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becoming griseous or sordid; leaves opposite; petioles slender, those 

 of the main leaves 3 to 6 cm. long, pubescent like the branchlets, chan- 

 neled beneath and often above; blades ovate or oblong-ovate, 12 to 17.5 

 cm. long, 4 to 8 cm. wide, acute, at base cuneate to rounded, entire, thick- 

 pergamentaceous, somewhat sinuate and minutely revolute on margin, 

 above in youth densely pubescent with spreading olivaceous-yellowish 

 branched hairs, in age glabrescent except along costa and veins and then 

 pale green, beneath very densely and persistently flavescent-pilose-tomen- 

 tose with branched hairs, the costa and 13 to 16 pairs of lateral veins 

 (united close to margin) impressed above, prominent beneath, the secon- 

 daries obscure or concealed; spikes solitary or paired in the upper axils, 

 about 9 cm. long (including the 0.7 to 1.8 cm. long peduncle), 1.6 cm. thick, 

 rather densely flowered, pubescent like the stem, apparently erect or spread- 

 ing; flowers sessile; bracts triangular, 1 to 2.5 mm. long, tomentose-pubes- 

 cent; cplyx obovoid, 5 to 6 mm. long, densely pubescent like the stem, its 

 teeth irregularly cohering in two or three groups, these triangular, obtuse 

 or apiculate, about 1 mm. long; corolla "whitish," 8 mm. long (limb about 

 4 mm. wide), essentially glabrous outside, densely barbate-pilose within 

 from level of insertion of stamens to middle of the 5 (rarely 6) lobes, these 

 cuneate-flabellate, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, somewhat wavy-margined; perfect 

 stamens 5 (rarely 6), inserted near middle of corolla tube, included, the 

 subulate glabrous filaments 1.3 mm. long, equaling the linear-oblong 

 obtuse anthers; ovary 4-celled, the ovules solitary, erect; style bifid; "fruit 

 red, the size of a small cherry, in spikes up to 30 cm. long. " 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1067081, collected at Bogota, 

 Colombia, altitude 2640 meters, October 11, 1920, by Wilson Popenoe (no. 

 1143). 



This species is cultivated in Bogota as a street tree. It is distinguished 

 by its combination of long-petioled comparatively large leaves, densely 

 flavescent-tomentose beneath, and its truly spicate pentandrous flowers. 

 Only a few species with all the stamens perfect have been described, and 

 from all of these C. subflavescens is clearly distinct. 



