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tomentum ; the calyx is obconical truncated, with five promi- 

 nent nervures, and as many almost obsolete teeth, and is 1 i 

 line long; the corolla is 8 lines long, with a very slender 

 funnel-shaped tube, nearly smooth within, the border consists 

 of five short erect lobes, which have a conduplicate eesti- 

 vation ; the stamens arise somewhat below the middle of the 

 tube, are a little geniculate, and slighty pubescent at base, 

 slender, straight, and glabrous above, and recurved at the 

 apex ; the anthers are included, with ovate adnate lobes, 

 which are attached at a dorsal point to the apex of the 

 filament. The ovarium is fixed on a distinct glabrous 

 column equal to its own length ; it is oval, densely covered 

 with white stellate hairs, and is somewhat umbilicate at 

 the apex, out of which rises a long slender glabrous style, 

 somewhat longer than the stamens; the stigma is 2-lamel- 

 late. The capsule is cylindrical, 4-grooved, somewhat in- 

 curved, and half invested by the persistent calyx, is 6 lines 

 long and 1 line diameter, splits into two valves, which 

 are 2-fid at the apex ; the seeds are small and winged, as m 

 the first described species. 



4. Sessea corymbosa, (n. sp.) — Frutex, omnino glaberrimus, 

 ramulis subcompressis ; foiiis approximatis, petiolatis, 

 cuneato-oblongis, supra lucidis, subtus pallidioribus, glan- 

 dulis minutis creberrimis albis notatis, pinnato-nerviis, 

 nervis primariis divaricatis, 16-20 jugis cum alteris in- 

 termediis brevioribus, reticulato-venosis, pseudo-stipulis 

 nullis: racemis corymbosis terminalibus, floribus sessih- 

 bus. — Nova Granada, v. s. in Herb. Hooker, Bogota ad 

 Barro Blanco, (Goudot), S. corymbosa, MSS. 

 This species differs from all the preceding in being wholly 

 free from any pubescence, except externally on the inflected 

 portion of the lobes of the corolla. The leaves are smooth 

 above, of a clear dead green colour ; the nerves and reticu- 

 lated veins are prominent ; beneath, they have a somewhat 

 ferrugineous hue, but under a lens the lower surface > s 

 very closely covered with minute white glandular raised dots ; 

 their length is 5 inches, their breadth If to 2 inches, upon a 

 petiole I in. long, which is thick and rounded below, some- 



