This beautiful shrubby species of Prunus from the highland area of central Colombia has been introduced to cultivation in the gardens of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales of the Universidad Nacional in Bogota. We believe that it is worthy of more generalized use as an ornamental in regions appropriate for its growth. We take great pleasure in naming this species in honour of His Excellency, Dr. Belisario Betancur, President of the Republic of Colombia, in recognition of his long interest in the furtherance of investigations in the natural sciences in his country.
A systematic revision of the genus Lepechinia which consists of 36 species has recently been completed by me.Most of the species are native to tropical and subtropical highlands of Latin America with the exception of four species which occur in California, U.S.A.While visiting the Ecuadorian highlands during my last collecting trip, around Vilcabamba I came upon another, yet undescribed species.The flowers of this new plants appear to be rather small when compared with the other members of the Section Parviflorae, which is restricted to andean South America, where these new plants belong.As a matter of fact, the size of the corollas, as noted, are the smallest in the entire genus.The plants are dioecious; the female (pistillate) flowers have somewhat larger calyces and smaller corollas than do the male (staminate) flowers.
This is the last paper of a series which pertains to lamina anatomy in the Cyclanthaceae (Wilder, in press a, b, c, d).Each paper is based on the same fifty-three species and ten genera of the family.Collection localities have been listed (Tomlinson and Wilder, 1984).The present paper includes tables which document findings in all previous papers of the series.Tables are organized into four groups representing paper nos./-/V of the series, respectively.Each group of tables is introduced by a synopsis of the paper which it represents.*In parentheses are indicated number of fiber strands observed.**In parentheses are indicated number of fiber strand pairs observed.
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