March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2831 



the larger blades averaging 6 cm wide across the middle . 

 and 15 cm long, oblong, the sharply acuminate apex re- 

 curved and a trifle falcate, inequilateral toward the obtus-e 

 base; smaller blades ovately rotund, averaging 6 cm long by 

 4 cm wide a trifle below the middle, bluntly apiculate at 

 the apex, broadly rounded at the b?se; petiole of the larger 

 leaves 1.25 cm long, only 3 mm long in the smaller ones, 

 glabrous or when young hairy beneath, blackish brown when 

 dry, prominently grooved along the upper side; midnerve 

 green, yellowish brown in the dry state and quite promi- 

 nent beneath, caniculate on the upper side toward the base, 

 when young slightly hairy; lateral nerves 8 on each side 

 of the larger leaves, subdivaricate and ascendingly curved, 

 the tips of the upper ones interarching, the smaller blades 

 with only one half as many nerves, the few cross bars and 

 coarse reticulations evident from beneath only. Flowers odor- 

 less, 1 to 3-clustered from the leaf axils, each cluster usu- 

 ally provided on each side with a linear leathery caducous 

 light tawny pubescent stipular bract 5 mm in length; pedi- 

 cel slender, at least 1.5 cm long, glabra te or cinnamon 

 brown puberulent, gradually thickened toward the calyx and 

 merging into it; calyx turbinate, 3.5 mm long and as wide 

 across the truncate apex, angular by the keeled midrib of 

 the 4 quarters, these keels extending from above the middle 

 of the calyx into an ascendingly curved hook-like tooth 1 

 mm in length, glabrate or pulverulent; corolla in the bud 

 state elongated, glabrous, narrowed toward the face; seg- 

 ments 4, valvate in the early state, narrowly oblong, 2 mm 

 wide across the middle, 8 mm long, the basal one third 

 united, coriaceous, apex obtuse and narrowly appendaged on 

 the inner side; stamens 4, alternating with the corolla seg- 

 ments and inserted upon their bases; filaments less than 1 

 mm long, glabrous, broad and fleshy; anthers erect, some- 

 what flattened or angular, 4 mm long, basifixed, 1.25 mm 

 wide, at the base gradually extended into the filament or 

 narrowly lobed, the truncate apex sterile and of more 

 membranous folds, dehiscing along the inner sides; ovary 

 small, well inserted at the base of the calyx, glabrate, stig- 

 ma apparently sessile. 



Type specimen number 13887, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 



