March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2763 



rotund to ovate, the larger ones ovately oblong, 2.5 dm long 

 by at least 12 cm wide below the middle; glabrous, apex 

 gradually acute or occasionally rounded, the entire margins 

 subinvolute, base broadly rounded and narrowly cordate; mid- 

 rib exceedingly prominent beneath and reddish brown, deep- 

 ly grooved along the upper surface of the leaf; lateral nerves 

 of the average leaves about 20 pairs, subdivaricate, strict, 

 similar in color and prominence beneath, impressed upon the 

 upper side, the basal pair running 5 to 7 mm below the 

 edge of the blade and strongly uniting with the tips of all 

 the lateral nerves, few secondary ones intervening toward the 

 base of the leaf, regular ones frequently branched, cross 

 bars and the few coarse reticulations quite evident from be- 

 neath only. Inflorescence lateral, suberect, 3 to 5 cm long, 

 paniculately branched from below the middle; stalks solita- 

 ry or few clustered, subangular, dark brown when dry, pu- 

 berulent; branches opposite or in subwhorls, subtended by 

 rigid acutely pointed glabrous and persistent bracts which 

 in the old state become reflexed, the lower or longer branch- 

 es short umbellately rebranched, scurfy brown on the angu- 

 lar sides; flowers crowded from the ultimate thick ! branches, 

 all stalks green when fresh; pedicels 2 cm long, terete, glab- 

 rous, subtended by a series of subpersistent glabrous and 

 acuminately pointed 0.5 to 1 mm long bracts; calyx campan- 

 ulate, coriaceous, also glabrous, 1.5 mm high, 0.5 mm wider 

 across the truncate apex; corolla forming a cone 2 mm high 

 and 2 mm wide across the truncate baee, finally separa- 

 ting into about 4 segments, glabrous, submembranous; sta- 

 mens 8 or twice as many as petals, included in the early 

 state; filament smooth, less than 1 mm long, terete, fleshy, 

 the inwardly curved apex pointed, otherwise relatively thick; 

 anthers introrse in the bud state, 1.5 mm long at most, 

 thickest across the rounded apex, base acutely pointed and 

 recurved, inserted a trifle below the middle, the back side 

 with a conspicuous gland located in the curve of the an- 

 ther; ovary imbedded, its apical portion radially marked; style 

 terete, glabrous. 2 mm long, pointed at the apex; stigma 

 very minute. Fruits smooth and glabrous, 4 to 5 mm in 

 diameter, bearing the calyx rim, compressed, globose, green, 

 ater when dry. 



