19^7 Monachino, New Species of Daphnopele 21^ sparsely hispidulous; only female flowers seen, 6 — 12 in um-belloid racemes at the ends of short (6 — 1^ nim, long) simple peduncles; pedicels up to about 1.5 mm» long, articulate near the apex; calyx campanulate, about 2.5 mm. long, glab-rescent or sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous inside, the calyx-lobes reflexed, rounded, about 1.5 mm. long and slightly broader, pubescent on the inner surface and with a tuft of hairs at the apex; staminodes and rudimentary petals none; ovary glabrous, about 1.5 mm. long; style 0.8 mm. long; stigina capitate and densely papillose, exserted from the calyx; disk conspicuous, orateriform, oblique, irregu-larly lobed, glabrous. Type: Reinaldo Sspinosa 205 , collected at Namanola, alt. 2^00 — 2500 m., southern Loja, Ecuador, April 18, 19^, de-posited in the Britton Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden. The type specimen consists of young leaves and flowers. The following matured flowering specimen has also been examined J Reinaldo Sspinosa s^n. [Herb. Krukoff 198A8] from the type locality, received in February, 194?. Daphnopsia Sspinosae has affinity with D^ zamorensis Domke, the type of which was collected at Zamora, Loja. D. zamorensis , however, is described as having leaves about 18 to 27 cm. long and 5.5 to 8 cm. broad, petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long and 0.^ to 0.4 cm. broad, end inflorescences 8 cm* long. The much smaller leaf and inflorescence size of D. Espinosae is an obvious means of distinguishing it from D. zamorensis . From other species found in Ecuador and Peru — D. loranthifolia , P. caribaee var. ecuadoriensis , D. carib-aea var. peruviensie , D. Weberbauerj , and D*;^ Pavonii — the present species is easily distinguished by its entirely glabrous leaves and by other characters. NOTES ON NEW AND NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. I Harold N. Moldenke The present paper is the first in a series of notes on plants of various parts of the world, based in part on field studies and in part on herbarium studies in the her-barium of the New York Botanical Garden and elsewhere. Numerous new species, varieties, forms, and hybrids will be described and several new names and combinations pro-posed. Abbreviations used herein for the names of herbaria in which cited specimens are deposited are in conformity with my previous publications, but for the convenience of
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