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long as the tube or even longer. Chomelia brachyloba is also related to C. filipes Benth., 
described from Nicaragua, but that species is described as having smaller, fewer 
flowers, shorter peduncles, and different pubescence. To the present species is prob- 
ably to be referred Seemann’s no. 341, collected near Panama City and reported by 
Hemsley as C. tenuiflora. 
Cosmibuena ovalis Standley, sp. nov. 
Young branches stout, somewhat fleshy, pale brown; petioles 15 to 25 mm. long; 
leaf blades oval to broadly oval-obovate, 10 to 14 cm. long, 6 to 8 cm. broad, rounded 
at the apex, the extreme tip abruptly acute, coriaceous, lustrous above, paler beneath, 
with 5 to 8 veins on each side, these distant, not conspicuous; inflorescence terminal, 
5-flowered; ovary oblong, 12 mm. long, contracted into a stipe of the same or slightly 
greater length; calyx cylindric, 11 mm. long, with 5 very short, broadly triangular, 
acute teeth; corolla tube 6 to 7 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 mm, in diameter; corolla lobes nar- 
rowly oblong, 25 to 32 mm. long, 9 to 11 mm. wide, rounded at the apex, with short 
rounded auricles at the base, papillose at the base and short-ciliate; anthers 15 mm. 
long, subsessile, attached near the base, obtuse, with 2 short appendages at the base; 
style 65 mm. long, villous above for halfits length, the stigma bilamellate, the lamellae 
thick, 5 to 6 mm. long; ovules with rather short, entire or nearly entire, hyaline ap- 
pendages. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 715202, collected in the vicinity of O14, 
Province of Coclé, Panama, altitude 100 to 350 meters, December 7 to 9, 1911, by H. 
Pittier (no. 5074). 
In general appearance this is similar to Cosmibuena macrocarpa, The venation of 
the leaves, however, is very different; the calyx is much larger; and the corolla is 
larger, with narrow lobes. It does not appear probable that the ovaries would ever 
develop into a fruit like that figured by Bentham. 
Here may belong a specimen in fruit, Pittier 3309, collected on cliffs along the 
Caldera River, between El Boquete and Caldera, Chiriqui. The mature fruit is cylin- 
dric and about 45 mm. long. 
Cosmibuena paludicola Standley, sp. nov. 
Small tree, 4 to 5 meters high, glabrous throughout; young branches thick and 
somewhat fleshy; stipules oblong-obovate, about 12 mm. long, rounded at the apex, 
deciduous, thick and leathery; petioles short, stout, 8 to 12 mm. long; leaf blades 
narrowly obovate to oblong-oblanceolate, 8 to 10 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, rounded 
at the apex, cuneate at the base, thick and leathery, with about 5 veins on each side, 
these distant, not conspicuous, anastomosing near the margin; inflorescence terminal, 
of about 5 flowers; ovary 12 to 14 mm. long, cylindric, contracted into a stout stipe 
of about the same length; calyx cylindric, circumscissile, 9 mm. long, cleft one-third 
to one-half the distance to the base, the teeth oblong-ovate, obtuse; corolla white, the 
tube 6 to 6.5 cm. long, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter, gradually dilated upward; corolla lobes 
narrowly oblong, 25 mm. long, 9 to 11 mm. wide, rounded at the apex; anthers sub- 
sessile, attached near the base, 17 mm. long, obtuse at the apex, with 2 slender append- 
ages at the base; style 65 mm. long, hirsute above; stigma bilamellate, the lamelle 
oblong, 10 mm long; ovules with long hyaline appendages. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 679204, collected in mangrove swamps, 
vicinity of Viento Frio, Province of Colén, Panama, August 7 and 8, 1911, by H. 
Pittier (no. 4107). 
Distinguished from all related species, including those of South America, by the 
combination of obtuse leaves and obtuse corolla lobes. The leaves are unlike those of 
any other species. The pubescence of the style, too, seems to be characteristic. The 
plant grows at a lower altitude than most of the species. 
Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 43. 1881, 
