March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2759 



sappy white, soft, without taste or odor and with a large 

 pith; surface of the bark smooth and grayish brown, casta- 

 neus otherwise; main branches ascending, freely rebranched 

 toward their ends; twigs ascending, green, submurinus when 

 dry, the ultimate ones angular and striate, oppositely branch- 

 ed, densely covered with red bristle-like hairs or scales which 

 are more numerous at the joints. Leaves also opposite, the 

 terminal or smaller ones ascending, the lower or larger ones 

 descending, flat, submembranous, deep green above, much 

 lighter beneath, curing unequally blackish brown, appressed 

 hirtellous on the upper and loosely hispid on the lower 

 surfaces, the larger lamina 18 cm long by one half as wide 

 below the middle, the smallest ones bract-like, the average 

 probably 14 cm long by 5 to 6 cm wide, ovately elonga- 

 ted or ovately oblong, seldom elliptic, occasionally slightly 

 inequilateral and somewhat curved toward the gradually ta- 

 pering acute to acuminate apex, base obtusely or broadly 

 rounded and only seldom a trifle inequilateral, entire or hispid- 

 ly roughened; midvein very narrowly caniculate along the 

 upper side, conspicuous beneath and pulverulent besides the 

 numerous setose brown scales, with 2 to 3 lateral pairs of 

 veins; the basal lateral pair faint and running 1 to 3 mm 

 below the leaf edge, all the lateral pairs arising from the 

 base and gracefully curved and extending into the apex, cross 

 bars numerous, parallel, more or less oblique and the longer 

 ones obliquely curved, secondary ones also numerous but 

 much less evident on the lower side; petiole 1 to 3 cm long, 

 channeled along the upper side, murinus when dry, densely 

 setose, usually with a brush of finer lighter colored erect 

 hairs in their axils. Inflorescence erect, terminal, 3 to 4 

 era long and as broad, subtended by leaves; peduncle 

 angular, setose, solitary though more commonly in 3's, 

 when more than 1 the middle one stouter and longer, 

 the short opposite branchlets of the middle one subtended 

 by foliaceous bracts; flowers showy, odorless, coming into 

 anthesis one by one; pedicels subtended by caducous bracts, 

 1.75 cm long, rather thick and rigid, densely beset with 

 scale-like bristles; scales 5 to 7 mm long, the basal ex- 

 panded portion 1 mm wide, edges nearly smooth except 

 toward the scabrid bases; calyx 1 cm deep, terete, nearly 



