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tioles densely hirsute, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Panicles cymose, in 
the upper axils, forming, a terminal, leafy inflorescence, densely 
pale-hirsute, the peduncles 10 cm long or less, the flower-bearing 
parts of each cyme 5 cm long or less, the flowers rather densely 
disposed. Bracteoles very broadly ovate, deciduous, prominently 
ciliate-hirsute with long spreading hairs, acute or acuminate, 2 
to 2.5 mm long, nearly as wide. Calyx somewhat campanulate, 
hirsute, 6 to 7 mm long, divided to below the middle into 5, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, somewhat spreading, acuminate lobes 
about 4 mm long, 2mm wide. Petals membranaceous, glabrous, 
narrowly oblong-obovoid to obovoid-subspatulate, 8 to 9 mm long, 
3 mm wide, apex truncate-rounded, narrowed in the lower one- 
half, the lower 3 mm 0.5 to 1 mm wide. Stamens 4 to 5 mm 
long; filaments thin, fiat, about 1 mm wide; anthers 1.5 mm 
long. Ovary ovoid, densely hirsute; styles slender, about 3 mm 
long, hirsute below, glabrous above. Capsule at maturity ovoid, 
hirsute, not at all sulcate or ridged, about 7 mm long, acute 
or acuminate, composed of 5 cocci which dehisce ventrally, each 
coccus with two, terminal, slender, hirsute, 1 to 1.5 mm long 
awns. Seeds not at all winged, brown, smooth, narrowly obovoid, 
obtuse, about 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm thick, 3-angled in cross- 
section, the angles rounded. 
R. C. McGregor 456, hills back of Piti, altitude about 100 meters. 
A species allied to Melochia odorata Linn. f. and to M. aristata A. Gray, 
characterized by its comparatively small, densely hirsute leaves, as well as 
by its densely hirsute branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences. 
THEOBROMA Linnaeus 
THEOBROMA CACAO Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 388; Safford 385, pl. 67. _ 
G. E. S. 817, locally known as cacao. 
A native of tropical America, now cultivated in most tropical countries. 
WALTHERIA Linnaeus 
WALTHERIA AMERICANA Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 673; Safford 398. 
Waltheria indica Linn., 1. c. 
Waltheria elliptica Cav. Diss. 6 (1788) 316, t. 171, f. 2. 
McGregor 407, G. E. S. 128, locally called escobilla sabana. 
A native of tropical America, now in all tropical countries. 
GUTTIFERAE 
CALOPHYLLUM Linnaeus 
CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 518; Safford 208. 
G. E. S. 186, 414, locally known as daog or daok. 
Along the seashore, tropical Africa and Asia, through Malaya to Aus- 
tralia and Polynesia. 
