reddi sh. (.Vo 7966.) ACAENA ELONGATA L. Mant: 200. (Vo. r82r. ACAENA OVALIFOLIA R. & P. Fl. Per. 1: 67. (Specimen without number.) The same as Ruséy 467. EriopoTrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl. Trans. Linn. Soc. 13: 102. 1822. (Aespilus japonica Thunb. FI. Jap. 206.) “A stout tree, 30 feet high, cultivated and escaped from cultivation, the flowers white, the fruit edible. Local name + Mesperus.’” Coripata, February 28, 1894. (Wo. 2066.) The same as Rusby 629. (353) OSTEOMELES PERNETTYOIDES (Wedd.) Decne. Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris 10: 184. 1874. (Hesperomeles pernettyoides Wedd. Chlor. And. 2: 230.) (Wo. 7839.) The same as Rusby 1787. OsTEOMELES FERRUGINEA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 211. (Vo. 1795.) The same as a part of zo. 7277, which was inadvertently distributed as Clethra érevifolia Benth. SAXIFRAGACEAE EscALLONIA ADSCENDENS Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 32. (Vo. 1827.) The same as xo. 089. WEINMANNIA LAURINA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 51. ‘+A small tree, with white flowers, growing in wet forest mould.” Un- duavi, September 2, 1894. (lo. 2484.) Also collected by Pearce at Sandillana, 8,000 to 9,000 it., April, 1866 WEINMANNIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 57. (Vo. 7988.) The same as 7zz. Also collected by 7¢zana, in New Grenada. Weinmannia rhoifolia sp. nov. Younger portions and inflorescence tomentellate, otherwise glabrous; branchlets blackish: lightly sulcate; stipules 3 mm. long, oval or obovate with broad summits, thick ; petioles 6-12 mm crooked intermediate secondary ; racemes solitary i in the axils, 5-10 cm. long, including the short peduncle; inflorescence moderately dense, the fascicles mostly 5—7-flowered; pedicels slender, about 5 mm. broad, the lobes ovate, obtuse, thick ; stamens slightly exceed- g the styles ; fruit not seen. (Vo. 2989.) Distributed as W. ie. The same as Matthews 1436. Rises aupirotium R. & P. Fl. Per. 3: 12. pl. 272, f. 8. “A shrub, 6 ft. high, with green flowers, growing in forest mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (os. 2487 and 7832.) HALORAGEAE CALLITRICHE sp. (Vo. 1887.) ( 354) MYRTACEAE PsIpIUM PYRIFERUM L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 672. (Vos. 2870, 2877 and 2832.) PsIDIUM POMIFERUM L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 672. (WWVo. 2829.) Myrtus micropHyLia H. & B. Pl. Aequin. r: 19. Al. g. (Vo. IQIT. Myrcia PaivaE Berg; Mart. Fl. Bras. 141: 179. (Vos. 2827 and 2828.) Myrcia LANCEOLATA Camb.; A. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2: 329. (No. 2826.) The same as zo. 285. MyRrcia PRUNIFOLIA DC. Prodr. 3: 253. (Vo. 2825.) The same as Rusby 2693. Myrcia coroicensis sp. nov. Inflorescence and younger portions ferruginous or more or less yellowish appressed-hairy; branchlets slender, strongly spreading, acumination obtuse, the upper surface glabrous except when very young; pilose upon the veins underneath, thickish, pale, the second- aries very numerous, the alternating ones st: ronger, a strong inter- connecting line about 1 mm. from the margin, the surfaces rather finely reticulate, venation obscure above, rather eee under- neath; panicles terminal and in the upper axils, 6-10 cm. long, pyramidal, very loose and open, the branches very slender; mature uds globose, 2-2.5 mm. in diameter; calyx strongly tomentose on both surfaces, the tube broadly turbinate, rather longer than the broad lobes, extended between the ovary and stamens, becoming strongly recurved; style slender, tapering, 4-5 mm. (Wo. 2276.) Very near AZ. Patvae Berg. MELASTOMACEAE DEsMOscELIS CALCARATA (Naud.) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 1871. (Lastandra calcarata Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. IY. 13: 127. 1850.) ‘* Flowers large, white, fall on being touched. Grows in wet mould.” Coripata, April 6, 1894. (Wo. 2I19. TIBOUCHINA GRANULOSA (Desr.) Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 14°: 340. (Adelastoma granulosa Desr.; Lam. Encyc. 4: 44.) Nos. 1955 and 2227.) TIBOUCHINA BICOLOR (Naud.) Cogn.; DC. Monogr. Phan. 7: 265. ( Chaetogastra bicolor Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III.14: 128. 1850.) (355) ‘© A shrub, 4 to 6 feet high, in clay along roadsides, the flowers dark blue.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vos. 1956 and 2453.) Tisoucnina Orpicnyana Cogn.; DC. Monogr. Phan. 7: 261. (Specimen without number.) TIBOUCHINA LONGIFOLIA Baill. Adansonia 12: 74. (Vo. 2644.) A specimen without number varies with broader, darker, nearly sessile leaves. TIBOUCHINA GRACILIS Cogn.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 14°: 386. (Speci- men without number. ) TIBOUCHINA MEMBRANIFOLIA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 17. 1896. (Wo. 2857.) Tibouchina adenophora Cogn. sp. nov. (Sect. Drotanthera); ramis acutiuscule tetragonis; junioribus petiolis ‘pedunculisque pilis patulis brevibus glandulosis dense vesti- tis; foliis membranaceis, anguste ovatis, breviter acuminatis, basi 3-5.5 cm. . calycis tubus anguste ovoideus, 4 mm. longus, dentes e erecti, 1.5 mm. longi: petala ut videtur rosea, peel brevissime glandulosa, 4-5 mm. longa: antherae 3 ve . longae: stylus crassius- culus, glaber, 7 mm. ieee or ve -) Affinis 7. Rusby Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 17 Tibouchina obtusifolia Cogn. sp. nov. Sect. Diotanthera) ; ramis obscure tetragonis; junioribus peti- re ticulatis, 5-nerviis nervis iteralibus latibreviter coalitis, supra setulis brevissimis subpatulis basi tuber culatis densiuscule vestitis, connectivo latibreviuscule producte. Caulis lignosus, satis gracilis, axe ramosus, obscure tetragonus, ramis gracilibus, paulo compres- (356) oe cinereo- ie tai petiolus gracilis, 4-7 mm. longus: folia patula nusve reflexa, supra saturate viridia, subtus cinerea, ae —5.5 cm. ioe 17-26 mm. lata, superiora minora: paniculae —8 cm. longae: calycis tubus cinereus, ovoideus, 4 mm. longus, lobi erecto-patuli, 3 mm. longi: petala ut videtur rosea vel purpu- rascentia, obovato- “oblonga, subtiliter ciliata, 1o-11 mm. oe antherae 5-6 mm. longae: stylus subfiliformis, glaber, 11 longus. (/Vo 2646.) Affinis 7. Brittontanae Cogn. Bull. Tae Club 17 . Tibouchina excoriata Cogn. sp. nov. (Sect. Diotanthera) ; ramis obscure tetragonis, inferne demum excoriatis; junioribus petiolis pedunculis calycibusque breviuscule adpresse denseque pilosis ; foliis rigidiusculis, ovatis, acutis, basi satis inaequalibus, filamentis glaberrimis, antheris linearibus superne longe attenuatis. Caulis lignosus, robustiusculus, excoriatus, ramos- m. longus: folia patula vel plus minusve reflexa, supra obscure viridia, subtus c cinerea, nervis rubescentibus, majora 5.5 cm. longa et 3 ata, superiora multo minora: paniculae subcongestae, 3-4 cm. longae: calycis tubus anguste obovoideus, cinereus, 4 mm. longus, dentes erecti, 2 mm. longi: petala flavescentia, obovata, vix ciliata, 4 mm. longa: antherae 3 vel a 5 mm. longae: stylus filiformis, glaber,6 mm. longus. (Vo. 2992.) Affinis C. modllzs Cogn. TIBOUCHINA TETRAPETALA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 277. 1896. ‘A very common shrub, 4-6 ft. high, growing in sun- shine, in clay and mould.” Coroico, Yungas, September ro, 1894. BRACHYOTUM SANGUINOLENTUM (Naud.) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 49. 1871. (Chaetogastra sanguinolenta Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. IIE. 14: 131. 1850. (Vo. 2860.) AcioTis pALUDosA Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 51. (No. CaLYPTRELLA cucuLLATA Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 72. pd. 5, f.60. (Specimen without number. ) DIoLENA BOLIVIENSIS Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 277. 1896. (Wo. 2574.) LEANDRA CRENATA (D. Don) Cogn.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 14*: 137. (Clidemia crenata D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 308. 1823.) (No. 2629.) (357) LEANDRA BOLIVIENSIS Cogn. Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 29. (JVo. 2859+) Lzanpra picHotoma (D. Don) Cogn.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 14*: 200. ( Clidemia dichotoma D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 307. 1823.) (Wo. 7994.) LEANDRA EROSTRATA (DC.) Cogn.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 14‘: 139. ( Clidemia erestrata DC. Prodr. 3: 160.) (Specimen without number.) LEANDRA sp. (lVo. 1999.) Miconia Brirroni Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 17; 92. 1890. (Wo. 2231.) Miconia BRITTON GLABRATA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 278. 262 Miconra coELEsTIs (Don) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. TIT. 14: 245. (Specimen without number.) The same as Rusby 2279 and 2284. Miconta corpata Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 114. 1871. «¢ A tree 20 feet or more in height, with yellow flowers, growing on cool, wet, forested hills. Scarce.” Coripata, May 11, 1894. (Nos. 1186 and 2995. MiconiA CREMOPHYLLA Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 14: 228 (Specimen without number.) The same as Rusby 2266. Miconta cYANOCARPA Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 14: 221. (Specimen without number.) MIcONIA CYANOCARPA PARVIFOLIA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 17. 1896. (Mo. 2259.) MIcoNIA CYANOCARPA HIRSUTA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 278. «« A shrub, 6 to 8 ft. high, with white flowers, growing in good soil, along roadsides and in hedges, scarce.” Coroico, August 16, 1894. (Vo. 2387.) ? Miconra DipsacEA Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 14: 138. (Speci men without number.) MICONIA DOLICHORHYNCHA Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 14: 166 (No. 2672.) (The same as Rusby 2252.) ? MICONIA ELAEAGNOIDES Cogn.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 14*: 390. (Vo 2650.) Miconia FLAVESCENS Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 17: 93. 1890. ‘*A shrub, 6 to 8 ft. high, with white flowers, growing in wet forest-mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2486.) Micon1a GLOMULIFERA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 15. 1896. (No. 1856.) (358) MIcoNIA GRANULOSA (Bonpl.) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 218. 1851. (Melastoma granulosum Bonpl. Melast. 25. fl. zz.) “A shrub, 8 ft. high, with white flowers, growing in forest-mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 1485.) MIcoNIA HOLOSERICEA (L.) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 101. 1871. (Melastoma ee L. Sp. Pl. 390.) (Vo. 2957.) The same as Ruséy 22 MICONIA HYGROPHILA eee Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 220. 1851. (Wo. 2 Miconra IBAGUENSIS (Bonpl.) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 110. 1871. ne thaguense Bonpl. Melast. 105. fl. 45.) 02 Miconia LASIocALYx Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 278. 1896. ‘¢ A shrub about ro ft. high, with white flowers, growing in wet forest mould, in shade. Scarce.” Calapampa, Yungas, July 16, 1894. (Wo. 2744.) MIcONIA MACROPHYLLA (Don) Triana. (Vo. 7670.) The same as Rusby 2240. Miconra Manponi Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 17: 93. 18go. (No. 1894 MICONIA MICRANTHA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 16. 1896. (Wo. 2858. MIcONIA MINUTIFLORA (Bonpl.) DC. Prodr. 3: 189. (dJelastoma minutifiorum Bonpl. Melast. 50. pl. 22.) (Vo. 2223.) Miconia MULTIFLORA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 17: 60. 1890. ‘¢ A shrub about 20 ft. high with rose-colored flowers, in clayey and gravelly soil, near water.” Coripata, June 25, 1894. (Vos. 2700 and 26512. Miconia NERVOSA (Sm.) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: III. 1871. (Melastoma nervosum Sm. in Rees Cycl. 23: no. 31.) (Nos. 71997, 2007 and 2652. MICONIA PLUMIFERA Baneoir Cogn. Bul]. Torrey Club 23: 16 1896. (Mo. 2287.) Miconia rEsINA Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 226. 1851. (Nos. 2626 and 2628.) Miconta sTENostacHuys DC. Prodr. 3: 181. ‘* A shrub about 5 ft. high, with yellowish-white flowers, in dry gravel and clay. Abundant.” Coroico, September 6, 1894. (Vo. 2476.) MIiconIA TERNATIFOLIA Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 118. 71. (No. 2225.) ( 359) MICONIA THEAEZANS SUBTRIPLINERVIA Cogn. Melast. 421. ‘A slender tree, about zo ft. high, with green flowers, in wet forest- mould. Abundant.” Coripata, Yungas, June 24, 1894. (Wo. 2292. MIcoNIA THEAEZANS GLABERRIMA Cogn. Melast. 421. “ Ashrub about 15 ft. high, with greenish-white flowers, in wet forest- mould, the wood used for house building.” Near Coroico, July 9, 1894. (No. 2729.) MIconrIaA UNDATA ROBUSTA Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 278. 1896, ‘* A tree about 15 ft. high, with white flowers, in shade, in wet forest-mould.” Calapampa, ee he 1894. (Wo. 2343-) Miconia UVIFERA Naud. Ann. Sci. . ITT. 16: 222, 1851. ‘* A'shrub, 6 to § ft. high, with oo Mowers in yellow clay and mould, along roadside. pone ae Calapampa, July 2, 1894. (Vos. 23704, 2468* a -) Miconta vALipa Cogn. Bull. a Club 23: 278. 1896. (Wo. 2630.) Miconia amabilis Cogn. sp. nov. (Sect. Amblyarrhena) ; ramis obtuse tetragonis et leviter quad- margine integerrimis, leviter 5- Aap supra pain: supine erecto-patula, sae saturate viridia, subtus satis pallidiora, circiter 2 m. longa, 11-12 cm. lata, nervis nervulisque subtus satis prominen- tibus : Peeae strictae, anguste pyramidatae, dense multiflorae, 16- 17 cm. longae: rami erecto-patuli, elongati, satis compressi, dense stellato- paecnal satis ramulosi: calyx ovoideo-campanulatus, cin- glanduloso-pilosula, 2 mm. longa, antherae leviter arcuatae, 2 mm longae: stylus — apice dilatatus, 4mm. longus, stigmate subpeltato. (No 2649.) Affinis 17. Bang?d Cogn. Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 30. *Of ate Mr. Bang writes ‘‘ A shrub about to ft. high, with yellow flowers, in shade, in forest-mould. Coroico, Sept. 1894.”? I believe this must be found aidnct from 230g, but Ido not know which is a thetype. H. H.R. ( 360 ) Miconia latistigma Cogn. ep: nov. (Sect. Cremanium); ramis junioribus petiolis pedunculisque brevissime denseque tomentosis; foliis longiuscule petiolatis, sub- pilis patulis breviusculis eae dense vestito, lobis triangu- lari-subulatis tube dimidio brevioribus. Rami satis graciles obscure tetragoni, cinerei: petiolus robustiusculus, 3-4 cm. longus: pee erecto-patula, supra saturate ‘viridia, subtus viridi-cinerea, 13-20 onga, 6-10 cm. lata, nervis subtus satis prominentibus, Baer paulo’ distinctis: paniculae latissime pyramidatae, circiter 1 dm. longae, ramis patentibus, elongatis, radae ramulosis: calycis tubus cinereus, campanulato-ovoi ideus, 2 mm. longus, lobi erecti, 1 mm. longi: petala obovata, apice rotundata, 1 mm. longa: antherae vix 33m ongae: oe us ae eae 8, 3-3-5 mm. longus, stigmate late- aa o. Affini uviferae Naud. (Speci imen without number Miconia stellipilis Cogn. sp. nov. (Sect. Cremanium) ; ramis as beget junioribus petiolis pe- dunculisque pilis brevissimis patulis papillosis apice stellatis dense vestitis ; foliis rigidiusculis, bev: petiolatis, anguste ovatis vel glomeratis, calyce breviter obtuseque lobato; stylo filiformi, apne truncato. Rami gracilis, juniores rubiginosi : petiolus robusti- usculus, 6-9 mm. in ee folia patula, supra siccitate nigricantia, subtus cinereo-ferruginea, 8-16 cm. longa, 3. ee 5 cm. lata: panic- ulae ae pyramidatae, Gries 1 dm. longae, usque ad basin ra- osae, ramis patentissimis: races late ae neta densiuscule pelea 1 mm. longus latusque: petala ov gh obtusa, 1 mm. longa: antherae circiter 0.5 mm. longae: stylu longus. (Vo. 2653.) Affinis AZ. pulverulentae Ruiz ot P Tococa GUIANENSIS Aubl. Pl. Guian. 1: 428. (Wo. 2668. ) "The same as Rusby 2242. Ciipemia acuTiFoLti1a Cogn. Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 32. (Wo. (2993+) Ciipemia corpaTa Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 17: 211. 1890. (Vo. 2000.) CiipeMia spicata (Aubl.) DC. Prodr.3: 159. (Melastoma spi- catum Aubl. Pl. Guian. 1: 423. pl. 165.) (Vo. 1996.) (361 ) Ossaea secundiflora Cogn. sp. nov. (Sect. Diclemza) ; ramis junioribus petiolisque pilis brevissimis minute 4-denticulato. Rami satis graciles, obscure tetragoni: peti- olus satis gracilis, 1.5-3 cm. longus: folia membranacea, supra atro- catis, Hagen elongatis, flexuosis: calyx nigricans, late cam- panulatu 1.5 mm. longus, 2 mm. latus: petala triangulari- eeacis acuminata, 2-2.5 mm. longa: antherae lineari-oblongae, 1.5 mm. longae: stylus capillaris, 5 mm. longus. (No number.) Affinis O. petzolarzs Triana. (Vo. 1998.) LYTHRACEAE CuPHEA IANTHINA Koehne; Mart. Flor. Bras. 13’: 238. (Mo. 2267.) The same as Rusby 1067. Cuphea pannoso-cortica sp. nov. Scabrous; a widely much-branched shrub, the periderm separa- ting in long strips, the short branchlets very slender, densely leafy ; leaves subsessile, 0.5-1 cm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, ovate, slightly inequilateral, rounded at the base, obtuse, entire, ciliate, revolute- margined, the midrib very strong underneath; pedicels 5 mm. long, slender, thickened upward, purple; calyx 1.7 cm. lon mm broad at the mouth, infundibuler r, little narrower at the base, strongly nerved, bright- purple, the spur (yellowish-purple) 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, rounded; calyx-lobes very short; principal petals (bright rose-purple) 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad, rounded at the apex, the midrib stout, broad, greenish-yellow ; longest filaments (yellow with purple tips) exserted 3 mm.; anthers gray; style not exserted, broadly dilated at the yellowish base, purple above, the stigma capitate, very small. (Vo. 2006, in part.) ONAGRACEAE EPILogium ANDICOLUM Haussk. Oest. Bot. Zeits. 29: 118. 1879. (Wo. 1808.) FucHsia MACRANTHA Hook. Bot. Mag. Aé. 42373. ae 2834.) Fucusia DEPENDENS Hook. Ic. Pl. 2. 65. (lVo. 2833. Fucusia corympirLora R. & P. Fl. Per. 3: 87. pl. 325. (Do. 800.) (362 ) SAMYDACEAE Casearia obtusifolia sp. nov. Softly puberulent throughout, except the upper leaf-surfaces other than the midrib; branchlets elongated, slender, flexuous, the inter- nodes about 1 cm. long; stipules 2 mm. long, atin from the base, oF petioles 5 mm. long, very s ; blades 6-8 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, oval, nearly elliptical, finely serrate, the teeth short and ae) obtuse or mucronate, thick, dark-green, somewhat shining above, with the finely reticulate ree impressed, strongly rominent underneath, the secondaries about 8 pairs; fascicles not very densely flowered; pedicels 1-2 mm. long, thick; sepals 5 mm. 1 . bro ng, 3mm ad, oval or obovate, rounded at the summit, puberu- lent without; stamens 8, 4 mm. long, the ae stout, the anthers ovate, acute, bright- yellow: staminodia 3 mm. long, fleshy or dilated, upwardly thickened, pilose and peniciilate: adnate to the filaments for half the length; ovary broadly ovate, pilose, 3 mm. long; style 1.5 mm. long, the stigma capitate. «« A tree about 20 ft. high, with yellow flowers. But one found, in dry gravel and clay in forest.” Coroico, September 8, 1894. (No. 2421.) ABATIA BOLIVIANA (Mandon & Weddell) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 17: 214. 1890. (Vo. 7777.) The same as mo. 161}. LOASACEAE SCLEROTHRYX FASCICULATA Presl, Symb. Bot. 2: 3. Al. 53; fide Urban PASSIFLORACEAE PASSIFLORA FOETIDA HIRSUTA Masters; Mart. Fl. Bras. 131: 583. PAsSIFLORA NEPHRODES Masters, Bull. Torrey Club 17: 282. 1890. (Specimen without number.) The same as Rusby go¢. PassIFLORA RUBRA L. Sp. Pl. 956. (Vo. 2876.) PassiFLORA suBEROSA L. Sp. Pl. 958. (Specimen without number.) PASSIFLORA QUADRANGULARIS L. Syst. ed. 10. 1248. ‘¢ Climbs over hedges in rich soil; flowers blue. The fruit is as large as a child’s head and is edible, but has not a nice taste.” Coripata, May 16, 1894. (Wo. 2798.) PASSIFLORA TRICUSPIS Mart. Flor. Bras. 13': 587. (No number.) The same as Rusby 296. . PASSIFLORA TRISULCA Masters, Bot. Jahrb. 13: 218. 1887. ( 363 ) ‘¢Grows in forest-mould and climbs high upon trees; flowers greenish-blue.” (Vo. 2442.) Passiflora Bangii Masters, sp. nov. Sect. Granadella); ramulis glabris sulcatis cirrhatis; foliis distantibus, membran macciey glabris ; petiolis 4-5 cm. longis, glan- oblongis, acutis; laminis 9-10 cm. diam. S aeoicdantas, cordatis, palmatim 3~5-nerviis, ad aes trilobis, lobis oblongis acutis; pedunculis 6—7 cm., gracilibus, r-floris; bracteis (ut videtur) de- ciduis, a flore parum ‘remotis ; floribus diametro 5—6 cm., tubo glabro lato poculiformi; sepalis oblongo- lanceolatis, foliaceis, trinerviis, dorso ie foliaceo- Lire petalis albidis (?), oblongis, membranaceis, quam sepala parum brevioribus; corona fauciali filamentosa, ae eT filis Cae liguliformibus violaceis petalis paulo brevioribus, filis intermediis 2-3-serialibus violaceo-purpureis, capitatis, precedentibus dimidio brevioribus, filis intimis longioribus, versus apices uncinatis, inflexis; corona media a medio tubi em- ergente, membranacea, annulari; gynophoro crassiusculo, brevi, basi corona “cupulari albida membranacea circumdato ; filamentis latis- simis oblongis obtusis apice filo brevissi nitis ovario oblongo villosulo; stylis 3, crassiusculis apice dlavate-dilata: tis superato; fructu ut videtur oblongo, 6 cm. longi, glabro. (Vo. 2224.) i) Passiflora erosa sp. nov. Minutely and rather sparsely puberulent, or the upper leaf-surfaces strigose; branches slender, pale, strongly sulcate; ee arg s nearly ng, ovate with attenuate acumination; tendrils simple; petioles 2-5 cm. long, slender; blades 0.5—1 dm. ae and broad, cordate, deeply and angularly 3-lobed, the lobes acute, the margin sinuate, distantly toothed, the teeth very short, acute or apiculate, thin, deep-green, paler underneath, where the very slender pale- yellow venation is rather prominent and continued into the teeth; pedicels mostly geminate, 0.5-1.5 cm. long, recurved, setaceous- bracted; calyx-tube depressed-globose, 1 cm. broad, the lobes 1.5 cm. long, tapering from the base, which is 7 mm. broad; La wanting in my specimens; crown treble, the outer about and delicate, white, the divisions ovate with toothed or lacerate margin, the inner nea with a free somewhat fleshy border; gynophore mm. long; stamens 4, the filaments 5 mm. long, eciaeiae gs dare white, much dilated at the base, the anthers 2 2. . broad, triangular, obtuse; ovary globose-ovoid, 5 mm. long, downy style filiform, 5 mm. ion ng, the stigma ca pi- tate, 0.5 mm. broad; fruit 2 cm. broad, dark-blue, glaucous. (No. 2272.) ( 364 ) Carica boliviana sp. nov. ly the summit of one plant seen. Glabrous; large leaf at base of inflorescence ona stout petiole 2.5 dm. long; blade rotund- obovate, 2 dm. long, rather broader, the base shallowly cordate, divided two- thirds of the way, the lobes one or two pairs, lance- except the terminal, which sometimes has a few coarse teeth or lobes, very thin, dark-green above, drying yellowish-green under- neath, the principal veins very strong and prominent, the others in- conspicuous; smaller leaves of the inflorescence similar, about half as large; peduncles stoutish, about 1 cm. long, the pedicels arti- culated to = large nodose summit; pedicels slender, 0.5-1 cm. long; flowers 8 mm. long, none seen in an opened state; fruit (mature ?) roaaly oval, 3 cm. long, 2.5 cm. broad, the seeds 4 «‘ A shrub or tree about ro ft. high without branches, in rich mould about houses, cultivated; flowers white; fruits dark yellow, larger than an egg.” Calapampa, July 12, 1894. (Vo. 2338.) Apparently the same as zo. 1559. CURCURBITACEAE CALYCOPHYSUM PEDUNCULATUM VILLosuM Cogn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 17. 1896. (Vo. 2244.) fide Cogniaux. Mevoruria Hooxerr Cogn.; DC. Monogr. Phan. 3: 588. ‘In hedges, climbing 10 to 15 ft. high, the fowers white. Scarce.’ Coripata, April 10, 1894. (Wo. 2227.) The same as mo. 258 and Rusby 2065. GURANIA BOLIVIANA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 38. (Vo. 2013.) GURANIA COSTARICENSIS SUBTRILOBA Cogn. (Specimen without number.) ANGURIA LONGIPEDUNCULATA Cogn. Mem. Cour. Acad. Belg. Svo. 27:—. 1874. fide Cogniaux. Ancuria Warszewiczit Hooker, Bot. Mag. pl. 5370¢. (Vo. 2666.) CYCLANTHERA BRACHYBOTRYS (Poepp. & Endl.) Cogn. Mem. Cour. Acad. Belg. 8vo. 28: 73. 1878. fide Cogniaux. (ALo- mordica brachybotrys Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 2: 54.) Chaps along the ground in clay and mud; flowers yellow.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2467.) The same as Rusby 2059 (365 ) Stcyos austRALis Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf. 67. ‘* Creeping in wet mould, the flowers green. Scarce.” Coripata, March 7, 1894. (Vo. 2078.) BEGONIACEAE Brconta Ciarke1 Hook. f. Bot. Mag. sub p/. 56637 et 5675. (Wo. 1862.) Beconta Bractzosa A. DC, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 132. 1859. BEGONIA GLABRA Aubl. Pl. Gui. 2: 916. ‘In forest-mould, running along the ground and climbing on old stems; flowers beautiful, snow-white; scarce.” Coroico, September 6, 1894. (Mo. 2474.) The same as mo. r509. BEGONIA MYRIANTHA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 35. (Wo. 2665.) The same as Rusby 692. CACTACEAE OPUNTIA sp. (no data). (lVo. 2499.) HaRIOTA SALICORNIOIDES DC. Mem. Cact. 23. ‘* Depending from old stems in the forest. Flowers white.” Coripata, June 10, 1894. (Wo. 2323.) Hariota crRENATA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 35. 1891. ‘¢ Depending from old stems in the forest. Flowers red.” Cor- ipata, June 10, 1894. (Vo. 2722.) CEREUS LasIANTHUS K. Sch. ined. (Specimen without number.) Cereus. — Vos. 2497, 2498 and 2499 are of this genus. ?CEREuS Pasacana Web. (Vo. 2052.) PHYLLOCACTUS LATIFRONS Walp. Rep. 3: 241. (Vo. 2294.) UMBELLIFERAE HyprocorTy Le pusitta A. Rich. Ann. Sci. Phys. 4: 167. 1820. ‘In wet clay, the flowers green.” Coroico, September, 1894. (No. 2442.) HyprRocoTyLE BONARIENSIS Lam. Encyc. 3: 153. (Wo. 2270.) AZORELLA BILOBA Wedd. Chlor. And. 2: 195. (Wo. 2832.) SPANANTHE PANICULATA Jacq. Coll. 3: 247. (Vo. 28gz.) Bow esta LopaTa R. & P. Fl. Per. 3: 28. (iV. 1884.) Erynoium panicuLatum Cav. & Domb.; Delar. Eryng. 59 pl. 26. (No. 1820.) SanicuLa Mexicana DC. Prodr. 4: 84. ‘(In forest-mould.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2463.) ( 366 ) ARRACACIA ANDINA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 37. 1891. (2Vo. 2839.) Oreosciadium andinum = nov. Glabrous; stems 0.5-t. . long in my specimens, very slender, slender, the sheath long and broad; blades 1.5-4 cm. long and broad, ternate, the divisions tapering into petiolules o.5—1 cm. long or in the larger leaves the petiolules distinct, the terminal about a half longer; divisions biternate or triternate, the ultimate segments ob- long, acutish, 2.5-5 mm. long, entire; cauline leaves similar but smaller, becoming sessile; umbels subsessile, compound; peduncles of the branch es 4-5 mm. long, very slender, finely and sharply angled ; pedicels 2-3.5 mm. long, filiform but rigid, widely spread- ing, sharply angled; fru uit (mature?) 1.5 m ong, 1.25 mm. road, ovoid, lightly compressed, blunt, Fine ribbed. (Vo. 805. 5 ARALIACEAE ? Dipymopanax Morororoni (Aubl.) Decne. & Pl. Rev. Hortic. IV. 3: 109. 1854. (Panax Morototont Aubl. Pl. Gui. 2 9.) (No. 2258.) ScCIADOPHYLLUM PENTANDRUM (R. & P.) Poir. Encyc. 6: 747. (Acttnophyllum pentandrum R. & P. Fi. Per. 3: 75 pl. 372.) kind of woody climber, climbing high, in forest, and grow- ing in wet mould; flowers white, fleshy.” Coripata, June 22, 1894. (Vo. 2292.) Not the same as Rusby 549 and 609. DENDROPANAX ARBOREUM (L.) Decne. & Pl. Rev. Hortic. IV. 3: 107. 1854. (Aralia arborea L. Pl. Jam. Pugill. 2: 11.—Syst. ed. 10. 967.) (Wo. 2245.) Dendropanax oblongifolium sp. nov. Glabrous; branchlets stoutish, flexuous, aa earl fleshy and strongly wrink i ying so as to appear angular, pale-gray, strongly a toward the summit; petioles oe irregular, 0.5-4.5 cm. long, strongly channeled by the upturned margins, the base dilated and blackish; blades 5-12 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, oblong, uminate and obtusish, venation weak and, except the oon incon- clustered at the summit, 3-4 cm. long, bearing a few irregular, 20-flowered, the pedicels 1.5 cm. long, slightly thickened at the summit; calyx ea (as dried), campanulate, in anthesis about 4 mm. broad, the margin somewhat sinuately trun- cate, yellowish ; Hers short, ‘proadly conical. ( 367 ) ‘* A scarce shrub, about 6 feet high and very slender, growing in wet shaded forest-mould.” Calapampa, rate oe 16, 1894. Similar to zo. 2245, but that isa tree. (Vo. 2 OREOPANAX FULVUM E. March.; Mart, Fl. Bras Ii: 254. ‘* Very slender shrub about 20 ft. high, in dry forest-mould.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2466.) OREOPANAX BOLIVIENSE Seem. Jour. Bot. 3: 272. 1865. (Vo. I892.) OREOPANAX MEMBRANACEUM Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 42. ‘A simple-stemmed shrub about ro ft. high, in shaded forest- mould.” Uchimachi, near Coroico, July 22, 1894. (Vo. 2356.) Oreopanax grosseserratum sp. nov. Staminate plant. Younger portions of the branchlets and inflorescence densely, and both leaf-surfaces sparsely, dark-red glandular-scurfy ; oo very eee =r leafy ; Baie 1-5 cm. long, slender; blades —I2¢em. 2-4 cm , lanceolate to oblanceolate, mostly blunt at he nee ae He the apex, the margi in very unequally cm. base aerial the bracts 5 mm. long, eae ovate, acuminate; petals 5, purple, eit at the base, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, lance-oblong, acutish; filaments slightly exceeding the petals, the anthers white, 1.5 mm. ee styles connate, crooked, shorter than the filaments. (JVo. z Species near O. ee The plant was at first regarded as of a distinct genus, but Dr. Harms kindly points out that the flowers, being staminate, may well have the styles connate. CORNACEAE Cornus sp., probably undescribed. (Vo. 7799.) CAPRIFOLIACEAE ViBURNUM AYAVACENSE H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 3: 428. (Vo. 2820.) Visurnum TinoiweEs L. f. Suppl. 184. (Wo. 7885.) RUBIACEAE CINCHONA suCCIRUBRA Pay.; Klotzsch, Abh. Akad. Berl. 1858: 60. (Wo. 2229.) Cultivated? (368 ) Lygistum confertiflorum (Benth.). (Manettia confertiflora Benth. Linnaea 23: 443. 1850.) (Specimen without num- ber.) Cosmibuena grandiflora (R. & P.). (Cinchona grandifiora R. & P. Fl. Per. 2: 54 = Cosmibuena obtustfolia R. & P. FI Per. 3: 3.) (iVo. 2055.) The same as Rusby 2703. IszeRTIA HyPoLEUCA Benth. Jour. Bot. Hook. 3: 220. 1841 (Specimen without number.) The same as a specimen collected by Purdie in New Grenada. CoccocyPsELUM CANESCENS Wilid.; Roem. &. Schult. Syst. Mant. 3: 130. ‘*Grows underneath shrubs, in wet clay; flowers quite white. Similar to 270, but that has blue flowers; fruit blue.” Coripata, April 26, 1894. (Wo. 2753.) Coccocypselum Brittoni Rusby. (C. glaérum Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 108. 