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bus, circum tubo convolutis obtecta; antherae lobulorum 4 cm longae, 
helicoidalis. Pistillum 20 em longum; ovarium 4 mm longum, 5 mm 
diametro. 
Panama: High hills back of Puerto Obaldia, San Blas Coast; flowers 
August 31, 1911; Pittier 4322, type. 
Sterculiaceae. 
11. Theobroma Bernouillii Pittier, spec. nov. 
Arbor mediocris, ramulis dense stellato-villosis; foliis distichis, basi 
obliquis, trinerviis, petiolo brevi tereti, crasso, ferrugineo-villoso; lamina 
anguste elliptica, basi rotundata apice attenuata mox abrupte longe an- 
guste acuminata, supra glabra fere nitida subtus canescenti dense 
stellato-tomentosa; inflorescentia cauliflora, cymoso-fasciculata, multiflora; 
pedunculis pedicellisque brunneo-sericeis; calyce 5-lobo fere usque ad 
basin diviso, lobis ellipticis, navieuliformibus apice obtusis, extus pilis 
stellatis purpureis pilis glandulosis intermixtis dense obtecto, intus 
glabro incarnato; cucullo flavescente-incarnato 5-nervio (nervis purpureis) 
extus pubescente, ligula sessilis suborbiculata, incarnata; tubo stamineo 
quam cucullo duplo breviore, staminodiis lanceolatis, subacutis, obscure 
purpureis, extus basi minute pubescentibus, staminibus diantheriferis, 
pendulis; ovario ovoideo pubescenti; stilis glabris albis liberis, 
Arbor usque ad 15 m alta, 0,85 m trunci diametro, cortice griseo 
obtecta. Petiolus 4—10 mm longus; lamina 15—32 cm longa, 5—9 cm 
lata (acumen cay 2 cm longum). Inflorescentia secum tronco modo 
erumpens. Pedicelli 5-8 mm longi. Calyx 8—9,5 mm longus, laciniae 
3—3,5 mm latae. Petala circiter 9 mm longa; cucullus 5 mm longus 
4 mm latus, ligula 4 mm longa lataque. Tubus stamineus 2,5 mm 
longus; staminodia 6 mm longa, basi circa 2,5 mm lata, Ovarium 2,3 mm 
longum, 1,8 mm diametro; stili 1,6 mm longi. 
Panama: Loma de La Gloria, back of Fató, province of Colon, in 
forest; flowers August 4, 1911, Pittier 4105, type. 
Seems to be closely related to Theobroma bicolor Humb. et Bpld., 
differing mainly in the size and shape of the leaves and in the size of 
the flowers, The fruits, which I have not seen, are said to have a 
coriaceous pericarp. 
12. Theobroma purpureum Pittier, spec. nov. 
Arbuscula eramulosa, foliis stipulatis, 5-digitatis, tranci apicem con- 
&regatis; stipulis linearibus, acutis, atropurpureis, plus minusve stellato- 
villosis, valde caducis; petiolo longo crasso, sulcato plus minusve ferru- 
gineo-villoso; petiolulis brevibus crassis; foliolis petiolo subaequilongis 
obovato-oblongis, basi cuneatis, apice late obtuse acuminatis, venis supra 
et subtus stellato-villosis demum glabris, margine obscure sinuatis; in- 
llorescentia cauliflora, floribus 5—8-glomeratis; bracteis bracteolisque 
Parvis, angustis, navieuliformibus, extus villosis, intus glabris; pedun- 
Culis solitariis teretis villosis; calyce globoso, extus ferrugineo stellato- 
Villoso, intus purpureo-incarnato glabro, irregulariter 3-(raro)4-partito 
