SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 35 
This is a small tree with very bushy widely spreading 
branches, conspicuous for the number of its long pendent 
racemes of flowers, that I met with on the ascent of the 
Organ Mountains, at an elevation of nearly 3000 feet. The 
branches are flexuose, somewhat dichotomous, quite smooth 
and glabrous. The leaves are sharply acuminate at the apex, 
where they are subserrulated and ciliate; the margin is very 
entire and somewhat membranous ; they are about 44 inches 
long, exclusive of the petiole, and 24 inches broad, the twin 
leaf being about an inch shorter: they are quite smooth and 
shining above, their surface being covered with very numerous, 
minute, raised points, which are somewhat pellucid when 
viewed through the light; below they are quite smooth, of a 
pale glaucous green, apparently glabrous, but when examined 
by a lens, are seen covered with a very fine pubescence ; they 
are somewhat 5-nerved at base, the midrib and nerves being 
slender and prominent. The petiole is channelled above, 
slightly pubescent, and 14 inch long. The racemes of flowers, 
about 3 inches long, generally spring from the stem on one 
side a little above the origin of the pair of leaves, and some- 
times out of the bifurcation of the branches; the pedicels all 
arising from one side of the peduncle, are alternately arranged 
in two rows, and articulated at a little distance from their 
origin, where the greater number fall off: they are about an 
inch long and glabrous. The calyx is small and fleshy, 
and does not increase in size with the fruit, its segments 
being acute and slightly pubescent. The corolla is of a lurid 
greenish white, fleshy, and about an inch in diameter, when 
fully expanded; it has a short campanular tube, which is — 
distinctly saccate and obtusely 5-angular at the corners 
opposite the stamens; the, border is cleft into 5 equal, ovate, 
acute segments, having very woolly and slightly inflected 
margins, which in the bud present an induplicate cestivation 
nearly valvate, each segment has externally at its apex, a long 
terete spurlike woolly process ; when the flower is fully open, 
the lobes are quite patent: the corolla outside is quite 
glabrous, but it is lined within with a short woolly white 
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