1891. Not C. glabrum Bartl.) (No. 2078.) The same as Rusby 2479. HoFFMANNIA PALLIDA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Cluo 3°: 44. (JVos. 2003 and 2004.) The same as xo. 754. HorFMANNIA BRACHYCARPA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 108 1891. (Wo. 2559.) Sasicea cana Hook. Ic. Pl. AZ. 247. (Specimen without number.) The same as Rusby 1905. Randia boliviana sp. nov Branchlets short, stout, whitish ee stout, terete, those of the twigs t-1.5 cm. long; stipules 4 mm. long, broadly triangular -ovate, acuminate, acute, rigid; leaves sub-sessile by a naveswed base, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, oval-ovate, abruptly narrowed into the short, petiole-like base, varying from acute to blunt or rounded at the apex, glabrous, slightly shining above, thin but rigid, drying blackish, the midrib slightly prominent above, broad and very prominent underneath, the slender, crooked secondaries 4-6 irregu- lar pairs; flowers not seen; fruit very short-peduncled, 1.2-1.5 cm. long, globose or slightly broader above, smooth and: shining, tipped by the stout calyx-tube which is 1 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, the strongly reflexed lobes 2-3 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate and acute. (Vo. 7773 and 1776.) The same as Wendon 345; also collected by Pearce at Peluchuco, June 1865. ELEAGIA GRANDIS Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4*: 208. (la. 2863.) (369) TOURNEFORTIOPSIS gen. nov. Flowers Fa ata and perfect. Calyx-tube ovoid or oval, the limb tubular-campanulate, 5-lobed, persistent and sbuiewhat accrescent. orolla short-funnel-form, the tube straight, naked in cells elongated-tubular, the ovules solitary in the cells, suspended ; style equaling the corolla, thick, fleshy, sericeous, dilated at the base ; stigma capitate. Fruit drupaceous, the flesh very scanty, the stone thick and bony, oval, shallowly 4-8-sulcate or ribbed; apical per- forations not apparent, perhaps appearing after full maturity. Seeds eau linear, flattened, the embryo a the radicle ascending, much elongated, the cotyledons very sho shrub or tree with opposite petioled leaves, ae intrapetiolar acuminate stipules, and axillary, solitary peduncles, bearing gem- inate, secund spikes of sericeous or tomentose, rather small flowers. enus apparently near Gueftarda, which it much resembles, but differing in the persistent calyx, the valvate conspicuously ap- pendaged corolla-lobes and the dilated style. I am indebted to Dr. Pax for kindly confirming my classification and diagnosis of this difficult genus. Tournefortiopsis reticulata sp. nov. A shrub or tree, the younger ala mais lower leaf-surfaces tomentose ; stipules 2 cm. long, about . broad, oblong-ovate, acuminate, coriaceous, Seddich. brown, aie eeled by ra stout midrib; petioles 2-3 cm. long, mostly recurved-spreading, broadly channeled but closed in jarying, conspicuously aan with the stout, reddish midrib; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 3-3.5 cm. broad, oblanceolate, blunt at i base, abr uptly short-acuminate on cuspi- date at the summit, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, where the veins are strongly impressed, eee ener below, the 10-12 flowering pres tomentose, about 3 mm. long, lobed nearly half-way, the lobes triangular-ovate; corolla tomentose, the tube 5 mm. long, the triangular-ovate lobes 2 mm. long and about as broad, each inflexed tip bearing two large, sub-rotund, fleshy appendages ; filaments scarcely any, anthers more than 1 mm. long; fruit, exclu- sive of calyx, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, sessile, oval-ovoid, ribbed, purple, the persistent calyx 3~4 mm. long, lobed more than half- (370) way, the cup-shaped tube nearly 3 mm. broad, the lobes broadly triangular-ovate, obtuse, coriaceous; stone brown with a purple summit, ribbed. (Vo. 22370.) Chiococca alba (L.). (Lonicera alba L. Sp. Pl. 175. Chtococca racemosa L. Syst. ed. 10. 917.) ‘*Atree 15 ft. high, growing in wet forest-land, the flowers yellow.” Coripata, April 20, 1894. (Wo. 2746.) FARAMEA SALICIFOLIA Pres], Symb. Bot. 24. ff. 70. (Vo. 2655.) Faramea maynensis Spruce, in B. & H.f. Gen. 2: 121. Name only. Glabrous; stems slender, herbaceous, angled in drying, the in- ternodes 1 dm. long, dilated upward; stipules nearly 1 cm. long, connate two- thirds of their length, keeled toward the top, the keel continued into a terete awn; petioles 2.5 cm. long, rather narrow for the size of the leaf, chaancied above, the channel continued into neath, where the midrib an ees pairs of principal, very slender coarsely and angularly reticulate between, with alternating, much more slender secondaries; peduncles (but one seen blue-green, like the rachis and pedicels, the parce subtended by an irregular, cup-shaped involucre; branches of the involucre, like the pedicels, dilated upward, the latter about 7 or 8 mm. long; calyx-tube 1.5 mm. long, campanulate, strongly oo the limb lighter-colored, 1.5 mm. broad, shallowly lobed, the lobes acute; corolla-tube 7-8 mm. long, infundibular-cylindraceous, the limb in bud ovate, obtuse, 5 mm. long by 4 mm. broad, when expanded rotate and 1.5 cm. or more broad. (lVo. 2076.) The same as Spruce 4946, etc. in Herb. Kew sub & selzczfolza. FARAMEA MONTEVIDENSIS DC. Prodr. 4: 497. (Vo. 2075.) I think this is the same plant that Muell. Arg. has called Rudgea micrantha (Flora 59: 454). PALICOUREA TRIPHYLLA DC. Prodr. 4: 526. (Specimen without number. ) Palicourea papyracea sp. nov. Inflorescence puberulent, otherwise glabrous ; branches stout, terete, dark-colored ; stipules (those seen impe erfect) connate for 2 most oblong, the lower broadly ovate, the upper gradually, the lower abruptly acuminate at the base, abruptly short-acuminate and (372) very acute at the apex, thin but rigid, dark-green, t the slender vena- panicle 4 cm. long, 6 cm. broad, the pedicels erect, thickish, 3-4 b base, the lobes 3-4 mm. long, spreading; style slender, exserted 5 mm., the lobes slender, twisted. (Vo. 2074, in part.) Palicourea attenuata sp. nov. Glabrous or the younger portions sparsely and minutely puberu- long, 3-7 cm. broad, eH neen acuminate at the base, attenuate oe reticulate between by the slender aad Peay ee ars very stout, 5-8 cm. long, ie aoa? pyramidal, obtuse, I-1.5 dm. long, 7-9 cm. broad, moderately dense, the branches spreading, but not at a eae angle, slightly dilated at the insertion, strongly angled, subtend y lance-linear bracts, the largest 7-8 mm. long; pedicels eee none; flowers subulate-bracted, the bracts 1.5 mm. long; calyx campanulate, 1.5 mm g,I mm broad, the teeth minute, ovate, acute; corolla 5 mm. long, light- oe nerved, the lobes 1 mr , ovate; fruit 4 mm. long, 5 . broad, green, ently nerved, reticulate. (No. 2017.) uell.-Arg.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 6: 244: (No. 2861.) ? PsycHOTRIA RACEMOSA (Aubl.) Willd. Sp. Pl. 1: 966. (Vona- telia racemosa Aubl. Pl. Gui. : 186, d/. 72.) The simple inflorescence figured by Aublet may be due to poor development. The same as Rusby 1867. Sates ovalifolia sp. nov. Glabrous except for a yellow-gray, short, speed coarse pubescence on the principal veins of the lower leaf-su s, the corolla, calyx- lobes and young pedicels; le anise dark- ee terete or lightly angled, stoutish; stipules nearly 1 cm. lon mm. broad, oval or obovate, rounded at the apex, eae denticulate; petioles 2—-2.5 cm. long (only the upper seen), stout, dark-colored, like the mid- ribs; blades 2 dm. long, 1 dm. broad, oval, abruptly very short- pointed at both ends, entire, bright-green, thin, 18-20 pairs of slender secondaries moderately upcurved, regu larly connected by straight secondaries ; peduncles 5 cm. long, lightly angled, the rachis more so; panicle (but one seen) about 1.2 glm. lon cm. broad, obviously immature, regularly pyramidal, rounded at the apex, ‘a ax, the branches at right angles, dilated at the Aap with the rachis, minutely aes bracted; pedicels 5 mm. long, slender; calyx-tube blackish, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, ee campan- ulate, the limb abruptly eis ae lobes about 1 mm. ere and broad, triangular, obtuse; corolla 1 cm. long, densely tomentose, lightly contracted near the base, then regularly infundibular, the lobes 2 mm. long, triangular; stigmas exserted 2 mm., flattened, large. (Vo. 2074, in part. Apparently the same collected by Sfruce near San Gabriel on the Rio Negro. Mapourea TRISTIS Muell.-Arg. Flora 9°: 458, 465. 1876. “A shrub 6 to 10 ft. high, growing in wet mould, in forest.” Uchimachi, Coroico, August 12, 1894. (Vo. 23778.) Cephaelis conephoroides sp. nov rous; branches a a ee ae weak, flexuous, blackish; stipules 5-8 mm. long s broad or broader, ovate, abruptly short-acuminate and ey oe nen rigid, appressed ; oblanceolate, acute at the base, abruptly contracted into a short attenuate point, entire, dark-green and slightly shining, thick, the summit, the black branches umbellate or fascicled, subtended by ovate, acute, spreading pidels about 5 mm. pee regularly thickened from "the base peak -3 cm. long, sharply quadrangular, the sides 1-nerved; flowers te ernate, sessile; calyx hemispherical-tur- binate, the limb ee erect, shortly sinuately 5-lobed, minutely fimbriate or ciliate; corolla- tube c cylindraceous, slightly dilated at about the middle, sub-contracted at the mouth, thick and tough, the lobes valvate in the bud with the apices fncuned. recurved in anthesis; stamens inserted a little below the middle of the tube, the filaments very short, naked except at the very base; the anthers eee blunt at both ends, naked; style capillary, exserted, the branches linear, slightly flattened, thick, blunt, recurved; eet one in each cell, erect, obovate, flattened, truncate, short, ‘smooth and shining. (.Vo. 2866 The same as xo. 766, and Rusby 2559, both published as ‘+ Cozs- sarea?” Also collected by Pearce at Moro, 3,000-4,000 ft., July, C373.) 1866, and apparently the same as Hendcer 1990, from Tovar. The last named has fruit 1.5 cm. long by 1 cm. broad (exclusive of the tubular calyx-limb), oval to slightly ovate, each half broadly and strongly 4-grooved, blackish-red, finely granular. POEDERIOPSIS gen. nov. Poedertearum Flowers perfect. Calyx-tube campanulate, the limb 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla infundibular, aria without, the limb and throat long-pilose ae 5-lobed, the lobes in nduplicate-valvate. tamens 5, included, the short, ee filaments inserted near the base of the corolla, the very large anthers lanceolate, sagittate with blunt lobes, acute and mucronate, sub-versatilely attached near the sinus of the lobes. Ovary 2-celled, 2-ovuled, the ovules erect from as the corolla, filiform, not twisted in the partly opened ae not pilose. Stems slender, twining, the stipules broad, or 2- toothed, recurved, persistent, the leaves membra eat oe long-petioled. Panicles oes ample, lax, the flowers cymosely disposed. Fruit not s e genus is very near Poederza, but differs in the persistent, bifid stipules, the mucronate acute anthers, the basal attachment of the filaments and the apparently straight stigmas (though these may become twisted in anthesis.) Poederiopsis diffusa (Britton). d/anettea (?) diffusa Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: ro7. Branchlets puberulent; stipules 3-4 mm. long and nearly as broad, purple, thickish, ovate; petioles 3-6 cm. long, ae channeled above, costate, dilated at the base; blades o 0.5-1 dm more long and two-thirds as broad, ovate, shallowly cordate, acu- minate and acute, —- deep- green both sides, glabrous, thin, the the bud (expanded corollas not seen), 6 mm. long, ovate; anthers 3 mm. long, 1 mm. broad; stigmas 5 mm. long, flattened at the end. (Wo. 2216.) The same as Rusby 2727, the type of AZa- nettia diffusa. S ACOCE mMBOSA R.& P. Fl. Per. 1: 60. (Specimen with- out number. ?SpERMACOCE ocyMoIDES Burm. f. Fl. Ind. 34. (Specimen without number.) The same as Alandon 336. (374) Spermacoce cephalophora sp. nov. Glabrous or fg leaves pane ne ahead oan underneath ; diffusely branched from the base, the branches slender, 1-2 dm long, lightly 2- or Speer moe code ree stipules and rigid laciniae each about 2 mm. long; leaves sessile, 0.5—2 cm. long, 2-5 mm. broad, paaene obtusish, entire; heads 0.5-1 cm. broad, dense ; calyx- -tube 2 mm. long, campanulate with the mouth slightly contracted ; ce teeth 1 mm. long, subulate, pungent; corolla- tube 1.5 mm. long, stoutly infundibular-cylindraceous, the lobes 1 mm. long, ovate, obtuse; filaments a little exceeding the tube, the anthers oblong, half the length of the lobes; capsule dehiscing ver- tically from the top; pr oo shining, a little more than r mm. long, elliptical. (Wo. 2862.) Mirracarpum HIRTUM DC. Prodr. 4: 572. (Vo. 2865.) The same as Mandon 340. This is probably one of a number of dis- tinct species at present included under this name. RIcHARDIA SCABRA L. Sp. Pl. 330. (lVo. 7794.) The same as Rusby 1969 RELBUNIUM HIRSUTUM (R. & P.) Schum.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 6°: 116. (Galium hirsutum R. & P. FI. Per. 1: §9.) (Vo. 2864. ? RELBUNIUM MICROPHYLLUM (A. Gray) Hemsley, Biol. Cent. Am. Bot. 2: 63. (Galzum microphyllum A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 2: 80.) (Vos. 2079 and 2020.) This is the same as Bang 35, which is not the same as Rusby r8g2, although I have so published it. Relbunium Bangii sp. nov Stems much elongated and very slender, strongly 4-angled, ad angles bright-green, obtusish, sparsely armed with small white curved prickles, the internodes about 1.5-2.5 cm. long; leaves Ps fours, sessile, 0.5-1.5 cm. lon -8 mm. broad, elliptical or slightly broader above, lightly mucronate, 3-nerved, the midrib stronger than the lateral nerves, ital cay hispid above, hairy- Bena on the nerves underneath; pedicels at length nearly 1 cm. liform, spreading, angled; ‘sepals foliaceous, 2.5 or be- com os e mm. long, similar to the leaves but rather more pointed; berry drying blackish, 2 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, when young minutely sparsely hispid. ‘¢ Sometimes climbing; abundant in good forest soil; the flowers green, the fruits of a beautiful red, not like sos. 269 and 578, which have the fruits quite white.” Coripata, Yungas, April 25, 1894. (Wo. 2754.) Apparently the same as Rusby 1870. (375) VALERIANACEAE VaLeRIANA Manpon! Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 264. 1891. (WVos. 1924 and 2022.) The same as Rusby 874. VaLERIANA Banoiana Graebn. Bot. Jahrb. 37: 437. ‘‘ A few feet high, growing in hedges along roadside; flowers greenish-white.” Coripata, Yungas, September 6, 1894. (Vo. 2475.) VALERIANA POLEMONIOIDES H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 3: 332. (Vo. 182g.) The same as Rusby 880. VALERIANA POTERIOIDES Graebn. Bot. Jahrb. 37: 441. (Vo. I84I.) VaALERIANA Pavontl Poepp. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 3: 16. pl. 275. ‘Climbing 8 to 12 ft. high, in rich mould, along forest-roads ; flowers white.” Coroico, July 25,1894. (Mo. 2362.) This is the same as Alandon 304, Spruce 43756 and 5077 and Jfathew’s specimens from Chachapoya, but is not ameson’s from Cuenca. VALERIANA sp., near V. Pavontt. (No. 1930. VALERIANA, specimens indeterminable. (Vo. 7947.) CALYCERACEAE ACICARPHA PROCUMBENS Less. Linnaea 6: 527. 1831. (Vo. 1789.) COMPOSITAE VERNONIA APICULATA Mart.; DC. Prodr. 5: 51. ‘‘In dry, clayey soil, in grassy places, the flowers light-violet; scarce.” Coripata, April 27, 1894. (Vo. 2266.) Vernonia BAKERIANA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 331. 1891. «© A shrub, 6 to 8 ft. high, in dry clay and gravel, the flowers pale blue; abundant.” Coripata, May 12, 1894. (Vo. 2789.) The same as Rusby 214. VERNONIA BREVIPETIOLATA Sch.-Bip.; Baker, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 6: 85. ‘+ Two to four feet high, in dry clay, on hillsides, the flowers dark blue; abundant.” Coripata, April 4, 1894. (Vos. 2718 and 2886.) VERNONIA CORIACEA Less. Linnaea 6: 661. 1831. (Wo. 7888.) VERNONIA POLYCEPHALA DC. Prodr. 5: 39. ‘* A shrub, 5 to § ft. high, with light-red flowers, growing in sunshine, in dry clay and gravel; scarce.” Coroico, September 8, 1894. (Vo. 2420.) VERNONIA VARRONIFOLIA DC. Prodr. 5: 56. (Wo. 2228.) (376) Vernonia patuliflora sp. nov. (Paniculatae) ; stems, inflorescence and venation densely short- hairy, the hairs of the stem mostly a little reflexed; — stout, purple or light gray-brown, the internodes mostly 4-8 cm. long; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, very stout, strongly dilated at the base; lades 1-2 dm. long, 4-8cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, shortly and acutely pointed at the apex, minutely and eels ser- rate, above deep-green, rugose with impressed venation, minutely branches horizontal and partly drooping; heads about 1 cm apart, 7 mm. long, the purple involucre 5 mm. long, broadly campanulate, the outer scales narrowly lance-linear, attenuate and pungent, the innermost about a half longer, oblong, acutish; akenes 1.5 mm. long, stout; inner pappus penes 4 mm. long, fine, copious, the outer about the length of the akene ‘¢ A slender shrub, 6~10 ft. high, with blue flowers, growing in sand and gravel near the river. Rather scarce.” Coroico, August 23, 1894. (Vo. 23796.) Vernonia paucisquamata sp. nov. (Paniculatae); younger portions minutely puberulent; stem m. lo abruptly acuminate and acute at the apex, entire, deep-green, the venation not prom inent, reticulate, the secondaries 4 or 5 pairs ; panicles axillary, strongly peduncled, the flowering portion 5-6 cm long, 3 cm. broad, lax, leafy-bracted; heads sessile; beads campanulate, § mm. long, the scales few, in about 4 series, ap- pressed, oval to oblong-linear, obtuse, the middle green, ie outer successively shorter; corollas not seen; akenes 2 mm, long, lightly but sharply angled, ‘the pappus 4 mm. long, rigid, copious, connate by a narrow, dark basal ring. ‘«Climbing 8 to 15 ft. high, in wet forest-mould.” Coroico, September 4, 1894. (JVo. 2¢09.) The same as Rusby 7729. Vernonia deflexa sp. nov. Coarsely hirsute, including the involucres and the principal veins ; root stout, long and coarsely branched; stems erect or ascending, rather slender, 5 dm. or more high, branched at the summit; lower leaves very short-petioled, the upper sessile, the sera base be- coming deflexed, the blade horizontal, 0.5—1.2 dm. cm. broad, oblong, acute at both ends, obsoletely poets pice: rather thin, pale-g -green, ie venation prominent, very strongly so under: neath, the 10-12 irregular pairs of crooked secondaries strongly (377) cending, connecting at some distance from the margin; heads peduncled ; involucre broadly campanulate, 6-8 mm. long, the cessively longer; akene 1.5 mm. long, oblanceolate; outer pappus dense, 1 mm. long, the inner rather scanty and coarse, 6 mm. long; corolla-tube narrowly cylindrical or sub-filiform, 4 mm. long, the limb abrupt, the lobes 3 mm. long, bright-purple, oblanceolate, thin. (Vo. 20378 VERNONIA sp. The inflorescence is too far advanced to permit of a diagnosis. (lVo. 2043.) AGERATUM CONYzOIDES L. Sp. Pl. 1175. (Vo. 2027.) STEVIA URTICIFOLIA Thunb. Pl. Bras. Dec. 1: 13. (Vo. 2877.) Stevia Bridgesii sp. nov. oughly strigose-pubescent throughout; stems terete, green or light-purplish above, erect or ascending, much-branched and very ae 3-nerved, the midrib prominent below; se of 3-5 heads, shortly racemed at the ends of the branchlets, leafy-bracted ; peduncles of the heads scarcely any; heads about 1.2 cm. long; involucres infundibular, 8 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad at the summit, purple, the scales oblong Pa about 2 mm. bro enes very slender, 5 mm. long; p s 5 mm. long; corolla tube bright- purple, mm. long, ne Tones lighter, 2 mm. long, oval-ovate. (Wo. 20 7: The same collected by Bridges. Near S. compacta Benth., and near AJandon 244. Stevia sp. (Vo. 20g7 is apparently a Stevza with deformed inflorescence. ) EvupraToORIUM AMYGDALINUM Lam. Encyc. 2: 408. ‘Grows in wet clay, in grassy places; scarce; flowers light-red.” Coripata, June 24, 1894. (Mo. 2292 EupATORIUM DENDROIDES Spreng. Syst. 3: 415. (= Avikania arborea H.B.K., but this is preceded by an &. arboreum.) “A shrub, 8-15 ft. high, in dry gravelly and clayey soil, the flowers white; abundant.” Coripata, April 10, 1894. (lo. 2773.) EupaTorium GLOMERATUM DC. Prodr. 5: 154. ‘A shrub 5~8 ft. high, in dry places along roadsides, the flowers white and fragrant; abundant.” Coripata, March 30, 1894. (Vo. 2772.) Bopoun MACROPHYLLUM L, Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1175. ‘* Growing (378 ) in wet clay, the flowers white.” Coripata, May 10,1894. (Vo. 2042 and 278}. EuPpATORIUM MEGAPHYLLUM Baker, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 6°: 322. ‘© Plant 5—6 ft. high, growing near the river, in dry gravelly soil, the flowers white; not abundant.” Coripata, June 20, 1894. 0. 2298. Evparorium scoputorum Wedd. Chlor. And. I: 216. (Va. zgi2.) The same as Mandon 263. Eupatorium sorpescens DC. Prodr. 5: 167. ‘‘A shrub from 10-20 ft. high, growing along roadsides and in hedges, the flowers bluish-white and pleasantly fragrant. The leaves and bark are very bitter and are used as a remedy against sand-fleas and lice onanimals. Local name ‘ Tui.’ Grows also at Sorata.” Coroico, 3s 14, 1894. (Vo. 278z.) Apparently the same as Glaztou 172848 EupaTORIUM STIPULIFERUM Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4°: 210. (No. 2876, EvupatoriuM SUBSCANDENS Hieronymus, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 742. 1897. (Vo. 2050 p.2.) The same as Vo. 1208, distributed as £. conyzoides Vahl. ? EupaToRIUM ViITALBAE DC. Prodr. 5: 163. ‘+Climbing 8 or to ft. high, over shrubs, in dry clay and gravel, the flowers rose- colored.” Coroico, August 20, 1894. (Vo. 2389.) This appears to be the same as Glazzou 12062. EvuPaTORIUM HECATANTHUM (DC.) Baker, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 6: 365. (Wo. 2zrga.) The same as Rusby 2125, published as Z. macrophyllum L. (fide Hieronymus, Bot. Jahrb. 11: 78g. 1897). Eupatorium heptanthum Sch.-Bip. (Bonplandia 4: 54; name only. 1856.) nutely puberulent; stems thickish but weak, purple below, the nee 5-6 cm. ong i petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, stout; blades -5-4 cm. long, 1-3 . broad, ovate, strongly cordate, acute, crenate-dentate, bright- ree the venation rather prominent below, finely reticulate; corymbs leafy, loose, the branches slender; peduncles of the heads stout, very short; heads 5 mm. long and rather broader; involucres hemispherical, the inner scales 5 mm. long, lance-oblong, acute, strongly nerved, green; corolla 3. : mm. long, infundibular, the lobes broadly ovate, spreading; pappus parse, white or reddish; akenes blackish, 2 mm. long, oblanceo- 37+) a late, little tapering at the base. (Vo. 20 (379) The same as AZandox 260, and apparently collected by Seemann in Venezuela. Eupatorium jugipaniculatum sp. nov. Stems rather slender, striate, pubescent, the branches of the florescence pore! a tae petioles 1 cm. long, pubescent like the midri poe surfaces the veins underneath ; s 8-1 ee m. broad, eal to obovate, narrowed er eae blunt a Abe pace, abruptly short-pointed and obtuse at the apex, serrate with small, sharp, salient teeth, deep-green both surfaces, sparsely strigose ; corymbs duncied, nearly : dm. broad, of several hag pairs of rather distant branches which are leafy-bracted at the base, loose; peduncles of the heads 0.5-1 cm. long, slender and weak, fliforen-bracted - heads at maturity nearly 1 cm. long and almost as broad; involucre turbinate-campanulate, nearly equaling the PapPuss a few small scales at the base, the principal ones 5-6 m. long, linear, tae from the base, strongly nerved, ferrugi- nous-pilose ; akene 3-4 mm. long, oblong-oblanceolate wit th a narrow base, lightly curved, sharply 5- eee pappus 4-5 long, white or slightly tawny, acca corolla 4-5 mm. long, fe tube cylindraceous, the lobes 1 . long; style-branches 4 m long, flattened, rounded at the oe ‘¢ A shrub 6-8 ft. high, with white flowers, in wet forest-mould.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2472.) Eupatorium triosteifolium sp. nov. Finely apes eon except the sub- oe upper leaf-surfaces ; stems stout, ely angled; upper ves 1.5-3 dm. long, 4-10 em. broad, ee, abruptly Shea ate a ee petiole-like base more than half as long as the ovate ae tion, geute the apex, broad, "rather ae compound and lea yh peduncles of the heads 1-1.5 cm. long, slightly thickened upward; heads ee long, nearly as broad; involucre campanulate, the scales oblong to oblong- linear, obtuse, the outer y shorter, green, nerved, the inner- most exceeding the pappus, white, the green nerves see strong ; flowers numerous, yellowish-white ; Alene mm. long, linear- aaa truncate, blackish, strongly 5- acer Toney, curved; pappus 4-5 mm. long, rather unequal, white, rather scanty, short- barbellate corolla infundibular, the lobes less than 1 mm. long, cute, pilose toward the summit; filaments inserted about the middie of the tube, the anther- appendages short, blunt, inflexed; receptacle plane or slightly concave, tuberculate ; style-branches flattened, sub-truncate, papillose. ( 380 ) «¢ A slender shrub, ro to 12 ft. high, with white flowers; scarce in gravel and mould near the river.” Coroico, August 14, 1894. (Wo. 23780.) peinanbie latipaniculatum sp. nov. Younger portions of stem, peduncles and midribs puberulent; ence: cae very ite haat leaves 2 dm. or more long, 6-5 cm. the bases long-acuminate and petiole-like, sub-confluent, pee Boimiate: pees coarsely and sharply serrate, thin, deep-green, somewhat scurfy both sides; peduncles of the lower axillary corymbs 1.5 dm. long, the corymbs rather lax, 1 broad; peduncles of the heads 0.5-1 cm. long, purplish, thickened alf br lanceolate, acute, purplish; corolla 4 mm. long, narrowly infun- dibular, purple; pappus equaling the corolla, white, fine, copious ; akene oblanceolate, slender, nearly 2 mm. long, black, smooth, sharply angle ‘© A slender ee 6 to 10 feet high, with rose-colored flowers, in rich shaded mould.” Sacramento, Yungas, August 20, 1894. (Vo. 2386.) Species near ZL. canthinum. Bupa cones sp. nov. Pp,,} 1 1 iL ems weak, much-branched, the branches widely aa or droopi ng, apparently reclining, striate; petioles 1.5-4 cm aes slender and weak, little dilated at the base; blades 3-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, ovate, mostly aaa rounded or ae at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, coarsely serrate with short blunt teeth, deep-green a grayish-green underneath, thin, trinerved, the venation coarse, reticulate, rather prominent underneath; heads few, very loosely corymbed, on green, strongly 3-nerved, acute; corolla nearly 4 mm. long, nar- rowly infundibular, the margin much broader than the tube; style- branches exserted 2-3 mm.; pappus white, fine, copious, nearly equaling the corolla; akene m. long, tapering from the summit to an acute base, black, glabrous, strongly and sharply angled. ‘A few feet high, the flowers light red; scarce, in dry gravelly soil.” Coripata, Yungas, March 25, 1894. (Vo. 2774.) Eupatorium gynoxioides sp. nov. Very finely and closely puberulent; stems stout, purplish, the upper internodes about 3 cm. long; upper leaves only seen, their petioles 3 cm. oe purple, stout, narrowly margined and keeled; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 4-6 cm. broad, ovate, abruptly acute at the base, shortly and cae acuminate at the apex, obsoletely and very (381 ) coarsely sinuately serrate, coriaceous, above deep-green or purplish, minutely strigose, underneath ferruginous, the venation lightly prom- inent both sides, the slender, crooked oe about 6 or 7 pairs; pa nie s corymbiform, I dm. or more broad, baitias dense, the in about 3 series, closely appressed, the outer shorter, the inner 5 mm. long, thick, cos striate, oblong, obtuse, mostly purple-tipped ; corollas 4-5 mm. long, cylindraceous, slightly dilated toward the summit, the lobes short, recurved; pappus sparse, white, about equaling the corolla; style-branches exserted nearly 4 mm., slightly thickened at the summit; akenes 2.5 mm. long, oblanceolate with tapering base, black, glabrous, strongly angled. ‘CA scarce tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, with light-red flowers, in wet forest-mould.” Coripata, Yungas, May 16, 1894. (Vo. 2794.) OPHRYOSPORUS PIQUERIOIDES (DC.) Benth.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 6*: 188. (EHupatorium piquerioides DC. Prodr. 5: 175.) ‘+ Climb- ing 6 ft. high, in sunny places, in clay and mould; abundant; flowers white.” Calapampa, Coroico, ay, 14, 1894. (Wo. 2342.) Distributed as ** Mzkania sp. nov.’ WILLOUGHBYA coRDIFOLIA (L. f.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 372. (Cacalta cordifolia L. f. Suppl. 357.) (Vos. 2880 and 288z.) WILLOUGHBYA HirsuTissiMa (DC.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 372. (Mikania hirsutissima DC. Prodr. 5: 200.) ‘In rich mould, forest shade, climbing 10 to 12 feet, the flowers greenish-white, abundant.” Calapampa, July 5, 1894. (Vo. 2726.) The same as Blanchet 3692. WILLOUGHBYA LAXNuGINOosA (DC.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 372. (Specimen without number.) The same as Gardner 5779. WILLoucHBYA oporaTA (Lehm.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 372. (Mikanta odorata Lehm. Hamb. Gartenz. 5: 369. 1847.) ‘In rich forest-mould, near river, climbing 6 to 10 ft. high, the flowers white; abundant.” Calapampa, July 12, 1894. (Jo. 2339.) The same collected by AZathews at Chachapoya. WiLioucHBya psiLosTacnya (DC.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 372. ‘¢ Growing in wet sand and climbing to to 20 ft. high, the flowers white; scarce.” Coripata, April 20, 1894. (Vo. 27¢8.) WILLOUGHBYA SCANDENS (L.) Kuntze, Rev. en. Pl. 371. (Eupatorium scandens L. Sp. Pl. 836.) (Mo. 2882.) Willoughbya trinervis . & A.). Mtkania trinervisH. & A. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 244. 1835. (Mo. 2884.) ( 382 ) Willoughbya trifolia sp. nov. Branchlets, lower leaf-surfaces and peduncles minutely puberu- , dense; peduncles of the heads 2-4 mm. long; involucral scales . mm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblong, abruptly and acutely pointed, tricostate; akene dark-brown to black, nearly 3 mm. long, strongly angled ; pe 4 mm. long, copious, rigid, rather coarse ; corolla-tube Slemier mm. long, the lobes spreading, 1.5 m long, oblong; pio beeke: filiform, spreading widely, 3 mm. long. ‘* A low climber, with white flowers, in wet forest-mould, scarce.’ Coroico, September 10, 1894. (Vo. 2426.) The same as Afandon 266, which Schultz-Bipontinus has called, without description, Mikania trifolia (Linnaea 34: 535. 1865-66). Willoughbya longiflora sp. nov. Ferruginous-tomentose; stems and branches stout; petioles 4-8 cm. long, very stout; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, two-thirds as broad, ovate, deeply cordate, acute, thin, dark-green and slightly scabrous above, ferruginous-tomentose underneath, 3- or 5-costate, the princi- pal veins very strong and prominent underneath ; peduncles much elongated, angled; corymbs r-1.5 dm. broad, lax and open; ped- uncles of the heads lara ee scales of the involucre ae mm. mm. long; anthers very thick and prominent; style-branches 3 mim. long. ‘¢ Climbing 8 to ro ft. in forest shade, the flowers greenish-white ; scarce.” Calapampa, near Coroico, July 5, 1894. (Vo. 2325.) Also zo. 2297. Willcughbya leucophylla sp. nov. Glabrous except for the finely white-scurfy veinlets underneath ; branchlets stoutish, finely and regularly costate, pale; stipules rhomboidally uate, recurved into a pouch-like form, the pouch ovoid, 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad, ae oan brown with numerous light ribs or striae; petioles 2-4 cm. long, slender; blades 0.6—-1.2 long, 3 . broad, ovate, strongly cordate, abruptly and slenderly acuminate but scarcely acute, the margin obscurely sin- uate, coriaceous, dark-green above, whitish underneath, 5-ribbed, the principal branches t meeting at some distance from the margin, ( 383 ) the veinlets finely and conspicuously reticulate; peduncles stout; corymbs 0.6-1.2 dm. broad, open, the branchlets densely flowered, bracted with lanceolate or linear bracts; peduncles of the heads 5- & sa long, slender; scales of the involucre 8 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, oblanceolate, SS faintly striate, the margins scarious; akenes 5 mm. long; pappus 7mm. long, copious; corolla stoutly infundibular, a little longer than the akene, the lobes short, broadly ovate ; anthers exserted 3 mm.; style- -branches 4 mm. long, twisted. (No. 2 a ecees Hieronymi sp. nov. Tomentose and slightly ferruginous; stems and branchlets very stout, purple; petioles 3-4 cm. long, very stout, the upper half broadly winged by the decurrent blade; blades 1 dm. or more long and broad, triangular-ovate, cordate, the base decurrent, abruptly very short-pointed, membranaceous but thickish, dark-green and scabrous above, yellowish-gray-tomentose underneath, 3- -cOs- tate, the lateral ribs originating near the base of the midrib, finely reticulate; | corym ry irregul ze, dense, very stoutly oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, dark purples green; akene 2 mm. long; pappus 7 mm. long, copious, coars , dark k-brown; corolla- tube 3.5 mm. long, the lobes (greenish) 2. . mm. cieae: ovate, ob- tuse; style-branches 1.5 mm «s Prostrate in wet, clayey oil, the flowers bluish-green; scarce.” Coripata, Yungas, April 28, 1894. (Vo. 2769.) Sotmpaco potyciossa DC. Prodr. 