axillaris annotinis ramulis, pauciflora, glabra. Flores 1-7, 
albidi vel albo-virescentes. Pedicellus erectus, gracilis, 
tlaber. Calyx tubulosus vel tubuloso-campanulatus, 
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glaber, dentibus subaequalibus, triangulari-ovatis vel 
ovato-lanceolatis, apice acutis vel acuminatis. Corollae 
tubus quam calyx duplo longior, rectus, apice parum in- 
flatus, glaber, limbo patent, lobis subaequalibus, oblongo- 
obovatis, apice rotundatis vel subtruncatis, marginibus 
lateralibus abrupte reflexis.. Stamina inclusa in tubi parte 
superiori. Ovarium oblongo-ovoideum, Fructus ignotus. 
A Brunftelsia guianense foliis oblongis, longioribus, 
nervis lateralis pluribus (8-12), calyce tubuloso-campan- 
ulato et corollae tubo quam calyce duplo longiori et a 
B. amazonica foliis majoribus et pedicellis multo breviori- 
bus differt. 
Tyre: Brazil: Amazonas: ‘‘Provinciae Rio Negro, habitat in sylvis 
ad flum. Japura, prope Sao Joao do Principe,’ Dec. 1819, Martius 
[3247] (holotype, M; isotypes, M). 
Shrub to 1m. tall. Branches few, naked below, some- 
what knobby at nodes, glabrous. Bark cracked longitu- 
dinally, dark reddish brown, shiny, furnished with len- 
ticels. Leaves scattered along branchlets, subsessile, 
mostly oblong, sometimes elliptic-oblong or oblong- 
obovate, acuminate at apex, broadly cuneate to blunt 
at base, blade 10-25 cm. long, 4-8 cm. wide, glabrous on 
both surfaces, firmly membranaceous to subcoriaceous, 
upper surface dark green, dull or shiny, lower surface 
paler green, sometimes shiny, midrib dark reddish brown, 
lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, spreading, straight: petiole 
short, 1-4 (12) mm. long, glabrous, becoming cracked, 
rugose. Inflorescence terminal or axillary in the upper 
leaf axils, glabrous, axis 2-10 (15) mm. long. Flowers 
1-7 per inflorescence, sometimes with short peduncle 
which articulates with pedicel, greenish white to white. 
Bracts 1-8 per flower, linear-lanceolate, concave, 1-10 
