3. Mendoncia lindavii Rusby Mendoncia lindavii Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 241, 1895. Type collected at Yungas, Bolivia, 1890, by Miguel Bang, No. 532. Isotype in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 942655. Paratypes are also in the U. S. National Herbarium, Nos. 58334 and 942656, both collected at Tipuani-Guanai, Bo- livia, by Miguel Bang, No. 1707. The species was named for Gustav Lindau, a specialist on the family Acanthaceae. A suffrutescent vine; branches ferruginous-pilose or glabrescent; leaf blades ovate to broadly oval, 5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 5.5 cm. wide, acuminate at apex, and usually terminating in a small awnlike tip up to 5 mm. long, rounded at the base, firm, subcoriaceous, ciliate, the upper surface papillose, scabrous-pilose, the hairs appressed or ascend- ing, arising from stellate bases, the lower surface ferruginous-pilose, often densely so and velvety to the touch; pedicels stout, 2 to 3 cm. long, ferruginous-pilose; bracts oblong-lanceolate, falcate or subfalcate, 3 to 4 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, acuminate at apex, usually ending in an awnlike tip 2 to 3 cm. long, rounded at base, partly connate, densely ferruginous-pilose; corolla red or pink, paler within and proximally without, 4 to 5 cm. long, 6 to 7 mm. broad at throat, the lobes rounded, 4 to 5 mm. long; style 4 cm. long, glabrous above, the lower portion hispid; drupe oblong-ovate, about 2 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, oblique at apex and tipped by a portion of the persistent style, densely brown puberulous.

Usually found in damp situations along streams in thickets and forests of the lower mountain slopes from 100 to 1,400 meters altitude. The corollas are red or bright scarlet and the ripe drupes purple black (Pennell 1397). Bolivia, north to British Honduras and Guatemala. BOYACA: Region of Mount Chapón, northwest of Bogotá, Lawrance 69 (Mo, NY, US). CUNDINAMARCA: Along the road to Pacho on the Río Murca, vicinity of La Palma, García-Barriga 12394 (US). META: Llanos de San Martín, near Villavicencio, Dawe 229 (US). Menegua, García-Barriga 5304 (US). Along the Río Ocoa, southeast of Villavicencio, Killip 34377 (US). Villavicencio, Helen Schiefer 790 (GH, NY); Pennell 1397 (NY), 1475 (NY). SANTANDER: Between the Río Carare and Magdalena, in the vicinity of Puerto Berrío, Haught 1821 (US). "Kilometer 16" between Puerto Wilches and Puerto Santos, Killip & Smith 14895 (US). WITHOUT DEFINITE LOCALITY: Mutis 894 (US); 924 (US).