Malvales novae Panamenses. 313 
losis. Stilus 15 mm longus. Capsula ca. 2 cm crassa, setis 4,5 cm 
longis munita; semina 1 cm longa. 
Panama: Along Rio Fató, province of Colon; flowers and fruits, 
July 9, 1911, Pittier 3919, type. 
Species conspicuous for its large leaves, apparently intermediate 
between the other large-leaved forms, to which it is likened by the 
details of the inflorescence, the small-leaved species, with which it has 
in common the long apiculate stamens, and the group of S. guianensis, 
characterized also by having 4—5-fid styles and 5—6 sepals. 
Tiliaceae. 
3. Belotia panamensis Pittier, spec. nov. 
Ramulis novellis ferrugineo-tomentosis; stipulis lineari-acuminatis 
villosis deciduis petiolo subaequilongis; petiolo tereti villoso; laminis 
3-nerviis serratis ellipticis basi rotundatis longe acuminatis, supra sub- 
glabris subtus primum nervis villosis exceptis cano-tomentosis, demum 
sparse stellato-pubescentibus; inflorescentia cymosa axillari 1— 3-flora, 
pedunculis  pedicellisque villosis; sepalis 5-nervibus ovato-lanceolatis 
apice subacutis extus pubescentibus intus purpurascentibus; petalis obo- 
vato-oblongis purpureis apice late rotundatis subbilobis intus ad basin 
cireum glandula villosis et caeterum glabris; staminibus 15 brevibus, an- 
theris ovalibus; ovario ovoideo pilis longis erectis rigidis dense obtecto; 
sügmate  papilloso; capsula depressa, extus brunneo-villosa 2-loculari 
loculis 5— 8-spermis; semina brunnea ovata complanata. 
Arbor 4—10 m alta, cortice griseo. Stipulae circiter 1 cm longae. 
Petiolum 1—2 em longum; lamina 7—20 cm longa, 2,5—9 cm lata, mar- 
£ine serrata. Pedicelli 6 mm longi. Sepala 7,5—8 mm longa, 3 mm 
lata. Petala 7 mm longa, 2,2 mm lata. Gynophorium brevissimum 
(0,9 mm longum), apice latum (3 mm diam.). Pistillum fere 5 mm lon- 
gum, stilo ca, 2 mm longo. Capsula 14 mm longa, 20 mm lata; semina 
3 mm longa, 2,2 mm lata, pilis marginalibus 2,5 mm longis. 
Panama: Along Masambi River, Canal Zone; flowers Jan. 29, 1911, 
Pittier 2584, type; above Gorgona Reservoir, Canal Zone, fruits 
February 10, 1911, Maxon 4736 in U. S. Nat. Herb.; around Cana, 
southern Darien; fruits, May 1908, Williams 772 (U, S. Nat. Herb.). 
Differs from Belotia mexicana Schum. and B. insignis Baillon, by its 
scantier pubescence, the flowers only 1—3 together in axillary cymes, 
and by the size and shape of the floral parts. 
Goethalsia gen. nov. Tiliacearum. 
Flores 5-meri. Sepala late linearia. Petala unguiculata, subauri- 
culata, gibbosa, sepala dimidio breviora, unguiculo glanduloso. Gyno- 
Phorium breve, urceolo sinuato-lobato. Stamina 24 (25), basi interdum 
leviter connata; filamenta inaequalia; antherae globosae, didymae, dorsi- 
fixae, dehiscentia rimosa. Pistillum 3(—5)-carpidiatum; loculi tot quot 
carpidia, 4-ovulati; ovula anatropa, ascendentía angulo interno affixa; 
Stylus simplex, tenuis, glaber, apice minute 3-fidus. Fructus 3-alatus, 
