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mm. long, cinereous-puberulent; leaf blades oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 
12 to 17 cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. wide, abruptly short-acuminate, the obtuse tip 10 
to 18 mm. long, attenuate to the base, shining and glabrous on the upper sur- 
face, dull beneath and hirtellous or puberulent along the veins, these prominent, 
9 to 12 on each side; cymes sessile or nearly so, branched, many-flowered, the 
branches very stout, glabrate; bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, connate at the 
base; pedicels 3 to 7 mm. long; calyx and ovary together broadly campanulate, 
5 to 9 mm. high, 6 to 9 mm. broad, glabrous, the truncate limb of the calyx with 
5 minute and inconspicuous teeth; corolla tube 11 mm, long, gradually widening 
upward, glabrous outside for 8 mm. above the base, elsewhere densely pubescent 
with long tawny appressed hairs, long-bearded within; corolla lobes spreading, 
15 mm. long, oblong-obovate or oval, rounded at the apex, densely sericeous 
outside, bearded on the lower half, especially along and near the midnerve; 
anthers subsessile, 15 mm. long, linear; style and stigma together 22 mm. long, 
the former papillose and bearded near the apex; fruit not seen. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 577586, collected near Boca Mata- 
palo, Pacific coastal belt, Costa Rica, at sea level, April 10, 1898, by H. Pittier 
(Inst. Fis. Geogr. Costa Rica, no. 12085). Corolla yellowish white; native name, 
jagua. 
This differs from both Genipa americana and G. caruto in the short, broad 
calyx, as well as in the form of the bracts. The leaves are not densely pubescent 
beneath, as in the second species, nor glabrous, as in G. americana, 
Cosmibuena arborea Standley, sp. nov. 
A tree, 8 to 12 meters high, glabrous throughout; young branches stout, 
somewhat fleshy, grayish brown; stipules not seen; petioles 20 to 25 mm. long; 
leaf blades elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblong, 9 to 11 cm. long, 42 to 56 mm. 
wide, thick and leathery, shining on the upper surface, rounded at the apex, 
cuneate or broadly cuneate at the base, with 7 to 9 parallel veins on each side, 
these not conspicuous; inflorescence terminal, of about 5 sessile flowers; stipules 
ovate or rounded-ovate, 10 te 15 mm. long, obtuse, thin; ovary oblong, about 
12 mm. long, contracted into a stout stipe as long or longer; calyx cylindric, 
10 to 18 mm. long, cleft two-fifths the distance to the base, the teeth somewhat 
unequal, oblong-triangular, acute, the whole calyx circumscissile, glandular 
within near the base; corolla tube slender, 6 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. in 
diameter, gradually dilated toward the throat; corolla lobes 5, narrowly ob- 
long, obtuse, 25 to 30 mm. long, 8 to 11 mm. wide, yellowish white; anthers 
sessile or nearly so, attached near the base, 2 cm. long, mucronate at the 
apex, with 2 short appendages at the base; style about 65 mm. long; stigma 
bilamellate; ovules numerous, winged, the wings laciniate. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 551184, collected near Espejuelo, 
Cauca Valley, State of Cauca, Colombia, altitude 1,000 meters, January, 1900, 
by H. Pittier (no. 985). 
Flowers very fragrant. 
Related to Cosmibuena trifiora as closely as to any species, but readily dis- 
tinguished by the narrow corolla lobes, very obtuse leaves with longer petioles, 
and longer calyces. 