5: 332. (Vos. 20¢g9 and 2980.) ‘+ A few feet high, growing in yellow clay, coca planta- tions and other cultivated places, the flowers yellow.” Near Coripata, March 15, 1894. Diplostephium Mandoni sp. nov. Shrubby, the branchlets crowded, stout but weak, oe very leafy; leaves sessile by a penawed, petiole-like base, 3-5 cm. long, 6-12 mm. broad, smaller toward the base and summit of the beanie let, lanceolate, obtusish or barely acute, coriaceous, deep-green and glabrous above, with the venation deeply impressed, thickly yellow- tomentose with the venation concealed ee ee ne ads subsessile among the crowded terminal leaves; involucre 1 . long, broadly campanulate, many-serialled, the scales eee cree ee very thick, strongly recurved, purple, gray-pilose, the inner linear, the outer successively shorter, the outermostl anceolate; akenes i ona 1 mm. long, turbinate-obovoid; pappus similar in both flowers, 5- ma. long, flexuous, purple, the outer very short indeed, scarcely perceptible ; corolla nearly 1.5 cm. long, 2 mm. broad, the apex narrowed abruptly, slightly 3-toothed; exserted portion of style 3 mm. long, its branches 1.5 mm. long; disk-corollas purple, the ( 384) lower cylindraceous portion nearly 2 mm. long, the upper broadly infundibular portion 3 mm. long, the lobes 1 mm. long and broad, ovate-obtuse; style-branches 1.5 mm. long; anthers nearly 2 mm long. (Vo. 2895.) The same as Mandon 279. Diplostephium liabioides sp. nov. Closely short ferruginous-tomentose, the upper leaf-surfaces be- coming glabrous; branches stoutish but weak, erect or ascending, purple, terete, densely leafy; leaves sessile by a narrowed, petiole- like base, 3-6 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. broad, oblong, obtusish, but minutely apiculate, sharply and rather coarsely and distantly ser- rate, thick, bright-green above, with the midrib impressed, deep- the heads short and stout; involucre eg ee about 9 mm. long, the outer scales successively shorter, the two outermost series abruptly shorter, broader, ovate, green, the others pappus of the ray-flowers 6 mm. long, of the disk-flowers 4-5 mm. long, purple, coarse, short-barbellate; rays white, the limb about 1 cm. long, lines able decolate: emarginate ; ; i aad recurved; short-lanceolate ,flattened, obtuse, hirtellate toward the summit; gral corollas purple, 5 mm. long, broadly eunaibela the lobes mm. long, ovate; anthers nearly 3 mm. long, the appendages ahert, obtusish; style-branches 2 mm. long, flattened, acutish, the upper half long-pilose. “A low shrub with blue flowers, in forest-mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2496.) Diplostephium atropurpureum sp. nov. Shrubby; branchlets, lower leaf-surfaces, etc., densely and closely yellow-tomentose, the lower leaf-surfaces sparingly and the involucre more abundantly gray-scurfy also; branchlets leafy, angled; leaves 2.5-6 cm. long, 0.5~1 cm. broad, lance-oblong, tapering into a petiole-like base, obtuse, appearing acute by the revolute margins, entire, very thick, glabrous and finely wrinkled in drying above, with the midrib and primaries sharply ‘impressed, the midrib very stout and prominent underneath, with the vena- tion obscure; inflorescence terminal, loosely ee ae peduncles of the heads 1-2 cm. long, very stout, terete, with one to several small leafy bracts; involucre campanulate, squarrose, the obtuse scales thick and coriaceous, deep-purple, 1-nerved, the outermost short-ovate, the inner successively longer, the innermost 1 cm. or more long, linear; receptacle convex, foveolate, chaffy in the center, the scales narrow and fimbrillate; akenes uniform, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, obovoid, hispid, slightly compressed, ob (385 ) scurely angled; pappus of both flowers alike, 7-8 mm. long, purple, barbellate, the outer very short; rays nearly 2 cm. long, 1.5 mm. Si eae 3-toothed, white; stylered; thickish, exserted about he branches 1.5 mm. long, linear, lightly flattened, slightly ener toward the apex; disk-corollas whitish toward the base, bright-purple above, pubescent, the ic ower narrow- -cylindrical ae tion 2 mm. long, the remainder 5 mm. long, about twice as bro as the lower part, infundibular, the ceokely recurved lobes 1 mm. long, thickish, eee anthers 3 mm. long, the yellow apical ap- pendages nearly 1 . long, narrow, obtuse; oe -branches about 1 mm. long, aealae, flattened, pilose. (No. 2030.) Differs from D. Mandonz in the longer nae midrib prom- inent underneath, narrower involucre-scales, shorter rays, shorter and broader disk-corollas with broader lobes, and shorter styles. Mandon 215 and Pearce’s specimen from Munya, May, 1863, are very similar externally, and may be the same. ERIGERON HIERACIOIDES Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 194. (JVo. 1865.) he same as 0. 2279. ERIGERON PAZENSIS Sch.-Bip.; Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3: 54. (No. 2874, pp.) The same as wos. rg and 67. ? ERIGERON CANESCENS Sch.-Bip.; Linnaea 34: 534. 1865-66. (Specimen without number.) ConyzA ANDICOLA Philippi, Verzeichn. Pfl. Antotagasta und Tarapaca 38. (Vo. 7973.) Conyza lignescens sp. nov. Minutely puberulent; stems woody and branched at the et ae 5 ee 2 HORE the branches erect, stout, angled; leaves 4-8 ¢ —2 cm. broad, oblanceolate, tapering into a winged Seer ae is attached by a dilated base, blunt at the apex, finely and rather obtusely serrate, thickish but flaccid, drying an ened at the summit, striate; heads 7 mm. long and broad; involucre 4mm. long, hemispherical-campanulate, the scales about 2-serialled, ovate, obtusish, purple with scarious margins; pappus tawny, very fine; corolla of the pistillate flowers 1.5 mm. long, the style as much longer, the pappus about as long as the style, the akene 0.5 mm. long; corolla of the perfect flowers 2 mm. long, nearly equaling the style. (lVo. 2873. Conyza evacioides sp. nov. Densely white-floccose, the hairs long and tough; root finely branched; stems numerous from a stout crown, ascending, 1-2 dm long, mostly simple, densely leafy, the leaves erect, sessile, Sblans ( 386 ) ceolate, 1-2 cm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, thickish, narrowed and sub-entire toward the base, above pinnatifid-toothed or lobed, the lobes 2 or 3, pairs, ovate, slightly falcate, obtusish or acute; heads several, at and near the summit, partly concealed among the upper leaves, appearing sessile but short-peduncled; involucre hemi- spherical, the scales several-serialled, lanceolate, ine green ea scarious and purple above with darker middle portion; aken m. long, oval; pappus 3.5 mm. long, plumose; pistillate eerie z mm. long, the others 1.5 mm. long, broadly infundibular, lobed half-way; style- ee short, thickish, the appendages triangular, pubescent. (JVo. BaccHARIS CAESPITOSA RR. & P.) Pers. Syn. r: 425. (Adolina caespitosa R. &. P. Syst. Veg. 203.) (Vo. 7874.) BaccHARIS DRACUNCULIFOLIA DC. Prodr. 5: 421. ‘*A shrub 6 to ro ft. high, growing in dry gravel and clay, with white flowers; abundant.” Coripata, May 15, 1894. (Vo. 2793. Also zo. 2890 ?) BaccHaRIS MAPIRENSIS Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 61. (Vo. 2288, which is the same as as mo. rg8z. No. 2152 has oblong, blunt leaves, but Awsby 7575 has some of the leaves similar, while others are like the type, and it seems to connect the two forms.) Of xo. 2452 Mr. Bang says: ‘* Ashrub, 6 to $ ft. high, with white flowers, growing in forest-mould near the river.” Coroico, oem Bea HARIS FLORIBUNDA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 64. (Vo. 2885.) The same as Rusby 1583. BacCHARIS MICROPHYLLA PULVERULENTA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 3°: 56. (Wo. 2897.) The same as wo. 74. BaccHARIS TRINERVIS (Lam.) Pers. Syn. 2: 423. (Coxyza tri- nervis Lam. Encyc. 2: 85.) (Wo. 2892.) The same as xo. 52. Baccuaris SCANDENS (R. & P.) Pers. Syn. 2: 424. (Vo. 7925.) Baccharis syncephala Sch.-Bip. (Bonplandia 4: 54; name nly. 1856.) Lower leaf-surfaces, peduncles, involucres, etc., minutely gra lar; branches very stout, strongly costate or aneled, ‘laekish, feet eee petioles 1 cm. or more long, consisting of the ce leaf-bases, attached by a base 3-4 mm. broad; blades 5-7 cm. lon 1.5-3 cm. broad, oblong, abruptly narrowed ‘into a broadly ae petiole, obtuse, coarsely serrate, the teeth about 3 pairs, short, broad, rounded; blades thick and coriaceous, pale-green, the mid- rib strong, winged by the decurrent secondaries, of which there are about 7 pairs of principal, alternating with about three times as many ( 387 ) lesser ones, slender, strongly ascending, connecting near the mar- gin; panicle sessile, 5-7 cm. long, 7-9 cm. broad very dense; heads subs essile; involu ucres 5 mm. long and ae ae the 3 mm. long; corollas 3-4 mm. long, the lobes 1 mm. long, strongly recurved; anthers 1 mm. long, exserted, the thickish style-branches projecting nearly i mm. (Jo, 2267. Baccharis saliens sp. nov. Coarsely ferruginous-tomentose, except the upper leaf-surfaces; branches very stout, erect or strongly ascending, striate; petioles 0.5-1 long, stout, narrowly channeled above; blades 3.5-5 ng, I.5-2.5 cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, abruptly short-pointed and acutish or obtusish at the apex, finely and very sharply and slenderly dentate, the teeth at length divergent; thick and rigid, deep-green, 3-nerve by the lowest pair of secondaries, which connect with the second pair a little above the middle of the leaf and about one-third of the way from the margin to the midrib, finely and strongly reticulate, glabrous above with the principal veins plane or lightly impressed, ferruginous underneath upon the 7¢ g, 4-6 cm. broad, pyramidal, dense, the heads sessile; involucre 6 mm. long, broadly campanulate, the scales in about ne ovate or lanceolate, acuminate or penne the lobes very short; pistil — nearly 2 mm., the lobes of the style dark, 0.5 mm. long, e ‘‘ Scarce in wet forest- ae climbing; flowers white.” Un- duavi, September, 1894. (JVo. 2493.) ? ACHYROCLINE ALATA DC, Prodr. 6: 221. (Specimen without number.) Apparently the same as AZandon 158, but the heads much smaller than in Brzdges’ specimen from Bolivia. ? ACHYROCLINE CELosIoIDES (H.B.K.) DC. Prodr. 6: 221. (Gnaphalium celosiotdes, U.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 78. pl. 729.) (Specimen without number.) ‘+ Growing a few feet high, in very dry rock, the flowers white; scarce.” Coripata, April 10, 1894. (Vo. 2022.) ACHYROCLINE RUFESCENS DC. Prodr. 6: 220. (Specimen with- out number.) The same collected by Pearce in the Andes of Ecuador, 12,000~13,000 ft. ACHYROCLINE VAUTHERIANA DC. Prodr. 6: 220. (Wo. 2278.) (The same as Gardner 4261?) ( 388 ) Achyrocline polycephala sp. nov. feotems weak, much elongated, has branched, densely and rather lon ell wish-t ; lea -9 cm. ong I-3 cm. broad, oblong, sessile by a narrow ia acute, above deep-green, papillose, pubescent when young, underneath densely yellow-to- mentose, the venation inconspicuous; flowers densely panicled in rather large glomerules; heads 3 mm. long, the pane oval, obtuse, hyaline, green at the base; scales less than o. . long, oval; corolla 3.5 mm. long, narrowly Aether ne the lobes brown, spreading, about as long as the a ‘“‘In dry gravelly soil, climbing 5 or He the flowers white.” Coroico, July 11, 1894. (Wo. 2236 Species very near A. deflexa. Superficially much like the last, but the corollas quite distinct. Achyrociine tomentosa sp. nov. Stems rather stout, woody at the see terete, striate, softly and closely gray-tomentose, much branche ae branches mostly iota or strongly ascending, aa ous, 2-3 cm. ong; leaves 3-6 cm. long, 0.6-1.5 cm. broad, the floral smaller, blade proper regularly and rather angularly lanceolate, tapering into a petiole-like base which is not, or little, dilated at the insertion, acute at the apex, bright-green but grayish-tomentose above, densely yellow-tomen- tose underneath, the midrib inclined to a purple color, rather prom- inent both sides, specially oe the venation obscure ; panicles leafy, broad and open, mostly 6-8 cm. long and rather broader, the heads densely clustered at the ends of the branches, the ultimate clusters 4-5 mm. broad, yellow-tomentose at the base; head 3 mm. long, the scales broadly ovate, acute, hyaline; akene and corolla together less than 2 mm. long, the akene short, broad, dark-purple or blackish, one-half as ‘long as the broadly cylindraceous corolla. ‘© A small plant, a few feet high, with white flowers; rather scarce in very dry soil on rocks.” Coripata, April 10, 1894. (Vo. 2124.) ? GNAPHALIUM CHEIRANTHIFOLIUM Lam. Encyc. 2: 752. (Jos. 2011, 2041 p.p. and 2633.) GNAPHALIUM CYMATOIDES Kunze; DC. Prodr. 6: 225. (Wo. 2040. GNAPHALIUM sPpicatum Lam. Encyc. 2: 757. (Vo. 2896.) Luciria AFFinis Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 230. (Specimen without number.) The same as Mandon 168. ? Lucitia squarrosa Baker, in Mart. FI. Bras. 6: 114. (Spec- imen without number.) Apparently the same as Glaziou 8129 and 17046.) ( 389 ) Chevreulia elegans sp. nov. Stems and lower leaf-surfaces densely white- aoe stems very slender, creeping, densely leafy; leaves sessile, 0.7-1.5 cm long, 2-4 mm. broad (on some shoots a half narrower, on others twice as broad), oblong, the apex cuspidate and pungent, green and somewhat pilose on the upper surfaces, I-nerved; heads short- peduncled; involucres turbinate-campanulate, 7-9 mm. long, the scales pale-green, some with purple apex, subglabrous, lanceolate, obtuse, the outer shorter; akenes 3 mm. long, slenderly lanceolate and attenuate; pappus 5 mm. long, copious, white, very little co- herent at the hace. corolla 5 mm. long, very slender, pale-purple, darker at the summit. ‘¢ Rather scarce in dry soil along roadsides.” Coripata, Yungas, March 20, 1894. (Wo. 2700.) PoLYMNIA GLABRA DC. Prodr. §: 515. (Vo. 873.) The same as Mandon 30. EcuipTa ALBA (L.) Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 528. (Verdesina alba L. Sp. Pl. 90. cléfta erecta L. Mant. 2: 286.) ‘In wet gravelly clay; flowers white; scarce.” Near Coripata, February 20, 1894. (No. 2071.) VERBESINA DIVERSIFOLIA DC. Prodr. §: 615. ‘*Grows 10 to 15 ft. high, in good soil along roadsides, the flowers white; abun- dant.” Coripata, April 20, 1894. (Wo. 2735.) Versesina SoraTAaE Sch.-Bip.; Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 34: 551. 1899. (Wo. 2076.) The same as Rusby 1732. SprranTHes ACMELLA (L.) Murr. Syst. ed. 13. 610. ( Verbesina Acmella L. Sp. Pl. gor.) (Vo. 2024.) The sameas Rusby oro. SALMEA MIKANIOIDES Britton Bull. Torrey Club 19: 150. 1892. ‘¢Climbing 15 to 20 ft. on trees, in wet mould, the flowers Coripata, April 4, 1894. (Vo. 2120.) The same as 8 HETEROSPERMUM DIVERSIFOLIUM H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 226. (Wo. 2032.) The same as Spruce 5788. HETEROSPERMUM RHOMBIFOLIUM Griseb. Goett. Abh. 19 : 187. 1874. (Specimen without number.) Biwens squarrosa H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 238. (Mo. 20377.) The same as Mandon 53 and Linden 487 from Caracas. Bidens pallida sp. nov. Softly and shortly gray-pubescent throughout; branches elon- gated, ae pale, finely striate; leaves trifoliolate, the petioles 2-3 cm. long, stout, striate, divaricate or lightly deflexed; lateral ( 390 ) leaflets sessile, 4-6 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. broad, ovate, inequilateral, lightly cordate, acute, finely serrate, the teeth broadly ovate and mucronate, ee sinuses acute, the venation pale, little prominent ; terminal leaflets 7-10 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, petioluled, other- wise like the lateral corymbs ak 5 cm. road. very loose, few- flowered, appears piracy but terminating the short branches; involucres 5-6 mm. long, hemispherical-campanulate, very loose, the scales lance-ovate, obtusish, strongly 3- to 5-nerved; rays more than 1 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, ovate, thickish, strongly 7-nerved ; scales of the disk pel obtusish 4mm. long, 1 mm. broad; akene (in young flower) 2 mm. long, o. 3m m. broad; pappus 3 mm. aa slender; corolla 5 mm. ‘long, infundibular, the lobes I mm. “¢Climbing 5 to 10 feet over hedges by the roadside; a Flowers yellow.” Coripata, Yungas, April 25, 1899. (Vo. 2752.) CaLea crmosa Less. Linnaea 5: 158. 1830. (Specimen without number. ) TRIDAX PROCUMBENS L. Sp. Pl. goo. ‘‘A small plant, growing abundantly in coca plantations, the flowers white.” Coripata, May 3, 1894. (Vo. 2774.) VILLANOVA OPPOSITIFOLIA Lag. Gen. et Sp. Nov. 31. (Nos. z8o07 and 2893.) The same as Mandon 74. FLAVERIA CHILENSIS J. F. Gmel. Syst. 1269. (JVo. 2026.) The same as 70. 968. TaGETES PuSILLA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 194. ‘In dry gravel along roadsides, the flowers yellowish-green.” Coripata, March 20, 1894. (Vo. 2099.) TAGETES MULTIFLORA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 197. (Vo. 2637.) The same as mo. 53a TaceTzes Manpont Sch.-Bip.; Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 64. (Vo. 2636.) The same as no. riz. Pectis substriata sp. nov. Root stout, vertical, much-branched; stems numerous, erect or ascending, deep-purple, nae minutely puberulent, very leafy; leaves eee 2 24 cm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, tapering from the ase to an e point, aie above, becoming long-setiferous basally, rs fue and rigid, deep- pane bearing (mostly 2) rows of very large ack glands; = cence loosely racemiform ; peduncles of the heads about 5 mm. long, erect, sharply 4-angled ; involucre campanulate, 8 mm. iene, the scales 4, ovate, acutish, keeled, the keel rounded, very stout at the base; receptacle m. broad, sub-globular, black-foveolate ; gene 3mm. nips apa late, bla ck, appressed-hispid; pappus tawny, coarse, r5 mm long, serrate, scanty; some bristles eae but without fateraiced (391 ) Aedes on bristles somewhat dilated at - sana those of the ray- flowers much fewer; ae aala s7 tog . long, rather narrow; disk- corollas 5-6 mm. long, eyta ic ei arate the lobes elongated. (Vo. 2777.) ‘‘On dry hills, the flowers yellow. Local name ‘ Quichamale,’ and much used as a blood-purifier.” Coripata, Yungas, March 28, 1894. CHRYSANTHEMUM PARTHENIUM (L.) Pers. Syn. 2: 462. (Speci- men without number. LriaBuM HASTIFOLIUM Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 3: 43. ‘¢ Grows 4 to 6 ft. high, with bright-yellow flowers, in cultivated ground.” Uchimachi, August 20, 1894. (Woe. 2390.) The same as Rusby 1743 Liazum ovatum (Wedd.); Ball, Jour. Linn. Soc. 22: 46. 1885. (Paranephelius ovatus Wedd. Chior. And. 1: 214.) (Vo. 1842.) Liazsum Russpyi Britton, Bull. Torrey Club Ig: 263. 1892. (No. 7913.) Liabum (Munnozia) giganteum sp. nov. Densely, the upper leaf-surfaces slightly, floccose and yellowish- white; stems very coarse and stout, but weak; petioles (only the upper seen) 0.5—1 dm. long, very stout, the narrow margins connate at the base; blades 1-2 dm. long, and about as broad, triangular, the base truncate, toothed like the rest of the margin, the basa angles outwardly and somewhat downwardly prolonged, acute at the apex, very coarsely toothed, the teeth acute, the sinuses rounded and shallow; leaf very thin, coarsely and broadly 3-costate from tened; akene and pappus of the disk-flowers similar, the corolla 4 mm. long, narrowly arrears pilose, the ie. 1.5 mm. long, oblong; anthers 1.2 mm. long, acuminate, the base entire; recep- tacle plane, naked. ‘¢ Plant 2 to 6 ft. high, in wet, shaded situations as a weed in cultivated ground, the flowers yellow.” Sacramento, Yungas, August 14, 1894. (Vo. 2779.) ( 392 ) The same collected by Pearce in the valley of Santa Cruz. S PANICULATA Klatt, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 31’: 210. 1892. (Distributed as ‘‘ Hupatorium Vauthertanum”, and cor- rected by Dr. B. L. Robinson.) ‘+ Plant 2 to 4 ft. high, grow- ing in wet clay and gravel, near river, the flowers yellow; scarce.” Coripata, May 10, 1894. (No. 278g.) The same as Rusby 2126. Schistocarpha (?) triangularis sp. nov. Densely and closely cic ota yee except the upper leaf-surfaces and involucres; stems very stout, coarsely angled; petioles (only upper seen) 3-4 cm. long, stout, lightly margined, str rongly 3-costate, dilated and confluent at the base; blades 6-15 broad, triangular-ovate, sub-truncate to sub- ue at the base, acute at the apex, distantly dentate, the teeth very small and acute; coriaceous, above shining and glabrous except on the Seer veins, sub-3-nerved, the venation strongly reticulate, prominent underneath; corymbs ‘axillary, on peduncles twice the length of their petioles, stout but weak, the corymbs dense, 5-6 cm. broad; peduncles of the heads about 5 mm. long; heads 8- 10 mm. long, nearly as broad; involucres curtain ane: 5 mm. long, the scales in many series, the outer successively shorter and broader, ovate-lanceolate, obtusish, green with white margins and mostly purple tips, thickish and rigid; ray-flowers white, pistillate, fertile, the akene glabrous, obovoid, 1 mm. long, the pappus yellowish, 4 or 5 mm. long with some shorter ones, rather canty, coarse, barbellate ; corolla nearly 1 mm. long, very slender and pilose below, the limb about half its length, 1 mm. wide, minutely 2-dentate or entire; style-branches 2 mm. long, spirally Pil terete, papillose, truncate; akene and pappus of the disk- flowers similar, the corolla 7 mm. long, infundibular, the lobes equ ca 1.5 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, the anthers caudate and acu- minate at the base; receptacle convex, beset with whitish awned chaff. ‘¢ Climbing over shrubs in wet forest-mould, the flowers yellow.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Jo. ge ERECHTITES HIERACIFOLIA (L.) R Prodr. 6: 294. (Senecto hieractfolius L. Sp. Pl. ce me 2878.) ERECHTITES VALERIANIFOLIA (Wolf) DC. Prodr. 6: 295. ( Senecio ne abana Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. (1825) ; Reichb. Ic. Bot. Exo 59.) ‘¢In wet clay, growing 3-5 ft. high, the flowers oe abundant.” Coripata, March 2, 1894. (Wo. 2068. Cu.citrum canescens H. & B. Pl. Aeq. 2: 4, pl. 67. (Wo. ( 393 ) zgo0.) This is much used in the higher Andean regions as a pectoral remedy. SENEcIO ANTENNARIA Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 106. (No. 1883.) The same as Mandon rzro. SENEcIO Formosus H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 177. (Mo. 1958.) The same as Rusby 1672. SENECIO HowENACKERI Sch.-Bip.; Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 131. (Specimen without number.) The same as Mandon rgs5. SEnEcIO PENTLANDIANUs DC. Prodr. 6: 421. (Wo. 7877.) SENECIO PRUNIFOLIUS Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 102. (JVo. 2039.) SENEcIO Smirui DC. Prodr. 6: 412. (Cineraria gigantea Sm. Exot. Bot. 2 (1805), but the name Sezecio giganteus is pre- occupied.) (Vo. 7969.) Senecio multinervis Sch.-Bip. (Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 12: 80; name only. 18 Stems and branches very stout, many-nerved, the younger por- tions short-shaggy, many of the hairs reflexed; leaves (only the up- per seen) crowded, clasping by a narrowed, petiole-like base, 1.5-3 dm. long, 4.5-9 cm. broad, oblanceolate, acuminate or short-atten- uate, very finely and sharply dentate with salient ae thickish and apparently fleshy, above bright- “green, papillose and very shortly and sparsely hairy, the venation inconspicuous, Sade: neath small ne than 1 dm. broad) and dense, or large (3 dm. broad) and rather lax, the branches rice the bracts lanceolate, attenuate; peduncles of the heads 0.5-1 cm. long, stoutish ; heads nearly 1 cm. long and a) a half broader as pressed ; ; involucres hemispherical- campanulate, mm. long, of few scales in one series; scales eae oval-ovate, obtusish, brown with broad whitish margins; mm. longer than the scales, eee deep-yellow; akenes ae short; tubular corollas infundibul ‘‘ A shrub 6 to 8 ft. high, with ie flowers, scarce in forest- mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2495.) Senecio octophyllus Sch.-Bip. (Linnaea 34: 531; name only. 1866.) Densely tomentose; stems decumbent or ascending, stoutish, densely leafy; leaves 3-4 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 cm. broad, oblong, midrib and inconspicuous veins, thickish; heads few, corymbose at the summit, 1.5 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. broad, leafy-bracted ; (394) involucre about as long as the flowers, the scales in two series; scales lanceolate, acutish; rays pale-yellow, little exceeding the involucre. (Specimen without number; the same as Lechler 2092 from Peru.) Senecio Sepium Sch.-Bip. (Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.12: 80. 1865.) Pubescent; stems weak, erect or ascending, nerved or costate, sparsely leafy except near the base; lower leaves petiole the pe oles slender, 1-2 cm. long, the blades 3 » O.7—1. broad, ovate, rounded to subcordate at the hae: ee ed ee tusish, thin, dark-green above, paler beneath, the margin finely and sharply serrate, the sinuses broad and rounded; upper leaves sim- ilar but gradually more slender, with shorter, margined petioles, at with a few small scales at the base; scales linear-attenuate, strongly 3-nerved; rays slender, nearly a half longer than the involucre; pappus very fine and copious, white. (Specimen without number.) The same as Mandon 733. Senecio biacuminatus sp. nov. labrous except for the lightly floccose peduncles and branches of the inflorescence ; stems woody, stout, coarsely angled above; upper leaves sessile by an acuminate base, the lower i aia Sh intoa baie petiole 1 or 2 cm. long, lance-oblong, 0.8—1.5 d g, 1.5-3¢ broad, acuminate at both ends, very acute, tickish, ey cane toward the apex with appressed teeth, the terete, stout midrib and about 12 pairs of slender, very crooked secondaries prominent underneath; panicle large, pyramidal, the branches stoutish; pe- duncles of the heads erect, stout, angled, 1-2 cm. long; i involucré campanulate, 1 cm. long, sub-2- serialled, the outer — short and ertile, 2.5 ¢ ae bright-yellow, strongly 5-7- a. akene 3 m ng; pappus 9 fine, white, not copious; corolla infundibular, the a rather abruptly eee equaling the pappus. (Wo. 78 This may be ni same as Mandon 1g7. Mr. Bang sends another specimen, without number, with larger, sinuately serrate, clasping leaves, narrower involucre, the scales narrower and obtusish and the rays much smaller, which may be a variety of this. Senecio oblanceolatus sp. nov. Glabrous excepting the puberulent inflorescence and lower leaf- surfaces; stem stout, branched from near the base, the branches (395 ) ascending, stout, flexuous, somewhat angled, densely leafy; leaves sessile by a cuneate, petiole-like base, 7-10 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm stout midrib is prominent, thickish, the venation inconspicuous; heads rather fea. solitary in the axils of distant leaf-like aes ; the peduncles 2-4 cm. long, slender, linear-bracted; involucre 1 cm. long, broadly turbinate-campanulate, 2-serialled, the nee series basal, very short; inner scales oblanceolate, acuminate and acute; rays not present ; akenes 3 mm. long, sharply costate; pappus 8 mm. long, fine, white, copious; corolla 1 cm. long, the greenish tube one-half its length and dilated at the base, abruptly expanded into the ee infundibular limb. (Vo. 26372.) Species near S. Swart. Senecio coroicensis sp. nov. Glabrous; branches stout, costate; petioles 2 cm. long, stout, channeled above, 3-costate ae the midrib, underneath; blades 0.7-1.5 dm. long, 2.5— broad, oblong, acute at the base, short- pointed and. acute re he apex, strongly and sharply serrate broadly campanulate, 6 mm. long, the scales ovate, acuminate and acute; rays light-yellow, the Himb oblong, 5 mm. long; akenes 3 mm. long; corolla-tube proper slightly longer than the akene, slender, dilated at the base, passing abruptly into the broadly in- fundibular limb, which is shorter. (Vo. 243 ‘¢ A shrub ro ft. or more high, in rich age the flowers light blue.” Coroico, September, 1894. Mr. Bang must have mistaken the plant, as the yellow rays are conspicuous. Senecio pectioides sp. nov. labrate; root stout, elongated, woody, bearing a dense mass of filiform, elongated rootlets; stem woody, much-branched from 4 cm. long, 4-8 mm. br late, acute, coarsely and sinuately gene the teeth acute, the large auricles of the upper leaves coarsely laciniate, deep-green above, underneath pale and when young more or less pilose; terminal corymbs small, loose; peduncles of the heads 0.5-1 cm. long; (396 ) involucre broadly campanulate, 8 mm. long, the outer circle short, lax, the inner scales oblanceolate, acute; rays deep-yellow, nearly twice the length of the involucre; disk-flowers a little exceeding the involucre. (Vo. 7829.) Senecio liabifolius sp. nov. Short scurfy-tomentose, the leaves nearly smooth except upon the iol m a) ee sharply serrate ae abruptly yemen and acute at the apex, thin but rigid, deep-purple in the specimens, the venation inconspicuous, the ae 12-15 pairs, ee strongly up- wardly curved; corymb terminal, 2 dm r more br oad, compound and rather dence: cubist bigs pete of the heads erect or strongly ascending, slender, several-bracted, 3-6 cm. long; invo- lucres 8 mm. long, broadly campanulate, 1-serialled, the scales ala ecient light-purple, eae cm. long, oblong; akenes 3 mm. long, sap pappus 8 mm. long, fine, white; disk-corollas es 9 the lower half narrowly cylindrical, the upper abruptly ifandict ee camapenuiate (Vo. 2033.) Senecio tabacifolius sp. nov. Ferruginous- tomentose, hea upper leaf-surfaces papillose and short-stellate; stems 1.2—2'm. high, shrubby, coarsely angled, flexu- ous; petioles (only upper seen) 2-4 cm. long, stout, subterete; blades 1-3 dm. long, 0.5-1 dm. broad, lance- oblong, obtuse or acutish at the base, acuminate at the apex, finely (the larger leaves obsoletely) serrate, the teeth acute, very thin, venation lightly prominent both sides, the midrib broad and coarse, the secondaries about 15 unequal and i irregular pairs, alternating with lesser ones ; peduncles of the heads slender, 3-5 mm. long; heads 7 mm. long and broad; involucres campanulate, 4mm. long and (as pressed) 56 mm. broad, the scales in one series, or with a few small ones at the base; scales oblong, 3- to 5-costate, obtuse or acutish; rays slightly exceeding “the disk; akenes short and stout; pappus fine; white, copious; tubular corollas infundibular ‘« A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, in wet shaded fae emould ; the flowers beautiful, white [probably referring to the pappus — H.H.R.], the leaves beautiful velvety-green.” (/Vo. 2385.) Sacramento, Yungas, August 4, 1894. Senecio prunioides sp. nov. Younger portions and inflorescence sparsely short-hairy; stems climbing, stout, costate; petioles 1-2 cm. long, rather stout; blades (397) 6-9 ¢ 2-3 cm. broad, oblong, entire, acute at the base, shoals, Sorceely pointed and obtusish at the apex, thin, dark-green abo : inconspicuous both sides; peduncles of the small panicles much elongated, angled, the branches bracted, the bracts 2-5 mm. long, lance-ovate, acuminate, thin; peduncles of the heads 3-5 mm. long; involucres campanulate, 47mm. long, the a in one series, linear-oblong, acuminate, thin, dark- -green ; pe 1.5-2 mm. long; pappus 5 mm. long, white, fine, copious erolle 7mm. long, the tube slender, the limb broadly es re ae lobed. “‘Climbing 10 to 15 feet upon trees, in forest-mould and clay, the flowers of a dirty yellow, Coroico, ie — (No. 2437.) Species near S. yungasensis and S. floce Senecio baccharidiflorus sp. nov. Younger portions, inflorescence and lower leaf surfaces closely and densely tomentose; stems slender, apparently climbing, terete, striate; petioles 1 cm. long; blades 4-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, oblong or oblanceolate, the lower obtuse or rounded at the base, the upper acute, abruptly short-pointed and acute at the apex, ser- rulate, the teeth acute, and divergent; thick and coriaceous, glabrous above with the midrib and 12-15 pairs of Slender, crooke d se cond- densely floccos pressed sc I- erailed: broadly ovate, the apex rounded or with a short obtus on purple tip, thick, with scarious margins; rays wanting; mature akene scarcely 1 mm. long, obovoid, lightly compressed, 4-angled; pappus 3 mm. long, fine, white, copious, short-barbellate; corolla 3 mm. long, stout, broadly infundibular, lobed more than one-third of the way, the lobes ovate, obtusish, tuberculate-thickened on the face at the apex; anthers long and narrowly caudate at the base, the appendages oblong, obtuse ; style thick, the branches 1.5 mm long, flattened, papillose, the appendages acuminate and penicillate. *¢ A climber with white flowers, growing in rich forest-mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2494.) SENEcIO sp. near S. pruntfolius, the inflorescence too immature to admit of a diagnosis. Mr. Bang says: ‘* Grows in rich forest- mould, climbs to a height of about 8 feet and has green flowers.