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164 FIELDIANA: BOTANY, VOLUME 28<br />

of Peru. From the former it differs in the sheaths of the petioles<br />

extending all the way to the junction with the blade, the callus portion<br />

at the base of the blade not pubescent, the more rounded base<br />

of the leaf blades, the glabrate bracts, and the smaller flowers.<br />

Ischnosiphon Lasseriana Steyermark, sp. nov.<br />

Herba erecta stricta; caulibus minute verruculoso-tuberculatis,<br />

supra medium 0.5 cm. crassis; petiolis ad articulum vaginatis, articulo<br />

7-9 mm. longo plerumque glabro, vaginis 6-6.5 cm. longis,<br />

glabris; laminis inaequilateralibus utrinque viridibus ovatis acuminatis,<br />

basi rotundatis, 8.5-13 cm. longis, 2.8-3.8 cm. latis, glabris;<br />

racemis solitariis.<br />

Type in herb. Chi. Nat. Hist. Mus., collected in lower portion of<br />

Quebrada O-paru-ma, tributary of Rio Pacairao, below Santa Teresita<br />

de Kavanayen, state of Bolivar, alt. 915-1065 m., November 15, 1944,<br />

Julian A, Steyermark 60557,<br />

Local name:<br />

"Curarima-yek".<br />

This species is related to /. surinamensis (Miq.) Koernicke of the<br />

Guianas and Brazil, and to / verruculosus Macbr. of Peru. In its<br />

solitary spikes it resembles the former, but differs from that chiefly<br />

in the verruculose stems, while from the latter it<br />

may be distinquished<br />

by the smaller leaves, and by the more finely verruculose<br />

stems, the projections being closer together and less conspicuously<br />

raised above the surface of the stem.<br />

Monotagma duidae Steyermark, sp. nov.<br />

Herba erecta metralis; foliis longe petiolatis, articulo subtereti<br />

0.8-6.5 cm. longo, glabro vel pubescenti; vaginis basi vel interdum<br />

superne dense strigillosis; laminis infra cinereo-viridibus interdum<br />

atro-viridibus lineatis, inaequilateralibus ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis<br />

basi obtusis, 32-45 cm. longis, 11-15 cm. latis, supra ad<br />

costam raediam plus minusve dense hirtello-pubescentibus, interdum<br />

ad superficiam leviter puberulis, aliter glabris; inflorescentia terminal!,<br />

folio frondoso suffulta; paniculis congestis ovoideis vel ovatoellipticis,<br />

10-13 cm. longis, 6-8 cm. latis; bracteis subcoriaceis<br />

pallid o-viridibus vel cupreis suffusis, 2.2-2.4 cm. longis, strigillosis;<br />

floribus blancis, roseo-suffusis; bracteolis membranaceis ovatolanceolatis<br />

subacutis, 7 mm. longis; sepalis lineari-spatulatis,<br />

obtusis 5 mm. longis, 1 mm. latis; corollae tubo 1.5-2 cm. longo;<br />

lobis 5-6 mm. longis, 3 mm. latis, lobo exteriori anguste spatulato,<br />

7 mm. longo; staminodio exteriori calloso 4 mm. longo; a nth era late<br />

obovato-oblonga;<br />

filamento late linear!.<br />

Type in herb. Chi. Nat. Hist. Mus., collected in second woodland<br />

after crossing Esmeralda Ridge on way to Duida, between Esmeralda<br />

Savana and southeastern base of Cerro Duida, Territorio Federal<br />

Amazonas, alt. 200 m., August 22, 1944, Julian A. Steyermark 57807,<br />

"leaves in rosette from cluster on stems; staminodia pale rose at

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