9. Mendoncia hirsuta (Poepp. & Endl.) Nees Mendozia hirsuta Poepp. & Endl, Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3:10. 1845. Type collected between Maynas and Yurimaguas, Peru, by Poeppig, No. 2252. Photographs of type material from the Berlin Herbarium (photo No. 5871) and from the Vienna Herbarium (photo No. 32694) are in the U. S. National Herbarium. Mendoncia hirsuta Nees in DC. Prodr. 11:52. 1847. Based on Mendozia hirsuta Poepp. & Endl. Stem subquadrangular, sparingly hirsute, the hairs 1 to 3 mm. long, spreading; leaf blades ovate to oblong-ovate or elliptic or sometimes sublanceolate, 6 to 14 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, gradually to abruptly narrowed to an acuminate tip, this often terminated by a mucro 1 to 3 mm. long, narrowed at base and decurrent on the petiole, membrana- ceous, hirsute, the hairs 1 to 2.5 mm. long, the costa and veins (3 or 4 pairs) prominent; petioles 1 to 3.5 cm. long, pilose; flowers solitary or in pairs; pedicels 2 to 3 cm. long, densely hirsute, the hairs spread- ing, tawny, about 2 mm. long; bracts oblong-elliptic to ovate, 2 to 2.8 cm. long, 8 to 12 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at apex, mucronate (mucro up to 1 cm, long), rounded at base, thin, veiny, long-hirsute, the hairs 3 to 5 mm. long; corolla cream white, tinged with yellow distally, about 2.5 cm. long; ovary and calyx glabrous; fruit oblong, 15 to 17 mm. long, 9 to 10 mm. broad, compressed, oblique, obtuse or rounded at tip, glabrous, deep purple when ripe. No Colombian specimens were examined. Turrill cites" a speci- men collected at Naranjo, lower Magdalena River, by André. The Guianas, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia.