BLAKE: NEw AMERICAN CONNARACEAE 275 
Ww 
surface; panicles pyramidal, inet usually from the base, 
densely griseous-pilosulous with hgh ading hairs; pedicels 4-5 
mm. long; calyx 3.5-4 mm. long, densely griseous-pilosulous, 
the lobes ovate; petals 4.5 mm. ee. follicle glabrous, striatulate, 
about 1.4 c m. lon ng. 
es (2.2-8 cm. long) and rachis (3.5-8 cm. long) densely 
griseous-puberulous, glabrescent; petiolules 2-4 mm. long; 
leaflets oval or the lower sometimes suborbicular-ovate, the 
lateral 5-11 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, the terminal 9-11.5 cm. 
long, 5-6.7 cm. wide, the extreme apex obtuse, the chief lateral 
veins about 6 pairs; panicles 8-16 cm. long (including peduncle), 
the bracts minute, about 1 mm. long, the branches erectish or 
spreading, few- to many-flowered, the pedicels jointed near the 
base; calyx lobes erect, broadly ovate, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 
about three times as long as the tube, the outer acute or sub- 
acuminate, the inner obtuse or rounded; petals obovate, obtuse, 
erect, 4.5 mm. long, 2.2 mm. wide; filaments slender above the 
connate bases, the longer stamens about equaling the petals; 
carpels densely pilose; fruiting calyx somewhat accrescent, 
firm, 4.5-5 mm. long, enclosing the ie of the fruit, the latter 
very slightly curved; seed 1 cm. lon 
PANAMA: foothills of Cageek Sambi Basin, southern 
Darién, altitude 30-500 meters, February, 1912, H. Pittier 5613 
(type in U. S. National Herbarium, No. 715887); in forests, 
Loma de La Gloria, near Fat6 (Nombre de Dios), Province of 
Colén, altitude 10-104 meters, August 23, 1911, H. Pittier 4247. 
0. 4247 is said to be a vine with yellowish flowers. The 
species is well distinguished by the griseous pubescence of the 
panicles, lower leaf surface, and calyx, and by the long pedicels. 
