March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2769 



Leaves ascending or horizontal, rigid and chartaceous, pale 

 green yet stilly paler beneath, nearly flat, the entire mar- 

 gins subiuvolnfce when dry, greatly varying in size, curing 

 brown and greenish beneath, obovate to obovately elongated, 

 occasionally suboblong, the upper surface minutely roughened 

 along the reticulations, on the nether side strigosely white 

 hairy, narrowly and sharply cuneate at the base or broadly 

 so and with rounded ends, apex rounded or short and 

 bluntly acute, the average leaves 2 dm long by 8 cm wide 

 above the middle; midrib very prominent beneath and cine- 

 reously pubescent, the sunken line on the upper surface 

 filled with tawny hairs; lateral nerves 11 to 13 pairs, divar- 

 icate and nearly straight, tips strongly curved upwards and 

 usually united, otherwise similar, the midrib cross bars and 

 fine reticulations very evident especially bo on the under 

 side; petiole 1 cm long, flat above, dirty pubescent, stout, 

 much thickened toward the base; bud bract densely hairy. 

 Inflorescence erect, leaf opposed or axillary, usually subter- 

 minal; peduncle stout, 5 to 8 cm long, subterete, short yel- 

 lowish pubescent, strict, the few and short branches thick, 

 hirtellous, subtended by caducous bract vestiges, 1 cm long 

 or more often less in length or the longer ones nearly twice 

 as long and rebranched toward the ends, bearing 1 to 3 

 flowerB or fruits; calyx almost 5 mm long, the basal 2 mm 

 relatively thick and somewhat angled, densely pubescent, acute 

 to acuminately 4-toothed, the median region of the segments 

 obscurely keeled; corolla bud ovoidly oblong; petals 4, al- 

 ternating with the calyx lobes, puberulent on the back and 

 on the ventral side toward the distal end, oblong, 5 mm 

 long, nearly 3 mm wide across the truncate base, obtuse 

 at the apex; stamens about 12, unequal yet all fertile; 

 filaments united into a 1.5 mm deep rim-like tube which 

 is entirely glabrous on the outside and densely hairy on the 

 inner basal region, averaging 1 mm long, the longer ones 

 alternating with the shorter ones, much compressed, densely 

 ciliate on the ventral side below the anther and along 

 its back side; the anther broadly elliptic or ovately so, 

 1 mm long, introrse, truncately rounded at the base, con- 

 nective terminated by a minute point; ovary densely ciliate 

 pubescent, the relatively thick 2 mm long style less pubes- 



