Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . e; fruit unknown. Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected in forest,Cascada Chorron, south of Antizales, Department of Bolivar, alt. 2,400-2,800meters, February 25, 1918, by F. W. Pennell (No. 4387). NO. 3 COLOMBIAN SPECIES OF MONNINA—FERREYRA 29 Additional specimen examined: Bolivar: Below Paramo de Chaquiro, Cordillera Occidental, Pcnnell 4298(NY). Distribution : Andes of northwestern Colombia, between 2,400and 3,100 meters altitude. This new species is characterized by its glabrous habit, its oblanceo-late, revolute leaves wi
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . e; fruit unknown. Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected in forest,Cascada Chorron, south of Antizales, Department of Bolivar, alt. 2,400-2,800meters, February 25, 1918, by F. W. Pennell (No. 4387). NO. 3 COLOMBIAN SPECIES OF MONNINA—FERREYRA 29 Additional specimen examined: Bolivar: Below Paramo de Chaquiro, Cordillera Occidental, Pcnnell 4298(NY). Distribution : Andes of northwestern Colombia, between 2,400and 3,100 meters altitude. This new species is characterized by its glabrous habit, its oblanceo-late, revolute leaves with inconspicuous lateral veins, its oblanceolateflower-subtending bracts, and by having its lower sepals slightly is related to M. chlamydantha Ferreyra, from which it differsin its simple racemes, smaller leaves, glabrous flower-subtendingbracts, etc. 16. Monnina schultesii Ferreyra, sp. nov. Frutex M. ohtusifoliae affinis, foliis conspicue majoribuslamina ad 13 cm. longa acuta, racemis obtusis rhachi elongata ad 29. Fig. 16.—Monnina schultesii: Left to right, lower sepals, upper sepal, wing(inner), wing (outer), keel, upper petals and stamens, gynaecium, all X3;bract, X 2. cm. longa, bracteis florigeris filiformibus ad mm. longis, sepaloexteriore acuto, sepalis duobus inferioribus f connatis differt. Frutescent, branched, the branches 23-36 cm. long, 3-8 mm. indiameter, terete, glabrescent; leaves lanceolate (upper) or ovate-lan-ceolate (lower), 30-130 mm. long, 12-60 mm. wide, acute, sometimesmore or less acuminate, glabrous above, glabrescent beneath, entire,attenuate at base (upper) or almost truncate (lower), the costa prom-inulous beneath, with 8 or 9 pairs of lateral veins; petioles 2-6 , mm. in diameter, slightly concave above, convex beneath,glabrescent; racemes almost cylindric, obtuse, 8-10 mm. wide, simple,terminal or axillary, pedunculate (peduncle 4-50 mm. long), the cm. long, glabrescent, striate, bracteate, th
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