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2459.) SENECIO, species probably undescribed, but I have too little material. 0. 2023.) SENEcIO, may possibly be S. rkzzomatus Rusby. (No. 1890.) ? GYNOXIS BACCHAROIDES Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 48: 455. (Speci- men without number.) Apparently the same as Mandon 8&4. ( 398 ) Gynoxis discolor sp. nov. Densely white-floccose except the upper leaf-surfaces; stem slender, ae costate ; aay 0.5-1.5 cm. long, lightly area blades m. long, 2-3 c a ed at th and the 15-18 pairs of secondaries very prominent, the latter con- wie near the margin; peduncles of the aul panicles O.5-1.5 m. long, the inflorescence 1-2 cm. long, nearly as broad; heads e short-peduncled; involucre campanulate, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, the cate 8, sda eern igi ag ere acutely and stiffly pointed aken 3 (im re) 1 mm. long, broad; jpappus white, 4 mm. long, slightly papel the et (No. 2280.) Gynoxis (?) megacephala sp. nov. Shortly and densely yellow-tomentose, especially the lower leaf- surfaces, the upper leaf-surfaces nearly glabrous; branchlets elon- gated, very stout but weak, coarsely sulcate; leaves 2-3 cm. long, 0.8-1.75 cm. broad on a very short, broad petiole , oval, rounded at the base, stoutly paar very thick, deep-green above, deep- yellow underneath, the mi stout ; heads large, short-corymbed at the summit; peduncles of he heads 5 mm. long, stout, angled; involucre campanulate, the scales in two series, the outer sub-her- baceous, or oe about two-thirds the length and breadth of the inner, yellow-tomentose without, purple within, the inner 1 cm. long, sett aupreneel oblong, obtuse, nerved, deep-purple with obovate, truncate, compressed, 4-angled with intermediate lesser ones; pappus tawny, 8-9 mm. long, short-barbellate, copious; corolla yellow, strongly striate or almost costate, the lower cylin- draceous portion of the tube 5 mm. long, slightly contracted above, the remaining portion 4 mm. long, campanulate-infundibular, the broadened, strongly recurved, the appendages short, broad, obtuse, lightly pilose; receptacle plane, foveolate. (Vo. 7959.) The same collected by Pearce at Huaycani, 11,000 ft., May, 1866. Werneria caulescens (Wedd.). ( W. nubigena caulescens Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 81.) (Wo. zgrg.) Thesame as Mandon 86. WERNERIA NUBIGENA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 193. (Vo. 1978.) The same as JZandon 85. WERNERIA STRIGOSISSIMA A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 5: 140. (Vo. 830.) (399) BaRNADESIA VENOSA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 69. With a specimen of this plant, Mr. Bang sends the following statement : ‘«T have found this plant as a tall shrub, the stem as stout as a man’s leg, and full of thorns like long needles.” Sacramento, Yungas, August, 1894. Barnadesia inermis sp. nov. Short-pubescent; branchlets stout, flexuous, mostly about 2 dm. long, very leafy, erect; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long; blades 5-8 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, oblong, obtuse at the base, very acute or i underneath short-hairy, the hairs appressed, the venation prominent, strongly 3-nerved, the nerves continued into the midrib; peduncles axillary to the upper leaves, about 1 cm. long; stout, erect, about 5-flowered; peduncles of the heads 3-5 mm. long; involucres campanulate, about 1 cm. lon many-serialle ed, the a: green- ish, acute, strongly ciliate, the inne ermost lanceolate, the outer- rc) receptacle densely short-scaly; akenes oblong, stout, pilose, 2.5-3 mm. long; pappus coarse, rigid, very strongly plumose, tawny, the plume whitish; corollas 7 mm. long, fissured more than half- way, 5-lobed, the lobes 2 mm. long, narrow; upper portion = corolla reflexed or recurved; anthers 3.5 mm. long, slenderly ca date; style-branches very short, flattened, the apex rounded. “‘Climbing very high on trees in damp forest-mould. The flowers are yellow, with an agreable odor, and very different from those of 2335, which are white.” Near Coroico, Yungas, August 5, 1894. (Vo. 2372.) CuHuquiRacua FEROX (Wedd.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 1g: 266. 189 887. Chuquiragua varians (Gardn.). (flotovia vartans Gardn. Lond. Jour. Bot. 6: 454. 1847.) ‘*A thorny climber, with white flowers, growing in wet forest-mould.” Calapampa, June 24, 1894. (Mo. 2335.) Moquinia boliviana sp. nov. Shortly stellate-tomentose throughout, very slightly upon the upper leaf-surfaces; branches slender, fle aie slightly coarse- angled below, the internodes about 2-4 c ong; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, very stout; blades o.5-1 dm iene. 3.5-7 cm. br ovate, shallowly cordate at the base, rounded and mostly retuse ( 400 ) with a slight apiculation at the apex, thick and rigid, above deep- green, the midrib and oe very slightly impressed, the finely reticulate venation sharply elevated, underneath gray, the midrib and 6 or 7 pairs of secondaries very stout, terete and coarse, and some- what crooked; panicles 2 dm. or more Pp as broad or broader, lax, the branches mostly at an angle of about 45°, the branchlets subtended by lance-ovate or oblong bracts, the ovate ‘practlets at the summit gradually merging into the involucral scales; involucres campanulate, 7 mm. long, squarrose, on peduncles 3-7 mm. long; scales ovate, varying to obovate or aie ea ne acutish or obtuse, finely nerved, ciliate, coriaceous, concave; flowers 10, all alike, the akenes 2.5 mm. long, pilose, Shine. slightly com- pressed, nerved; pappus 1-serialled, 4-5 mm. long, coherent at the base in 5 fascicles, rather coarse, rigid, barbellate, pees thick- ened toward the summit; corolla yellowish, 5 mm. long, divided nearly two-thirds of the way, the tube cylindrical, the lobes equal, linear, obtuse, the apex strongly recurved or even revolute, reddish at the tip; anthers nearly 3 mm. long, the appendage lanceolate, acuminate, the caudae long-attenuate; style-branches very stout, oblong, rounded at the apex, thick, compressed. (Vo. 2252.) THYRSANTHEMA INTEGRIFOLIA (Cass.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 369. (Seris integrifolia Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 26: 103.) ‘* A small weed, growing in many places, along roadsides, etc., the flowers white.” Coripata, March 14, 1894. (Vo. 2095.) THYRSANTHEMA ROTUNDIFOLIA (D. Don) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 369. (Chaptalia rotundifolia D. Don, Trans. Linn. Soc. 16: 242. 1830.) (Specimen without number.) The same as Mandon 12. SERIS SAGITTATA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 69. ‘+ Growing 2 or 3 ft. high, in dry gravel and clay, the flowers rose-colored. Found but once.” Coroico, July 30, 1894. (Vo. 23765.) SERIS APPRESSA (Hook.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 364. (Cen- troclonium appressum Hook. Bot. Mag. pl. 7775.) (Wo. z8rz.) The same as AZandon 665. PEREZIA INTEGRIFOLIA Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 40. (Vos. 2880 and 2029.) TRIXIS DIVARICATA (H.B.K.) Spreng. Syst. 3: 501. (erdz- ctum divaricatum H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 155.) ‘¢ Climbing ro to 15 ft. high, among shrubs, in gravel and clay along roadsides, the flowers greenish-white; abundant.” Coripata, June 24, 1894. (uVoe. 2289.) JUNGIA FERRUGINEA L.f. Suppl. 390. (not Don). ‘Grows in damp forest-shade and climbs 20 ft. high or more, the flowers greenish-brown.” Coripata, June 20, 1894. (Vo. 2308.) (401 ) Juneia arrinis Gardn. Lond. Jour. Bot. 6: 460. 1847. (Speci- men without number.) The same as Gardner 426}. Jungia pauciflora sp. nov. Stems elongated, weak, coarsely angled, pubescent, the yellowish, rather coarse hairs short and reflexed upon the lower portions, el and spreading toward the summit; stipule-like leaves rounded o broader than long, about 1-1.5 cm. long, i in all other respects similar to the leaves; petioles 2-4 cm. long, stout and rigid, costate, pubes- cent like the cms blades 0.5-1 dm. long and broad, rotund-ovate, strongly cordate, the sinus mostly broad, ae lobed, the lobes irregularly crenate-dentate, thick and rigid, above bright- green, harsh, sparsely and very shortly hairy, underneath very pale, softly the branches elongated, fal slender and weak, Tee alae at the base; peduncles of the heads siongaied and slender; involucres broadly campanulate, 6 mm. long, ferruginous ike the peduncles, the scales lanceolate, rigid, appressed, acute; ray-corollas 1 cm. long, the limb about 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, sharply 3-toothed, the whitish pappus two-thirds the length os the ray; disk corollas (not fully mature) 7 mm. long. (No. 2 This is very near to Mandon 16, ot Matthews plant from Chachapoya, Peru, and I am disposed to regard them as identical, although the one here described has stouter and shorter peduncles, larger heads and flowers and the pappus shorter in proportion to the corollas. I do not therefore take up the proposed name of Schultz-Bipontinus. ree orbicularis sp. nov. ems elongated, stoutish but very weak (possibly scandent), purplish, coarsely angled, pubescent with short, white hairs; stipule- like s semicircular, the pair conspicuously orbicular, 3-8 cm. ae pes one-half or more the size of the leaves proper, Searsely crenate; only the upper leaves seen, their petioles 3-6 cm. long, coarse and weak, strongly ribbed, aa ribs pee into the mid- rib of the leaf; blades rotund-ovat 0.5-1 dm. long and bro selon) lobed with broadly ovate, see oulail Ra pee lobes, very thin, above bright-green and very sparsely short-hairy, under- neath pale or gray and softly short-pubescent, 3-ribbed, or 5- to ribbed by the prompt branching of the lower pairs, the ribs broad involucre campanulate, 8 mm. long, green, the scales 7 mm. long, lanceolate, obtuse, the margins toward the base strongly involute ; (402 ) akene of the young ray-flower 2 mm. long, little ee — the (white) ray 9 mm. long, its limb 4 mm. long and road, corollas 6 mm. long, slenderly infundibular, the iene and pappus similar to those of the ray. (Specimens without number.) Species very near the last, but conspicuously distinct in leaf- texture, the larger stipuloid leaves and the partly concealed in- florescence. Hieracium trichodontum sp. nov. Long-pilose throughout, the hairs spreading or even reflexed, above somewhat tangled; stems about 3 dm. long, stoutish, erect, few-flowered; radical leaves erect on petioles 3-6 cm. long, the blades 5-8 cm. long, oblong, tapering into the petiole, aaa coarsely reticulate, t the cauline similar but becoming sessile and acute; peduncles of the heads 7-10 cm. long; involucres campanu- late, about t t cm. long, the scales lanceolate, acute; corollas nearly 1.5 cm. long, truncate, sharply toothed, the teeth 2-3 mm. long. (No. 2035.) HIERACIUM MICROCEPHALUM Sch.-Bip. Bonplandia 4: 55. 1856. (Specimen without number. ) Hypochaeris setosus (Wedd.). (Achyrophorus setosus Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 220.) (Vo. 2894.) The same as Mandon 278. HypocHaERIS ACAULIS (Remy) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club Ig: 371. : HyPocHAERIS ELATA (Wedd. ) Griseb. Symb. Fl. Argent. 218. (Ve. 2009.) CAMPANULACEAE CENTROPOGON YUNGASENSE Britton, Bull. Torrey Club Ig: 371. 1892. ‘*Climbing 8 to 12 feet, upon trees, in wet soil, forest- shade; flowers red.” Coroico, September, 1894. (No. 2432.) The same as Rusby 642. CENTROPOGON GLORIosus (Britton) Zahlb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 373. 1897. (Siphocampylus gloriosus Britton 2. c. 19: 373- 1892.) (Vo. 2620.) The same as Rusby 647. CENTROPOGON (?) INCANUS (Britton) Zahlb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 374. 1897. (Sitphocampylus incanus Britton 2. c. Ig: 1892.) ‘+ About 5 ft. high, in very wet ground along roadsides; odor very disagreeable.” Coroico, September, 1894. (No. 2474-) SIPHOCAMPYLUS ARGUTUS Zahlb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 383. 1897. (No. 2045.) ( 403 ) je oar BOLIVIENSIS Zahlb. Ann. K. K. Nat. Hofm. Wien 6: 0. 2842.) The same as Mandon 496. a mote Ruszyanus Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 19: 372. 1892. ‘* Growing in mould and clay, in forest, half-climbing to a height of 15 feet, the flowers white.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2433.) SIPHOCAMPYLUS FLAGELLIFORMIS Zahlb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 380. 1897. (S. angustiflorus Britton, 2. c. 19: 373. 1892. non Schlecht.) ‘* Growing in damp forest-mould, and climbing to a height of 40 ft. or more, on trees, the flowers rose-colored ; scarce.” Uchimachi, July 20, 1894. ( iVo. 2353.) The same as Rusby 646. Se iain BILABIATUS Zahlb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 382. ‘¢ Growing in wet shaded clay and climbing slightly; the nae black and red.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2464 SIPHOCAMPYLUS CORREOIDES Zahlb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 382. 1897. ‘* Growing in wet mould, in shade, and climbing 2 to 4 ft., the flowers red.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2483.) SIPHOCAMPYLUS ELEGANS BOLIVIENSIS Zahlb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 381. 1897. ‘* Growing in wet mould and climbing 6 to 10 ft., the flowers red.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2491.) Siphocampylus reflexus sp. nov. Reclining or oe glabrous; stems elongated, slender, terete; petioles 0.5-1.5 cm. long, mostly reflexed or twisted, pur- plish; blades 3-7 cm.. oe t-2.5 cm. broad, triangular-lance-ovate, truncate to subcordate at the base, ere acuminate and atten- uate at the apex, finely serrate, the teeth reduced to divergent spinules, membranaceous, bright-green, coarsely reticulate with duncles 4-6 cm. long, slender, slightly tapering upward, angled, mostly recurved; calyx-tube very short, 6 mm. broad at the apex, the lobes strictly deflexed, 1 to nearly 1.5 cm. long, linear, slightly tapering, obtuse, serrate, like the leaves, but more coarsely ; corolla- bud strongly clavate-curved; corolla-tube about 4 cm. lon mm. read at one-fourth of the distance ee bah broader base, then gradually dilated to 1 cm. (as pressed) near the summit; lobes 1- 1.5 cm. long, lanceolate, an, her ere their direction mostly continuous with that of the corolla; essential organs 6 cm. long, the anthers 8 mm. long, lightly curved, strongly costate, lightly barbellate. Vic. Cochabamba (JVo. 2026, in part). Nearly the same as Pearce’s specimens from Santa Cruz. (404) LAvURENTIA RAMOSSISSIMA (Mart. & Gal.) Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 2: 549. (Lobelia ramossisstma) Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. g: [11]. 1842.) (Vo. 2247.) Lopetia CLIFFORTIANA XALAPENSIS (H.B.K.) A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 2': 7. ‘Growing in wet clay, in the forest, the flowers violet; scarce.” Coripata, April, 1894. (/Vo. 2762.) WaAHLENBERGIA PERUVIANA A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 5: 152. 1861. (Vo. 7922.) VACCINIACEAE CERATOSTEMMA Manponr Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 20: 137. 1893. (Vo. 7939.) The same as Rusby 2672. CERATOSTEMMA ELLIPTICA (Hook.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 20: 137. 1893. (Zhtbaudia elliptica Hook. Ic. Pl. pl. 208.) (No. 2003.) Ceratostemma (?) spectabilis sp. nov. Pubescent throughout, including the outside of the corolla ; branches elongated, stout, densely leafy; petioles 2 mm. long, broad; blades 1.5—3 cm. long, 0.75-1 cm. broad, ovate, blunt, pale- ae obscurely 3-nerved, the midrib very prominent underneath, the venation indistinct ; flowers sees in the axils; bracts at the base the pedicels 3-5 m ong, ovate, acuminate and almost pungent; pedicels es cm. long, stoutish; calyx-tube 5 mm. long and broad, campanulate, purple-green, the lobes 5 mm. long, broadly ovate, abruptly and acutely short-pointed; corolla 3-4 cm. long, infundibular, deep scarlet-red, the lobes erect, 5 mm. long, triangular-ovate, acute; filaments 3 mm. long, pilose, flattened, lightly coherent at the base; anthers 5 mm. long, dark, the thecae spurred at the base, the spurs 1 mm. long, dilated and incurved, laterally compressed and sulcate, rounded and notched at the base; awns exceeding the corolla-tube, shorter than the lobes, bright- yellow, the upper eu a ; style about equaling the stamens; disk annular, adnate - long. (Vo. 2605.) This differs from ee genus to which it is referred in the form of the anther-spurs and especially in its axillary and solitary flowers, yet its affinities seem clearly to be here. CAVENDISHIA AcumMINATA (Hook.) Benth.; Hemsley, Biol. Cent. m. Bot. 2: 272. ‘+A shrub about 8 ft. high, growing in very damp forest-mould, the flowers red and green; very scarce.” Near Coroico, August 5, 1894. (Vo 2373.) The same col- lected by Couthouy in the Quitensian Andes. ( 405 ) ERICACEAE PERNETTYA PHILLYREAEFOLIA (Pers.) DC. Prodr.7: 587. (Ar- butus phillyreaefolia Pers. Syn.1: 483.) (Vo. 190g.) Thisis the same as xo. 766, Rusby 2027, Mandon 553, and a specimen collected by Ba// in western Patagonia. Bang 2047 may be the same, and is placed here provisionally. PERNETTYA PARVIFOLIA Benth. Pl. Hartw. 219. (JVo. 72907.) This is the same as Rusby 2023 and Triana’s New Grenada zo. GAULTHERIA CONFERTA Benth. Pl. Hartw. 219. (Vo. 7905.) he same as 70. 707. GAULTHERIA BRACHYBOTRYS DC. Prodr. 7: 595. (os. 1906 and 2002.) The same as Rusby 20174. Clethra elongata sp. nov. Branchlets ped stout, tomentellate, and densely leafy at the summit; petio -2 cm. long; blades 0.8-1.5 dm. long, 3-6 cm broad, Ash eee acute at the base, very short-pointed and acute at the apex, obsoletely serrate, the teeth mere projections of the veins; nee rather thin, but rigid, above glabrous with the midrib ondaries pops auel and deeply channelled, secondaries very prominent: We tertiaries meeting about mid- pedicels bracted at the base, the bracts linear, about 2 mm. lon abruptly deflexed; pedicels 3-5 mm. long, slender, ee calyx-tube nearly hemispherical, 2 mm. broad, the lobes long, ovate, obtuse, indistinctly 3—5-nerved ; petals 3.5 mm ong. ‘cA stout tree 30 to 35 ft. high, with very pleasantly Bagiaat white flowers, in forest mould.” Uchimachi, Coroico, July 20, 1894. (Vo. 2351.) MYRSINACEAE MyrsiINE GUIANENSIS (Aubl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 402. (Rapanea guianenszs Aubl. Pl. Guian. 1: 121.) (Vo. 2049.) The same as xo. 146. Peckia purpurea sp. nov. Stems stout, coarsely angled, purple, finely speed: petioles 1.5-2 cm. a ng, stout and broad, purple; blades 1.5-2.5 dmu long, 4. . broad, oblanceolate, tapering into the petiole, abruptly sree eee the point acuminate and acute, entire, thin but rigid, ( 406 ) papillose both sides, the midrib lightly channeled above, terete and very prominent underneath, like the 10-12 pairs of slender secondaries, which are strongly ascending and connected by the ter- tiaries; racemes about 1.5 dm. long, very slender, erect, strongly angled, red-scurfy, loosely- towed pedicels 2.5 mm. long, the ovate basal bract half as long; sepals scarcely 1 mm. long, broadly margin lighter; corolla-lobes nearly 2 mm. long, broadly oval or suborbicular ; stamens very short; flowers staminate only Vo. 2048.) Species very near Rusby 7278. Clavija tarapotana Spruce, MS. (Distributed as ‘+ C. danctfolia Desf.”) Shrub 1 to 2 m. high, slender, glabrous; leaves 30~45 cm. long, 5-8 cm. wide, oblanceolate, acute, the margin obscurely sinuate, tapering into a very short, stout petiole; thick, light-green and dry- ing yellowish, the mi drib very stout, lightly channeled above; olla g mm. broad, of similar form; pistil 3 mm. long, the peltate white stigma nearly 2 mm. broad, "r2-lobed ; staminate flower not seen ‘¢ Scarce in shade, in rich forest-mould, the flowers yellow.” (Wo. 2158.) The same as Rusby 1279. SAPOTACEAE Chrysophyllum ilicioides sp. nov. Branchlets numerous, slender, gray; petiqles o.5—1 cm. long, channeled; blades 4-8 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, very short-pointed and acutish at the apex, entire, glab- rous, dark-green, above shining with the midrib channeled, midrib very prominent underneath, the secondaries very numerous, slender, a straight; aging about 10-flowered; pedicels slender, 3-5 m ong; calyx 1 mm. long and a little broader, hemispherical- cupulate, shallowly lobed, the lobes rounded; corolla sub-rotate, 5 min. broad; ae subulate, about as long as the broadly ovate anther, inserted upon the base of the corolla-lobe; ovary broadly ovate, purple, fae to the base of the corolla- lobes ; style con- ical, short; stigma capitate, white; ovules basal. (407 ) ‘(A tree 20 to 30 ft. high, the flowers green.” In the forest, near the River Tamampaya, Coripata, Yungas. April 26, 1894. (No. 2257.) Sideroxylon Bangii sp. nov. Branchlets numerous or crowded, short, stout, up-curved, lightly ferruginous toward the summit, marked by broad, saucer-shaped at ie apex, entire, eae slightly shining above, with the aries, is very prominent; fascicles 1- to about 7-flowered; bracts very short; pedicels 0.5—1 cm. long, stout, erect, thickened upward ; calyx cupulate, 2 mm. long by 3 mm. broad, lobed nearly mali way, the lobes semicircular or broader, thick and rigid; flowers not seen young fruit narrowly ovoid, densely and coarsely ferruginous- pilose, narrowing into a short, black, glabrous beak. (Vo. 7953.) STYRACEAE Symp.Locos Matuewsu A. DC, Prodr. 8: 250. (Wo. 2756.) The same as Ausby 2 Symp.Locos coLoraTa Brand. ‘‘A tree 20 ft. high, growing in rich mould, in forest.” Near Coroico, July 10, 1894. (Vo. 2332.) This is the same as a specimen collected by Pearce, the two to- gether being announced as the type. Symplocos flavescens sp. nov. Branchlets short and stout, shortly ferruginous-tomentose;_peti- oles 0.5-1 cm. long, very stout and broad; blades 4~8 cm. long,2.5— 5 cm. broad, oval, lightly cordate at the ‘base, very shortly pointed and obtusish at the apex, finely serrate, the teeth short and broad, and nearly glabrous with the venation lightly impressed, underneath venation very prominent; pais I-3 cm. long and broad, about 6-10-flowered, very shortly and stoutly peduncled, the flowers ses- sile, mostly in threes at the ends of branchlets; calyx tomentose, especially above, the tube ovoid, contracted at the mouth, 8 mm. long, the lobes appressed or inflexed, 2 mm. long, broadly triangular-ovate, ae corolla pile celine coriaceous, deeply 7-parted, the lobes long, n z mm. broad, lance-ovate, obtuse, pubescent within ; prey ges at the summit of the short tube, in two series, the upper anantherous in my specimens, filaments subulate, ( 408 ) flattened, the outer series twice as long and broad; anthers bright- yellow, small, nearly quadrate; style thickish, persistent, the stigma obscurely 3- lobed. (Vo. 1895.) STYRAX ovaTA (R. & P.) A. DC. Prodr. 8: 267. (oveolaria ovata R. & P. Syst. Veg. 100.) (Vo. 2867.) APOCYNACEAE ? MaLoveTia sp. (Specimen in fruit, and without locality or date.) The same as Rusby 23790. Laubertia (?) laxiflora sp. nov. Glabrous; branches stender, terete; leaves opposite; petioles 4— 5 mm. long, broad; blades 0.8-1.2 dm. ong, 3-4.5 cm. broad, oblong or oval to ‘slightly aed abruptly short-acuminate and obtuse, deep-green and shining a drying sae a ti underneath, the midrib channeled above, very prominent under- neath, the 5 or 6 pairs of very slender eT en strongly one connected by the tertiaries; panicle terminal, ne pears set few, 1-2 dm. long, sub-filiform, drooping, flexuous, very s ely flowered; bracts very small, ovate, thickish ; pedicels at aon tube 6 mm. long, cylindrical and slightly contracted upward, the throat ee oe within, the a broadly infundibular, 1.2 cm. ong, the lobes 5-6 mm. long a road, sub-rotund, entire, 3-5- nerved ; can inserted at the nae of the tube, lightly pilose, ligulate, narrowly margined above, 2 mm. long, nearly 1 mm. free portion of the lobes 0.5 mm. long, acute, the tips. lightly incurved ; aa of the nee Rae Reed thick, li sane connate at the base n two pairs, the fifth entirely free; ‘style thick and dilated Rice gradually Ronin filiform at the summit, the stigma 1 mm. long, nearly as broad, 5-lobed, annulate; only very young fruit seen, the ovaries separate, lanceolate, acuminate and acute, the apices incurved. (Vo. 2056. This very interesting plant differs from the meager descriptions of the little known genus Lazéertza in the presence of the ligules of the calyx, which may very easily have been overlooked in pre- vious specimens. The young fruit, moreover, looks as though it may develop something very different from the slender follicles de- scribed. When better known it may be found to represent an un- described genus. ( 409 ) EcuITEs PELTATA Vell. Fl. Flum. 110; 3: AZ. 32. (Wo. 2804.) Echites cyaniphylla sp. nov. Glabrous; stems very slender, purple, finely many-nerved; ea fee cm. long, slender, keeled; blades 0.6-1 dm. lon ng, —4 ¢ oad, oval, varying to ovate or obovate, mostly inequi- ia a ed broad but slightly produced, abruptly short-acu- minate and cuspidate at the apex, deep-green, the younger purple, the venation slender, lightly’ prominent both sides, coarsely retic- ulate; peduncles 2-3 cm. long, thicker at the summit, not dichot- omous; pedicels about 1 cm. long; calyx-tube short-cupulate, 3-4 mm. broad; lobes 5 mm. long, lance-oblong, obtuse, faintly nerved, their sinuses acute; corolla greenish-yellow, hypocrateriform, the tube about 12 long, dilated at base and summit, the limb in bud broadly a and acutish, the lobes 8-10 mm. long, obovate; follicles 3 dm. more long, lightly curved, k, as 5-7 mm. thic pressed, scarcely, pre seed 12 mm. long, inequilateraly lance- oblong, dark-green with white nerves and a short whitish beak, the coma about 1.5 cm. long, spirally twisted, white, copious. 2267. Probably the same as a specimen in herb. Kew collected by Saunders at Bogota, but not the same as Ausby 2783, which it closely resembles. Echites Bangii sp. nov. eee es 1-2 cm. long, flat, striate; blades 0.7-1. dm. long. 3-7 cm. broad, oval or oblong, rounded to subcordate at the base, ae and very acutely short-pointed, thin, deep-green above, drying yellowish underneath, the slender midrib an airs of secondaries sharply prominent mee benen the latter con- nected by the crooked tertiaries; peduncles 3-4 cm. long, loosely about 1o-flowered; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, stoutish, subulate- bracted ; calyx-tube cupulate, 1.5 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, truncate at the base, the lobes 4 mm. long, ovate, ee at the ie pe cm. +7 . bro pressed, cylindrical, the middle portion eee dilated, the obs abruptly spreading, 1 cm. ae immature pod 4 m. long, linear and very slender. (Wo. ee in part, and 2054, in part. Arenaria was also numbered 2053.) ? EcnirTes sp. flowers wanting. oe ?Ecuires sp. Neither flowers nor Me oat (No. 2277.) Mandevilla boliviana (Britton) Rusby. (chites boliviana Britton; Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 219.) (Vo. 2057.) The same as xo. 552 and Rusby 2382. Mandevilla Rusbyi Britton, sp. nov. Coarsely and somewhat harshly short-tomentose throughout, in- ( 410 ) cluding the outer surface of the corolla and the fruit, ae hairs glistening, the upper Sear somewhat strigose; stems stout- ish, terete; i 0.75-1.5 cm. long, very stout; blades o 0.7—-1.2 dm. long, 3.5-6 c aa aval varying to slightly ovate or ob- ovate, narrowly ee at the base, abruptly and acutely short- pointed at the apex, thick and coriaceous, of a rather deep green above, gray underneath, the rather coarse midrib and primaries lightly prominent both sides, the latter about 12 pairs, nearly at a right-angle with the midrib and slightly ascending; peduncles rather broadly infundibular throat more than 1 cm. long, the lobes 1.5-2 cm. long, apparently acute; pods linear, about 1 dm. long, less than 5 mm. broad, bearing’ about 7 canine lightly curved, the pair coh ; seed 8 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, deep- purple, the copious, dense, tawny comar.5 cm.long. (Vo. 2843.) The same as Ausby 23787, from which the description of the seed is taken. Dipladenia cuspidata sp. nov. Softly canescent, the upper leaf-surfaces nearly glabrous except oe the midrib ; oper ee erect, stout, in my specimens 5-7 m. high; stipules 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, triangular-ovate, acute, purplish- sas pedcles 3-5 mm. long an nd n nearly as broad; blades o.5—1 dm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, oval, lightly cordate, broadly cuspidate, entire, Ces thick, the midrib an pairs of reticulate; flowers shortly racemed at the summit, the base partly concealed by the upper leaves; ped m very stout a , campanulate, lightly contracted toward the summit, lobed nearly half way, the lo broad, overlapping, passing gradually into the broadly campanulate limb, purple (?), coriaceous. (Specimen without number, or data.) Species near D. gentianotdes and similar to Pearce 797, but the indumentum is not the same. ? RHABDADENIA sp. Flowers wanting. (Vo. 7950.) ASCLEPIADACEAE AMBLYSTIGMA PEDUNCULARE Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. 12: 77. pd. zi88. (This was sent by Mr. Bang as part of zo. 1254, which is Schistogyne attenuata Rusby, and some may have been dis- tributed under that number.) It is the same as Alandon 353. (411) OxyYSTELMA SOLANOIDES (H.B.K.) K. Schum.; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 4°: 229. (Philibertia solanoides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 3: 196, pl. 230.) (No. 1815.) The same as Mandon 352 and Rusby 1973. OxysTELMa Vaitiak Rusby ante, p. 315. (Vo. 2005.) The same as no. 985. ARAUJIA GRANDIFLORA (Mart. & Zucc.) Morong, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 12: 161. (Schubertia grandiflora Mart. & Zucc. Nov. Gen. 1: 57.) ‘+ Grows in wet soil near river, the flowers creamy-white; scarce.” Coripata, March 11, 1894. (Vo. 2088.) GoTHOFREDA PROPINQUA (Decne.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 420. (Oxypetalum propinguum Decne.; DC. Prodr. 8: 582.) This may prove to be a distinct species. The appendages are a little longer. It was sent by Mr. Bang as a part of no. 1254. ASCLEPIAS COCHABAMBE Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 221 (Vo. 2059.) The same as no. 982. AscLepias curassavica L. Sp. Pl. 215. ‘+Grows 2-4 ft. high, in wet clay along roadsides, the flowers red and yellow.” Cala- pampa, July 22, 1894. (Ves. 2060 and 23758. Merastetma Matuewsi Rusby, Bull. a Ory Club 2 1898. ‘*Growsin rather wet mould; scarce.” Coripata, March 12, 1894. (Vo. 2090.) The same as Rusby 2543. Amphistelma (Zetastelma) Pearcei sp. nov. Softly ea aa throughout; branchlets slender, rather $ 1-2 cm. rigid, terete; petioles 4-6 cm. long, very slender; blades long, 0.7—1.5 cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, pungently both sides; flowers solitary or 2-3-fascicled, nearly sessile; calyx 2 mm. broad, the short tube acute; corolla-tube short-cupulat es I mm. meee the lobes nearly 2 mm. long, lance-linear, spreading crown cely equaling the Aeneas: fleshy, — cupulate, irreg- ularly ad rather deeply 5-lobed. Fruit not s ‘¢Scarce in rich, stony soil. A climber, “with greenish-white flowers.” Coripata, March 15, 1894. ( Dirassa RACEMOSA Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 498. 