Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Srecies—I 2657 
dry, paler green beneath, drying greenish brown, glabrate, 
entire toward the broadly obtuse or rounded base, other- 
wise finely apiculate, apex short acute, variable in size, el- 
liptically oblong or ovately so, the average blades 2 dm long, 
9 cm wide across the middle, with a pair of minute glands 
at the base; midrib pronounced beneath and faintly puberu- 
lent, plain above; lateral nerves about 6 pairs, much ascend- 
ing, the upper ones more curved especially toward their ends, 
greenish and minutely hairy, rather conspicuous; the cross 
bars and coarse reticulations also conspieuous; petiole 2 to 8 
cm long, ascending, subterete, green, faintly strigose. Pistil- 
late inflorescence spicate, 1 cm long, axillary or from the 
lower axils of the fallen leaves, strict, suberet; peduncle 
solitary, stout, olivaceus short pubescent; flowers sessilely 
clustered toward the distal end; male spikes mostly from 
the fallen leaf axils, slender, usually solitary, 1 dm long, 
Similarly pubescent, the flowers alternatingly scattered from 
Near the base; pedicels of staminate flowers strict, ascend- 
ing, soft pubescent, usually in small clusters yet only 1 
coming to anthesis at a time, 3 mm long, subtended by a 
whorl of blunt and similarly pubescent bracts; buds~ small, 
globose, subsessile; perianth of 3 or 4 segments, united at 
the base, widely spreading and reflexed in the flowering 
State, elliptic or oblongish, 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, soft- 
ly pubesceat on both sides but especially on the outer side; 
stamens numerous, inserted upon the central portion of the 
perianth, cremeus; filaments filiform, glabrous, unequal, the 
longer ones 1 mm long, more or less united at the very 
base into small groups, interspersed with short sterile fila- 
ments which are ciliate at their distal ends; anthers sub- 
globose, 0.25 mm across, somewhat compressed, similar in 
color, dehiscing across the apical suture or along the sublat- 
eral sides; pistillate flowers similarly scattered but sessile, 
likewise subtended by a whorl of small blunt persistent 
pubescent bracteoles; perianth of 8 large equal segments 
and occasionally with a small basal one, thick and hairy, 
cup shaped, at least 3 mm high, ovately elliptic, united 
below the middle, on the inside about the base of the ovary . 
provided with a whitish glabrous irregularly divided or 
laciniate membranous disk; ovary superior, subglobose, 3 
