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subdeltoidea, medio vel sub medio affixa, utrinque vel basi saltem 
obtusa, circiter 1 mm. longa, hyalina, Utriculi e stolonibus rhizoideis 
vel foliis orti, stipitati, globosi, 0°5-0°75 mm. diametro, labio 
superiore glanduloso-fimbriato lato. Bracteae foliis caulinis similes, 
nisi magis oblongae, circiter 1°5 mm. longae ; bracteolae subulatae, 
1 mm. vel ultra longae ; pedicelli 1-1°75 mm. longi, tenues. Calyx 
labiis late ovatis obtusis, inferiore majore sub anthesi ad 2 mm. longo 
saepe emarginato. Corolla violacea; labium superum anguste 
oblongum, vix 2 mm. longum, erectum ; labium inferum ore ascendente 
ate subquadratum, emarginatum, a mm. longum ; calcar fere 
rectum, descendens, subobtusum, 4 mm. longum, subinflatum. 
Staminum filamenta linearia. Stylus distinctus, ultra 0°5 mm. longus. 
Capsula ellipsoidea vel ellipsoidea-globosa, 2°5 mm, longa, e calyce 
vaululo exserta. Semina ellipsoidea, 0°25 mm. longa, eximie spinu- 
loso-muriculata, spinulis obtusis magis minusve seriatim dispositis. 
ENTRAL CHINA. Kwei Chou: Pin-fa, Cavalerie, 811 (comm, 
A. Léveillé), 
568. Tabebuia stenocalyx, Sprague et Stapf (Bignoniaceae- 
Tecomeae]; species insignis calyce angusto, corollae tubo gracili 
-ad 3 cylindrico, ovulis in utroque loculo biseriatis. 
rbor procerior; ramuli novelli compressi, lepidoti, citissime 
glabrati, crebre lenticellati, vetustiores teretes, robusti cortice pallido 
obtecti. Folia elliptica, apice obtusissima vel rotundata, saepe 
leviter retusa, basi subacuta, 10-15 em. longa, 7-10 em. lata, 
margine anguste recurva, costa subtus acute prominente, 
tatus, dense lepidotus, superne immerso-glandulosus, 2-2°5 cm. 
longus, ad os 0°5-0°7 cm latus, irregulariter 2-3-dentatus, uno 
latere ad 5-9 mm. fissus, dentibus latis obtusiusculis. Corolla alba, 
extus glabra ; tubus 5-5°5 em. longus, ad 2 cylindricus 2-3 mm. 
latus, abhine dilatatus ad os ad 12 mm. latus, intus supra stamina 
vittis papilloso-pubescentibus ad limbi sinus ascendentibus notatus ; 
lobi late ovati, obtusi, ad 2 em. longi, fere ad 1°5 cm. lati, supra 
papulosi. Stamina circiter 18 mm. sub ore inserta, filamentis sub- 
aequalibus, 7°5 mm, longis ; staminodium 3°5 mm. longum. Discus 
utroque latere dissepimenti biseri Si ; i geoigee bl 
horizontaliter affixa. Fructus j ae ones PeeeE e 
I Government House Grounds, Broadway, 2888. 
- distinct species which differs from those previously 
described in having only two rows of ovules in each cell. It ma 
possibly represent a new genus, but until fruits are known it seems 
t to place it in Tabebuia. 
re are specimens of an allied species in t w Herbarium 
from “ Brazil, Hort. Kew” (Herb. Hook.), and eS ye Pomeroon 
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