AcousTT 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1/53 



wood; bark thick, minutely checked on the griseus surface, 

 otherwise latericius; brandies suberect, rather long, cooked, 

 rebranched toward the ends, coarsely lenticelled twigs quite 

 rigid, ascending, numerous and forming dense masses, the 

 young apical portion glabrous. TiCaves likewise disposed, very 

 rigidly chartaceous, curvingly folded upon the glabrous green 

 and sublucid surface, glaucous green and minutely puV)erulent 

 beneath except the yellowish veins, alternatingly clustered, 

 usually toward the ends of the twigs or at the point of 

 branching, obovately elliptic to oblongish, rounded at apex 

 but occasionally obtuse, base broadly obtuse or more narrowly 

 rounded than at the apex, the larger blades 9 cm. long 

 by 4 cm. wide above the middle, frequently smaller, entire, 

 curing grayish on both sides; midrib raised beneath, subgla- 

 brous, very shallow along the upper surface; the 5 to 8 lateral 

 nerves divaricate, curved from the base, also prominent be- 

 neath, tips reticulately united, the reticulations numerous and 

 quite evident from beneath only; petiole 1.5 cm. long, very 

 thick, grayish white, oaniculate along the upper side. Panicle 

 profuse, bright shining green, terminal, erect, odorless, the 

 young portion short olivaceus pubescent, averaging 1.5 dm. 

 long and nearly as broad, the branches rebranched above 

 the middle, the ultimate ones short and subtended by acute 

 bracts; petiole at most 5 mm. long, soft pubescent, subtended 

 by similarly hairy bracts; calyx subcineveous on the outside, 

 saucer shaped, mostly united, the 5 short triangular teeth 

 bluntly pointed; corolla cremeus and sprinkled with brown, 

 globose in the bud state, rugulose especially toward the apex, 

 adnate and nearly free, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide across 

 the bise, apex bluntly rounded and subhyaline, narrowly 

 or ovately oblong, nearly free at the base, glabrous, coriaceous, 

 veins rather numerous and evident; stamens free, inserted 

 upon the thick ovary disk; filament 1 mm. long, subterete, 

 pointed at apex, also glabrous; anther basifixed, heart shaped, 

 0.5 mm. across or long; exerted ovary densely yellowish 

 hairy, fialtish globn?e, 2 mm. across, set upon a thick pu- 

 bescent disk; style 1.5 mm. long, very finely hairy, expanded 

 toward the very short 2 or 3 -forked stigma or when old 

 parted and recurved with a puberulent flattened stigmatic 

 disk; ovary yellowish green. 



