8. Mendoncia spraguei Turrill
Mendoncia spraguei Turrill, Kew Bull. 1919: 412. 1919. Type collected at Mocoa, Caquetá, Colombia, by Sprague, No. 402, and deposited in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Suffrutescent vine; stems terete, hirsute, the hairs spreading, yellow; leaf blades elliptic-ovate, up to 9 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, acuminate at apex, rounded or acute at base, pilose, the hairs of the upper surface arising from stellate bases; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, hirsute, the hairs spreading, yellow; flowers 1 to 3, axillary; pedicels 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, hirsute, the hairs yellow; bracts oblong or oblong-ovate, up to 3.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, abruptly contracted to a slender tip 5 mm. long at apex, rounded at base, hirsute, the hairs yellow; corolla up to 6 cm. long, the tube cylindric, curved, 5 mm, broad at base, 2.5 mm. at middle and 7 mm. at throat, the limb sublabiate; filaments short; anthers 9 to 10 mm. long, the basal lobes unequal, bearded; ovary minutely papil- lose; style up to 4.5 cm. long.
Known only from type material.
CAQUETA: Mocoa, Sprague 402 (isotype, US).