1898. ‘*Grows 8-10 ft. high each year, after being burned. ferent plant, in fruit (the fruit tomentose), the genus not deter- minable, possibly a Metastelma. The same as Rusby 2546. (432 ) Ditassa apiculata sp. nov. Branchlets slender, finely striate, pubescent with short, spread- ing or slightly reflexed hairs; petioles 2-4 mm. long, stout; blades 2-4 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. broad, oblanceolate, acute at the base, within, the tube oa ae nearly 2 mm. long, the lobes lanceo- late, obtuse, 5 m ong, erect-spreading; filament-tube 1 mm. long, a little cee a half as broad as the anther-tube; crown free from the corolla, adnate to oe filaments up to the base of the anthers, of 5 ligules; body of the ligules a little more than 1 mm. long, oval-obovate, concave, appendaged at the apex with a linear, attenuate tail 2 mm. long and from the middle of its concave face with a sma VaILIA MuUCRONATA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 25: zz. 1898. (Wo. 2058.) The same as xo. 1275 and Rusby 2547. LOGANIACEAE SPIGELIA ELONGATA Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 542. 1898. (Wo. 25 BUDDLEIA VERBASCIFOLIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 351. ** A shrub about 15 ft. high, growing in damp clay, the flowers yellowish- green; scarce.” Calapampa, July 15, 1894. (Wo. 2749.) The same collected by Zrzazxa in New Granada. BuppLEIA MONTANA Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 544. 1898. (No. 1838.) Buddleia coroicense sp. nov. uginous-tomentose, except the upper leaf-surfaces, which are lightly scabrous; branchlets elongated, very slender, waving; peti- oles 0.5-1.5 cm. long, very stout, inserted into a low cup-shaped base; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 2.5-6 cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, acuminate and acute at the apex, the slender venation ob- scure above, sharply prominent underneath; heads loosely racemed, about 1cm. broad, subtended by lance-linear bracts about two- thirds of their length; calyx 3 mm. long, lobed half-way, the lobes and sinuses of similar form, triangular-ovate and acutish; corolla- ( 413 ) tube campanulate, 3 mm. long, the lobes 2.5 mm. long, spreading abruptly, nearly semicircular, but the margins strongly recurved, making them appear triangular and acute; anthers about I mm. long, oval, minutely apiculate, the filaments very short; disk saucer- shaped, 1 mm. broad, ovary globose or a little elongated, Imm. broad; style 1.5 mm. long, stout, curved, the stigmas 1 mm. long, darker than the style. «Climbing 4 to 6 feet high in dry mould, the flowers white [but they are evidently deep-purple— H.H.R.].” Near Coroico, Yun- gas, July 8, 1894. (Vo. 2727.) Pearce’s specimens, collected at the same place, July 1866, are less tomentose. Mandon 347 may be the same. GENTIANACEAE MicrocaLaA QUADRANGULARIS (Lam.) Griseb. in DC. Prodr. g: 63. (Gentiana guadrangularts Lam. Encyc. 2: 645.) RUSBYANTHUS CINCHONIFOLIUS Gilg; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 4’: 95. (Specimen without number. GENTIANA PRIMULIFOLIA Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 221. (iVos. r888 and 1889.) ?GENTIANA INCURVA Hook. Bot. Misc. 2: 228. 1831. (Vo. 2025.) The specimen is not in good condition. It is apparently the same as Struce 5570, Lobé’s Columbia 373¢ and specimens collected by A/cLean at Cerro de Pasco and by Bridges and by earce. GENTIANA PUNICEA Wedd. Chlor. And. 2: 70. (Vo. 2672.) POLEMONIACEAE CANTUA PYRIFOLIA Juss. Ann. Mus. Par. 3: 117. 1804. (Vo. 3002 MicrosTERIS GRACILIS (Dougl.) Greene, Pittonia 3: 301. (Vo. BORAGINACEAE TourRNEFoRTIA SatzManni A. DC. Prodr. g: 524. ‘+ Grows 2- 4 ft. high, in wet clay, the flowers green; scarce.” Coripata, Yungas, March 1, 1894. (Vo. 2076.) The same as Mandon 389 and Glaztou 11295. TOURNEFORTIA ANDINA Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 148. 1899. (Mo. 1775.) (474) TOURNEFORTIA OBscURA A. DC. Prodr. 9: 517. ‘*A shrub about 5 ft. high, with greenish-white flowers; in mud and clay.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2470.) The same as fusby 1922. Tournefortia ovalifolia sp. nov. Branchlets elongated, stoutish, purple, harsh, with very short, stout, scattered hairs, the hairs of the inflorescence, calle and corolla ecoming more slender and soft; petioles about 1 cm. long, broadly channeled, dilated at the base; blades 0.6-1 dm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, oval, abruptly slightly produced at the base and abruptly and acutely short-pointed, thin, dark-green, the venation not prom- inent above, the midrib and 10-12 pairs of strongly gece: secondaries prominent underneath, yellowish or purplish; pedunc 2-3 cm. long, stout; cyme successively bifurcating, the fae elongated and stout and the cyme pneu very broad; mili i 2-3 mm. apart; pedicels 2-3 mm. long, stoutish; calyx - lo m. broad, deeply parte a. the base truncate, the ince lanceolate, erect; corolla-tube cylindraceous, 5 mm. long, mm. br as pressed, the lobes 1.5 mm. long, rotund-oval; style 3 mm. long, very stout, the stigma 1 mm. long, conical, 1 mm. broad and annulate at the base; fruit (mature?) globose-ovoid, 3 mm. long and broa ‘© A small plant with green flowers; scarce in forest-mould.” Unduavi, September 4, 1894. (Wo. 2 HELIOTROPIUM INUNDATUM Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 40. (Vo. 2848.) Heliotropium (Orthostachys) Bangii sp. nov. Gray-pilose with rather short, appressed hairs; stems numerous from a short base, eon 1-1.5 dm. long in my specimens, slender ; ce 3-7 mm. long, broad; blades 1.5-3 cm. long, 0.5-I cm. broad, oval- ae ‘acute at the base, blunt or heise at the summit, bright-green, the midrib and 2 or 3, pairs of secondaries impressed above, at least in the young leaves, very prominent and strongly pilose underneath; cymes in the upper axils, 3-5 mm. long, racemiform; pedicels 2 mm. long; calyx campanulate in flower, parted to the base, the lobes 2 mm. long, oval, obtusish; corolla-tube 1 mm. long, campanulate with contracted summit, the lobes nearly 1 mm. long, spreading, white; anthers less than o. 5 mm. long, ovate, short-acuminate, reaching to the base of the lobes; pistil o.5 mm. long; ovary brownish-yellow, globose; stigma about half as large as the nite ane a little more than 2 mm. broad, a little less than 2 mm. long, compressed, umbilicate at the apex, re at base, Sea the nutlets closely coherent in pairs. 0 LVos. r977 and 2505 are the same. (415) Erirricnium Wa.persu (A. DC.) Wedd. Chlor. And. 2: go. (Antiphytum Walpersit A. DC. Prodr. 10: 122.) (os. 1908 and 7962.) The sameas Mandon 379 and Rusby 2582. Not the same as Mandon 381. CONVOLVULACEAE TPoMOEA FLORIBUNDA Moric. Pl. Nouv. Am. 46. pl. 37. (No. 2246.) The same as Rusby 1994. ?IpomoEA Pxs-capRAE (L.) Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 109. (Con- volvulus Pes-caprae L. Sp. Pl. 159.) (Vo. 1992.) IpoMoEA opuLiIFoLiA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 144. (Wo. CALONYCTION ACULEATUM (L.) House, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 590. 1904. (Vo. 2027.) The same as no. 589 and Rusby zg9go and 7993. PHARBITIS HEDERACEA Choisy, Mem. Soc. Phys. Genév. 6: 440. 1833. (Vo. 2850.) PHARBITIS PURPUREA (L.) Voiss Hort. Suburb. Calc. 354. (Convolulus purpurea L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 219. Pharbitis his- pida Choisy, Mem. Soc. Phys. Genév. 6: 440. 1833.) ‘* The small flowers red, half-red and half-white, and sometimes quite white.” Coripata, March 28,1894. (JVo. 2773.) This is the same as zo. 750 published as ‘‘ Zpomoea sp. JACQUEMONTIA DENSIFLORA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 151. 1899. (Vo. 2849.) The same as Rusby 1845. EVOLVULUS HOLOSERICEUS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 3: 116. (Vo. 2006.) The same as Mandon rg92. EVOLVULUS CANESCENS Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 8: 350. (Vo. 2274.) DicHONDRA REPENS Forst. Char. Gen. 40. pl. 20. (io. 2272.) a SOLANACEAE SoLANUM ASARIFOLIUM Kunth & Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1845: 10. (Vo. 2521.) The same as xo. 1235. SoLANUM ASPERUM Vahl, Eclog. Am. 2: 17. (Specimen without number. ) The same as Rusby 722 and 788. SoLANUM ATRIPLICIFOLIUM Gill.; Nees, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 1g: Suppl. 1: 386. 1843. A gma: widely ‘branching plant, grow- ing in sand, among stones, near the river. But one found. Flowers white.” Coroico, August, 1894. (Vo. 2792.) (416 ) Solanum bolivianum Britton, sp. nov. A large shrub, bearing scattered small, nearly straight, an t and stout elon prickles on the branchlets and lower surfaces of the petioles and midribs, all of which are of a very FP rants peti- oles thickish but weak, 3-6 cm. long; blades 2-3 dm. long and cordate at the base, very coarsely few-toothed with rounded sinuses, anthers 5-6 mm. long, nearly straight, ea lanceolate; style slender, nearly twice the length of the a ‘© A shrub, 20 ft. high, growing on sere iverede Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2436, type.) The same as Rusby 778. SoLtanum cymosum R. &. P. Fl. Per. 2: 31. pl. 260. (No. 2870.) SOLANUM CAMPYLOCLADUM MAGDALENAE Dunal, in DC. Prodr. 13: 173. (Vo. 2523.) Probably a Brachistus, but I have no flowers of the plant. The same as Rusby 78¢ and 798. ?SoLanuM cLavatum Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 87. (Ve. 2628.) The buds and flowers are fully twice as large as in the type, and more elongated. SOLANUM DECORUM Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 10: 83. (lVo. 2576.) The same as Spruce 1873. SOLANUM GRANULOSO-LEPROSUM Dunal, in DC. Prodr. 13!: 115. ‘© A shrub, 6 to 8 ft. high, in wet forest-mould, the flowers white.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (JVos. 2¢78 and 2528.) It is the same as Grisebach’s “+ S. verbasctfolium” in Herb. Kew, from the Argentine. Solanum LEpTocauton Huerck & Muell.-Arg. in Huerck, Obs. Bot. 40. (Vos. rorg and 2024.) The same as Mandon 404. SoLanuM Litacinum Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 189. (Wo. 2023.) SoLanum Linpenu Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 88. ‘+ A shrub, 4-6 ft. high, in rich forest-mould near the river; abundant.” Coripata, May 12, 1894. (Vo. 2788.) (417) SoLanum Lyciowes L. Mant.1: 46. (Vo. 2508.) The same as Rusby 803. Not Rusby 833 or 875, nor Bang 372, which were published under this name. The last three represent a distinct species which is published below. Soranum Mac ta Schlecht. Hort. Hal. 6. (Vo. 2579.) Soranum Manponis Huerck & Muell.-Arg. in Huerck, Obs. Bot. 78. Coroico, August. oe 2619.) No. 2075 is prob- ably also of this species. Of this Mr. Bang says: ‘‘A tree 15 ft. high, growing in dry ee the flowers yellow and blue.” Coripata, March 6, 1894 SoLaNUM MYRIANTHUM Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 191. 1899. (No. 2514.) SOLANUM OCHROPHYLLUM Huerck & Muell.-Arg. in Huerck, Obs. Bot. 50. (Mo. 7931.) This is the same as xo. 2630, which was published without specific name SoLANUM PTEROCLADUM Huerck & Muell.-Arg. in Huerck, Obs. Bot. 44. (iVo. 2872.) SOLANUM PSIDIIFOLIUM Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 194. (Vo. 2250.) At different times, Mr. Bang sent two forms under this number. The typical plant is sparingly stellate-pubescent, the leaves broad, inequilateral and obtuse, the flowers in small, short- peduncled, pseudo-axillary cymes; the other densely stellate, the leaves narrower, equilateral, acute, the cymes looser and larger and long-peduncled. The difference is probably due to the latter being on young shoots, the former on old branchlets. The nar- row-leaved form closely resembles S. Lendenzz, but that is glabrous. SOLANUM PYCNANTHEMUM Mart. Flora 207: Beibl. 120. 1837. (No. 2869.) SoLaNuM RADICANS L. f. Dec.1: 19. p/. zo. ‘* Grows about houses, the flowers white and yellow. Used medicinally as a blood purifier, under the name of ‘Cuti-cuti.’” Coripata, February 22, 1894. (Vo. 2062.) Sotanum Russyt Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 191. 1899. (Wo. 788z.) SoLANUM TABACIFOLIUM Salzm.; Dun. in DC. Prodr. 13': 261. (Nos. 2527 and 2868.) The same as Burchell 4938 and Gard- mer 553. So.anum vaLipuM Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 230. (Mo. 2511.) ( 438 ) Solanum (/zermes) vulpinum sp. nov. Very densely and thickly stellate-tomentose, the younger portions deep rusty-red, the older yellow-gray; shrubby, the very stout (8 .t short-pointed and acute at the summit, entire, very thick, paler un- derneath, the coarse, weak venation little projecting on either side; cymes short-peduncled, dichotomous, 1 dm. or more broad, open but the branchlets densely flowered; pedicels 5-7 mm. long, very stout; calyx about 4 mm. broad, 2-3 mm. long, crateriform, sub- truncate with sinuately 5-lobed margin; corolla (purple or violet) pores looking upward and slightly inward ; fruit not seen. (/Vo.2256.) The same as Mandon 420. Solanum rosulatum sp. nov. bby; gray with rather dense stellate indumentum, the upper branching, densely leafy at the ends; petioles 0.5—1 cm. long, broad, margined; blades 3-5 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. broad, lance-ovate, rounded at the base, regularly acuminate and acute, thickish but flaccid, the venation weak and obscure; peduncles 1.5-2 cm. long, stoutish ; cymes dichotomous, 5-6 cm. broad, about 20-flowered ; the stigma little oe elongated ; fruit (dark-red‘), about 1 cm. in diameter. (JVo. 2578.) Solanum symmetrifolium sp. no Grayish with a fine stellate babe ates: stems herbaceous, the € ’ ad, ovate, the base abruptly contracted into the short taper- ing petiole, obtuse at the apex, entire, thin and flaccid, the venation coarse and weak; peduncles about 1 cm. long, forking into two sub-divaricate and nee se branches ; i pedicels loosely arranged, mostly 5-7 mm. long, slender; calyx herbaceous, 3-4 mm. long (slightly sac in ee about half way, the lobes ovate, obtuse; cor (white or violet) 5 mm. long, deeply lobed; anthers ea nearly 5 mm. long, lance-oblong, the large, elongated pores looking inward; style very slender, little exceeding the stamens, the stigma small, elongated ; fruit ea greenish or light-red, globular, about 5 mm. in diameter. (Vo. 2870.) The same as AMfandon 396. Species near S. fill orme. (419 ) Solanum stipuloideum sp. no Sparsely and very shortly ae on the lower leaf-surfaces and calyx; a low diffuse or reclining herb; branches very slender, flex- ong, 1-3 cm. broad, ovate, truncate to slightly cordate at the base, short- acuminate and obtuse at the apex, entire or obscurely sinuate-den- tate, very thin and flaccid, dark-green above, pale underneath, the weak venation coarse aa irregular; pedicels mostly solitary, 1-3 cm. long, filiform; calyx 5 mm. long, the turbinate tube very short, the herbaceous lobes lance-ovate, obtuse; corolla white, nearly 1.5 cm. 1086: not deeply lobed, the lobes acutish; anthers bright-yellow, 5 mm. long, broadly oblon ng, ou the small pores looking inward and slightly laterally style 2-3 mm. longer than stamens, the stigma broad. 2509. Species near S. eae but not having its stem or calyx. Solanum poecilochromifolium sp. nov. Finely gray-puberulent throughout, except the fruit, the stems shrubby; branchlets numerous, erect, rather slender, densely leafy ; aun 3-4 mm. long, stout, margined ; blades 1.5-3 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 cm. broad, ovate, the rounded base abruptly narrowed into but weak ised Farene both sides; cymes terminal, stoutl right-blue ; eee slender, r cm. or less long; calyx-tube tur- binate, about 2 mm. long, the lobes herbaceous, weak, nearly as long, ovate, obtuse; corolla 1.5 cm. broad, thin, reflexed, shallowly lobed; anthers bright-yellow, 4 mm. long, linear or slightly broad- the large, elongated pores looking inward; fruit (immature) sub- globular, smooth, 7mm. indiameter. (Vo. 2515.) Solanum ne bassoviicarpum sp. nov Unarmed (?), scurfy throughout, cn the corolla and the ma- ture fa ie the branchlets rather short, stout, flexuous; peti- oles 1~-1.5 cm. long, stoutish, narrowly channeled above, like the midrib; blades 5-10 cm. long, 2-6 cm. broad, ovate to oval, mostly rounded at the base, short-acuminate and acute at the apex, entire or obscurely sinuate at the margin, thick and rigid, yellowish-green, margin; flowers fascicled, de about 5—7-flowered; pedicels 1-2 cm. long, thickened aad lightly angled above; calyx 5 mm. broad, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse or obtusish, recurved, thick; corolla nearly 1.5 cm. broad sihea fully expanded, lobed nearly to th Sine, thick, apparently violet, the lobes oval, obtuse; stamens ee m. long, oval, truncate, strongly ( 420 ) outwardly curved at the middle, the pores very large, looking in- ward ae laterally; style short; fruit broadly ovoid and pointed when immature, aes globular and more than 1 cm. broad when satire, dark-red. (Vo. The same as Pearce’s on Pinta?), 11,000 to 12,000 ft. It is with reluctance that I class this plant as a Solanum. In habit, inflorescence-characters, calyx and fruit it appears to be a Bas- sovta, but its anthers are connivent and have very conspicuous pores. Solanum dianthum sp. nov. nger portions and leaves sparsely strigose ; stems herbaceous, reclining, slender, the branchlets ascending, mostly ee ir long; oe 3-8 mm. long, rather broad; blades 2-5 cm. 0.7-.15 cm. broad, re ularly ovate to ore lanceolate, the me base abruptly produced into the petiole, acuminate and acute at the apex, entire, thin, bright-green, or yellowish-green underneath, where the slender venation is lightly prominent; cymes mostly pilose, lobed o fift hs of the way, the lobes erect, triangular, slightly pg pee broad, acute; corolla bluish-white, very thin, about ong; anthers yellow, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, iene. blunt or truncate, the large pores looking inward, upward and a little laterally; style 1.5 mm. longer than the anthers; fruit globose, slightly depressed, nearly 1 cm. in diameter, ap- parently green and glabrous at maturity. ‘¢ Climbing a few feet, the flowers bluish white; scarce in wet mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (/Vo. 2¢92.) Near S. doer- haavifolium and S. cyathicalyx. Solanum sarachioides sp. nov. Stellate pubescence sparse, except on the youngest portions; branches elongated, a acai herbaceous, sparsely leafy; petioles I-z cm. long; blades 6-9 cm. long, 4-5 cm. broad, ovate, short- pointed and acute, the broad rounded base abruptly produced into al fr e inter (those seen 4- or 5- ) flowered; pedicels eee weak, I-1.5 cm. long; calyx herbaceous, 4c m. long, lobed more than half-way, the lobes ovate, obtuse; corolla blue or Gole! nearly 1.5 cm. broad, the lobes reflexed; anthers yellow, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, elliptical-oblong, the large pores looking inward and laterally; fruit not seen. (Vo. 2577.) Solanum carnosipes sp. nov. Branches stout, fleshy, and like the petioles, peduncles, pedicels and calyx, coarsely white granular-scabrous; petioles very thick, (421) fleshy, 4~6 cm. long, a small elliptical stipule-like leaf, 1.5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, at the base; blades 1~2.5 dm. long, o. Box: dm. wide, oval, rounded at the base, short- eae and obtuse at the summit, entire, thin, underneath gray and densely short stellate-tomentose, slightly harsh, above yellowish-green, stellate-scabrous, the venation slightly impressed ; peduncles elongated, very stout, the rachis strongly dilated at the branches; cyme 1-2 dm. or more broad; pedicels very stout, nearly 1 cm. long in flower; calyx 3 mm. long, 6m eases the tube nearly fom hencal. the lobes a little more than 1 mm. long, iangular-ovate, acute, broa der than long, thick and peas Rees nearly globose vs mm. in diameter; corolla epee -tomentose, apparently w ite, 1.5-2 cm. broad; anthers yellow, 4 mm. long, oblong, the apex slightly incurved, ‘the large pores looking directly inward; style slightly exceeding the stamens, the stigma elongated, inequilateral; fruit not seen. (Vo. 2932.) Probably the same as zo. 259 and Mandon g23. Species near S. auriculatum. Solanum brevipedunculatum sp. nov Glabrous, the branches elongated, herbaceous, srs stout but 1 or abruptly produced into the petiole, acute at the apex, entire, very thin, deep-green, the midrib channeled hea prominent .below, like the 12-14 very slender secondari eduncle short, slender, wer irci ease pedicels 1-2 cm. long, slender, articulated to a nodular base; calyx 4-5 mm. broad, truncate with a lightly sinuate margin ; corolla- eh oval with rounded apex, the a ae lobed nearly to the base, the lobes n ce! 1 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, ovate, obtuse; anthers yellow, 6 mm. long, oblong, erniche the large ee. pores looking inward ‘and a little upward; fruit not seen. (Wo. 2525. The oe is peculiar in its inflorescence and calyx, which, with the habit, are those of Cyphomandra, while it lacks the thickened connective of that genus. ?SoLtanum sp. (Wo. 2522.) Flowers are lacking CYPHOMANDRA BETACEA (Cav.) Sendt. Flora 28: 172. 1845. ene betaceum Cav. Anal. Hist. Nat. I: 44. 1799. — 6: 15. p2.524.) (Specimen without number.) Apparently ine same as xo. 2377, of which Mr. Bang says, ‘‘ A shrub, 8-10 ft high, growing in wet forest mould, the flowers white. The fruits are as in 2282 [C. acuminata Rusby], but the leaves and flowers are very different. Called ‘ Lima tomato.’” Calapampa, July 11, 1894. (422) CYPHOMANDRA FRAXINELLA Sendt. in Mart. Flor. Bras. 10: 122. (Wo. 2248.) The same as Rusby 800. CYPHOMANDRA ACUMINATA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 196. (Vo. 2282 VASSOBIA gen. nov. Calyx small, the tube short-turbinate, the limb crateriform, lightl and unequally lobed; corolla valvate, broadly campanulate, appar- ently viscid; stamens 5 (occasionally 6), included, adherent to the base of the corolla-tube, one higher than the others, the filaments much shorter than the anthers, dilated at the base, the anthers ob- long, straight, their cells parallel, without pores, dehiscing com- straight, thickened toward the summit, the stigma lightly and un- equally 2-lobed; fruit not seen A large herb (?) with simple, membranaceous, flaccid leaves and lax, terminal clusters of cymes which elongate by the successive evolution of the branches of one side. he rachis is nodose by the prominent scars of fallen flowers. This plant has cymes which much resemble those of Cypho- mandra, but want the thickened connective of that genus. From Solanum, it is excluded by the absence of anther-pores. Its flowe are nearly those of Poeczlochroma, but the habit, and eee the foliage and inflorescence, are totally different. Vassobia atropoides sp. nov. Finely viscid-pubescent, the branchlets slender and, like the foli- age and inflorescence, widely spreading; petioles 5-r1o or more cm. long; blades 10-25 cm. long, 7-18 cm. broad, obtuse or acutish, at the base acute, thin, drying brownish; cyme compound, the pe- duncles of its principal branches 5-8 cm. long; pedicels 1.25-2.5 cm. long, dilated toward the summit, fleshy; calyx about 4~5 mm broad, the rounded lobes short and very broad; corolla deep blue- purple, about 1 cm. long, campanulate, divided one third of the way to the base; stamens nearly equaling the tube of the corolla; an- thers 3 mm. long, die oval, yellow, on very short filaments; fruit not seen. (JVo. 2675.) PHYSALIS BARBADENSIS Jacq. Misc. 2: 359. (Specimen without number.) The same as Jenman 5086 and Bernoulli 175 from Guatemala. PHYSALIS PERUVIANA L. Sp, Pl. ed. 2. 1670. (No. 7783.) ( 423 ) PHYSALIS SURINAMENSIS G. Miquel, Linnaea 17: 741. 1844. (Specimen without number.) The same as Hostmann & Kap- pler’s type. Physalis Rydbergii sp. nov. Younger portions, and especially the calyx, hispid with branched white hairs; stems stout, but weak, widely branched, the branches slender; petioles 1-2 cm. long, slender; blades 2-6 cm. long, 1-3 cm. broad, ovate, pisecocaipe especially at the broad base, acumi- nate and acute at the apex, coarsely and irregularly dentate, very thin and flaccid, bright-green, the venation slender, very prominent h : iene, ‘little elongating in fruit; eee in flower 5 mm., in fruit 1.7 cm. long, ovate, acute; coro olla 7m say very pale, the base loosely enclosed in the calyx. (Vo. 2520.) Species near P. minima, but iiffering i in the indumentum. al- mer 472 from Guadalajara, Mexico, appears to be a more hispid form of this species, while A@iler 2855 from Veracruz is possibly a smooth form. Bassovia aNcEPS (R. & P.) Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 197. 1899. (Nos. 2527 and 2526.) BRACHISTUS LASIOPHYLLUS (Dunal) Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 198. 1899. (Wo. 2677.) Brachistus fasciculatus sp. no Softly gray-tomentose with ne hairs; branches slender, woody, terete; petioles 2-3 cm. long, narrow, lightly channeled ; flaccid, deep-green above, gray underneath, the venation very slen- der, reticulate, lightly prominent both sides; pedicels fascicled, 2-3 cm. long, very slender, gradually thickened upward; arg tube a mm. long, 4 mm. broad, the ro teeth filiform, 4-5 m long; corolla Nie I-I. ae cm. long, shallowly lobed; fruit ae seen. (Vo. 2872.) The same as inden gii and 412. Poecilochroma macrophylla sp. Branches elongated, stout, aban roughened with slender, curved, corky excrescences; petioles 1-2 cm. long, narrow considering the size of leaf, channeled ae blades 0.7-1.5 dm. long, 3-6 cm broad, ovate, oval, or some obovate, acute at the base, mostly obtuse at the apex, entire, bright-green, glabrous, but strongly and finely wrinkled in drying, thickish, midrib channeled above, venation lightly prominent underneath, secondaries about 7 pairs, intercon- (424) necting about one third of the way from the margin to the midrib; flowers densely fascicled; pedicels 2.5-5 cm. long, slender, thick- ened upward, much wrinkled in drying; calyx 5 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, 5-lobed, the lobes nearly semicircular, lightly costate, minutely apiculate; corolla (apparently yellowish-white with a darker center) 2.5 cm. long, very broad] ily campanulate, ae stellate ; a slightly une oa filiform, about 1.5 cm. anthers 4 mm. long, broadly oblong, lightly curved : fruit not seen, ‘© A shrub, 8 ft. high, with yellowish-white flowers, growing in wet forest mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2482.) Poecilochroma venosa sp. nov. Densely branching, the branchlets thick but weak, terete, recurved-spreading, densely roughened with fine corky excres- cences, rich-brown, densely leafy; petioles 1-3 mm. long, broad, margined; blades 2.5-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, oval-ovate, sub- rotate at the base, obtuse at the apex, entire, deep-green, thickish, glabrous, shining, the fine venation strongly impressed above, prominent below, where the wrinkles occur in peculiar wave-like ical, green, the lobes nearly semicircular, stoutly apiculate; corolla 2.5 cm. long, very broadly campanulate, shallowly lobed, lightly 1o-nerved, apparently yellowish-blue, stellate-tomentose ; filaments 2cm. long; anthers 5 mm. long, ovate, curved, thick, yellowish with blue margins; fruit not seen. (Vo. 2007. The same as Lechler 2080 from Peru, and perhaps the same as Mandon 441: also collected by Pearce. Poecilochroma brevifolia sp. nov. Branches stout, terete, ascending or erect, peepee tiki ae roughened with corky excrescences; petioles neled above; blades 2-3 cm. long, I-2 cm. aa eae witli rounded base and very blunt summit, entire, slightly thickened, yellowish-green, glabrous, finely wrinkled, the midrib channeled above, with the venation slightly impressed, the latter prominent underneath with a broad midrib, the spanuarinene bout 5 ey ae cels few at the ends of the very short branchlets, about z c filiform, little thickened upward; calyx 78 mm. long and ae turbin te, the lobes 4 mm. long mm. broad, ovate, blunt, minutely apiculate; corolla nearly 3 cm. long, broadly campanu- late, shallowly lobed, minutely and sparsely stellate-hairy, yellow- ish-blue; filaments 1.5 cm. ag anthers 4 mm. long, ovate, blunt, bluish ; fruit not seen. (Vo. 2978.) Apparently the same as zo. pes Species very near the last, but the longer petioles with shorter leaves, different calyx-lobes and branchlets, mark it as distinct. ( 425 ) NIcANDRA PHYSALOIDES Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 237. pl. 737. f. 2. ‘“ Five to seven feet high, in cultivated ground, the flowers blue; scarce.” Coripata, March 2, 1894. (Wo. 2072 Datura Srramonium L. Sp. Pl. 179. Abundant at Coripata. (Wo. 2237.) Datura Tatura L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 256. ‘A small plant, 5-8 ft. high, the flowers blue, open only at night; abundant.” Coripata, April 18, 1894. (Vo. 2736.) BRUGMANSIA SANGUINEA (R. & P.) D. Don, in Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. II. f2. 272. (Datura sanguinea R. & P. FI. Per. 2: 15.) (No. 1942. BRUGMANSIA ARBOREA (L.) Steud. Nom. ed. 2.1: 230. (Datura arborea L. Sp. Pl. 179.) (Wo. 1943. Crstrum Matuewsiu Dunal, in DC. Prodr. 13': 637. (lVo. 2872.) The same as xo. 757, published as C. Parguz. CESTRUM CORIACEUM Miers, Lond. Jour. Bot. 5: 161. 1846. ‘©A shrub about io ft. high, in wet clay along roadsides, the flowers yellow; scarce.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2465.) CzsTRUM sp., related to the last, but probably undescribed. (JVo. 825.) Cestrum Mandoni sp. nov. Glabrous; branches elongated, slender, erect, densely leafy, the internodes about 1 cm. long; small falcately oval leaves at the base on +5-2.5 cm. oblong, obtuse or somewhat rounded at the base, acute at the apex, entire, rather thin, bright-green, the venation lightly prominent underneath, the slender secondaries about 12 pairs, strongly up- curved ; peduncles solitary in the upper axils, stoutish, about 5 mm. long, densely flowered at the summit; pedicels scarcely any; calyx 5 mm. loug, mena iied ceampanulete or slightly contracted at the mouth, the lobes 2 mm. long, ovate, acuminate; corolla 2.5 cm. long, the tube erie funnelform, 4 mm. broad at the style reaching the mouth of the corolla, the anthers 1 mm. lon and nearly as broad; stigma greenish, nearly 1 mm, broad; fruit not seen. (Vo. 2570.) The same as Mandon 452, which has gone under the name of C. Parqut. Cestrum impressum sp. nov. Densely stellate and scurfy-tomentose, the upper leaf-surfaces sparsely so, the fruit glabrous; branches elongated, spreading, (426) flexuous, densely leafy; petioles 4-5 mm. long, phat stout; blades .5-1 dm. long, 2-5 cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, acute at the apex, thic k, pale-green above with the ret ae venation strongly impressed, qalogih underneath, with the venation lightly prominent; peduncles short and stout, pedicels scarcely any; way, lightly costate, the lobes ovate, obtuse, closely investing the fruit, which is blackish, ovoid, rounded at the summit, nearly 1 cm. long. (Vo. 2576.) Cestrum suaveolens sp. nov. Densely yellowish-gray soft-tomentose; branches elongated, 7 sity flexuous; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, stoutish; blade - long, 1-3 cm. ‘bro ad, ovate, rounded or lightly cordate the oe plane at the summit, entire, thick, finely reticulate, the venation strongly impressed above, prominent underneath; panicles terminal, leafy; peduncles of the cymes 0.5-1 cm. long, stout, terete; cymes about 2 cm. broad; pedicels proper scarcely any; calyx 6 mm ad, campanulate, the lobes nearly 3 mm. long, at the summit, the lobes ae mm. ne triangular-ovate; anthers less than 1 mm. long, fully as broad, like the style reaching the mouth of the corolla; stigma greenish, nearly 1 mm. broad. (No. 2572. The same as Mandon 451. NICOTIANA UNDULATA R. & P. Fl. Per. 2: 16. (Wo. 7858.) NIcoTIANA TOMENTOSA R. & P. Flor. Per. 2: 16. ‘¢A tree 15- 25 ft. high, growing in good wet mould, the flowers yellowish- white; scarce.” Coroico, September 13, 1894. (dos. 2408 and 2614.) The same as Rusby 2435. NIEREMBERGIA PULCHELLA Gill.; Miers, Lond. Jour. Bot. 5: 173. 