2. Mendoncia pilosa (Mart.) Nees Mendozia pilosa Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 21. pl. 209. 1829. Type collected by Martius. Type locality: "In sylvia aboriginibus fluvium Japura inum- brantibus, e. g. prope Manacuru Indorum Juri habitationes, et prope Porto dos Miranhas," Colombia. Photograph of type material (Munich Herbar- ium) in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 20540. The specific name was suggested by the numerous long spreading hairs covering the stems, leaves, peduncles, and bracts, Mendoncia pilosa Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 50. 1847. Based on Mendozia pilosa Mart.

Small suffrutescent vine; stems terete, densely pilose, the hairs brownish, spreading, up to 5 mm. long; leaf blades ovate to oblong, up to 12 cm. long and 6.5 cm. wide, slenderly acuminate, often mucronate, the mucro up to 5 mm. long, rounded, obtuse or acutish at base, entire or shallowly sinuate-dentate, thin, ciliate, pilose on both surfaces, the hairs arising from star-shaped bases, the costa and lateral veins (5 or 6 pairs) fairly prominent; petioles up to 2 cm. long, densely pilose, the hairs brown, spreading; flowers solitary or in pairs, borne in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels up to 4.5 cm. long, 2 to 3 mm. broad at tip, tapering towards a slender base, densely brown pilose; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 3 to 4 cm. long, up to 7 mm. wide, acute and often slenderly mucronate at apex, rounded at base, more or less subfalcate, densely brown pilose without, glabrous within; corolla bright red, glabrous, 4 to 5 cm. long, the tube slender, 5 to 6 mm. broad at throat, the lobes erect-spreading, obovate, about 6 mm. long and 3 to 4 mm. wide, rounded or shallowly emarginate; style and calyx glabrous; fruit (immature) finely pilosulous. Cuatrecasas' specimen was taken April 4, 1940, from a flowering plant growing in forests between 1,000 and 1,300 meters altitude. The corolla was a livid red (rojo cárdena). Forests of southern Colombia and northwestern Brazil. CAQUETA: Sucre, Cuatrecasas 9064 (US).