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Marcu 18, 1912] NEW  APOCYNACEAE 1451 
colored strigose hairs. Leaves subcoriaceous, deep green on the 
sublucid glabrous upper surface, much paler beneath, shallowly 
conduplicate, horizontally spreading, oppositely scattered along 
the branchlets, curing unequally dark brown, diverse in size, 
entire, apex obtuse to sharply acute, base obtuse to obtusely 
rounded, the small blades oblong, the larger ones elliptic, at 
first slightly strigose beneath especially along the nerves, ul- 
timately glabrous except the midvein, the larger leaves 1 dm. 
long by 6 cm. wide at the middle: midrib stoutly raised and 
yellowish gray hairy beneath, smooth and minutely caniculate 
on the upper side; lateral pairs 4 to 6, ascending, tips curved and 
reticulately united, brown, ultimately glabrous, the rather fine 
reticulations evident only from below; petiole slender, olivaceus 
hairy, caniculate on the upper side, the larger 1.5 em. long, 
the smaller leaves scarcely 5 mm. long. Inflorescence erect 
or subpendant, terminal, racemosely elongated, oppositely or 
subverticellately branched all along, 1 to 3 dm. long, yellowish 
green and in the dry state covered with a latericius tomentum; 
branches strict, ascending or the lower and longer ones more 
spreading and subtended by foliaceous bracts, the upper ones 
subtended by more or less pubescent and acute bracts, the larger 
branches 1 dm. long and rebranched from above the middle, all 
angular or striate at least when dry; flowers creamy white, crowded 
along the short thick ultimate branchlets, densely subtended by 
subpersistent bracts, odorous; pedicels few mm. long, pubescent, 
subtended by a similarly pubescent rather large ovately acute 
persistent bract, calyx proper 2 mm. long, terete, also pubescent, 
1.5 mm. thick, the 5 obtusely pointed segments nearly one half 
as long and erect, alternating with the glabrous appendages; 
corolla 6 mm. long, the basal one half barrel shaped and sub- 
glabrous, in the bud state imbricate but searcely twisted; 
segments averaging 4.5 mm. long, rotately spreading from 
the hairy throat, more or less pubescent on both sides 
toward the thick base, otherwise nearly glabrous except 
the few ciliate hairs along the edges, the basal one half 
ovately oblong, the distal portion linear, one side at the 
middle truncate and from that point twisting and curved; 
stamens 5, erect, subsessile, inserted 1 mm. from the base; 
anthers 1.25 mm. long or less, flattened, abruptly apiculate 
at apex, base truncate, faintly 2-auriculate, 0.75 mm. wide; 