1846. (Specimen without number.) BRUNFELSIA HYDRANGEAEFORMIS (Pohl) Benth. in DC. Prodr. to: 108. ‘*Grows in shaded mud; scarce.” Uchimachi, July 20, 1894. (Vo. 2352.) Schwenckia Mandoni sp. nov. Finely pubescent with spreading hairs; stem a meter or more high, much-branched, the branches clongated, slender, erect; peti- ng, s sle nder; blades 2-7 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. broad, ovate, lightly cordate at the base, acute, thin but rigid, pale or gray- ish-green, entire, the Nata slender, rather prominent under- neath; inflorescence very loosely paniculate, the branches sub-fili- form, elongated, recurved-spreading, linear-bracted; pedicels from almost none to 7 mm. long, slender; calyx 3.5 mm. long, lobed ( 427) about one-third of the way, the tube campanulate with five prom- inent bluish-green angles, the lobes triangular, acute, the sinuses ovate, rounded; corolla blue, loosely enclosed in the calyx, 4.5 m Pa the cylindraceous es nearly twice the length of the limb, e bud acuminate and a ‘¢ Abundant in dry, ee soil; the flowers green.” Coripata, Yungas, March 22, 1894. (Vo. 2097.) The same as Mandon 449. SCROPHULARIACEAE Faceia Banou Rusby Mem. Torrey Club 4: 236. (Vo. 1978.) The same as no. &3a. FAGELIA BARTSIFOLIA (Wedd.) Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 236. (Specimen without number.) FAGELIA MELISSIFOLIA (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 460. ( Calceolarza melissifolia Benth. in DC. Prodr. 15: 214.) One or two specimens were sent under the number 83, and may be called 8376. Mimutus cGLasratus H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 370. (Wo. 1876.) Limoseiia aquatica L. Sp. Pl. 631. (Vos. 1968 and 2606.) Scoraria putcis L. Sp. Pl. 116. (Vos. 2616 and 2851.) OurISIA CHAMAEDRIFOLIA Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 493. (Specimen without number.) VERONICA PEREGRINA L. Sp. Pl. 14. (Vo. 2852.) BucHNERA ELONGATA Sw. FI. Ind. Occ. 2: 1061. Guanai, 2,000 ft., 1886. (Vo. 1363.) ? GERARDIA RIGIDA Gill.; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 206. 1835. (Vos. 2530 and 2854.) The Bolivian species of Gerardia are extremely difficult, as the material and information accumulated up to the present does not allow us to decide whether there are many species, or a few which are very variable. GERARDIA LANCEOLATA (R. & P.) Benth, in Hook. Comp. Bot. ag. 1: 207. 1835. (Vo. 2529.) Gerardia ovatifolia sp. nov. (G. lanceolata parvifolia Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 516; but there isa G. parvifolia Chapm.) Vic. Cochabamba, 1891. (Vo. 2029.) The same as Rusby zo8z, and one collected in Lima marked in Herb. Kew. * ex herb. R. . CasTILLEIA FIssIFOLIA L. f. Suppl. 293. (Specimen without number. ) BarTsia PATENS Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 546. (Vo. 2028.) The same as Ruséy r0go. ( 428 ) Bartsia HIspipA Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 547. Vic. Cocha- amba. (Vo. 2030.) No. 20312 is apparently a small form of the same species, and is the same as Mandon 481. LENTIBULACEAE UrricuLaRIA ALPINA Jacq. Enum. Pl. Carib. 11. (U. montana Jacq. Select. Am. 7. f/. 6.) (Specimen without number. UrricuLaria sp., apparently undescribed, but the specimens lack corollas. (Vo. 2223.) GESNERIACEAE ACHIMENES HEPPIELOIDES Fritsch, Bull. Torrey Club 23: 151. 1896. (Specimen without number.) SEEMANNIA SyLvaTica (H.B.K.) Hanst. Linnaea 29: 540. 1858. (Specimen without number. ) GESNERIA STACHYDIFOLIA Benth. Pl. Hartw. 230. (iVo. 2673.) The same as zo. 5437. Also collected by Mathews and by Pearce at Santa Cruz, March, 1865. Near Gardner 4269, but the flowers sessile and style much shorter. ALLOPLEcTUS PaTrisir DC. Prodr. 7: 545. (JVo. 25¢0.) The same as 20. 1259. Bzsteria Spruce Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 31. 1900. (Vos. 2577 and 2578.) The same as Rusby 2740. BESLERIA LONGIPEDUNCULATA Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 69. 1900. (Wo. 25379.) The same as Rusby 2436. BIGNONIACEAE ARRABIDAEA OBOVATA DC. Prodr. 9: 185. (Vos. 2242 and 2534.) The same as Rusby 1753 and Burchell 6630. Bienonia BRAcHYPODA DC, Prodr. 9g: 145. (Vo. 28 BIGNONIA CAPREOLATA L. Sp. Pl. 624. (Specimen without number. ) BIGNoNIA GLUTINOSA DC. Prodr. 9: 162. ‘* Grows in mould, in forest-shade, beside the river, climbing 15-20 ft., the flowers light-red; scarce.” Coripata, April 26, 1894. (Mo. 2759.) The same as Rusby rrg7 and 1754. ?ADENOCALYMNA BRACTEATUM (Cham.) DC. Prodr. 9: 200. (Vo. 2535.) Apparently the same as Ausdy zz30. AMPHILOPHIUM MOLLE Ch. & Sch. Linnaea §: 120. 1830. (lVo. 2222.) ( 429 ) JACARANDA ACUTIFOLIA Humb. & Bonpl.£Pl. Aequin. 1: 59. pi. 17. (Specimen without number. ) Crescrentia CujeTe L. Sp. Pl. 626. (Wo. 2536.) The same as no. TI61. ACANTHACEAE RvELLIA HuMBOLDTIANA (Nees) Lindau, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 366. 1895. (Wo. 266 Rvueiyia Bane Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 102. (WVos. 1354 and 2663.) A broad-leaved form. RUELLIA ELLIPTICA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 74. 1900 ‘¢Common in dry ground along roadsides. Flowers very light blue.” Coroico, September. (JVo. 2472.) Ruellia Willdenoviana (Nees) Lindau. i oaeeae Will- denovianus Nees, in DC. Prodr. 11: 207). (Vo. 2055.) Ruellia (Stemonacanthus) Pearcei sp. nov. Minutely grayish-puberulent; stems slender, rigid, erect- branched, quadrangular, striate; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, chan neled above, abruptly somewhat dilated at the base; blades 0.7-1 dm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, lanceolate, the base acuminate and gradu- ally narrowed into He petiole, long-acuminate and acute at the apex ; calyx-tube 2 mm. long, campanulate, the lobes 0.7-1 cm. long, linear-attenuate, 1-nerved; corolla scarlet, 5 cm. long, the tube lightly curved, infundibular, lightly ventricose above, the lobes about mm. long, broad » emarginate; capsule strongly clavate, 1.5-2 cm. long, glabro Vic. Cie, 1891. (iVo. 2056.) The same collected in Bolivia by Pearce. APHELANDRA ACUTIFOLIA Nees, in DC. Prodr. 11: 299. (Va. 2054; P SANCHESIA PERUVIANA (Nees) Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 102. (No. 2367.). ‘+ About 5 feet high, growing in wet shaded sand, near the river, the flowers rose-colored; scarce.” Coroico, August 2, 1894. BELOPERONE NUDA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 103. (lo. 2303.) ‘+A small shrub in wet shaded mould, the flowers yel- low; not plentiful.” Chaetochlamys Lindavii sp. nov. Grayish-puberulent; stems slender, strict, green, obtusely quad- rangular; petioles (only the upper seen) 3-5 mm. long, broad; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 2.5-7 cm. broad, ovate, mostly inequi- lateral, the base abruptly produced into the petiole, acuminate and ( 430 ) acute at the apex, entire, very thin, pale-green, the midrib and ate, strongly t-nerved; bractlets 3, united at the base, 2 cm. longs inear-attenuate; calyx pee to - base, the segments 1.5 cm long, lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5 mm. bread; corolla-tube 4 cm. long, eugene en lightly anes lower lip 2.5 cm. long, the lobes 1 cm. long; upper lip slightly shorter; stamens shorter than the corolla, the filaments thickish; anthers 7 mm, long, the thecae overlapping, the lower conspicuously spurred ; style a little longer than the stamens, thickish, the stigma obscurely 2-lobed. (Vo. 2546.) Justicia Ruspyana Lindau, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 243. (lVa. 2544.) The same as vo. 379. Justicia ( Vas¢ca) robusta sp. nov. oftly pubescent, the principal veins long-pilose, the upper leaf- surfaces gear strigose ; aa short, stout, sub-erect; petioles c nearly to the base, the lobes linear-attenuate, green, strongly gray- pilose; corolla-tube 5 mm. long and broad, contracted at the sum- mit, an intruded large fold near the lobes, strongly 3-ribbed, the appendage ; slay pio the stamens, recurved at the summit; fruit not seen - 240 Mr. Bang says ‘“ " einer 30 ft. high, with yellow flowers in wet forest-mould; scarce. Coroico, Sept. 2, 1894.” There must be some mistake in the plant, as it does not appear to be a climber, and its flowers are of some red color. Justicia (Dianthera) subintegrifolia a nov. Glabrous; branches slender, weak an what reflexed, coarsely sulcate; leaves tapering into a oe ‘channeled petiole, 0.71.5 dm. long, 3-4.5 cm. broad, ovate, acuminate and acute a both ends, obsoletely ei thin, pale-preen, the midrib narrowly channeled above, prominent underneath, like the 5 or 6 irregular (431) pairs of very slender se a eae spikes terminal, sessile, more or less deflexed, 3-6 cm. long; bracts 2 or 3 mm. long, 0 ovate, acumi- nate; calyx x 5-6 mm. long, divided nearly to the base, the lobes lanc ce, acuminate, strongly 1-ribbed; corolla nearly r.5¢ long, apparently yellowish, the lips about two fifths of its length, the lobes of the lower lip round-ovate, 2 mm. long, the upper lip entire; stamens 1 mm. shorter than the upper ie the oblong anther 1.5 mm. long, the thetae slightly overlapping, without appendages; style about as long as the stamens, straight, rather stout, flattened; capsule lance-oblong, about 1 cm. long; seed 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, op compressed, obtusely 8-10- ribbed, the ribs verrucose. (Vo. 2545.) VERBENACEAE LANTANA TRIFOLIA L. Sp. Pl. 626. (Vo. 20¢¢ LANTANA VELUTINA Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 1: 325. (Nos. 2049 and 2532.) LANTANA LILAcINA Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 3. a (No. 2533.) LANTANA NIVEA Vent. Jard. Malmais. 8. J. (No. 2034, as to the specimens without glandular aa. I think Morong 344, published as £. Camara, is the same. Lantana foetida sp. nov. Heavily glandular-hairy, the hairs aye soit widely 5 ¢ nected by the tertiaries; peduncles o. ng, stout, widely spreading, finely striate; heads in flower 1.5 ¢ in fruit d; bracts 2-4 mm , ovate, alyx long, I. a mm. broad, cupulate-campanulate, truncate; corolla pubes- cent, 1 cm. long, the tube lightly sigmoid-curved, strongly ventri- cose oa the middle, where it is 2 mm. broad; lobes spreading, 1.5 mm. long, the broadest nearly 3 mm. broad; longest stamens reaching to about the middle of the corolla-tube, the anthers nearly 1 mm. long; fruit 7 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, ovoid, rounded at the apex, black, shining. (JVo. 2034, as . the specimens with glandular pubescence. ) Lantana hy ptoidse sp. nov. Short-t root stout, woody, coarsely branched; stems ascending, 6-8 dm. long in my specimens, sparsely erect-branched, (432 ) ; obtusely quadrangular, the internodes 3-5 cm. long; petioles about mm. long, very stout; blades 2-3 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. broad, ovate, sub-cordate at the base, rounded at the summit, strongly serrate with obtusish teeth, thick, the venation impressed aver somewhat prominent but concealed by the indumentum underneath ; peduncles 3-5 cm. long, costate; heads 1-1.5 cm. broad; calyx-tube narrowly campanulate, 2 mm. long, the lobes . about equal length, narrowly spatulate, bright-purple toward the summit; corolla densely villous, the tube ong, cylindraceous -infundibular, the longer lip 2 mm., the shorter 1mm. long. (Vo. 2542.) LIPPIA URTICOIDES pe Steud. Nom. ed. 2. 2: 54. (Aloysta urticotdes Cham. Linnaea 7: 238. 1832.) ‘*A slender shrub, 10-15 ft. high, in waste ground, the flowers white.” Coripata, April 27, 1894. .(lVo. 2165.) LippP1A BOLIVIANA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 243. (JVo. 253i.) The same as xo. 979 BoucHEA PSEUDO-GERVAO (A. St. Hil.) Cham. Linnaea 7: 253. 1832. (Verbena pseudo-gervao A. St. Hil. Pl. Us. Bras. pZ. 40.) (No. 2002.) Bouchea incisa sp. nov. Younger portions and the veins underneath minutely puberulent; stems stout, erect, erect-branched, terete, blackish, finely striate; ae o.5-1 cm. long, margined, dilated at the insertion; blades 0.5-1 dm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, ovate, at the base abruptly con- tracted and then tapering into the petiole, at the summit abruptly acuminate, and then tapering to an acute point, the upper half incisely serrate, thin but somewhat rigid, bright-green above, pale underneath ; Sharan 3-5 cm. long, rather stout, the rachis 1-1.5 dm. long; bracts about 5 mm. long, linear-attenuate; flowers very shortly and stoutly pedicelled; calyx 1.5 cm. long, 3 m m. broad, oe strongly angled, strongly recurved in fone. erect in fruit, the subulate, very acute teeth 2.5 mm. long and erect; corolla- ae: nearly 2 cm. long, strongly recurved, the limb broad, ney ringent; fruit1.5 cm Paper lance-oblong, the calyx exceed- ing it in a twisted form. (No. 2 226.) VALERIANODES CAYENNENSE (Vahl) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 510. (Stachytarpheta cayennensis Vahl, Enum. 1: 208.) CiTHAREXYLUM ILicIFoLIumM H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 256. (Vo. 7927.) ?Duranta PrumizR1 Jacq. Select. Am. 186. (Vo. 1798.) The same form collected by Pearce. DuranTa Lorentzu Griseb. Goett. Abh. 24: 280. 1879. “A small tree, growing in rocky, wet places.” Coripata, April 29, 1894. (Wo. 2772.) (433 ) Duranta Pearcei sp. nov. A shrub with slender ascending branchlets; branchlets, inflores- cence and lower leaf-surfaces ferruginous-velvety, the upper leaf- surfaces chased puberulent; internodes about 12 mm. long; petioles 3-4 mm. long, stout; blades 4-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, oblong-ovate, ea or lightly cordate at the base, acute, see thick, the Aeop picenie about 8-ro on each side, connect- ing near margin, the stout midrib and venation lightly promi- nent sr en tt panicles terminal, pyramidal; flowers not seen fruiting porns 2 mm. long, very slender, somewhat thickened upward; calyx persistent after the fall of the fruit asa thick, circu- ae black, disk- a body 0.5 mm. broad, the lobes obscure, semi- reular; fruit mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, pyriform with ee naire ee and rounded summit, ner ferruginous. ‘« About 3 m. high, in dry gravelly soil.” Near Coroico, Yungas. (No. 2406, but distributed as 2806.) Also collected by Pearce at Callican, 8,000 to 9,000 ft. LABIATAE OcIMUM MICRANTHUM Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 630. (Vo. 2542. MESOSPHAERUM BREVIPES (Poit.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 525. ig brevipes Poit. Ann. Mus. Par. 7: 465. 1806. (No. 2612 Mesosphaerum pallidum sp. nov. Finely strigose; branches slender, erect, ees odie “gray, obtusely quadrangular and striate, the internodes 5- . long; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, consisting of the narrowed Tea bees. ades 4-8 cm. long, 1-3 cm. broad, obovate, rather abruptly con- tracted into the narrow base, obtusish to blunt at the apex, coarsely serrate with obtusish teeth, pale-green, thick, the venation lightly prominent above, more so un erneath, the secondaries a about 7 bracts 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, ovate, blunt, long-pilose; calyx pilose, 1.5 mm. long, lobed about half-way, the tube turbinate, dark, the pale-green lobes lance-oblong, obtuse, the apices lightly inflexed ; corolla-tube 2 mm. long, lightly sigmoid-curved, the as large as the lateral, which are connected with the lower to form the anterior lip; lower lobe twice the length of the others, narrow, pole tua containing the rather large anthers; nutlets nearly 1 , obovoid, the apex rounded, deep-brown, minutely eT “slightly shining. ( 434) ‘¢In muddy places where water is running. Plant about 4 ft. high, the flowers greenish-white.” Calapampa, July 9, 18094. (No. 2330.) Species peculiar for the short, blunt, green calyx-lobes. In this respect it is like A%. membranaceum (Benth.) Kuntze. Thecorolla is exactly that of Arzofe, but in all other respects the characters are distinct therefrom. Bysrropocon canus Benth. Lab. 326. (Wo. 2043.) MICROMERIA BOLIVIANA Benth. Lab. 731. (Specimen without number. ALGUELAGUM TENUIFLORUM (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 512. (Vo. 7835.) The same as zo. 767. Alguelagum lancifolium sp. no Branchlets obtusely pa cei ee purplish, the younger por- tions, like the petioles, peduncles, etc., more or less scurfy; peti- les I-1.5 cm. 7 oo channeled above, 5-striate underneath ; blades ra ae 2 dm. -5-4 cm. broad, er reny rounded or blunt at the base, ae a the apex, finely and obtusely or cren- ately dene thickish, ae an strongly rugose a lightly scabrous, minutely golden. dotted, midrib and 15-20 pairs of leafy-bracted ; flowers eae eae, calyx-tube campan- ulate, in fl m ong, 4mm. broad, the lobes somewhat longer, attenuate and aie corolla about 1 cm. long. (Vo. 1823.) Apparently the same species was collected by Triana in New Grenada. Species very near A. salvzifolium Rusby. SaLvia Bane Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 246. (Vo. 2543.) The same as xo. 980. ? SALVIA CARDIOPHYLLA Benth, Lab. 721. (Vo. 20372.) Flowers are required for a positive determination. The same as Holton 478. ?Sartvia Brivcgsi Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 124. Vic. Cochabamba, 1891. (JVo. 2033.) In these specimens the ovate, thin leaves reach a length of 1.25 dm. and a breadth of 3-5c0m. The calyx is 1~1.5 cm. long, and the corolla 3.5 cm. long and very stout. PLANTAGINACEAE PLantaco Psyiiium L. Sp. Pl. 115. (Vo. 2965.) ( 435) NYCTAGINACEAE BouGAINVILLEA MODESTA Heimerl, Denks. Math.-Nat. Akad. Wiss. Wien 70: 118. 1900. (Vo. 23798.) ‘* A very stout tree, 80 ft. high, scarce in slaty soil near river, the flowers dark green- rown.” Near Coroico, August 24, 1894. CoLIGNONIA GLOMERATA BOLIVIANA Heimerl, Denks. Math.-Nat. Akad. Wiss. Wien 70: 136. 1900. (Wo. 2772.) PISONIA HIRTELLA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 217. (Vo. 7809.) Neea Bangii sp. nov. Branches gray, strongly wrinkled in drying; younger portions slightly shining; branches See sain petioles 3-8 mm. long, stout and broad; blades 0.5-1.5 d » 2.5-5 cm. broad, obovate, mostly acute at the base, Ree acumina ate and obtusish at the apex, entire, the venation very slender, inconspicuous both sides, recurved or pendulous, thickening in fruit; panicles 2-4 cm. broad, loosely-flowered, the bracts triangular-subulate, about 1 mm. long; flowers yellowish, the tube campanulate, the mouth open, 2. long, the lobes 1.5 mm. long, recurved; pistil lightly exserted, the stigma ean ewears fruit black, nearly 1.5 cm. long, half as broad, oval, tipped by the short, persistent perianth-limb. ‘6A tree 15 to 20 ft. high, with yellow flowers, scarce in rich, wet forest-mould.” At the foot of Mt. Uchimachi, Calapampa, July 17, 1894. (Vo. 2746.) Closely resembling WV. longipedun- culata Britton, but the flowers entirely unlike. ILLECEBRACEAE PARONYCHIA CHILENSIS DC. Prodr. 3: 370. (Vo. 1970.) AMARANTACEAE HEBANTHE HOLOSERICEA Mart. Flora 21: Beibl. 65. (Vo. 2264.) TRESINE CELOSIOIDES L. Sp. Pl. 1456. (Vo. 2355.) IRESINE PANICULATA (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 542. (Vo. 2469. CHAMISSOA ALTISsSIMA (Swartz) Kunth; H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 197. pl. 125. (No. 2263.) ALTERNANTHERA PHILOXEROIDES Griseb. Goett. Abhand. 24: 36. (Vo. 2359.) ( 436) CHENOPODIACEAE CHENOPODIUM BOLIVIANUM Murr, Magvar Bot. Lap. 1: 359. 1902. (Vo. 2897.) PHYTOLACCACEAE Rivina LaEvis L. Mant. 1: 41. “A shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high, growing in dry gravelly soil; the flowers white, the fruit bright- red; scarce.” Coripata, March 10, 1894. (Vo. 2083.) Villamilla rivinioides sp. nov. Finely tomentellate; branches slender, weak, ascending, Dacian! leafy ; stipules attenuate, 3-5 mm. long; petioles 1-3 cm. long, striate, wea ades 0.7-1.5 dm. long, 3-5 cm. Goat ovate, obtuse at fhe. base, acuminate and acute at the apex, entire, very ae the narrowly margined midrib and 8-10 pairs of strongly pcurved secondaries whitish and lightly sae cep peinae eae es 4-6 cm. long, flower-bearing portion 1.5 dm. more long, strongly striate, densely flowered, the raceme re cm. anthers 1.5 mm. long, o.5 mm. broad, the thecae separated except at the middle; ovary 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, strongly flattened and narrowly margined. (Vo. 2607.) MouLANA SECUNDA (R. & P.) Mart. Nov. Gen. 3: 172 (Rivina secunda R. & P. Fl. Per. 1: 65. pl. zo2, f. a. (Wo. 2550 PHYTOLACCA OCTANDRA L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 631. (lVos. 2548 and 2549-) POLYGONACEAE PoLyGoNuM acuMINATUM H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 178. ‘*A foot or two high in rich, wet ground, the flowers greenish-white. Used as a remedy fer wounds, by local application.” Coripata, March 28, 1894. (Vo. 2709.) POLYGONUM PERSICARIOIDES H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 179. ‘ Abun- dant in very wet soil, where water is standing or running, flowers light-red.” Coripata, February 24,1894. (JVos. 2067 and 2552.) PoLyYGoNuM ANOMALUM Small, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 46. Al. 293. 1897. (No. 19702.) SARCOGONUM VULCANICUM (Endl.) Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 252. (Wo. 20376.) (437 ) ARISTOLOCHIACEAE Aristolochia yungasensis sp. nov. Finely tomentellate except the glabrous upper leaf- cebecn root elongated, sparingly branched, fleshy and tuberous-thicken ing stems stoutish, costate; petioles 2-3 cm. long, lene couse: blades 0.6-1 dm. long from the summit of the petiole, 4-8 cm. broad, ovate, strongly cordate, the summit of the sinus as well as the lobes regularly rounded, regularly acuminate and obtusish at the summit, entire, rather thin, strongly 3-ribbed or 5- to 7-ribbed by one or two pairs deflected into the basal lobes, coarsely and slenderly reticulate, the principal veins lightly prominent underneath; pedi- lightly curved portion of tube 1.5 cm. long, cm. broad, costate, dilated suddenly into a broadly ere deep- Lae body about 1 cm. long; greenish lip nearly 2 cm. long and broad, rounded, the base glabrous and strongly seven-nerved, the nerves purple, a pur- ple crescent separating the body of the lip which is coarsely pur- ple-papillose and ciliate ‘¢ Abundant in coca-plantations, climbing a few feet and flower- ing sparsely, the flower brown and black; called ‘ Vejugo,’ the leaves and root used for snake-bite.” Coripata, May 18, 1894. (No. 2799.) Species related to A. rumictfolia. PIPERACEAE (For species not here enumerated see Bull. Torrey Club 25: 566. 1898.) PIPER LANCEOLATUM R. & P. Fl. Per. 1: 36. ‘* A shrub 6-10 ft. high, in forest-mould; scarce.” Coroico, September, 1894. (JVo. 2431-) Piper Pavoni (Mig.) C. DC. Prodr. 16°: 294. (Vo. 2642.) (Artanthe Pavonit Mig. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4: 450. 1845.) PIPER PSILOPHYLLUM C. DC. Bull. Torrey Club 19: 47. 1892. (Vo. 2900.) Piper supruscum C. DC. Jour. Bot. 4: 217. 1866. oo shrub 6-8 ft. high, growing in wet forest-mould; scarce.” Coroico, September, ces (No. 2475.) PIPER triroLium C. DC. Bull. Torrey Club 25: 567. (No. 2917.) PEPEROMIA BLANDA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 67. (Wo. 2529. Peprromia MuLtispicA C. DC. Bull. Torrey Club 25: 571. (WVo. 2039.) ( 438 ) PrrrRoMia BoLiviensis C. DC. Prodr. 16°: 453. ‘‘ Grows on old trunks in forests, the leaves very fleshy, requiring a long time to dry.” Coripata, June S 1894. (No. 2324.) PEPEROMIA COBANA C. . Smith, Bot. Gaz. 19: 260. 1894. (Specimen without ae PEPERoMiIA GALIoIDES H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 71. fl. 77. (Wo. 2643.) PEPEROMIA HISPIDULA (Swartz) A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. 1: 165. (Vo. 2796, a.) PEPEROMIA LARECAJANA C. DC. Prodr. 16': 406. (Wo. 2898.) PrerrromiA Manponi C. DC. Prodr. 16': 395. (lVo. 7779.) PEPEROMIA MELANOSTIGMA Migq. Syst. 90. ‘‘ Grows in wet forest- mould.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2452. PEPEROMIA PARVIFOLIA C. DC. Jour. Bot. 4: 133. 1866. (Wo. 860.) PEPEROMIA REFLEXA A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. r: 180. (Wo. 2644.) ? PEpERoMIA saxicoLa C, DC. Bull. Torrey Club 25: 571. 1898. (Wo. 2899.) : PEPEROMIA UMBILICATA R. & P. Fl. Per. 1: 30. pl. 45, f. 6. ‘* Grows on old trees, the flowers white; scarce.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2448.) PEPEROMIA TRINERVIS R. & P. Fl. Per. 1: a 50, f. 6. Grows in wet forest-mould, the flowers eee Coroico, September, 1894. (os. 2455, 2638 and (?) 2450.) CHLORANTHACEAE TAFALLAEA GLABRATA (H.B.K.) Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 252. ‘+ A tree 20-30 ft. high, growing in wet forests, the flowers yellowish-white. Differs from 788 only in having but two flowers together. Scarce.” Coripata, May 7, 1894. (Vo. 2778.) MONIMIACEAE Mo irnepia Ruspyana Perkins, Bot. Jahrb. 27: 682. ‘A slen- der shrub, 5-6 ft. ae growing in shade, in forest-mould, the flowers green; scarce.” Coripata, September 13, 1894. (Jo. 2430.) MOLLINEDIA CALONEURA Perkins, Bot. Jahrb. 27: 663. (JVo. MovuinEDia sp. apparently undescribed, related to AL, Schottiana (Spreng.) Perkins. ‘+ A shrub about 6 ft. high, growing in wet (439 ) forest-mould, the flowers green.” Coroico, September, 1894. (No. 2460.) SIPARUNA CHRYSANTHA Perkins, Bot. Jahrb. 31: 746. ‘* Shrubby and half-climbing to 10 or 12 ft., growing in shade, in forest- mould; strongly odorous.” Coroico, July 25, 1894. (Vo. 2363.) PROTEACEAE Panopsis Pearcei sp. nov. In alee’ pines alee aaa 1-1.5 cm. long, very stout; blade —1.2 ong, 3.5-5 cm. broad, oval, entire, ob- scur ely ren very thick, the aya 8-10 pairs, connecting t minates in a pair of recurved branches; panicles terminal, sessile or short-peduncled, the branches sharply striate, blackish with whitish warts; pedicels 3-4 mm. long, elongating in fruit, terete, thickened upward; perianth 4 mm. ane, the divisions linear ; ovary I mm long, pilose; style 2.25 mm. long, stout, cylindrical or slightly clavate; stamens inserted near the base, eee the style, the anthers nearly 1 mm. long, eae (No. 2237. The same collected by Pearce at Moro, 4,500 ft., January, 1866. LAURACEAE ? ANIBA AMAzONICA (Meissn.) Mez, Jahrb. Berlin 5: 69. 1889. (Aydendron amazonicum Meissn.; DC. Prodr. 157: 89.) (We. 2556.) PERSEA sp. (lVo. 2902.) ?OcoTEA aLBipa Mez & Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 16: 114. (No. 2214.) ?OcoTEA RETICULATA Mez, Jahrb. Berlin 5: 308. 1889. “A tree 20 ft. high or more, growing in wet forest-mould, the flow- ers white; scarce.” Coripata, much higher than the town, May, 1894. (Wo. 2787.) Ocotea prunifolia sp. no Finely and lightly ee the leaf-surfaces very sparingly so; branchlets numerous, short, flexuous, coarsely angled, es leafy; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, flat, stoutish; blades 0.75-1.5 dm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. broad, lance- ovate, somewhat tnequileterel the prominent above, more so underneath, the strongly ascending sec- ondaries about 10 pairs, the venation finely and strongly reticulate ; ( 440 ) panicles axillary and terminal, loose, 1-1.5 d long, including the strong peduncles, two thirds as broad, the a and branches flexuous, the flowers densely clustered upon the branchlets, the lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous bracts 5 mm. or less long. Only staminate flowers seen, the plant apparently dioecious. Perianth puberulent, especially the tube, which is 1 mm. long, turbinate; lobes 2 mm. one? nearly as broad, oval, rounded at the apex, cori- aceous; filaments puberulent, nearly 1 mm. long, uniform or those of the third series slightly narrower ; anthers nearly 1 mm. long, the st triangular-ovoid, rounded at the summit, twice as broad or more than the filament, the innermost lance- oblong, scarcely broader than the filament; glands half the length of the filament, broader than long, thick an d fleshy, sessile, each broadly grooved pistil 2 mm. long, the very small ovary white- pape the style thick, the blackish ae 3-lobed, twice or thrice as broad as the style. «* A stout tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, with ae flowers, growing in wet mould; scarce.” Coripata, April 24, 1894. (Vo. 2774.) NEcTRANDA LAEVIS Mez, /. c. 451. (Specimen without number, probably distributed as part of 7646.) NECTANDRA BERCHEMIFOLIA Meissn.; DC. Prodr. 15!': 154. (Nos. 2558 and 2902.) NECTANDRA CITRIFOLIA Mez & Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 115, var.? ‘+A tree 40-50 ft. high, in forest.” Coripata, April 18, 1894. (Vo. 2233.) NEcTANDRA LAuREL Klotzsch; Nees, Linnaea 21: 505. 1848. (Vo. 2187.) The same as J/atthews, collected in Peru. ?NecTANDRA Warminci Meissn.; Warm. Vid. Medd. 1870: 141. (Vo. 2224.) The presence of this species so far from the type locality is surprising, but it appears to agree with Warm- ing’s zo. 778. LORANTHACEAE a cranes oblongifolius sp. nov rous except the minutely paberulent flowers; branches seen rigid, terete, dark-brown; leaves tapering into a short petiole-like base, 0.7-1.5 dm. long, 2-8 cm. broad, oblong or oval, varying to ovate or obovate, abruptly narrowed at the base, rounded at the summit, the venation, including the midrib, obscure on both m. long, the lower half 2 mm., the upper mm. broad, the oblong lobes erect; anthers about | 7 mm, long, linear-oblong, the upper set (441 ) reaching nearly to the tip of the ules the lower reaching to the base of the u per; stigma capi eke ong, 1 mm. long, slightly exceeding the anthers. (Vo. 2 5.) PHORADENDRON corIAcEUM Eichl. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 57: 121. (Vo. 290, PHORADENDRON MESEMBRYANTHEMIFOLIUM Griseb. ; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 136. 1900. (JlVos. 1926 and 2035.) PHORADENDRON SUBTRINERVE Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 117. (No. 2553. PHORADENDRON PEARCEI Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 136. 1900. (Specimen without number.) Phoradendron tafallaeoides sp. nov. Glabrous except the sparsely pilose bases of the peduncles; branches stout, the internodes about 2.5 cm. long; petioles nearly 1 cm. long, broad, thinly margined, articulated to a shallow base which projects sharply on the lower side; blades 5-7 cm. long, —4 cm. broad, oval or slightly broader below, abruptly very short- pointed at both ends, thick, the venation prominent both sides, especially above, the an very epee crooked, irregular and irregularly branch duncles 1-1.5 cm. long, stout, coarsely angled, the spikes 2-4 c a, very ice flowere ; pedicels 2 mm. long and about as els calyx 3.5 mm. broad, crateriform, shallowly lobed; berry oval, Bere at the apex, 7 mm. long, 5 broad; flower not seen. (Vo. 255¢. ANTIDAPHNE VISCOIDEA Poepp, et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 2: 70. pl. 799. (No. 2257.) Distributed as ‘* Styloceras sp. nov.?” SANTALACEAE Q AMALIUM MAJUS Brongn. Voy. Coq. f/. 57, fia. (lo. 1944+) EUPHORBIACEAE EvupHORBIA GENICULATA Orteg. Hort. Matr. Dec. 18. (Wo. 2208.) EupHoRBIA HYPERICIFOLIA L. Sp. Pl. 454. (iVo. 2905.) Not the same form as zo. 2, etc. EupHoRBIA ORBICULATA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 52. (Mo. 2273.) he same as 7réana’s Bogota specimen, xo. 354 (or 3542 ?). Euphorbia (77thymalus) boerhaavioides sp. nov. abrous; root tuberous; stems 0.75-1.5 dm. long, widely branched, the branches slender, flexuous, purplish, the internodes I-2 cm. jong} stipular glands inconspicuous; lower leaves alter- ( 442 ) nate, small, the upper opposite, 1-2 cm. long, 6-9 mm. broad, ovate- oblong, sessile, blunt, entire, ere thick, obscurely 3-nerved with numerous fine, erect veins; peduncles 4~5 ong, which (the pistillate) is 2 mm. long and broad, campanulate, thick, deep-purple, the 5 glands broad, thick, strongly recurved, unap- pendaged; ovary 1.5 mm. long, ovoid, obtuse, obtusely 3-angled, the styles 1.5-2 mm. one: strongly recurved, 2-cleft about half- way, thickish, purple; perianth-segments white, linear, one at each angle of the ovary and about half its length ; involucre of the stami- 4 mit, narro ard; rudimentary pistil present; interstaminate bracts thickish, flat, purple-tipped, longer than the stam (Vo. 2504.) Species obviously related to &. en but peculiar in its solitary axillary involucres. Euphorbia boliviana sp. nov. Sparsely pilose with long hairs and grayish-puberulent with inter- mediate short ones; stems prostrate, about 1 dm. long in my speci- men, profusely branched, stoutish for the size of the plant, deep- purp e- red, terete; stipular- oe Pare ovoid, short- piri purple; leaves opposite, nearly sessile, 4-8 cm. long, 2.5-5 m broad, ovate, inequilateral, a at the truncate or lightly cor- date base, blunt, irregularly and rather obscurely serrate-dentate, thickish, mostly purple; pedicels about 1 mm. long, thick; involucre 1 mm. long, narrowly campanulate, the segments sae pointed, the white or purplish glands eee 2-horned. (Vo. 2 The same as Mandon ro6¢ and Mathews 502. oe appar- ently related to £. thymifolia. Euphorbia longipila sp. nov Long and softly purplish- ahi pilose throughout; stem herbace- ous froma stout perennial root, ascending, much-branched, the branches erect, elongated, slender, terete ; ae glands not appar- ent; leaves all alternate; petioles o.5—1 cm. long, meer diver- gent or deflexed; a exceedingly variable in size, from 0.72— cm. long, 0.4-1.5 cm. broad, oval or mostly sub-rotund, aie at to ovate, rounded, es or slightly produced at the base, rounded at the summit, very thin, pale, the midrib and 4 pairs of secondaries not prominent, Bread and coarse; involucres cymose-fascicled at the ends f the branchlets; pedicels very short; involucre green with a white border, or some ie le, cam eee 1mm. long and broad, (443 ) Phyllanthus brasiliensis (Aubl.). (Conxamdé brasiliensis Aubl. Pl. Gui. 2: 927. pl. 324.