up to about 48 cm. long, 86 cm. wide, basally inequi- 
laterally truncate, apically abruptly acute, marginally 
very distantly and very deeply sinuate, strongly petio- 
late (petiole up to 12 cm. long, densely white-stellate- 
tomentose); upper surface coarsely tomentose and 
densely clad with somewhat stiff sericeous white hairs 
(some of which have basally a stellate formation) sparsely 
interspersed with white stellate hairs: nether surface 
very softly and densely white-stellate-tomentulose; veins 
strong and conspicuous above and below, extremely 
densely white-stellate-tomentose. Inflorescence a lateral, 
very short-peduncled, few-flowered cyme. Flowers pedi- 
cellate; pedicels up to 6 mm. long, 1.5—2 mm. in diam- 
eter, very densely stellate-tomentulose. Calyx lobes 
somewhat crassulent, more or less triangular-ovate, api- 
‘ally subacute, up to about 15 mm. long, very densely 
and softly greyish brown-stellate-tomentose without, 
glabrous but with minute white scabs within. Corolla 
membranaceous, white or greenish white, lobes oblong- 
ovate, up to about 20 mm. long, apically subacute, gla- 
brous within, densely stellate-tomentulose without. An- 
thers yellow, erect, linear, about 9-10 mm. long. Style 
terete, 7-8 mm. long. Ovary globose, very densely long- 
white-sericeous. Fruit subglobose to ovoid, ripening 
orange-red, sometimes tomato-red, densely and minutely 
stellate-tomentulose (hairs easily caducous upon hand- 
ling), becoming subglabrous upon ripening. Pulp acid- 
ulous. Seeds very numerous, flat, oval in outline, 3-4 
mm. long, 2.2.5 mm. wide, pale yellowish. 
CoLtompia: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Caqueta, vicinity of La 
Pedrera. “‘Fruit dark red-rust, hairy. Flowers white. Bush.*’ April 
1944, R. FE. Schultes 5881.—Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Loretoyacu. 
Altitude about 100 m. September 1946, R. F. Schultes §& G. A. Black 
S394,—Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Apaporis, Soratama, near mouth 
of Rio Kananari. ““Cultivated. Fruit edible. Flowers whitish with yel- 
low anthers. Fruit ovoid, orange, covered with hair in unripe stage. 
Lulo. Tupiri.’* March 1951, R. E. Sehultes 12081.—Comisaria del 
