Marcu 27, 1915] Two Hounprep Twenty Six New SpEcies—I 2669 
neath, drying equally grayish on both sides, entire, thinly 
pubescent beneath but denser toward the midrib, the slend- 
erly acute to acuminate apex recurved, base obtusely round- 
ed or rounded, ovately oblong, the larger ones 1.5 dm 
long by 5 cm wide at or a trifle below the middle; mid- 
rib ridged beneath, caniculate above, hirsute in the early 
State; lateral nerves very obscure, 5 to 8 pairs, much as- 
cending and curved, reticulations not evident; petiole stout, 
6 mm long, hairy. Flowers in pairs or in clusters from the 
terminal leaf axils; pedicels green, slender, recurved, yellow- 
ish brown tomentose in the dry state, 1 cm long, bibract- 
eate below the middle, at the base subtended by a series 
Or subwhorl of setaceous externally pubescent bracts; calyx 
green, membranous, soft pubescent on the dorsal portion, 5 
mm long, united at the base; segments 5, slenderly acumi- 
nate from the 1 mm wide base, usually 3 veined though the 
middle one is more prominent, subequal; corolla 3 em long, 
miniatus or deep ruber red, tubular, a trifle thicker towards 
the 7 mm thick and lobed apex, puberulent except at the base; 
lobes 4, broader than long, the upper lip bilobed and straight, 
the others divaricately spreading, also puberulent on the 
outside except the glabrate margins, throat very oblique; 
stamens 4, all fertile, equalling the throat or slightly exert- 
ed, inserted upon the corolla above the middle, 1.5 cm long, 
curved, finely puberulent; anther cell deep horse-shoe shaped, 
plane, connective thick and fleshy, 1.75 mm long, 1.5 mm 
wide, narrowly lobed at the base, subbasifixed, apex round- 
ed and usually contiguous; ovary base subglobose, gla- 
brous, nearly black when dry, more or less rugose; ovary 
proper linear, slenderly stipitate toward the base, constrict- 
ed toward the stigma, with a soft and dense hyaline pu- 
bescence along its entire length; stigma glabrate, discoid, to- 
wards 2 mm across. Capsules pendant, usually curved, pale 
green and turning straw brown when dry, terete, creased 
along the 2 sutures, slenderly stipitate at the base, abrupt- 
ly beaked at the apex, 9 to 12 cm long, strigose, laterally 
dehiscent and with subhyaline septa, persistent even after 
their stipes become shredded; seeds very numerous, dark 
brown, elongated, with a whitish tuft of fine hairs at each 
end. 
