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^32 BOTANICAL GA2ETTE. [June, 



Hamelia calycosa.— A shrub 9-12 feet hi^h, da- 

 brate: stipules filiform, 2 lines long, with a ciliated inler- 

 petio ar hne : leaves ternate, lanceolate, 2-4 inches lon^r, one 

 lourth as broad, acurnmately produced, finely attenuated into 

 wul P^bescent petiole, margins revolute, punctate and 

 with scattered cystohths, veins not reticulate : cymes pubes- 

 cent compouna, trichotomous, umbelliform ; lobes of tur- 

 bmate calyx Imear to oblong, 2\ Hnes lona and equalhng 

 the tube, smuses truncate ; corolla yellow, ventricose-cam- 



Sff", ,^'k '^"'4 ^^''f ^«"^^ narrowed below into a cylin- 

 drical tube 3 Imes long ; anthers mucronately produced at 



abm/tPm' T^^ ^;"^""' '^^".'^^" complanate filament ; stigma 

 fZlXll^^^^P^^l "^^gl^^brate, elliptical, lo-cosUite,. 

 5 I nes long half as broad.-Resembling H, vcutricosa Sw. 

 but flowers differmg by the calyx-lobes Targe for the aenus 

 short broad filaments, and long stio-rna.-Pan.s.n^^lf ?1 ' 



3,«oo feet, June 1885. (PI. Guat. Tuerckl . a Td S 

 edit., 454— De Tiirckh. FI. Guat. Edit. Keck 454.) 



waru'"niftr''^.f^7^- ~^'"^^^''°^^^ '■ bnm.chlets knotted, 

 crlded'^ t ll/ r ; ''\'i ^""'''^ °^ ^^^"^'" P^tioles: leaves 

 ous obk,;. to °,V^'"'^"^h'^^^' pergameneous, pellucid, nilid- 

 ous, oblong to oblanceolate, 10-13 inches lomr, 4-^ nches 

 broad, abrupt y short-acuminate, cuneately naiVowed to a 

 channeled petiole half an inch long, margins fine v nectinate 



Htera rn{fj • ' ^"'^' ^'^^ ^'^"^^^^«' ^he 20-22 stronge; 

 and 1 Tesf ^?.r^"f """ '^-^ f"'' "^ conspicuous arches 

 nearlv sessil. f ■"'^'^^'""J °"^ ^ P^^^^J^ terminal, 



about^eau d n;.- ^f^T^"''"' P^bescent, broadly pyramidal 

 aoout equaling the leaves, rachises angulate and sulcate 

 5-merous flowers subumbellately racemose at the end of ter' 



S7x";Vat?";'r^^f ^^"^''"^ pedicels^ hnestng: 



touXheir Wth . ^tf''''^^ -^r "^i^P^^^^l ^P'^^^ P^^^es one- 

 ceedinrthe s"f ^e^s^.^'^':^^^^^^ tapering, a little ex- 



ovuIate^-Re In l^T:, "r/Z.P/^ii' i-ubro-punctate, 15-20- 



■pclhicida CErst 



