Tyre: £. L. Little & R. G. Dixon 21064, Ecuador, Provincia de 
ismeraldas, Rio Hoja Blanca con Rio Hualpi. Alt. 75 m. Arbol 
pequefia del sotobosque, de 7 m., 7 cm. d.a.p. Corteza lisa, gris. 
Corola morada, fruto comestible. Bosque himedo primario. *‘Guaya- 
billa’’. 14 Sept. 1965 (Holotype, GH; isotype, US 2689557). 
Small tree 2-7 m. tall. Branches straggling, bare, with 
smooth greyish bark. Branchlets somewhat crooked, 
terete, 2-3 mm. in diameter, glabrous, yellowish brown, 
with epidermis splitting lengthwise, internodes 10-22 
mm. long. Leaves sparse toward tips of the branchlets, 
petiolate, widely elliptic, occasionally oblong, at apex 
abruptly acuminate, the acumen often subfaleate, at base 
blunt or abruptly cuneate, blade 14-25 cm. long, 6.5- 
11.5 cm. wide, glabrous, chartaceous, dark green above, 
yellowish-green beneath, nervation prominent beneath, 
lateral nerves 4-6, spreading, arcuately anastomosing 
5-10 mm. within margin, with reticulate veinlets; peti- 
ole subterete, canaliculate above, glabrous, 6-17 mm. 
long. Inflorescence terminal at the tips of the branch- 
lets, one-flowered, bracteate. Bracts few, lanceolate, 
concave, 2-8 mm. long, puberulent. Flowers fragrant, 
showy, violet turning white with age. Pedicel erect, 
terete, thickened at apex, 8-10 mm. long, glabrous. 
Calyx tubular, ovate in bud, 20-22 mm. long, 6-8 mm. 
in diameter, weakly inflated, more or less punctate, 
firmly membranaceous, teeth subequal, ovate-lanceolate, 
4-8 mm. long, acute to acuminate at apex, glandular- 
tipped; calyx in fruit persistent, greatly accrescent, 4- 
7.5 ecm. long, to 4 mm. thick, coriaceous, somewhat 
shiny, with punctate lenticels. Corolla tube twice as long 
as calyx, cylindric, angled in cross-section, curved a little 
at apex and gradually widened, 40-45 mm. long, 8-5 
mm. in diameter, glabrous; limb spreading, 50-55 mm. 
in diameter, glabrous, the lobes rounded, subequal, the 
uppermost a little larger, overlapping at sides, 18-22 
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