DECEMBER 31, 1910] New AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 955 
Inflorescent bracts broader and flowers somewhat thicker 
than in the type; calyx densely sericeous, 7.5 mm. long; 
the 5 lobes forming an imbricate tube, united at or toward 
the base, obtusely rounded, margins hairy; corolla tubularly 
inflated, slightly curved toward the apex, 2.5 cm. long, 
7.5 mm. thick, pubescent especially toward the throat, 
nearly glabrous toward the base, with 5 tuflets of hairs on 
the inside several mm. from the base; its 4 lobes broadly 
elliptic and  suberect; the lower or fifth one narrower, 
strongly reflexed, arising several mm. further down; stamens 
4, fertile, much exerted, didymous; filaments glabrous, one 
pair a trifle longer, inserted upon the middle of the corolla 
tube; anthers oblong, 3.5 mm. long, flattened, basifixed; 
ovary glabrous, elongated, surrounded at the base by a gla- 
brous fleshy cupular disk; style very short; stigma broadly 
bilobed. 
Dichotrichum calelanense Elm. n. sp. 
Stems creeping and forming interlaced masses, the ter- 
minal portions grayish white hairy, terete, covered with 
flaky pale yellowish bark. Leaves alternate but opposed by 
foliaceous bracts, chiefly scattered along the suberect ends, 
exceedingly diverse in size, coriaceous, heavy, ascending, 
nearly flat, much lighter green beneath, drying greenish, 
the normal blades 9 cm. long, one half of that across below 
the middle, ovate to ovately oblong, provided on both sides 
with appressed many septate hairs, obtuse at apex, rounded 
at the base, coarsely and bluntly dentate except around the 
base; petioles ascending, grayish pubescent, from a few to 
5 em. long; the midrib with 3 to 7 ascending lateral pairs 
which are usually forked toward their ends, with only 5 
pairs; the bract-like leaf rhombic oblong, hairy on both 
sides, 1 cm. long, frequently much smaller or nearly obso- 
lete. Peduncles ascendingly curved, setosely hairy, reddish, 
1 to 3 dm. long, axillary, usually solitary from the same 
axils, bearing an umble of flowers at the apex; flowers odor- 
less, ascendingly curved, divaricate, several, subtended by 
an involucre of foliaceous bracts; pedicels pubescent, 1 to 2 
em. long; their subtending bracts ovately oblong, hairy main- 