—Phyllanthus Conami Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 288.) ‘+A shrub, 10-12 ft. high, growing in gravelly, rather wet soil near the river, the flowers green; scarce.” Coripata, March 14, 1894. (Vo. 2086 PHYLLANTHUS LATHYROIDES H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 110. (Vo, 1778.) Croton anpinus Muell.-Arg. Linnaea 34: 126. 1865. (WVos. 1927 and 7929.) The same as Mandon 1075. CroTon GLanpuLosus L. Syst. ed. 10. 1275. ‘*Grows 1 to 2 ft. high in ordinary soil, the flowers greenish-white.” Coripata, March 28, 1894. (Vo. 2706.) CroTon Lopatus L. Sp. Pl. roos. ‘In dry clay, on hillsides; scarce.” Coripata, April 18, 1894. (Wo. 2730.) Croton SELLowm Baill. Adansonia 4: 304. 1864. (Vo. 2657.) AcaLyPHa Lecu eri Britton; Rusby, Bull. ae Club 28: 304. 1gor. (Vo. 2670.) The same as Rusby 74 ACALYPHA HIBISCIFOLIA Britton; Rusby, Mom. i orey Club 4: 257. Acalypha eugenifolia sp. nov. Rather densely pilose with soft, white, age! reflexed hairs; a shrub, the branchlets rather numerous, short, very leafy; stipules purple, 2-3 mm. long, narrowly subulate or aristiform from a broad base, strongly 1-ribbed; petioles o.5-4 cm. long, stoutish ; blades 0.5-1.25 dm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, lanceolate, obtus- ish at the base, long-acuminate or attenuate at the apex, finel serrate, thin, rather pale, nearly smooth above, long-pilose under- neath, where the slender venation is slightly prominent, the secondaries about 10 pairs, very sly ascending; staminate spikes numerous, 3-6 cm. ae -3 mm. broad; pistillate spikes terminal, solitary, 0.5-1.5 dm. long, in flower I'cm., in fruit 2 cm. broad; scales of the pistillate spikes mostly 5-cleft, the divisions rea attenuate, 4—5 times the length of the body, very strongly ribbed, pilose and ciliate ; ovary globoidal, 3 -lobed, green, densely white- pilo se, I mm. long; styles 4-5 long, bright- = long-pilose toward the base, the divisions fi filiform, tapering. ( 2368. «A shrub about 8 ft. high, with red flowers, abundant in dry sand and gravel.” Near Coroico, August 3, 1894. Acalypha foliosa sp. nov. Finely strigose; stems stout, coarsely angled; stipules 1.25 cm. long, 3 mm. broad at the base, from which they taper regularly to (444 ) an obras? eae petioles 0.5-1.5 dm. long, slender but rigid, 5 1 k mature) 3-4 mm. thick, 5 cm. long, cylindrical, loosely or densely flowered; flowers not yet expanded. ‘*A shrub 15-20 ft. high, with hollow stem and branches, the oe greenish-yellow. Scarce in rich rocky ground near the river.” Coroico, August 20, 1894. (Vo. 2392.) Acalypha lucida sp. nov. r leaves minutely scurfy underneath, otherwise glabrous ; branches aes and rig Sie purple, coarsely sulcate and Ss stip- ules caduc 0.5-1 ong, linear, attenuate; petioles 2-4 cm. long, fender ‘lightly enna! on upper side, purple like the midrib; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, angularly oblong, ovate, many inequilateral, the base Stunt, rather abruptly narrowed rather prominent both sides, the secondaries about 10 pairs, strongly ascending, apparen tly but not really connecting at the margin, the tertiaries meeting at their ends and by lateral branches about mid- way between the secondaries, very numerous, only 2-3 mm. apart; peduncles purple, stout, 2 cs mm. long, the (immature) spikes 0.4— 1 dm. or more long, 3 mm. broad; flowers not yet expanded. (Nos. 2560 and 2562.) ALCHORNEA TRIPLINERVIA (Spr.) Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15’: 909. (Axtidesma triplinervium Spr. Neue Entd. 2: 116.) ‘* A tree 15-20 ft. high, growing in dry clay.” Coripata, March 3, 1894. (Vos. 2077 and 2279.) ConcrvEIBA GUIANENSIS Aubl. Pl. Gui. 2: 924. fl. 3953. (Wo. 2557. ?CONCEVEIBA PUBESCENS Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 306. 1901. (Wo. 2375.) TRAGIA SELLOWIANA GLABRIFOLIA Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 307. 1901. ‘In dry clay and gravel at Coripata.” May 10, 1894. (Ve. 2782.) TRAGIA VOLUBILIS L. Sp. Pl. 980. (Vo. 290g.) The same col- lected by Afolton at La Paila. Tragia aurea sp. nov. ensely ferruginous with spreading hairs; stems slender, Po lightly striate; petioles about 5 mm. long, stout ; blades 2.5-5 cm (445 ) long, 0.7-2 cm. broad, ovate, lightly cordate, acuminate and acute, sharply and coarsely serrate, thickish but flaccid, green above, yel- low underneath, the midrib and 8-10 pairs of secondaries scarcely long, parted nearly to th ele e, the lobes lanceolate, obtusish; ovary 1 mm. broad, 0.5 mm. long, very deeply 3-lobed, the styles 1mm. long, stout, erect-spreading, yellowish, puberulent, the stig- mas terminal, small; staminate flowers not seen. ‘« A climber, 6 ft. high, in dry clay and gravel. Flowers green.”’ Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2454. Species at first thought identical with AYolton’s plant from New " Grenada, but that has elongated racemes, much larger bracts and long-pedicelled flowers. Tragia Bangii sp. nov. Hispid-pilose throughout; root vertical, stout, strongly few branched; stems erect or ascending, slender, sparingly poche leng, 0.75-2.5 cm. broad. ovate, cordate, acute, serrate-dentate, the teeth somewhat rounded but shortly and acutely pointed, thick- ish, pale-green, the venation rather coarse, lightly prominent, the secondaries 6-8 pairs; spikes solitary in the axils and lightly pan- icled at the summit, 2-3 cm. long, slender, incurved, rather densely flowered, the bracts similar to the stipules; calyx of the pistillate flower deeply parted, ae lobes linear-oblong, 4 mm. long; poo e nearly 1 cm. broad m. long, densely white-pilose; seed 4 mm long, light yellowish- ean: veined. ‘¢ Small plant, a few inches high, the flowers yellowish-white ; scarce on clayey hillsides.” Coripata, Yungas, April ro, 1894. (Wo. 2725.) Renan TRIPHYLLA Lam. Encyc. 2: 258. “A ae growing in wet mould by the roadside, the flowers green.” Coripata, May 10, 1894. (Wo. 27812.) DALECHAMPIA CANESCENS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 98. The same as Holton 845 and 846. ‘*A climber, growing in dry, gravelly soil, the flowers greenish-white; scarce.” Coripata, March 15, 1894. (Wo. 2092.) URTICACEAE CeLTIs MoRiFOoLIA Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 10: 311. 1848. (No. 1902 TREMA MICRANTHA (L.) Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2: 58. (446) (Rhamnus micranthus L. Syst. ed. 10. 937.) ‘*A shrub 15 to 20 ft. nighy , in dry gravelly soil, the flowers green, the fruit black; scarce.” Coripata, February 24,1894. (Vos. 2065 and 2611.) Morus asa L. Sp. Pl. 986. (Specimen without number.) The same as feller 448 from Texas. Ficus oblanceolata sp. nov. Glabrous; branchlets stout but weak, rough with leaf-scars which are about 2 mm. broad; petioles o.5-1.5 cm. long, dark-brown, very stout; blades 0.5-1 dm. long, 2.5-4 cm. broad, oblanceolate to obovate, obtuse at the base, abruptly very short-pointed and blunt plane nearly right-angles with the midrib, connecting about 2 mm. from the margin; fruit sessile or very short-peduncled, aaa, about 5 mm. broad, yellowish or brownish-green with dar ts. ‘A tree 30 ft. or more high, scarce in sandy and ae soil, near the river.” Coroico, August 2, 1894. (Vo. 2369.) Pearce collected what is probably the same species Cecropia elongata sp. nov. Peduncles lightly, upper leaf-surfaces coarsely, scabrous; petioles obscurely short-pointed at the summit,the middle lobe 3 dm.in length of midrib, 7.5 cm. broad, the outermost 1.5 dm. long, 5 cm. broad, the finely many-nerved midrib and about 40 ‘pairs (on terminal nected by the slender cama straight tertiaries ; cages stout, pilose with few stiff white hairs; spikes cylindrical, 1.5-2.5 dm. long, about 7 mm. thick, occasionally branched, drying blackish. (Wo. 2260. URTICA MAGELLANICA Juss.; Poir. Encyc. Suppl. 4: 223. 1833. (Vo. 7833.) PILEA HYALINA Fenzl, Denks. Akad. Wien 1: 250. 1850. Cori- pata, April rr, 1894. (Vo. 2726. Pirga ANoMALA Wedd. Ann. Sci. Nat. II]. 18: 217. 1852. ‘+ Grows in wet mould, the flowers white.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2490.) The same as Rusby 1478 and rg8o. Pirea roTunpDatTa Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 158. (Vo. 7796.) The same as Rusby 1483. Many collections of this, in both eastern and western tropical America, have been referred to P. dauctodora Wedd. (447 ) PILEA FILIPES Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 311. (Vo. 7788.) PILeA vURERIFOLIA Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 312. (Vo. 2374.) The same as Rusby rg8r. BoEHMERIA BREVIROSTRIS Wedd. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 1: 201. 1854. (Vo. 7800.) The same as Rusby 1280 and 7281. MyRIoCARPA DENSIFLORA Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 169, in obs. (No. 2279.) PHENAX PALLIDA Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 259. (Wo. 2562.) MYRICACEAE Myrica arcuta H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 17. pl. 98 ‘¢A shrub 15—20 ft. high growing in rather dry gravel and clay; scarce.” Coripata, April 4, 1894. (Vos. 2808, 20g9 and 27212.) CASUARINEAE Lacistema aggregatum (Berg.). (Piper aggregatum Berg. Act. Helv. 7: 131. pd. zo. 1977. Fide Swartz. — Lactstema myricotdes Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 12.) ‘+A shrub about 8 ft. high, in hedges, in gravelly soil along roadsides; abundant.” Coroico, August 30,1894. (Vos. 2g00 and 2552.) CUPULIFERAE ALNUS ACUMINATA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 20. (Vo. 7893.) BURMANNIACEAE Apteria boliviana sp. nov. Glabrous; roots pei rather coarse; stems rhizomatous at the base, the erect portio —4 cm. long, subfiliform, dark-blue, sparsely branched, ae branches erect; leaf-vestiges 2 mm. long, ovate, acute, sheathing by a broad base, brownish, scarious ; flowers late; lobes 6, about 1 mm. long, three of them broader; stamens inserted about the middle of the tube, 1 -5 mm. long, the filaments very short, thick and fleshy, the wing at the base of the anthers about 1.5 mm. broad, 1 mm. long, the thecae a little more than half the length of the wing; ovary 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, oval; style thick and fleshy, 3 mm. long, the branches 1 mm. long, broadly dilated upward, the summit rounded or subtruncate, the delicate appendages (of texture similar to the wings of the stamens) about as long as the style-branches. (Specimen without number.) Species near A. /lactna Miers. (448 ) ORCHIDACEAE IsocHILUS LINEARIS (Jacq.) R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5: 209. (Wo. 2913.) TzLirocon sp. (LVo data.) CRANICHIS CILIATA Kunth, Pl. Aeq. 1: 324. (Vo data.) EvLopHIA MACULATA Reichb. f. Walp. Ann. 6: 647. (Wo data.) STANHOPEA EBURNEA Lindl. Bot. Reg. AZ. 7529. (Vo data.) HouLieria opoRATISSIMA Linden; Lindl. & Paxt. Flow. Gard. 3: 172. (Wo data.) PELExIA sp. (JVo data.) PrREscoTTIA sp. (Vo. 2439.) PRESCOTTIA sp. (JVo data.) TRICHOPILIA FRAGRANS Reichb. f. Otto Hamb. Gard. 14: 229. (No data.) Aganisia boliviensis Rolfe, sp. nov. Densely tufted. Leaves petiolate, lanceolate, pana - nerved, 4-7 in. long, .5-1 in. broad; aay a3 in. Scapes erect, 1.25-1.5 ft. high; racemes 2.5-3. . long, about 8~-12-flowered. Bracts oe lanceolate, - ae 2-3.5 lin. long. Pedicels 6-7 lin. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, "obtuse, 5-6 lin. long, the lateral ne broader than the dorsal. Petals rather shorter than the dorsal sepals, but otherwise similar. Lip shortly 1.5 lin. long, with broad, membranous, entire wings. (Vo. 2909.) Allied to the Peruvian A. zonoptera Linden & Reichb. f., but distinctly different in the shape of the lip. Pterichis Bangii Rolfe, sp. nov. Leaves linear-oblong, subobtuse, narrowed about the middle into a long petiole, nearly as long as the blade, which latter measures about 2.5 in. long by 5-6 lines broad. Scapes erect, 6-12 in. long, bearing ps to four oe narrow sheaths, pubescent or almost velvety. Racemes 2-3 in. long and rather ae ah Bracts ovate or ovate- eee acute, velvety, 3-5 lin. long. Dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, acute, united a the pe es Is into an erect hood, about 3 lin. long; lateral sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 3 lin. long. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute. Lip broadly reniform-or- vety, and bearing several prominent radiating veins; side lobes roadly rounded; front lobe small, triangular, apiculate, and some- what fleshy. Column broad, 1 lin. lo ong. (Vo. 2972. (449) Allied to Pterichis Mandonii (Acraea Mandonti Reichb. f.), but markedly different in the details of the lip. Stenoptera longifolia Rolfe, sp. nov. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, peseee with a long attenuate narrow base, 1 foot or more long, 10-13 lin. broad, scape tall (base not seen) ; raceme elongate, oe dense, 6 in. long, pubescent. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, 5—7 lin. long. edicels pubescent, 4—6 lin. long epals very shortly connate at the base, elliptical-oblong, apiculate, pubescent, 3 lin. lon a Petals linear, much narrower than the sepals, but nearly as lon Lip cucullate, broadly spe ee obscurely keeled henna: 2.5 lin. long. Column clavate, 1.5 lin. long. (Vo. 1920 pena oe its much elongated eaves. by which it is readily separated from S. acuta Lindl., the other Bolivian species. RestREPia sp. (Vo data.) ?RESTREPIA sp. (Vo data.) ?SoPpHRONITIS sp. (Vo data.) ORNITHIDIUM spp. (2 species, without data.) Pleurothallis trialata Rolfe, sp. nov. Stems stout, 4 in. long, bearing a tubular oblong sheath, with a free acute apex, below the ee Leaf sessile, oblong or lance- olate-oblong, ae, 4-4.5 in. long, 1-1.25 in. broad. Scape wer i n. long. Lip deltoid-oblong, apiculate, earelicaiate at the oe clavate, ” strongly winged, 2 lin. long. (Vo. 1826, p.p.) A remarkable species, allied to 2. crocodzlanthe ‘Reichb. f., but the leaves narrower and less coriaceous, the spike more ig. the bracts larger, and the sepals strongly winged, besides the differently shaped petals and lip. The flowers may not be fully developed, as the forwardest was only beginning to expand when the specimen was dried. PLEUROTHALLIS CORDATA Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 5. Coripata, April 20, 1897. (Wo. 2757.) PLEUROTHALLIS sp. (LVo. 2564.) PLEUROTHALLIS sp. (iVo. 22g0 PLEUROTHALLIS spp. (8 species, without data.) Pleurothallis Brittoni Rolfe, sp. nov. Stems obscurely angled, moderately slender, 2~3 in. long. Leaves oblong or elliptical- ae. subobtuse, somewhat attenuate at base, (450) 1.75-2.5 in. long, 6-8 lin. broad. Scapes 3-5 in. long, about 8—10-flowered. Bracts 2 lin. long, tubular, with a short acuminate apex. Pedicels 3 lin. long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, somewhat attenuate towards apex, and subobtuse, 5-6 lin. long. Petals sub- spathulate-oblong, obtuse, 2.5 lin. long, 1-nerved. Lip elliptical- where the nerves anastomose. Column clavate, 1.5 lin. long. (WVo. 1878.) A species belonging to the section Acuminatae allied to the Venezuelan ?. aurea Lindl., but smaller in all its parts, and the lip with a distinct median nerve in addition to the lateral pair. STELIS sp. nov. (?) (No data.) STELIS sp. (Vo. 27974.) STELIS sp. (Vo. 17976.) Stelis macrantha pee sp. nov. Stems stout, 6-8 in. lon Leaves oblong or elliptical- yee oblong or minutely bidentate petiolate, about 6 in. long, 1-1. broad ; Sr I-1.5 in. long. Flowering sheaths oblong, acc: late, .75 lin. long, usually producing two racemes. acemes 7-12 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate-triangular, acute, apex into a broadly ovate, concave body, shorter and much broader than the dorsal sepal, shortly bifid at the apex. Petals short, 1 lin. broad, rounded at the apex. Lip smaller than the petals, truncate, apiculate at each angle. Column broad, slightly longer than the Mixed with Pleurothalizs trialata in both the Columbia College and Kew collections. This species belongs to the section D¢adzssa, and is allied to the Peruvian S. acutisstma Lindl., though the flowers are considerably larger. Stelis boliviensis aes se nov. ms slender, 2.5-4 in . eae oblong-lanceolate, suba- cute, distinctly pee 2. pe ong, 7-10 lin. broad; petioles -5--75 in. long. Flowering eae oblong, apiculate, 4-5 lin. long, eno two racemes, or sometimes only one. acemes slender, 3-4.5 long, many-flowered. Bracts broadly triangu- lar, and eae from a funnel- Ser ia base, 1 lin. long. Pedi- cels 1 lin. long. Sepals sub-equal, broadly elliptical, phere 1.25 lin. long, glabrous. Petals aay orbicular, ird as long as the sepals. Lip broadly a subapiculate, concave, channeled along the centre, and with a pair of lateral tubercles near the base. oe very broad, about as long as the lip and e I7.) tals. (Vo. 7 (451) This species must technically be placed in Lindley’s too artificial section Lolystachyae, in which it seems most allied to the Peruvian S. mononeura Lindl. but the lip is not so distinctly trilobed as in that species. The species of this genus are for the most part ex- tremely difficult to distinguish in a dried state, on account of their minute flowers. Stelis scandens Rolfe, sp. nov Rhizome climbing, stoutish, neous about 1 in. long. Stems stoutish, about in. lon pa elliptical-oblong, minutely bidentate, eae petiolate, mR in. long, 9-12 lin. broad; petioles 8-10 lin. long. Flowering s eaths ovate-oblong, apiculate, 3-4 lin. long, producing oo. t bs or sometimes only one raceme. Racemes 2-4 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts ovate-triangular, acute, 1.52 lin. long, from a shortly funnel-shaped base, slightly middle. olumn broad, as long as the petals. ( Technically belongs to the section Polystachyae, and may be placed next to the Venezuelan S. grandis Reichb. f., but is smaller in all its parts, besides having a more scandent habit. STELIS BRITTONIANA Rolfe, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 261. 1895. (No. 2563.) EPIDENDRUM scCABRUM R. & P. Syst. Veg. 248. (Vo. r9g0. EpIpENDRUM RIGIDUM Jacq. Enum. Pl. Carib. 29. (/Vo. 2220.) ErIpENDRUM BRACHYCLADIUM Lindl. Fol. Orch. Epid. 60. (iVo. 2265. ee Friperici-GuiLiELM1 Warsc.; Reichb. f. Bon- plandia 2:110. (iVo. 2974.) Epidendrum Bangii Rolfe, sp. nov. S stout, a foot or more high (base not seen). Leaves ob- long-lanceolate, subobtuse, 3.5-—5 in eee g-12 broad; sheaths sulcate, and strongly rugose. Racem -6 in. long; s several- to many-flowered. ane spreading, pare or oe -ovate, acute or acuminate, 6-10 ong. aaa 4-5 lin. long. Dorsal sepal oblong- PResrs ‘acute, 6-7 lin. long; lateral pair broader and somewhat oblique, acuminate. Peta s linear, acute, in long. Tip with its base adnate to the c eee limb free, entire, fleshy, strongly cordate, ape conduplicate, sla the ahs ae nate and slightly recurved, 5 lin. long. Column stout, 3 1 ong with the wings broadly ended, and be behind ie ee by a thickened margin. (Vo. 7963.) (452) This species falls under the section LEtuepidendrum Planifolia next the New Grenadan £. macrostachyum Lindl., which differs among other characters in its longer racemes and smaller flowers, with obtuse sepals and lip. EPIDENDRUM spp. (10 species, without data.) ONCIDIUM GLOBULIFERUM H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 347. Coroico, September, 1894. (Wo. 2446. ONcIDIUM sp., near O. aborizvum. (No data.) Oncipium sp., near O. Crista-gallz. (No data.) Oncipium sp. Leaves only. (Vo data). Oncidium boliviense Rolfe, sp. nov. Pseudobulbs ovoid- oblong, subcompressed, I-1.5 in. anes 7-9 n. long several branches 4-7 in. long. Bracts narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-4 lin. long. Pedicels slender, 3-4 lin. long. Dorsal sepal ovate, acute or apiculate, 3-4 lin. long; lateral pair free, d trilobed, 7 lin. long; front lobe transversely oblong or nearly reni- form, shortly bilobed at the apex, 6 lin. broad; side lobes nearly triangular, with an oblong obtuse apex, 2 lin. long by about as broad; isthmus 1x lin. long by about as broad; crest consisting of about ten linear obtuse papillz, arranged in two fascicles, and sep- arated by a short median keel. Column 1 lin. long; wings broadly dolabriform, .75 lin. broad. Coripata, Yungas, May 16, 1894. (Vo. 2796.) A member of Lindley’s group Aymenoptera expansa, but markedly different from its allies in the details of the flower. Ocromeria sp. (Vo data.) Octomeria boliviensis Rolfe, sp. ms stoutish, 4-8 in. high, deied Neigh three to five loose ae sheaths, acute at the apex. eaves lanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, obtuse or shortly bidentate, ss a4 in. long, broad, attenuate at the base into a short petiole. Bracts lanceolate- oblong, acute, striate, 4-5 lin. lon Flowers several in a fascicle. Pedicels 3-4 lin. long. Sepals ignceolate: -oblong, acute, 6 lin. oo . Petals similar but slightly narrower. Lip elliptical-oblong, - long, pandurately trilobed; front lobe rhomboid, truncate, ete: nearly 2 lin. broad; side lobes small and rounded ; disc with two sigmoid — opposite to the isthmus. Column arcuate, t lin. long. (Wo. 2785.) (453) Allied to the Brazilian O. grandiflora Lindl., but the leaves shorter, and the lip much less deeply trilobed, with the side lobes smaller and the front lobe not bifid at the apex. ZYGOPETALUM INTERMEDIUM PERUVIANUM Rolfe, Lindenia 9: 71. (No data.) ZYGOPETALUM sp. (Vo data.) GALEANDRA LAGOENSIS Reichb. f.-Otia Bot. Hamb. 88. (io ata.) Neropryas Manponu Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. 3: 21. (Vo data.) NeEopryas RHODONEURA Reichb. f. Bot. Zeit. 10: 835. (Vo. 201I.) Cocuuiopa Norerziiana Rolfe, Lindenia 6: 55. p2. 266. (Wo. Z80l.) EPiSTEPHIUM AMPLEXICAULE (R. & P.) Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. tr: 52. Al. 92. (Vo. 2908.) SCAPHYGLOTTIS sp. (Vo. 2287. Locxuartia sp. Specimens in fruit. (lVo. 2286.) GyRosTACHys sp. Coroico, Yungas, September. (Vo. 24792.) GYROSTACHYS spp. (3 species without data.) PHyYsuRuUS spp. (5 species without data.) CaTASETUM sp. (WVo data.) ELLEANTHUS sp. (Vo data.) MasDEVALLIA sp. Coroico, September 8, 1894. (Vo. 2494.) MaspEvaLtuia sp. Coroico, September 8, 1894. (Vo. 2424.) Masdevallia scandens Rolfe, sp. nov. Rhizomes climbing, moderately stout, with the internodes .5 to over I inch apart. eaves lanceolate, subacute, somewhat cori- aceous, the blade 1.25-3 in. long, 4~7 lin. broad, attenuate at the base into a narrow petiole 1-3 in. long. Scapes moderately stout, 3-4 in. long, 1-flowered. sea tube a lin. pti , by fully as ; : : 2.5 lin. long. Lip elliptical-oblong, — or shortly apiculate, slightly channeled along the center, 2.5 lin. long. Columnclavate, narrowly winged, 2 lin. long. (Vo. 1797.) A very distinct species of the AZ. caudata group, readily distin- guished by its scandent habit. Its nearest affinity is at present rather doubtful, but several species are still only known from Reich- enbach’s descriptions. (454) SopraLtia D’Orsicnyana Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. 2: 179 (no description). (Vo. 2290 SOBRALIA DICHOTOMA R. & P. Syst. Veg. 232. (Vo. 2266.) MAXILLARIA GRANDIFLORA Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 147. (Wo. data.) MaxiLbaria sp. (Vo data.) ?>HasBenaria GourLigana Gill.; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 309. (Wo. 2268.) HasenarRia sp. (lVo. 2970.) HaBENARIA sp. nov. (Vo data.) Haspenaria sp. Coroico, Yungas, September, 1894. (Vo. 2440. HABENARIA spp. (2 species without data.) Liparis NEUROGLOSSA Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. 3: 26. (Vo. 2787.) Liparis Rusbyi Rolfe, sp. nov. Rhizomes creeping, elongated and moderately stout. Leaves two or three, broadly ovate, subobtuse, membranous, 2.5-3 in. r in. lon ellipsoid, 6-7 lin. long, with a pedicel of about its oa length. (Vo. 2565.) A very distinct species, with the general habit of Z. zexroglossa Rchb. f., but about twice larger in all its parts. The color of the wers is not recorded, but in the dried state the lip is distinctly tinged with pink, rather darker on the nerves, while the sepals and petals appear to have been pale whitish green. Liparis sp. (JVo data.) ODONTOGLOSSUM RIGIDUM Lindl. Pl. Hartw. 152. (Vo. 1946.) ODONTOGLOSSUM CHIRIQUENSE Rchb. f. Bot. Zeit. 10: 692. (Vo data. OpoNTOGLossuM coroNaRiuM Lindl. Fol. Orch. Odontog. 21 (No. 1960 SCITAMINEAE Costus Mooreanus sp. nov. Leaves densely and closely sericeous, highly lucid upon the lower surface; stems and petioles not seen; blades 2.5 or 3 dm. long, (455 ) a t 7 cm. broad, lanceolate, truncate or rounded at the base, acuminate, thick, dull or lightly shining above, the secondaries running nearly sare with the midrib; spike ovate (but one : ong, 8 cm. bro cm. long, the body o plone tne eolete obtuse, thick, rigid, yellow- ish, strongly nerved, bearing foliar appendages, which are I-2. cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, ovate, acute or obtuse, cordate, sericeous like the leaves, strongly reflexed ; corel (light yellow?), about 7 cm, long, 5 cm. broad, the tube 2 cm. long, slenderly infundibular, the body campanulate. Vic. Cochabamba. (Vo. 2058.) Species near C. argenteus R. & P. Dedicated to Mr. Spencer LeM. Moore, who has kindly pointed out its intermediate position between C. argenteus and C. comosus Roscoe. RENEALMIA VENTRICOSA Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cuba 256. (Wo. 25606.) IscHNOSIPHON PARKERI (Rosc.) Koern. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 35': 81. 1862. (Phrynium Parkert Rosc. Mon. Pl. Scit. pé. 42.) (Wo. 2567.) (Wo. 2202 is apparently an undetermined species of /schnosiphon, but dissection material is wanting.) Maranta Toncxat Aubl. Pl. Guian. 1: 23. ‘‘ Grows a few feet high, in rich soil, along hedges, the flowers white; scarce.” Coripata, April 8, 1894. (JVo. 2722.) CALATHEA GRANDIFOLIA Lindl. Bot. Reg. AZ. 2270. (Specimen without number.) The same as Rusby 2226, although the leaves are smaller. Calathea nodosa sp. nov. Glabrous; leaf hes one seen) atone y i aacaae the blade 5 dm. long, 2.7 m. broad, obovate, rou at both ends; stems strongly nodose- ie at the fserion a the peduncles; heads about 7 cm. long, 1 dm. broad, very pe and very stoutly peduncled, about 15-20-flowered; bracts . long, 2-2.5 cm. broad, oval, the summit very abruptly produced into a oe point, thick aad rigid, very finely and very many-nerved; bractlets 4 cm. long, half as broad, oval, obtuse, the summit Brbrate: ats and bearing two broad, thin, ciliate eu upon the back; flower not seen; fruit nearly 2 cm. long, 7 mm. broad, obovoid, bluntly tri- angular, inequilateral, shining, Goned by the pale calyx, which is 1z mm. long, the segments oblong, 2 mm. wide, obtuse, stiff, shining, and enclosing the dekiaiet style, which is a little Somer and divided nearly half way; se ack, nearly smooth, 7 mm long, half as broad, ovoid with Cae base and rounded summit. 69. (No. 2569.) (456) Calathea (dAZonostiche) stromanthifolia sp. nov. Glabrous except for a light scurfiness upon the base of the bracts and under the lens a minute puberulence upon the ze sur- faces; petioles 1-1.5 dm. long, broad; blades 1.5-2.5 dm. long, 0.7-1 dm. broad, obovate, blunt or rounded at the oS very abruptly, very shortly and acutely pointed, pale, thin, the principal secondaries having between them about 25 exceedingly fine nerves he midrib very strong and broad; peduncle (but one seen) light-yellow, about 2 cm. long, rather slender, deflexed; head 5-6 cm. long and nearly as broad, about 12-18-flowered; bracts 3-4.5 cm. long. Vic. Cochabamba, 1891. (Vo. 2009.) CANNA PEDUNCULATA Rosc. ; Sims, Bot. Mag. Al. 2723. ‘* Grows 2-6 ft. high, in wet clay, the flowers yellow.” Coripata, Sep- tember 5, 1894. (lVo. 2473.) Canna Britton Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 695. 1902. (Vo. 2417.) The same as Rusby 2857. Hericonia rostraTa R. & P. FI. Per. 3: 71. pl. p05. (No. 2508.) BROMELIACEAE Aechmea boliviana sp. nov. ames scurfy; stems slender, rigid, height unknown; leaves 4— 6 dm. long, 1.5-2 cm. broad, linear, narrowed towa rd the base, which is much-dilated and sheathing, attenuate at the apex, spiny- toothed, the teeth about 2 mm. lon divergent, stoutish, the leaf late, 2~4 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, strai oblong, obtusish. (Specimen without number or duplicates Aechmea involucrata sp. nov. Minutely scurfy, the younger portions somewhat floccose; stems very stout, about 4 dm. long in my spe oo a resents in an erect, closely sheathing leaves, which are 1-4 g, 3-5 ¢ broad, lanceolate, the outer successively ene a aes ae outermost broadly ovate, all very strongly nerved, thick and rigid, pungently spine-pointed, the spines dark-purple, the pe pun- gently spiny-toothed, the teeth 2-3 mm. long, stout, strongly up- curved; spike 2 dm. long, 5 cm. broad, very densely- flowered, (457 ) obtuse; bracts, in sedate stage, nearly 1 cm. long, tipped by a stiff, slende er point 1 mm. long, many-ribbed, enclosing the base of the flower and the ee nearly meeting, rigid with a rather broad hyaline border; sepals 1.75 cm. long, ovate, short-acuminate, the acute apex slightly recurved-spreading ; petals exceeding the sepals by 5-7 mm., purple with darker veins, obovate with rounded sum- mit, core. semi-rigid; stamens a little sade than the a the filament hyaline-margined, the anther 4 mm. long; ovary 5 mm long, obovoid, truncate, tuberculate; style tonne rigid, 1.5 cm long, inclusive of the branches, which are3 mm. long. (Specimen without number or duplicates.) Pitcairnia biattenuata sp. nov. ‘Younger portions scurfy-tomentose; stems 7-8 dm. long, slender, from a very stout base, dark-purple, terete; leaves proper all basal, 3-5 dm. long, linear, broadest (about 3 cm.) above the middle, the lower portion very narrow, dark-purple, spiny-toothed, the teeth about 3 mm. long, divergent or slightly recurved, the very base of the leaf abruptly dilated into a very broad sheath; bracts of the stem lanceolate, rigid, closely sheathing, long-acuminate and spreading; calyx exceeding 2 cm., the tube nearly as broad as long, the segments tapering, Tigid, keeled; corolla twice the length of the as strongly recurv ‘¢ A small plant eae ft. high, with red flowers, scarce in wet, clayey soil.” Coripata, Yungas, April 26, 1894. (Vo. 2755.) Pitcairnia sessiliflora sp. nov. Rather sparsely scurfy-tomentose; stems about 1 m. high, slender, terete, striate; leaves proper all basal, numerous, aes as long as the stem, broadest (about 1.5 cm.) above the middle, the lower portion involute and appearing as though terete, strongly uncinate-toothed, the teeth dark-purple, 1-2 mm. long, some leaves consisting only Ri these narrow, dark, toothed bases, others termi- nating in long setiform blades; stem bearing closely sheathing, lanceolate, acuminate and pungently pointed bracts 3-4 cm. long; flowers distantly spicate, the subtending bracts about 1 cm. long, broadly ovate, acuminate, pungent; calyx nearly 2 cm. long, the segments linear-lanceolate, rigid, very strongly keeled, and nerved, acute; corolla 7 cm. long, slender, yellow (?). (Specimen with- out number or duplicates. GuZzMANIA MONOSTACHYA (L.) Rusby; Mez, Mon. Brom. 905. (Wo. 1802.) The same as no. 1582. TILLANDSIA FLORIBUNDA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 292. (Specimen without number.) (458 ) TILLANDSIA sp., probably undescribed, but flowers are wanting. TILLANDSIA sp. The specimen undeterminable. (JVo. 2072.) ? TitLanpsia sp. Dissecting material is wanting. (JVo. 2707.) HAEMODORACEAE ?ZEPHYRA sp. (Vo. 2042.) IRIDACEAE SISYRINCHIUM IRIDIFOLIUM H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 324. (Wo. 186. SisYRINCHIUM JUNCEUM E. Meyer, in Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 118. (No. 2 SISYRINCHIUM LEUCANTHUM Colla, Mem. Acc. Torin 39: 18. 