SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 7 
Arbor 5-orgyalis: ramis pendulis: foliis sparsis petiolatis 
cordato-oblongis, acutis, integerrimis, subtus valde pul- 
verulentis ; pseudo-stipulis nullis: racemis longissimis, 
terminalibus, dependentibus, floribus ternis sessilibus.— 
Tarma, Peruvie, v. s. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Wi 
The specimens collected by Dombey, and Ruiz and Pavon, 
existing in the British Museum, greatly resemble the figure 
given in the Flora Peruviana: the stem is flexuose, much com- 
pressed, and finally glabrous; the leaves are smooth above, 
pulverulent beneath, with soft stellate hairs; the capsules 
are twice the length of those of the former species, and half 
enclosed in the persistent calyx, which is finally quite 
glabrous. 
3. Sessea vestita. Cestrum vestitum, Hook. Icon. pl. tab. 
381.—Frutex, ramulis compressis demum glabris: foliis 
oblongis, acutis, basi obtusis, petiolatis, nervis sub 8-jugis, 
venisque reticulatis superne impressis, supra glabris, subtus 
petiolis ramulis corymbisque tomento incano vel subfulvo 
dense vestitis, pilis apice stellatis vel articulatis et plumosis ; 
pseudo-stipulis nullis ; corymbis terminalibus densifloris ; 
corolle tubo gracili fulvo-tomentoso; ovario tomento 
stellato dense vestito; capsula glabra subincurva.—Nova 
Granada, v. -s. in Herb. Hooker. Paramo de Quindii, 
(Goudot.) Quito, Pichincha et Tambillo, (Jameson, n. 185 
et 67.) 
This is described as a tree of middle size, growing at 
an elevation of about 9000 feet above the level of the 
sea. The leaves are from 3} to 4% in. long, 14 to 2 in. 
broad, on a petiole 6 lines in length; they are shining above, 
quite glabrous, with impressed reticulate veins, which give 
the older leaves a very rugous appearance. The flowers, 
peduncles and branchlets are covered with very dense 
incanous or fulvous down, the hairs of which are stellate 
at the apex, but on the under side of the leaves, this 
tomentum consists of hairs composed of many short joints, 
which are stellate at each articulation, so that they appear 
elegantly plumose. The corymbs are much branched and 
densely flowered, the whole being covered with close fulvous 
