tudinally, staminode 1. Disk prominent, annular. Ovary 
superior, laterally compressed, densely pilose, ovoid, with 
branched placentas ovuliferous on both surfaces, style 
elongate, stigma briefly bilobed-stomatomorphic. Fruit 
a laterally compressed loculicidal capsule shorter than 
calyx with 2 apiculate pilose valves and minute brown 
granular-striate seeds. 
Resia nimbicola H. EF. Moore sp. nov. 
Folia cuneato-oblanceolata, acuta, 5-81.5 cm. longa. 
Corollae tubus 7-11 mm. longus, extus pilosus, lobis su- 
e 
perioribus 1.5-4 mm. longis, inferioribus 8-5 mm. longis. 
Fructus valvae 2.5 mm. longae. 
Stems to 20 cm. long or more, 10-18 mm. thick, with 
corky pale bark. Leaves cuneate-oblanceolate, acute, 
petiole brown-villous, 2-12 mm. long, blades drying 
papyraceous, 5—-31.5 cm. long, 1.2—5.6 em. wide, green 
and glabrous above, paler and densely pale or rufous- 
appressed-pilose or villous below, especially along promi- 
nent mid-nerve and 15-50 lateral nerves and pilose to 
hispidulous on prominently reticulate secondary nerves, 
margin serrulate to serrate. Inflorescences shorter than 
leaves, slender peduncles rufous-villous, to 12.5 em. long, 
flowers to 16 in an irregularly cymose arrangement. Pedi- 
cels 8-20 mm. long, or, in fruit, to 25 mm. long and 
thickened apically, sparsely to very densely rufous-villous 
or more rarely merely pilose and sometimes glandular. 
Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, 5-8 mm. long, 1 mm. wide 
at anthesis, becoming 7-14 mm. long in fruit, 3 nerves 
slender at anthesis, becoming much thickened and usu- 
ally branched to 5 or 7 in fruit, these thickened nerves 
persisting as skeletonized remains in age, surface hispidu- 
lous and densely rufous-villous at least along mid-nerve. 
Corolla-tube 7-11 mm. long at anthesis, pilose toward 
limb outside, glabrous within, limb pilose outside and 
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