applicable (‘‘non satis congruens.”) I suppose that he 
overlooked the decurved or drooping inflorescence, which 
is represented in Vellozo’s figure, as well as in that of 
Waura, and of this work, from any of which it may be 
seen that the name cernuwm is very appropriate. 
Descr.—A small tree or subarboreous shrub, with an 
erect cylindric stem or trunk, six to eight feet high, naked 
below, and furnished with short branches at the top; 
upper part of the stem, branches, midrib of leaves beneath, 
branches of the cyme and calyces crinite with long brown 
flexuous chaffy hairs, nearly a quarter of an inch long. 
Leaves up to two feet long, broadly oblong or obovate, 
acuminate, base rounded or narrowed below into a very 
stout petiole, margins undulate, above bright green and 
shining with eight or more pairs of arching nerves, be- 
neath white, with scattered or appressed silvery or brown 
scurf and stellate hairs; young leaves stellately hairy on 
both surfaces. Cymes drooping, sub-leaf-opposed; peduncle 
short, and branches stout, green except for the brown 
hairs; flowers an inch in diameter, subsessile, pure white 
with golden anthers. Calyx subcampanulate, crinite, very 
unequally three to five-cleft ; lobes obtuse, or if of connate 
lobes then fewer and cleft at the apex. Covolla-lobes ovate, 
acute. Stamens short; anthers oblong, lobes obtuse, pores 
towards the apex opening towards the style. Ovary oblong, 
top hairy; style slender, stigma narrowly clavate. Berry 
(as described by Martius). globose, hirsute, enclosed in the 
enlarged calyx.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stellate hairs from the undersurface of the leaves; 2, calyx; 
3, anthers ; 4, pistil:— AZZ enlarged. 
