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one side towards the summit: the tube of the corolla is more 
slender than the former species, and is one inch and a half long. 
3. Cleochroma grandiflora. Yochroma grandiflora, Bth. (loc. cit.): 
fruticosa, ramulis angulato-compressis, striatis, junioribus floccoso- 
tomentosis ; foliis late ovatis, basi rotundatis, ad petiolum tenuem 
breviter et abrupte attenuatis, apice acuminatis, supra pulveru- 
lento- tomentosis, subtus pallidioribus et molliter pubescentibus, 
penninerviis, nervis divaricatis; floribus apice ramulorum fascicu- 
latis, pendulis, pedunculis elongatis calyceque brevi demum ampli- 
cato molliter pubescentibus, corollæ infundibuliformis tubo longo, 
pubescente, fauce sub-campanulato, limbo 5-lobo, lobis amplis, 
triangularibus, staminibus imo ortis, fere inclusis, filamentis 
omnino glaberrimis.—In Andibus Peruvianis regno Ecuadorensi 
conterminis. v. $. in herb. Lindley. (Lobb. n. 316.) in herb. Hook. 
(Hartweg. 814.) 
This plant is quite distinct from any of the other species; the 
leaves have ten or twelve pairs of nerves, diverging nearly at right 
angles with the mid-rib: they are three inches and a half long, 
two inches broad, with a caniculate petiole ten lines in length; 
the umbels, arising with a few leaves from the summit of the 
young branchlets, which are scarcely longer than an inch, are from 
six to eight flowered: the flowers are pendulous from a somewhat 
slender peduncle, twenty-two lines long; the calyx in its florescent 
state, is only four lines long, and three lines in diameter, but it 
increases considerably in size with the fruit: the tube of the 
corolla, which is cylindrical, is one inch to one inch and a half — — 
long, and one line and three quarters in diameter, spreads sud- 
denly into a somewhat campanulate border, one inch to one inch 
and a half in diameter, and is divided into five, oblong, acute, some- 
what expanded lobes ; it is described as being of an “ azure blue” 
colour.* The tube is quite glabrous, even at the base, where, 
in the other two species, it is somewhat pubescent. 
x This plant, with sectional details, will be represented in the Illustr South Amer. 
Plants, Plate 32. 
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