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Arbor 5-orgyalis : ramis pendulis : foliis sparsis petiolatis 

 cordato-oblongis, acutis, integerrimis, subtus valde pul- 

 verulentis ; pseudo-stipulis nullis : racemis longissimis, 

 terminalibus, dependentibus, floribus ternis sessilibus. — 

 Tarma, Peruvise, v. s. in Herb. Mas. Brit. 

 The specimens collected by Dombey, and Ruiz and Pavon, 

 existing in the British Museum, greatly resemble the. figure 

 given in the Flora Peruviana : the stem is flexuose, much com- 

 pressed, and finally glabrous ; the leaves are smooth above, 

 pulverulent beneath, with soft stellate hairs; the capsules 

 are twice the length of those of the former species, and half 

 enclosed in the persistent calyx, which is finally quite 

 glabrous. 



3. Sessea vestita. Cestrum vestitum, Hook. Icon. pi. tab. 

 381. — Frutex, ramulis compressis demum glabris: foliis 

 oblongis, acutis, basi obtusis, petiolatis, nervis sub 8-jugis, 

 venisque reticularis superne impressis, supra glabris, subtus 

 petiolis ramulis corymbisque tomento incano vel subfulvo 

 dense vestitis, pilis apice stellatis vel articulatis et plumosis ; 

 pseudo-stipulis nullis ; corymbis terminalibus densifloris ; 

 corollae tubo gracili fulvo-tomentoso ; ovario tomento 

 stellato dense vestito j capsula glabra subincurva. — Nova 

 Granada, v. s. in Herb. Hooker. Paramo de Quindiii, 

 {Goudot.) Quito, Pichinchaet Tambillo, {Jameson, n. 185 

 et 67.) 



This is described as a tree of middle size, growing at 

 an elevation of about 9000 feet above the level of the 

 sea. The leaves are from 3| to A\ in. long, 1| to 2 in. 

 broad, on a petiole 6 lines in length j they are shining above, 

 qmte glabrous, with impressed reticulate veins, which give 



°e older leaves a very rugous appearance. The flowers, 

 Peduncles and branchlets are covered with very dense 

 ttcanous or fulvous down, the hairs of which are stellate 

 at the apex, but on the under side of the leaves, this 



omentum consists of hairs composed of many short joints, 

 which are stellate at each articulation, so that they appear 

 * e gantly plumose. The corymbs are much branched and 



ensely flowered, the whole being covered with close fulvous 



