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Leaves scabrid above with scattered papillae, 



often suborbiciilar 17. H. j^apMosa. 



Mature leaves glabrate, or with slight indu- 

 mentum only on under midrib. 

 Flowers mostly with manifest pedicels 



18. H. pedicellata. 

 Flowei'S almost or completely sessile. 



Leaves, petioles, and calyces pui'plish ; 

 anthers with purple apical membra- 

 nous process (ex descr.)... 19. H. suavcolens. 

 Plant without purple tint; anthers without 

 any conspicuous apical process. 

 Leaves mostly 3-nate. 



Corolla-tube scarcely swollen at base 



20. H. tuhiflora. 

 Corolla-tube markedly ventricose at base 



21. H. versicolor. 

 Leaves mostly 4-nate. 



Cymes terminal, branches nodose 



22. H. nodosa. 

 Cymes borne on short axillary shoots ; 



branches not nodose ... 23. H. viridifoUa, 



Mature leaves with manifest indumentum, 



between as well as upon the veins, at least 



on the under side. 



Branches terete, vegetative parts generally 



of reddish tint, berry globose. Margin 



of calyx-limb almost entire (ex tab.) 



24. H. sphcerocarpa. 

 Branches sulcata, plant without red colour, 

 berry not globose, calyx-limb distinctly 

 toothed. 

 Stem and inflorescence densely covered 



with ferruginous hairs ... 25. H. lamigmosa. 

 Hairy covering not remarkably dense nor 



ferruginous 26. H. j^ateiis. 



Stamens not exceeding the middle of the corolla-tube 



27. H. brachystcmon. 



1. Hamelia chrysantha Swartz, Prodr. 46 (1788) ; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 442. 



Hab. Mexico : Hcsnke. Jamaica : Stvartz ! Harris, Fl. Jam. 

 9365 ! in Hb. Mus. Brit. Chilua : Hb. Moore ! in Hb. Kew. 



Tliis species is peculiar in the inflorescence ; the flowers have 

 relatively long pedicels, and are not arranged in the manifestly 

 secund manner of those of the other species. The flowers may 

 attain a length of over 2 cm., and are sometimes appreciably 

 widened above ; so that H. chrysantha may represent a transition 

 to the large-flowered forms of the H. ventricosa type. The leaves 

 are defined as opposite in the type description. One plant, how- 

 ever, in the Kew Herbarium (Chilua: Hb. Moore) bears the leaves 

 in whorls of four, but appears to differ in no other way from the 

 type of H. chrysantha. This may be a variety ; but in the absence 

 of further material, it may be well to refrain from any separate 

 description. 



