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tomentum; the calyx is obconical, truncated, with five promi- 
nent nervures, and as many almost obsolete teeth, and is 13 
line long; the corolla is 8 lines long, with a very slender 
funnel-shaped tube, nearly smooth within, the border consists 
of five short erect lobes, which have a conduplicate esti- 
vation ; the stamens arise somewhat below the middle of the 
tube, are a little geniculate, and slighty pubescent at base, 
slender, straight, and glabrous above, and recurved at the 
apex ; the anthers are included, with ovate adnate lobes, 
which are attached at a dorsal point to the apex of the 
filament. The ovarium is fixed on a distinct glabrous 
column equal to its own length; it is oval, densely covered 
with white stellate hairs, and is somewhat umbilicate at 
the apex, out of which rises a long slender glabrous style, 
somewhat longer than the stamens; the stigma is 2-lamel- 
late. The capsule is cylindrical, 4-grooved, somewhat in- 
curved, and half invested by the persistent calyx, is 6 lines 
long and 1 line diameter, splits into two valves, which 
are 2-fid at the apex ; the seeds are small and winged, as in 
the first described species. : 
4. Sessea corymbosa, (n. sp.)—Frutex, omnino glaberrimus, 
ramulis subcompressis; foliis approximatis, petiolatis, 
cuneato-oblongis, supra lucidis, subtus pallidioribus, glan- 
dulis minutis creberrimis albis notatis, pinnato-nerviis, 
nervis primariis divaricatis, 16-20 jugis cum alteris in- 
termediis brevioribus, reticulato-venosis, pseudo-stipulis 
nullis: racemis corymbosis terminalibus, floribus  sessili- 
-bus.—Nova Granada, v. s. in Herb. Hooker, Bogota ad 
Barro Blanco, (Goudot), S. corymbosa, MSS. 
This species differs from all the preceding in being wholly 
free from any pubescence, except externally on the inflected 
portion of the lobes of the corolla. The leaves are smooth 
above, of a clear dead green colour; the nerves and reticu- 
lated veins are prominent ; beneath, they have a somewhat 
ferrugineous hue, but under a lens the lower surface is 
very closely covered with minute white glandular raised dots ; 
their length is 5 inches, their breadth 14 to 2 inches, upon a 
petiole } in. long, which is thick and rounded below, some- 
