956 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
insertion of the stamens, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, imbricate in the bud; 
stamens didynamous, glabrous, the filaments 11 and 14.5 mm. long, the anther 
celis divaricate, elongate, 3.5 mm, long; disc cupuliform, about 1 mm. high; 
pistil 2.7 cm. long; ovary ovoid, about 2 mm. long, minutely pubescent; style 
sealy at the base; stigma lobes oblong, obtuse or acute. 
Capsule not known, 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 678125, collected in the vicinity of 
Penonomé, Province of Coclé, Panama, flowers, February 28 to March 22, 1908, 
by R. S. Williams (no, 522). 
Adenocalymna flos-ardeae Pittier, sp. nov. 
A vine; young branchlets terete, striate, scaly-canescent. 
Upper leaves submembranous, the leaflets conjugate; petioles and petiolules 
grayish scaly-pubescent, the former terete, 3 em. long, the latter narrowly 
canaliculate, 2 to 3 em. long; leaflet blades ovate-oblong, oblique, truncate or 
subemarginate and rounded at the base, obtuse, acute, or short-acuminate at 
the apex, 7 to 12 cm. long, 3.5 to 7 cm. broad, pilosulous on the costa, veins, 
and venules above, beneath prominently veined, reticulate, pubescent on the 
costa and veins, pilosulous on the venules, 5-veined at the base. 
Inflorescences axillary, racemose, the peduncles up to 2 cm. long, scaly- 
pubescent, often with a small leaf at the base of the raceme, the racemes very 
short, few-flowered ; bracts and bractlets linear, brownish-tomentellous, 3 to 5 
mm, long; pedicels slender, 5 to 7 mm, long, furfuraceous-hairy; calyx nar- 
rowly campanulate, 5-lobulate, 9 mm. long, valvate in estivation, tomentellous- 
pubeseent without, glabrous within; corolla tubular-funnelform, about 4 cm. 
long, yellowish white, minutely and sparsely scaly-pubescent without and on 
the inside of the lobes, glandular-hairy at the insertion of the stamens within, 
the narrow basal tube about 1 cm. long, the lobes short and rounded; stamens 
didynamous, glabrous, the filaments about 12 and 14 mm. long, the anther cells 
divaricate, 2.5 to 83 mm. long; staminode glabrous, short; disc pulvinate, about 
1 mm. high; pistil about 35 mm. Jong, the ovary oblong, 1.5 to 2 mm. long, 
2-suleate, scaly, the ovules numerous, 2-seriate in each cell; style glabrous; 
stigma lobes lanceolate. : 
Capsule not seen. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 678976, collected along Rio Faté6, 
Province of Col6én, Panama, in thickets, flowers, July 9, 1911, by H. Pittier 
(no, 8898). 
Known among the uatives as “bejuco de garza.’ This species apparently 
belongs to section Hanburyophyton Bur. & Schum., near A. laevigatwmn and 
A, asperulum Bur. & Schum., both from southern Brazil. 
Adenocalymna hosmeca Pittier, sp. nov. 
A vine, the bark grayish, the young branchlets herbaceous, glabrous. 
Upper leaves submembranous, glabrous, the petioles terete, 2.4 to 2.8 cm. 
long; leaflets conjugate, the petiolules 1.8 to 2 em. long, flattened above, the 
blades ovate, broadly rounded at the base, subacuminate and obtuse at the 
apex, 6 to 9.5 em. long, 5 to 6.5 em, broad, reticulate; tendrils slender, 3-fid 
at the apex, usually cnducous but sometimes persistent, thickened and ligneous, 
then branchless at the end. 
Inflorescences axillary, paniculate, benring a leaf at the base, the rachis 
trichotomous, glabrous; floral pedicels articulate, 0.5 to 1 em. long, bearing at 
the base 2 minute, hairy bractlets; calyx tubular, 8 mm. long or less, truncate, 
minutely and sparsely stellate, the margin ciliate, bearing 5 minute, remote 
teeth; corolla funnelform, 4.3 cm. long, pinkish white at the base, purplish on 
the lobes, glabrous without, glandular-pubescent within at the insertion of the 
