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yellow; peduncle short (5-10 mm. long), bearing at the summit a 
‘suborbicular cordate bract about 1 cm. in diameter (rarely larger 
and more like the leaves, rarely absent) and one or two elongated 
pedicels (4-9 cm. long), slightly thickened near their summits, 
these rarely bearing a small clasping suborbicular bract about 
4 mm. broad below the middle. Calyx three-parted, with the 
segments ovate-triangular, 2-3 mm. long; petals six, equal, lance- 
linear, 15-25 mm. long, never widely spreading, the tips incurved 
and the edges revolute, finely pubescent on the outside and 
covered with minute yellowish green granules on the inner surface; 
torus convex or depressed-hemispherical, thickly covered with 
short straight fulvous hairs and bearing numerous closely crowded 
stamens surrounding the gynoecium; stamens 1.5 mm. long, with 
the brown connective broadly expanded above the two parallel 
pale straw-colored pollen sacs into a concave thickish disk; carpels 
seven to fifteen, ovaries 2 mm. long, clothed with fulvous hairs, 
containing two to eight ovules in a single vertical column and 
bearing a subglobose brown stigma clothed with short erect hairs; 
maturing carpels five to twelve, stipitate, oval to oblong, 14-18 
mm. long and 10-14 mm. in diameter, very slightly constricted 
between the seeds, and rounded at each end; stipe (carpophore) 
8-10 mm. long and 1.5-2 mm. thick; seeds two to six, disk-shaped, 
with an impressed line around the periphery, those at the ends 
depressed hemispherical. [PLATE a 
Type in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, collected 
by Sutton Hayes in “woods near Gattin Station on the old 
Panama Railway, January 30, 1860.” Specimen of type collection 
in United States National Herbarium bearing same data (sheet 
No. 314144). 
DistRiBuTION: Known only from the Panama Canal Zone. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED 
PANAMA: Type as cited; same locality and data (type col- 
lection) in United States National Herbarium (sheet No. 314144); 
in forest, railroad relocation Caimito and New F rijoles, Canal 
Zone, altitude 10-50 m., “5 to 8 m., fls. yellow,” January 7, 1911 
Pittier 2269; hills around the Agua Clara Reservoir, near Gatin, 
Canal Zone, altitude 20-30 m., “a little tree with straight trunk 
4 meters high, flowers greenish yellow,” February 5, 1911, Pitter 
2660. 
This interesting species, hitherto known only from the type 
collection, was collected by Professor Henry Pittier during his 
