4. Mendoncia pedunculata Leonard Mendoncia pedunculata Leonard, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 21: 150. 1931. Type collected in forest at Mishuyacu, near Iquitos, Peru, 100 meters altitude, December 13, 1929, by G. Klug, No. 659 (U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1455658). Stem terete, sulcate, sparingly puberulent toward tip, the hairs appressed; leaf blades elliptic, 10 to 16 cm. long, 6 to 10 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate at apex and tipped by a muero 1 to 2 mm. long, obtuse at base and decurrent on the petiole, glabrous; petioles 2 to 3 cm. long, glabrous; flowers 1 to 4, borne on axillary peduncles up to 2.5 cm. long, these and the pedicels (5 to 7 mm. long) minutely appressed-pubescent; bracts violet (Klug), oblong, 4 cm. long, 1.4 to 1.8 cm. wide, rounded at both ends, tipped by a short mucro, incon- spicuously and minutely appressed-pubescent without, glabrous within; corolla white, marked by reddish brown within, glabrous, 5 to 6 cm. long, the tube curved, 2.5 cm, long, the throat 1 cm. broad, the limb 3 cm. wide, the lobes oval, 1 to 1.5 cm. long; style about 5 cm. long; ovary sparingly puberulous; fruit not seen. The specimens cited were collected during January and February.

Forests of the lower mountain slopes from 100 to 325 meters. Peru and southern Colombia. PUTUMAYO: Umbría, Klug 1918 (Mo, NY, US). VAUPÉS: Miraflores, Gutiérrez & Schultes 789 (Ch, GH).