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arcuate; peduncles stout or slender, 7-15 cm. long, compressed, glabrous or puberulent, the 
cymes much branched, 6-18 cm. broad, the branches stout, compressed, ferrugino-puberulent; 
bracts minute or rarely foliaceous; pedicels 1-2 mm. long, the flowers often sessile; hypanthium 
puberulent; calyx minutely denticulate; corolla white, glabrous outside, 4-6 mm. long, the 
tube one fifth to one third the total length, the throat densely white-villous, the lobes 
oblong, obtuse; filaments equaling or exceeding the corolla-lobes; anthers 1-2 mm. long; 
capsule 2-5 mm. long, 2-3.5 mm. thick, often produced above the hypanthium; seeds orbicular 
or irregularly angulate, 0.4-0.6 mm. long, the testa reticulate, sometimes produced at the angles. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Martinique. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba, Jamaica, and the Lesser Antilles. 
ILLUSTRATION: E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 44: f. 6, A-E. 
2. Chimarrhis ferruginea Standley. 
Rustia ferruginea Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 142. 1916. 
Small tree; young branches stout, ferrugino-puberulent; petioles stout,1-3 cm. long, 
sulcate above, rounded beneath; leaf-blades obovate or oval-obovate, 15-30 cm. long, 7-12 
em. wide, rather abruptly acute or acuminate at the apex, acuminate or attenuate at the base, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous on the upper surface, densely ferrugino-puberulent beneath, the 
costa prominent beneath, the lateral veins slender, 13-16 on each side, subarcuate; peduncles 
very stout, about 2.5 cm. long, compressed, densely puberulent, the cymes rather few-flowered, 
8-10 cm. long; bracts minute; flowers sessile or nearly so; hypanthium puberulent; calyx ob- 
scurely denticulate; corolla white, glabrous outside, the tube 2—4 mm. long, the lobes about as 
long as the tube, lance-triangular, acute, thick, reflexed, the throat very densely villous with 
long coarse white hairs; stamens shorter than the hairs of the throat, the anthers about i 
mm. long. 
Type LocaLity: Along the Rio Faté, Province of Colén, Panama, in forests or thickets, at an 
altitude of 10 to 100 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
3. PICARDAEA Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 376. 1903. 
Shrubs or trees, with terete branches. Leaves petiolate, the blades chartaceous, very 
minutely pellucid-punctate, entire. Stipules interpetiolar, short, scale-like or subannular, 
coriaceous, persistent. Inflorescence terminal, racemose or corymbose, few-flowered; hypan- 
thium turbinate, subcompressed, the calyx very short, entire; corolla coriaceous, the tube sub- 
funnelform, villous within, the 5 lobes valvate, fleshy, short-villous within along the margins, 
suberect. Stamens 5, inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube; filaments stout, linear, sub- 
villosulous at the base; anthers dorsifixed, oblong, exserted, dehiscent by longitudinal anterior 
slits. Disk fleshy, concave, entire. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, stout, the branches 2, 
oblong-linear, obtuse, papillose within; placentae thick, affixed to the septum; ovules very 
numerous. Capsule oval or obovoid, 10-costate, the exocarp coriaceous, the endocarp woody, 
loculicidally dehiscent from the base, the 2 carpels separating at the base and finally at the apex. 
Seeds very numerous, crowded, mostly subquadrate or triangular, the testa reticulate; en- 
dosperm fleshy; embryo cylindric, the cotyledons ovate, shorter than the radicle. 
Type species, Picardaea haitiensis Urban. 
Leaf-blades 5-8 cm. long, 3-4 em. wide; corolla reddish; capsule 12-14 mm. long; 
stipules scale-like, triangular, very shortly acuminate. 1. P. haitiensis. 
Leaf blades 10-15 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide; corolla ochroleucous; capsule 10 mm. 
long or less; stipules annular, cuspidate. 2. P. cubensis. 
1. Picardaea haitiensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 377. 1903. 
Tree or shrub, glabrous; branches grayish-brown; stipules scale-like, triangular, very 
shortly acuminate, 1.5—2 mm. long; petioles 4-8 mm. long, slender; leaf-blades oval-elliptic, 
6-8 cm. long, 3-4 em. wide, widest at or slightly above the middle, gradually narrowed to the 
base, obtuse at the apex, lustrous, the costa prominent, the lateral veins 6-8 on each side, 
subarcuate; peduncles about 2 cm. long, the inflorescences 2-4 em. long; lower bracts some- 