1836. (Specimen without number.) The same as Ausédy 695. SISYRINCHIUM MICRANTHUM Cav. Diss. 6: 345. ff. 79, f. 2? (No. 2578.) Apparently the same as John Donnell Smith 3871, and collected also at Mendoza. SISYRINCHIUM UNISPATHACEUM Klatt, Linnaea 34: 737. 1866. (No. 1922.) AMARYLLIDACEAE Hypoxis pDECUMBENS L. Pl. Jam. Pugill. 11. — Syst. ed. ro. 986. (Wo. 1793-) Hippeastrum Manponi Baker, Handb. Amaryll. 49. ‘* A small plant, the flowers red and green.” Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2476.) ‘+A small plant with large fleshy bulbs, growing in mould, in forest-shade, the flowers red; abundant.” Coripata, June 20, 1894. (Vo. 2302.) (Vo. 2500 is also a species of Aippeastrum, perhaps the same.) BoMAREA ANDIMARCANA Baker, Handb. Amaryll. 147. (Jo. 2014.) Bomarea EDULIS (Tussac) Herb. Amaryll. r11. (Vos. 2077 and 2915, fide Baker. See remarks under this sae in Enum. Rusby’s plants, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 224, 225. BoMAREA FORMOSISSIMA (R. & P.) Griseb.; en Hapab: Amaryll.153. (Alstroemeria formostssima R. & P. Fl. Per. 3: 64.) (Vo. 1936a.) The same as Pearce 7os5 and Rusby 566. BoMAREA MULTIFLORA (L.) Mirbel, Hist. Nat. Pl.g: 72. 1804. (Alstroemeria multiflora L.f. Suppl. 207.) (Vos. 79376 and 2038.) The same as Rusby 564. Bomarea SaLcitya Mirbel, 2. c. 71. (Vo. 2039.) (459) Bomarea (Sphaerine) flava Baker, sp. nov bright-yellow, 4% in. long; segments oblong-spatulate, equal, not spotted on the face, the three outer faintly keeled outside with green. tamens curved, nearly as long as the perianth; anthers orbicular, small, yellow Near B. minima Baker, Handb. Amaryll. 144. (Vo. 2013.) DIOSCOREACEAE DioscOREA CONVOLVULACEA Schlecht. & Ch. Linnaea 6: 49. 1831. (No. 2976.) DroscorEa cymosuLa Hemsl. Biol. Cent. Am. Bot. 3: 355. (Vo. (2577.) The same as Rusby rggo. DioscorEa FuRCATA Griseb.; Mart. Fl. Bras. 3': 45. ‘* Grows in wet forest-mould and climbs 8-ro ft. high, the flowers green- ish-white; abundant.” Yungas (Sacramento), August 27, 1894. (Vo. 2397.) The same as Rusby 532 and 1047. DioscorEA GALEOTTIANA Kunth, Enum. Pl. 5: 409. (Vo. 2040.) Dioscorea racemosa sp. nov. Inflorescence, holaetees the calyx-tube, scurfy-tomentose, gray ; stems slender, strongly sulcate; petioles 2-5 cm. long, ribbed; blades 0.47-1 5 long and broad, ovate, cordate wil a broad shallow sinus, very abruptly and shortly pointed and acute, very thin, bright-green, 9-ribbed, the ribs prominent only underneath, connected by the sparse, nearly straight secondaries; racemes short- peduncled, 1-2 dm. long, slender, costate, loosely- flowe ered; pedi- cels very short and stout; ovary 5-7 mm. long, 2-3 mm. ‘broad, oblong, obtusely triangular, downy, strongly ribbed; perianth-seg- ments 3-4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, lance- -oblong, downy at the base, thick; styles nearly equaling the perianth when straightened out, very strongly recurved, ee bifid about half way, the divi- sions thick, flattened, acutisl cA eitnces, scarce; wet andy soil near the river, the flowers green.” Coripata, May 9, 1894. (lVo. 2780.) Dioscorea glauca sp. nov. Pale and glaucous; stems stoutish, ee petioles Clee leaves only seen) about 5 cm. long, stoutish ; blades 1 dm , 8 cm. broad, ovate, lightly cordate, very shortly acute- a clsh, ( 460 ) very slenderly 5-nerved, the secondaries sparse and obscure; pedun- c g, very slender, the racemes (in fruit) 3-3.5 dm long; ovary 5-8 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, oblong, short-beaked, strongly ribbed; campanulate portion of sates nth 2. and broad, the strongly reflexed lobes 1.5 mm. long, ovate, thickish ; styles 3, entire, the large stigmas slightly exserted; fruit 3 cm. long, roadly and shallowly cordate at both ends, the wings 2.5 . broad, regularly rounded, with numerous fine, obscure nerves Panaerely dispos ‘¢Climbing 15 feet or more, the flowers brown; in dry clayey and slaty soil.” Coripata, June 20, 1894. (Wo. 233¢. Dioscorea arcuata sp. nov. Giabrous, stems stoutish, coarsely angled; petioles 0.75-1.5 dm. long, stout, ribbed; blades 1-2 dm. long, o.5-1.5 dm. broad, regu- ee cordate-ovate, the sinus deep and narrow, or the lobes over- lapping, abruptly acuminate and acute at the apex, very thin, shin- coarsely reticulate, slender, crooked secondaries; peduncles 3-5 cm long, slender, spreading, the flower-bearing portion of the raceme o.5—1 dm. long; pedicels 2-3 mm. long, anne perianth 4 mm. rong the Bremen oblong-obovate with roun apex, nearly 2 . broa laments less than 1 mm. long, t thick, the anthers oe and broad; fruit 2 cm. long, 8-9 mm. broad, oval, tipped by a very short, stout point. (Vo. 7786.) LILIACEAE SMILAX MEXICANA Griseb. ; Kunth, Enum. Pl. 5: 167. (Wo. 2203, p-p-, with lanceolate leaves.) SMILAX PHYLLOLOBA Griseb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 31: 21. (Vo. 2203, p.p., the leaves broadly ovate.) The same as Rusby 560. SMILAX TOMENTOSA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 272. ‘* Grows in good forest mould. Climbing 20 ft. or more high, the flowers yellow ; scarce.” Coripata, April 19, 1894. (Vo. 2234.) Collected also by Holton. SMILAX IRRORATA Griseb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3': 10. (Specimen without number.) The same as Rusby 56r. ExcrEeMis coarcTata (R. & P.) Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. 15: 320. 1876. (Anthericum coarctatum R. & P. Fl. Per. 3: 67. pl. 299, f.a.) (No. 2277.) The same as Rusby 250¢ and 2856. XYRIDACEAE Xyris sp. — This species is in all probability undescribed, but farther comparison is needed. It appears related to XY. eriophora Klotzsch. (Vo. 2580.) (461 ) PONTEDERIACEAE EICHHORNIA PAUCIFLORA Seub. in Mart. FI. Bras. 3i: gr A small aquatic, the flowers white.” Coripata, April 20, 1894. (Vo. 2745.) The same as fusbhy 533. COMMELINACEAE (Determined by Mr. C. B. Clarke) PHAEOSPHERION PERSICARIAEFOLIUM(Delile) C. B. Clarke, in DC. Monog. Phan. 3: 137. (Commelina persicartaefolia Delile in Red. Lil. p/. 472.) (Wo. 29177.) ComMELINA quirensis Benth. Pl. Hartw.258. (Vo. 2070.) The same as Rusby 847. DICHORISANDRA HEXANDRA (Aubl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 721. (Wo. 2978.) The same as Rusby 7230. DicHorisanDRA GaupDICHAUDIANA Kunth, Enum. Pl. 4: 113. (Wo. 2573-) DIcHORISANDRA INAEQUALIS Pres], Rel. Haenk. 1: 140. (Speci- men without number.) The same as Rusby 1232. DicHORISANDRA VILLOSULA Mart. in Schult. f. Syst. 7: 1185. (Wo. 2577.) The same as Rusby 1233. TINANTIA FUGAX Scheidw. in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gart. 7: 365. 1839. 0 TRADESCANTIA GENICULATA Jacq. Enum. Pl. Carib. 18. (Mos. 2572 and 2576. JUNCACEAE JUNCOIDES RACEMOSUM (Desv.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 725. (Wo. 1871.) Juncus anpicoLa Hook. Ic. Pl. AZ. 77g. (Wo. 2410.) AROIDEAE (Determined by Mr. N. E. Brown) PHILODENDRON RUBENS Schott, Syn. Aroid. 84. (Specimen with- out number. } PHILODENDRON sp., the material unfit for determination. (Vo. 2586 Stenospermation Rusbyi N. E. Brown, sp. no Stems not seen. Leaves erect, crowded, aes petiole (in- cluding the 144-34 in. lon ¢ geniculus) 15-16 in. long, broadl sheathing for half its length ; blade 11- 2 in. long, 4¥5~434 in. ( 462 ) Ba oblong, acute or obtuse with a short subcuspidate a rib impressed above; lateral nerves very numerous, crowded, Sere pen slightly curved, not prominent on either ae Peduncle about oe ae 2 lines thick, recurving at the apex. Spathe about 6 i -_ and 1 in. broad, "narrowly oblong, acute, tipped with a aie point ¥% in. long, not reflexed in the speci- men seen. Spadix 4%-5 in. long, about 4% lines thick, on the stipes 2-3 lines long. Ovary with a flat, square apex Ki in. diam- eter, imperfectly 2-celled; style about % line long; stigma small, discoid; ovules numerous, basal, surrounded with mucilage. Yungas. (Vo. 2609.) Allied to S. multiovulatum N. E. Br., but differs from that spe- cies by the petiole being vaginate for only half its length, the very much narrower spathe, and the short but distinct style ANTHURIUM TRIPHYLLUM Brongn.; Schott, Prod. Avia: 548. ‘¢ Grows on old trunks in forest-shade, the flowers green; scarce.” Coripata, June 22, 1894. (Vo. 2297.) ANTHURIUM TRINERVE Mig. Linnaea 17: 66. 1843. ‘¢On old trunks in forest, the flowers green.” Coripata, June 22, 1894. 07, as to specimens with the leaves nearly acute.) ANTHURIUM VIOLACEUM (Sw.) Schott, Melet. 1: 22. (Pothos violaceus Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 32.) (Vo. 2707, as to specimens with leaves tapering at the apex. AntHuRiuM LEcHLERIANUM Schott, Prod. Aroid. 534. (JV. 2582. ANTHURIUM GRACILE Lindl. Bot. Reg. pl. 1675. (Wo. 2584.) The same as Ausdy 2¢29 and 2430. Anthurium parile N. E. Brown, sp. nov.* Stem elongated, % in. thick, internodes 4—-¥% in. long. Leaves erect, glabrous; petiole 2-345, in. ees oN va the 2-3 lines * Since the preparation of this paper, this species and the three following ones have been published by Professor Engler, and the places of publication should be cited as follows arile N. E. oe ; Engler, Pflanzenreich 42>: 151, 1905. A. rusticum N. E. Brown; Engler, loc. cit. 82, A. coripatense N. E. Brown ; Engler, doc. cét. iad A. grande N. E. Brown; oo loc. cit. 2 ( 463 ) on both sides in the dried state. Peduncle 6-11 in. long, 1-134 line thick. Spathe 14%-2 in. long, 3-4 lines broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, tipped with a subulate point / in. 1 amplexicaul at the base, not decurrent, reflexe padix sessile, 214-314 in long, 2~2% lines thick. Flowers large, 134-2 lines in diameter. Ovary broadly obovoid; stigma sessile; cells r-ovulate. Yungas. (lVo. 2585.) Allied to A. pees Lindl., but is a stouter plant, and the leaf does not taper so much at the bac and apex. Anthurium rusticum N. E. Brown, sp. nov. Stem stout. Scale-leaves 4 in. long, 1 in. broad. Leaves erect, glabrous; petiole 4-5 in. long, including the Y-¥% in. long geniculus, }4 in. thick, channeled down the face; blade 2-24 ft. long, 6-7 in. broad, broadly oblong-oblanceolate, subobtuse and shoely mucronulate at the apex, cuneately tapering from about the middle to an acute base; margins slightly sinuate; midrib very lateral nerves 14-16 on each side of the midrib, nearly straight in 34 in. at the base. Spadix sub-sessile, 3-314 in. long, 4% in. thick. Flowers 34-1 line in diam. Ovary oblong; stigma sessile; cells 1-ovulate. Yungas. (Vo. 2479.) This species lea resembles A. crasstnervium Schott, but has much smaller leaves, and a shorter spadix. Anthurium coripatense N. E. Brown, sp. nov. Leaves large, cordate, glabrous; petiole 20-22 in. long, including the r in. long geniculus, 3-4 lines thick; blade 18-20 in. long, 1 ft. broad across the basal lobes, elongated deltoid- ovate, apex?, base the base, denuded for about ye in. at the sinus, curved, excurrent at the margin. Peduncle about 20 in. long, 24 lines thick, glab- rous. Spathe (imperfect in the specimens seen) over 6 in. long, about 1 in. broad, strap-shaped, reflexed, amplexicaul or somewhat ( 464 ) decurrent at the base. Spadix 414-5% in. long, on a stipe 4-% in. long, 3-4 lines thick. Flowers 1 line in diameter. Ovary ane ‘stigma sessile; cells r-ovulate. Coripata, Yungas. (Wo. aziz Allied to A. aranthe Baker, but differs in its more elongated leaf with a much more obtuse basal sinus, and a stouter spadix. Anthurium grande N. E. Brown, sp. nov Leaves large, leas glabrous; petiole 2 ft. or more long; blade about 20 in. long, 14 in. broad, exactly ovate in outline, obtuse with a short apiculus at the apex, deeply cordate at the base; basal lobes curved; basal nerves about 7 on each side, the 4 outer of which are ginal nerve 1-114 line distant from the margin, prominent and ro panied ‘beneath, slightly prominent above; under surface densely covered wit nute fuscous dots in the dried et Peduncle 8 short overlapping lobes. Spadix shortly stipitate, 6 in. long, sabi % in. thick at the base, cylindrical, slightly tapering. Flow rather large, about 134 line in diameter. vary ovoid, caecuae into a short stout style, which is not exserted beyond the perianth ; cells r-ovulate. Yungas. (/Vos. 23772 and 2583.) This fine species is more nearly allied to A. ornatum Schott, than to any other at present described; it differs from that plant in having the sinus of the leaf enclosed by the overlapping basal lobes, and by the much broader spathe which has overlapping basal auricles, whilst in A. orzatum, the spathe is decurrent at the base. ANTHURIUM sp., almost certainly undescribed, but better specimens are necessary. (lVo. 2582.) ANTHURIUM sp. nov. (?) near A. Bredemeyeri Schott. (Speci- men without number.) EQUISETACEAE EquisETUM BoGoTENSE H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 1: 42. (Los. 1814 and 2923.) EQuisETUM GIGANTEUM L. Syst. ed 10. 1318. (Vo. rgoz.) ( 465 ) LYCOPODIACEAE Lycopopium cLavatum L. Sp. Pl. r10r. (Wo. 1844.) Lycopopium REFLExUM Lam. (Wo. 2926.) FILICES (Communicated by Mr. B. D. Gilbert) ? GLEICHENIA CRYPTOCARPA Hook. Determined in the absence of fruit. (Vo. 2924, in part.) GLzIcHENIA MatHewsnu Hook. Fragments of this species, to be distinguished by the squamose stem, were mixed with the last. ? CYATHEA FURFURACEA Baker. ‘Seven meters high; in forest shade.” Coripata, June, 1894. (JVo. 2328.) ALSOPHILA ARMATA(Sw.) Presl. (JVo. 2429, but perhaps distrib- uted as 2829.) ALSOPHILA PRUINATA Kaulf. ‘¢ Wet mould, in forest.” Coripata, May 18, 1894 (Vo. 2200); without locality or data (Vo. r848). DIcKSONIA DISSECTA Sw. ‘¢In wet mould, forest shade.” Co- roico, September 17, 1894. (lVo. 2423.) TRICHOMANES Kautrussi H. & G. (Wo. 2604.) ADIANTUM FRUCTUOSUM Kunze. (Vo. 2284.) ADIANTUM EMARGINATUM Bory. (Vo. £771.) ADIANTUM WaGNERI Mett. ‘*In damp shady soil. Local name ‘ Vacci—-vacci,’ and used as an emetic.” Coripata, February 26, 1894. (No. 2064.) ADIANTUM DIGITATUM Presl. (JVo. 2779.) ADIANTUM sp. Specimens without fruit. (JVo. 2924, in part.) PTERIS PODOPHYLLA Sw. ‘' In wet mould, forest shade, scarce, Trunk short, and petioles very long.” Sacramento, Yungas, August 14, 1894. (Vo. 2384.) Preris (Lifobrochta) incisA Thunb. Near the form called P. stnuata Brack. (Vo. 2253.) Lomaria acuta Desv. The fertile frond only seen. (Wo. 2593+ Lomaria Fre1 Jenman. ‘‘In mould, forest shade.” Coripata, June, 1894. (Vo. 2327-) BLECHNUM NIGRO-SQUAMATUM B. D. Gilbert, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 258. 1897. ‘*In running water.” Calapampa, July 4, 1894. (lo. 2774.) ASPLENIUM FURCATUM Thunb. ‘‘ Scarce, in mould, in shade of shrubbery.” Coripata, April 19, 1894. (Vo. 2738.) ( 466) ASPLENIUM LUNULATUM Sw. ‘In dry mould, in forest.” Co- roico, September 3, 1894. (Vos. 2285 and 2479, the latter per- haps distributed as 2879.) ASPLENIUM AURITUM-RIGIDUM ae a 2251.) ASPLENIUM sTRIATUM L. (Wo. ¢ ASPLENIUM HARPEOIDES Kunze. (Ne. 2233-) ASPLENIUM CICUTARIUM Sw. A barren form, the segments more spathulate than in the fertile form. (Vo. 2 DryopTERIS PUBERULA Kuntze. Calapampa, Yungas, July 4, 1894. (Vo. 2773.) Known only from Mexico, heretofore. DrYOPTERIS CONTERMINA (Desv.) Kuntze. Calapampa, Yungas, July 4, 1894, in wet yellow clay, amidst grass. (Vos. 2766 and 2321. DryYoprTeRis OLIGocaARPA (H. & B.) Kuntze. Dee gOLL.) Dryopreris Fiiix-mas (L. ) Schott. (Vo. 1784.) DryopTeris SALvini (Baker) Kuntze. (Jo. pie ) DrRYOPTERIS VILLOSA INAEQUILATERALIS B. D. Gilbert, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 259. 1897. ‘Scarce in wet mould, in forest shade.” Uchimachi, Yungas, August 22, 1894. (Vo. 4.) PHEGOPTERIS RIGIDA Hook. & Gr. ‘*In mould, forest shade.” Coripata, June 1894. (Vo. 2379.) PHEGOPTERIS RIGIDA POLYPHYLLA Hook. (Wo. 2275.) PHEGOPTERIS RUDIS Mett. ‘*In wet, shaded places.” Calapampa, July 4, 1894 (iVo. 2725); and wet clay (Vo. 2720). POLYPODIUM FRAXINIFOLIUM Jacq. Anarrow-leavedform. <‘‘In damp mould, forest shade.” Coroico, September 1, 1894. (Wo. 2402, perhaps distributed as 2802. Poryropium (Phymatodes) pERcussuM Cav. (Ve. 2206.) PoLyropium PrumuLta H. & B. Mo. 2927. PoLtypopium CaTHARINAE L. & F. (No. 2597.) PoLyPopiuM PLEBEIUM Schlecht. & Cham. (Vos. 2592 and 2598.) POLYPODIUM SUBSESSILE Baker. (Vo. 2603, in part.) P DIUM THYSA A.Braun. (Vo. 2603, in part.) See also Acrostichum cuspidatum for this number. POLYPODIUM LoRICEUM LATIPES L. & F. In forest shade, Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2434. Also Vo. 2207, without local- ity or date.) PoLYPopIUM POLyPopIoIDES (L.) Hitchcock. (Wo. 4007.) PoLyPropium GLAUCOPHYLLUM Kunze. The ‘‘var. a” of Hooker. (No. 2803.) ( 467 ) Potypopium (Phymatodes) LycorpopiowEs L. Anunsually broad fronded form, without fruit. A single specimen, without local- ity or date, included with no. 437. PoLyropium PEcTINATUM L. A form with nearly truncate base (Vo. 2228.) Potypopium Puy.uitivis L. “In mould, in forest.” (JVo. 2462.) Uchimachi, Yungas, on decaying tree-trunks, August 22, 1894. ea LYF 1M L. ‘In black mould, in forest.” on cca ve (No. 2447.) Coripata, April 23, 1894. (Wo. 2742. POLYPODIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM Sw. ‘¢On decaying trunks.” Co- roico, September, 1894. (Vos 223¢ and 2461, or 2861.) NoTHOLAENA FLAVENS Moore. (Vo. 2600.) CHEILANTHES Matuewsi Kunze. (Wo. 2661.) GYMNOGRAMMA FLExuosA (H. & B.) Desv. (Vo. 2599.) ? ACROSTICHUM HYBRIDUM Bory. Possibly it is A. scolopendrifo- lium Raddi. Sterile fronds only seen. Ba 2608.) AcrostTicuum squamMires Hook. (Wo. 1797.) ACROSTICHUM CUSPIDATUM illd. ats with rather narrow ronds. (Vo. 2607, in part.) AcrosTicHum TEcTUM (H. & B.) Willd. (Wo. 2602.) ACROSTICHUM MUSCOSUM Sw. (Vo. 2602.) ACROSTICHUM STRICTUM Raddi. (Vo. goor.) ACROSTICHUM LONGIFOLIUM Jacq. (Vo. gooo ACROSTICHUM CERVINUM Sw. Sterile fronds only. (Vo. 4002.) SCHIZAEA ELEGANS (Vahl) Sw. A small form. (Wo. 2925.) ANEMIA Puytuitipis (L.) Sw. ‘ Abundant in gravelly soil.” Coripata, March 6, 1894. (Vo. 2080.) MARATTIA ALATA Sw. ‘‘In wet mould, forest shade.” Uchim- achi, Yungas, August 22, 1894. Trunk short and thick, and petioles very long and fleshy. (JVo. 2793.) BotTRYcHIUM TERNATUM (Thunb.) Sw Form near B. dzssectum. (No. 2595.) BoTrycHiuM vircinianum (L.) Sw. (Vo. 2596.) Ferns unfit for determination are zos. 4008, 4009, goroand gor2. No. 180g is a fern prothallium. BRYOPHYTA SPHAGNUM CORYPHAEUM Warnst. (/Vo. 2928.) Fide C. Warnstorf. SPHAGNUM MEDIUM Limpr. (Vo. 7854.) fide C. Warnstorf. ( 468 ) BRYUM ARGENTEUM LANATUM (Brid.) Br. & Sch. (Vo. 2844.) PoLYTRICHUM CONFORME Mitt. (JVo. 2937.) PoOLYTRICHUM ARISTIFLORUM Mitt. (JVo. 2930.) AnTHocEROs LaEvis L. (iVo. 7803.) LICHENES BaEoMyces impricatus Hook. (os. 1846, 2866 and 1915.) CLADONIA GRACILIS VERTICILLATA Fr. (Specimen without number. CLADONIA DEGENERANS Floerk. (Vo. 7847. CLADONIA CERATOPHYLLA (Sw.) Eschw. (Specimen without number. ) CLADONIA RANGIFERINA (L.) Hoffm. (Vo. 7849.) CLADONIA SPHAERULIFERA (Tayl.) Nyl. (Specimen without number. ) PARMELIA AMERICANA Mez. & Flot. (Vo. 7851.) PARMELIA BOLIVIANA Nyl. (Wo. 7853.) UsNEA BARBATA HIRTA Fr. (Specimen without number.) UsngEa LAEvIs (Eschw.) Nyl. (Specimen without number.) STIcTA ANDENSIS Nyl. (Vo. 2935-) Sticta Botiviana Nyl. (Specimen without number.) STEREOCAULON MYRIOCARPUM Fr. (Vo. 1850.) STEREOCAULON PROxIMUM Nyl. (Wo. 7852.) STEREOCAULON MA Nyl. (Vo. 7856.) STEREOCAULON RAMULOSUM Ach. (Wo. 7785.) ALECTORIA JUBATA (L.) Ach. (Vo. 2046.) PHYSCIA GALACTOPHYLLA Tuck. (JVo. 1934.) URCEOLARIA CINEREO-CAESIA Sw. (Vo. 7855.) RAMALINA LAEVIGATA Fr. (Wo. 1937.) RAMALINA CALICARIS CANALICULATA Fr. (Specimen without number.) LEPROCAULON ARBUSCULA Nyl. (Specimen without number.) FUNGI HYPOXYLON ANNULATUM Fr. ‘+ Growing on old stems.” Cala- pampa, July 4, 1894. (JVo. 237Z0. Favo.us BRASILIENSIS Fr. (JVo. 19527.) MitTRuULA sp. Specimens immature. (Vo. 1867.) (The following are galls: Mos. 2702, 2102, 2103, 2104, 2105, 2109.) ( 469 ) A Percutiar Group or SOLANACEAE. Since the printing of the preceding signatures, I have learned that Mr. Bang’s zo. 1270 was a mixture of two species. One of these is said by Dammer (Bot. Jahrb. 37:639. 1906) to be Brachistus tetrandrus (Br. & Bouché) B. & H., a plant that I do not know. The other agrees exactly with the figure of Ruiz & Pavon of their Solanum anceps. It is the same as Rusby 766 and Bang 2513 and 2526. This species I transferred (Bull. Torrey Club 26: 197) to the genus Bassovia. No one with a modern knowledge of the genera of Solanznae could regard this plant as a Solanum. In general habit, anthotaxy, calyx, corolla and fruit, it is a perfect Bassovia. Its stamens show a partial tendency to be separate as in Bassovia, but they end in pores, and these pores are exceptionally large and conspicuous, and of peculiar appearance, and are con- tinued into sutures, as in Cyphomandra. e anthers, moreover, are somewhat enlarged upward. These characters would exclude the plant from every genus except Solanum and Cyphomandra, and the latter is outside of consideration here. n page 420 of this paper, I have described ‘+ Solanum (?) bassovitcarpum,” and have said that I placed it in Solanum with reluctance. A comparison shows it to have exactly the same anther-characters as those of S. anceps. In Bull. Torrey Club 26: 194, I have described ‘+ S. psédézfol- zum.” When Dr. Britton first received this plant, he called it “‘Bassovia Rusbyz” (MS.), but I could not admit it to that genus, because of its anther-characters, now seen to be the same as those of the plants above discussed. My ‘+S. Lindent?” (Mem. Torrey Club 6:88) is so close to the last-named that it may be only a variety of it. My ‘+S. clavatum” (i. c. 87) has the same anthers, as has “+.S. brevipedunculatum” (ante, page 421). There are other peculiarities in which all the plants above named agree. They have scorpioid pseudo-racemes, the rachis nodose with the pedicel- bases of the fallen flowers. However different the foliage of the species, there is also a similarity, indescribable perhaps, but be- speaking relationship. There is a very strong similarity between these plants and the genus Bassovza, and one is inclined to regard them as forming a section of that genus, but the striking anther- characters appear to forbid this course. The other course is to regard them as forming a distinct genus. This is probably what I (470 ) shall do, but the subject requires more study than I can bestow upon it before publishing this paper. The puzzling and contradictory characters of the Bassovia— Brachistus group have led me into other errors, and I must now make the following admissio Bassovia Fendlert Rusby “(Bull. Torrey Club 26: 197) is Bra- chistus Fendleri. Bassovia inaeguilatera Rusby (Mem. Torrey Club 6:90), as to Bang 1708, but probably not Rusby 765, is Brachistus inaequilaterus. In the genus MiconiA, in the present paper, are several unfor- tunate typographical errors in the citation of collection-numbers. These should be corrected as follows: Page 357. M.corpata. (Vos. 1995 and 2786.) M. GLoMULIFERA. (JVo. 2856.) M. cranuLosa. (Vo. 2485.) M. MACROPHYLLA. (Vo. 2670.) M. MINUTIFLORA. (JVo. 2273.) M. THEAEZANS SUBTRIPLINERVIA. (Vo. 2299.) Page 358. Page 359. INDEX [Names of genera in italic.] Abatia, 362 chyrocline, 387, 388 yrocoma, 146, 164, 165 h 2 chyrophorus, cicarpha, 375 Mae s = a a. er 467 ystigma, 410 merican Sedge Algae, New, 128 A mphilophiun 428 mphistelm m0, ree ne, 3 nguria, 304 Aniba, Annual “Members, a 1904, 98 nnua e Reports noda, 32 nomostephium, 126 nthericum, 460 Doha As fs Ak Da Bs > S 88 S tUS. Archaeotithothamnion, 128, 129, 135 Pad 3 oe 305, Coralline ee New American, 128 Cordia, 31 Cc Coursetia, 343 Coussarea, 312, 372 ‘ox, C. F. Report of the Treas- for 1904, 110 44 Capen nn 361 Curator of the Economic Collec- Report, for 1904, 48 ace Ae the Museums and Her a Report, for 1904, 35 Cyath Cytlanthere: te Ce ee 422, 469 Dalechampia, 445 ra, 425 Desmoscelis, 354 Diazeuxia, 164 Dichondra, | 415 I Dickso Di Tora 366 Diolena, D ea, 320, 459, 460 eae 315, 409 Diplodia y iplostephin, 5 ae tant. Report, for 1904, Dike wsin-chiee Report, for 1904, Distrept Ditassia, 316, 411, 412 Dolicholus, 119, 346 Dolichos, Doliocarpus, 320 Dondia, 13 Drain 6, 83 Drepanocarpus, 347 Dryopteris, Duranta, 432, 433 Duvaua, 342 Echinodorus, 115 Echinops, 242 Echites, 315, 409 Eclipta, 3 Economic Collections. Report of urator, for 1904, 48 c Museum, 37, 48 ae Eleagia, reer sis, 238 Elephantopus, 144, 146-148, 155, 237-2 E jepnainoets 238 nts Col- Enumeration of the Plan i Miguel lected in Bolivia by ang, 309 Epidendrum, 116, 451, 452 (474) Epilobium, ee Epistephium, Equisetum, as, Erechtites, remanthus, os 148, I Eremosis, 146-148, oe "65, 227- a 464 Erigeron, ce 385 Eriobotrya, 352 riope » 319 Ethulia, 145, 155, 156 Eulithophyllum, 132, 133 ta, 448 Eupatorium, 125, 186, 197, 201, 236, I, 392 Bede during 1904, 86 Exploration, 12 Fagelia, 427 137 Flotovia, 39 Fluckigeria, 317 lie, ee and Howe, M. A. New merican Gorlline Algae, 18 Foss il Plant Museum, 40 8% Fucus, 251 Galactia, 344 Galeondra, 453 Galium, 374 Gaultnerie, 313, 405 Gaya, 328 Gentiana, 149, 316, 413 336 Geranium, 310, ohne a 427 Gesneria, 428 Glen, H. A. A Revision of the a rth American Vernonieae, Ginn 465 Gnaphalium, 387 ees 457 Gynoxts, 307, 39 Gyrostachys, 453 oe 454 apalopilus, 24 Haplostephivm, 145 Hariota, Hed Cae Report, for 1904, 71 Hebanthe, 435 Hedysarum, 343, 344 Heliconta, 456 cteres, 310, 331 Heliocarpus, 332 Heliotropium, 122, 414 s Grounds, 71 Herbaria, 11, 35, 41, tbarium. Report of the Curator, = Heterospermum, 389 Hexagona, 23 (475) Hibiscus, 120 d Fosl “ A yptis Ibervillea, 29, 30 ', 120, 339 Indigofera, 343 J 50 inonotus, 24 nvestigations, 15, 28, 44, 80 16, 415 f L7TeS: J schnotiphon, 455 Isertia, J sochilus, or fsoetes, 251 Jacaranda, 42 ve Jur , 401 J secs oon 430 Kohlerianthus, 317 Laboratories, 12, 27 Lachnorhiza, ee —148, 154, 160, 161, 16 ge 447 actuca, 127 aa eee 145 Lamprothamnus, 252, 253 431 Leiboldia, 146, "ae 154, 161-165 Leipheimos Sy epidaploa, 164-168, J d d d Lectures, I2, d d L ae M. New oe ee 128 174, 176, d 188, 190, 192, 197, 202, 227 mM, 322 Lepidiu Leprocaulon, 468 jaa ea Se be < ey ad Se ea Se Se Sa oh eC g ress 8 2 ty SEQ? 2g4 aa un S 6 be Bape Se8 <2 of eel Members, for 1904, 38 st of Exchanges, for 1904, 35, 52 st of Fellows, st of St udents, for 1904, 28 thophyllum, 128, 131-13 i iL al all Gn GE GE GE § wn MacDougal, thothamnion, ae I en 3 341 132, 135, ae 145 ry gistun D. T. Report of the Assistant Director, for 1904, 18 achaerium 47 paea, 316 . 4 » 24 feces 408 iv 28 Reg hk ak Rate RAY AL AL A AY ARQ AQ ES ae i=] a 3s a arsilea, 137 (476 ) Masdevallia, 453 Neodryas, 453 Matayba, 341 New American Coralline Algae, tihewsia, 322 12 Moasxillaria, 454 Nican yepia, 314 Nicotiana, 317, Maytenus, 140, 339 terembergia, 426 Mecardonia, Nutella, 245, 252, 253, a Metbomia, 3 Nitellopsis, 252, 253, Melastoma, “54 358, 360 Nonatelia, 371 Melochia, North America, The Characeae of, Melothria en Members, 9 North American ae? 144 Mentzelia, 312 eee die 320, 467 Mesosphaerium, 433, 434 Nurseries, 77 Mespilus, 352 Nee 138 Metastelma, 142, 143, 411 Meteorological Observations, 26 Ocimum, Miconia, 357-360, 470 Ocotea, ae ao 439 Microcala, 413 Octomeria, 452, 453 Micromeria, 434 ontoglossum, 454 Microste 13 Ocenot on Mikania, 377, 381, 382 tospermum Mimosa, 348, 349 . aaa tae ee 147, 148, 154, 230, Mimulus, 427 236 Mimusops, 121 Oncidi uM 52 Mionandra, 310 eos 312, 381 Mitracarpum, 374 Opuntia, 75, 141, 142, 365 Mitrula, 468 Oreopanax, Mohlana, 436 Oreosciadium, 366 Molina, 386 Ornithidium, 449 Mollinedia, 438 Orthopappus, 145, 148, 155, 237, ordica, 36. 23 Monanthemum, 158 ssaea, 361 Monnina, 323, 324 steomeles, 353 Monosis a 1Sia, Moquini wxalis, 336, M omphologeal Garden, 71 Oxypetalum, 411 Morus, 446 axypolis, 31 Mougeot, oe wxystelma, 315, 411 Msuata, 1 Museum ‘Building, 20 Pacourina, 146, 148, 154, 156 Museums, II, 35 Pac courinopsi 156 Museums, Report of the Curator, Palicourea, ae 371 for 1904, 35 Panax, 6 Myrcia, 354 Panopsis, Myrica, Paranephelius, 391 Myriocarp Parkinsonia, 138 Myriophyllon, 251 Parmelia, 4 Myroxylon, 1 Paronychia, Myrsine, 405 Parthenocissus, 14 Myrtus, 354 Passiflora, 120, es 363 : Paths, , Sr Natas, 251 Patrons, 95 Nash, G. V. Report of the Head Gardener, for 1904, 71 Native Plants, Preservataion of, 17 Neciandra, 440 Neea, 435 Bien ae 116, 448 (477) ieee 115, 44 pellea, 320 Peperomia, 7 318, 437, 438 Perdicium, naseolus, 345 ee 4 teris, 466 ib rae. 4II tilodendron, 461 Ioan A eeLatiaclavlaclac tac lac lacs tactic lac) SSS SSS ws LYYNIUML, 455 yllanthus, 443 3 hel Re RoR RR ky per, 8, “97 447 ptadenia a ne 146, 154, 158-160 ptocoma, ie 154, 235, 236 ptolepis, sonia, a ‘8s tcair thecolobim, a 349 thecoser ant Pic ture “ Callection 36 antago, 7 ay Planting, 8 nts Collected in Bolivia by > Miguel Bang, 309 Platycert um, 320 atymiscium, 320 145 Ple oo ‘449, 450 ee Pluvia oe Poecilochroma, 422-424 d 3 d fest a Ra kK FE SESS SSeS Se Se SS a hy olygonum, 137, 430 Polylepis, 312 Polymnia, 380 Polypodium, 466, 467 um, 4 othos, 462 ower ease: 22, 81 Preserva: 448 on of Native Plants, 17 77 oe Houses, 22, Proteopsis, 145 Proustia, 190 peanke 351 Pseudelephantopus, 146, 148, 155, 241, 242 eris, 405 Pterocarpus, 348 Public Lectures, 12, 24 Publications, 23 Pycnoporus, 24 Quarry, 84 Quinchamalium, 441 Ramalina, 468 Randia 368 Ranunculus, 320 Report 2 , he Assistant Director, 18 of te aes on Pa- trons, re and Members, for park Report 1904 Report 190. Report I Bere ee 19 oe ae Cis of the Eco- mic Collections, oe 1904, 48 2 the Curator the Mu- d Hera arium, for 35 of the Head Gardener, for 4, 71 of the Librarian, for 1904, of the Scientific Directors, r 1904, 92 of the Secretary and Di- f rector-in-Chief, for 1904, I Report Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, for 1904, 81 Report of the Treasurer, for 1904, if search Scholarships, 16 Restrepia a, 449 R gis a nae ee American Rigeaid a ot Rhamnus, 340, 446 (478) Rhizophora, 130 tbes. Romellia. R 429 n Enumeration of the Plants Collected in Bolivia by Miguel +3 Report of the Hen notary Curato ce ea Collecti one » 4 Ruane 413 Ruyschia, 327 Sabbatia, 121 365 che soy ot Expenditures during Schilling, F, A. Report of the perintendent of Buildings aa Gr 467 7 chmidelia, 139, 341 ch ubertia, an I TOATAL B38 adopt, 366 Discrers Report, for 1904 ‘ nears 362 coparia, 427 eee Eaore for 1904, I A erjania, 340, 341 Serratula, 146, 218, 220 Sesia, 2 Siparund, 18, 439 Siphocampylus, 402, 403 Sipolisia, 1 145 Sisymbriu Suyrnchian BSA 319, 458 K. port of ee aoe ape barium, for 1904, 35 60 pinnae oe 317, 415-422, 469 olidago, 8 in} rg35 a I a 155, 156 374 89 racantha, 144, 146, 149, 155, 243 42 v t wp Oo , 22 Stachytarpheta, 432 44 Stanhopea, tatice, 142 telis, 450, Stemmodontia, 126 Stemonacanthus, tenoptera, 449 A pea ena 461, 462 Stereocaulon, 468 Stevia, 377 Sticta, 468 PS tigmaphyllon, 334 Stilpnopappus, 145 Stokesia, 145-147, 154, 237 Struchium, 146, 154. Struthanthus, 440 apes eee in Research, 904, Sic 441 oe 344 Styraxr Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Report, for 1904, 81 (479) Suprago, 164, 165 Symbolanthus, 316 System m, 38 Systematic Pisneiica 71 T Fafallaea, 438 ee Sy . Be 356 T lands, a i 458 d oe rolypella, 245, 252, 253, 209, 304 T rolypellopsis, 252, 273 ragia, 444 ‘2 445 Treasurer. Report, for 1904, I10 = Trichomanes, 465 Trichopila, 448 rid 390 rifolium, IIQ, 343 Prigonia, 324, 325 Trigynaea, 321 Prints rropa » 336 [Tropical Laboratory, 28 Turpinia, 227, 229 Turritis, 322 Report of the for 1904, Underwood, M. Sci bac a 92 Urceolaria, oe se xe Ut tear oo Uvifera Vail, ? ee = the Li- brarian, for 190. Vaiha, 316, 412 Valervana, 312, 375 nilesmopss, 145, 148 aa, Bus on Verbesina, 312, 389 Vy a 144-148, 150, 152-154, 1-234, 312, 375-377 Vee North American, 144 Voyria, 316 Wahlenbergia, 404 Supply, 7. 84 Wissadula, 328, 329 Xylosma, 141, 323 Xyris, 460 Zanthoxylum, 337 Zephyra, 458 Zycoictiles. 453