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pedicels slender, 4-8 mm. long; hypanthium 3 mm. long; calyx-lobes 4, linear-subulate, 4-5 
mm. long, attenuate, glandular-denticulate near the base; corolla funnelform, 2.2—2.5 em. long 
(white?), the tube 6-7 mm. long, 4-angulate, the limb 2—2.5 cm. broad, the 4 lobes broadly 
ovate-deltoid, 8-10 mm. long, obtuse or acutish; anthers linear, 8 mm. long; capsule oval- 
orbicular, 7-11 mm. long and wide, strongly compressed, bisulcate, obscurely costate, rounded 
at both ends, brown. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near the Hacienda de Huijastla, Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION: Hidalgo to Oaxaca. 
9. Portlandia grandiflora I. Syst. ed. 10.928. 1759. 
Portlandia grandiflora latifolia DC. Prodr. 4: 405. 1830. 
Shrub, 3 meters high, glabrous throughout, the branchlets stout, subangulate, green, the 
internodes short; stipules distinct, deltoid or rounded-deltoid, 5-8 mm. long, acute or obtuse, 
sometimes cuspidate, thin; petioles stout, 5-10 mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic-oblong to oval, 
11-20 cm. long, 5.5-9 cm. wide, acute or subabruptly acuminate at the apex, acutish to rounded 
at the base, coriaceous, lustrous, the venation prominent on both surfaces, the costa stout, 
the lateral veins slender, 7-10 on each side, subarcuate, laxly anastomosing near the margin, 
the margins plane; flowers axillary, solitary, the pedicels very stout, 1 cm. long or shorter; 
hypanthium narrowly turbinate, 1-1.5 cm. long; calyx-lobes elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate, 2—3.5 
em. long, acute or abruptly acuminate, foliaceous, several-nerved; corolla tubular-funnelform, 
16-20 cm. long, white, the tube 6-8 cm. long, 5-6 mm. thick, the 5 lobes broadly triangular, 
about 3 cm. long, acute or obtuse. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica, in thickets at lower and middle altitudes, in moist districts; St. Thomas 
native?). 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. pl. 44; Gaertn. Fruct. pl. 31; Bot. Mag. pl. 286; Lam. 
Tab. Encye. #l. 162; P. Br. Hist. Jam. pl. 11. 
10. Portlandia pendula C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 126. 1866. 
Pendent shrub, 2 meters long or more, glabrous throughout; branches grayish-yellow, 
the branchlets quadrangular, slender, green; stipules annular, 2-3 mm. long, the lobes tri- 
angular, cuspidate; petioles 3-6 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate-oval or elliptic, 2-6 cm. long, 1—2.5 
cm. wide, acute or abruptly acute or acuminate at the apex, the tip acute or obtuse, obtuse or 
acute at the base and decurrent, thin-coriaceous, dark-green on the upper surface and duli or 
sublustrous, mottled with bronze, slightly paler green beneath, the margin plane or subrevolute, 
the costa slender but prominent, the lateral veins slender, about 4 on each side, sometimes 
nearly obsolete; flowers fragrant, axillary, usually solitary, the pedicels slender, 1-2 cm. long, 
usually recurved, angulate; hypanthium 5 mm. long; calyx-lobes 5, linear-subulate or linear, 
12-20 mm. long, acute or attenuate, green mottled with bronze; corolla 5—5.5 cm. long, white, 
the 5 lobes triangular, acute; capsule oval, 8-10 mm. long, 6-7 mm. wide, bisulcate, obscurely 
costate, green mottled with bronze; seeds only slightly compressed, reddish-brown, 1 mm. 
long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Western Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: On limestone cliffs, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 
ILLUSTRATION: E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 44: f. 7, H. 
11. Portlandia Lindeniana (A. Rich.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 41: 
Zoe BOTA. 
Gonianthes Lindeniana A. Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11:10. 1850. 
Portlandia gypsophila Macfad.; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 324. 1861. 
Tree, up to 8 meters high, glabrous throughout, the bark pale brownish-yellow, irregularly 
furrowed, the branchlets stout, subterete, the internodes short; stipules annular, 5-8 mm. long, 
the lobes broadly triangular, cuspidate, thin; petioles stout, 5-8 mm. long, compressed; leaf- 
blades narrowly ovate-oblong to elongate lance-oblong, 11-20 cm. long, 4-5.5 cm. wide, acute 
to acuminate at the apex, usually subabruptly so, rounded to acute at the base, coriaceous, 
