March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Spiccies— II 283o 



except the inner sappy white portion; main branches final- 

 ly numerously rebranched, spreading and crooked; twigs sub 

 erect, relatively short, quite rigid and tough, numerous, the 

 greenish glabrate tips turning blackish when dry. Leaves 

 ascending, rigidly coriaceous, copious, alternate, almost flat, 

 pleasing shining green above, very much paler or yellowish 

 green beneath, the entire edges a trifle involute when dry 

 at least, curing unequally brown on the 2 sides, round- 

 ed at the apex, base obtuse or widely cuneate, the larger 

 ones 6 cm long and one half as wide, the smallest leaves 

 one half as large, obovately elliptic, more or less punctate 

 on both sides; midrid prominent and dark brown when dry 

 beneath, deeply grooved the full length along the upper 

 side; petiole 5 mm long or longer, drying nearly black, 

 glabrous, caniculate along the upper flattened surface; later- 

 al nerves comparatively faint, 5 to 7 and with a few ad- 

 ditional secondary nerves intervening, straight, ascending, 

 forked toward their distal ends, evident from both sides, 

 reticulations numerous. Flowers upon green and glabrous 

 more or less recurved 1.5 to 2 cm long pedicels which 

 arise either from the leaf axils or opposite them; calyx 

 subtended by a pair of broad thick glabrous 3 to 4 mm 

 long bracts; sepals united toward the base, glabrous, thick, 

 imbricated into a cup, nearly 1 cm long, the outer 2 en- 

 closing the inner 2, ovately rotund, margins relatively thin 

 and numerously punctate; petals about 5, veiny, elliptic, 1 

 to 1.5 cm long, thinner in texture, the* basal 2 mm united 

 into a broad tube, glabrous except the throat; stamens more 

 or less grouped and inserted opposite the inner petals upon 

 the tube, about 3, apparently all fertile though somewhat 

 unequal in length and size; free portion of filaments vary- 

 ing from 1 to 3 mm in length, densely yellowish brown 

 hairy especially at their ends, fleshy, eubcompressed, be- 

 coming thicker or wider toward the distal end; anthers 3 

 mm long, auriculate at the base, broadly lanceolate, gradually 

 tapering to the acute point, basifixed, pubescent along the 

 back, cells apparently unequal and ventrally dehiscent; ovary 

 flatly globose, 3 mm in diameter, very lightly woolly; style 

 at least 1 mm thick by 6 mm long, glabrous or as the 

 ovary very lightly woolly; stigma terminal, small. 



