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the back of the tip. Petals about 8-10 mm. long, narrowed below 

 into a claw, the upper portion obliquely ovate, about 5 mm. wide, 

 oblique and retuse at apex, finely stellate tomentose on the outside, 

 glabrous and pinkish inside. Anthers 9-11 mm. long, from a shortly 

 spurred base gradually long tapering, the base of the connective on 

 the back densely stipitate glandular. Style fleshy, about i mm. 

 thick, 17-18 mm. long, curved, stigmatic at the apex. 



519. Tamonea androsaemifolia (Grisebach) Jennings, comb. nov. 



(Plate XXIII.) 



Miconia androsmmifolia Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, 

 p. 100. 



In the absence of a recent extended description of the species, the 

 following description is given, in the hope that it may be of assistance 

 in making more clear the systematic relationship: 



Shrub, six or eight feet high, of straggly aspect, the few main 

 branches being tufted at the ends with usually one to four pairs of 

 chestnut-colored branchlets about two to six inches long, plant glabrous 

 in all parts: leaves approximate, 2 to 4 cm. long, about half as wide, 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, sessile or very nearly so, the base subcordate or 

 slightly clasping, margin entire and usually more or less narrowly 

 revolute, the apex obtuse, leaves yellowish-green above, quite de- 

 cidedly so beneath, the two (or four) lateral nerves and the cross 

 veins almost hidden in the rather thick and coriaceous lamina; in- 

 florescence rather densely cymose, terminal, about 2 to 4 cm. long, 

 extending somewhat beyond the uppermost leaves; peduncles and 

 pedicels two-bracteolate at the summit, the bracts partly fallen by 

 flowering time; calyx-tube 2-3 mm. long, subglobose to oval, con- 

 stricted at the neck and with 4 short triangular spreading lobes; 

 petals 4, distinctly clawed, the lamina 4-5 mm. long, more or less 

 broadly ovate or ovate-cordate, obtuse, widely spreading, when 

 freshly opened bright scarlet to reddish-orange and in age and in dried 

 specimens becoming more or less completely orange-yellow; stamens 

 exserted, the connective not prolonged below the anthers but abruptly 

 bent at the base of the anther, the anthers 1.5-2 mm. long, ventrally 

 somewhat gibbous, opening by one terminal pore; style curved, slender, 

 about 4-5 mm. long; capsule 3-4 mm. in diameter, globose, dark 

 chestnut-brown, smooth to somewhat verruculose, 2-loculed; seeds 

 yellowish, smooth, obpyramidal, the sides angled, the top slightly 

 convex, about i mm. long. 



