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arranged in slender elongate terminal spikes or thyrsiform panicles; hypanthium globose or 

 campanulate ; calyx 4- or rarely 5-lobate, the lobes small, equal or unequal, persistent; corolla 

 funnelform or salverform, the tube short or elongate, the throat ampliate or contracted, 

 villous, the limb 4- or rarely 5-lobate, the lobes short, spreading,obtuse, valvate or imbricate, 

 1 or 2 lobes exterior. Stamens 4 or rarely 5, inserted in the tube of the corolla; filaments short; 

 anthers dorsifixed, linear-oblong, obtuse, bilobate at the base, included. Disk elevated, 

 crenulate. Ovary 2- or 4-celled ; style filiform ; stigma small, obtuse or 2- or 4-lobate, included 

 or exserted; ovules numerous, the placentae small, peltately affixed to the septum. Fruit 

 baccate, at least in age, globose, 2-4-sulcate, 2-4-celled or of 2 or 4 pyrenes, the pyrenes char- 

 taceous to osseous, many-seeded. Seeds minute, subglobose, the testa deeply foveolate; 

 endosperm fleshy; embryo clavate. 



Type species, Duggena Richardii West. 



Fruit dicoccous; style bifid. 



Bracts longer than the calyx; corolla about 4 mm. long; flowers 5-parted. 

 Bracts shorter than the calyx; corolla 7-15 mm. long; flowers 4-parted. 

 Corolla 7-8 mm. long; calyx shorter than the hypanthium. 

 Corolla 10-15 mm. long; calyx equaling or longer than the hypanthium. 

 Fruit tetracoccous; style quadrifid. 



Leaf -blades nearly sessile, rounded at the base; calyx-lobes linear or oblong. 

 Calyx-lobes linear, attenuate. 

 Calyx-lobes mostly oblong, obtuse. 

 Leaf -blades usually conspicuously petiolate and acute at the base; calyx- 

 lobes ovate or triangular. 

 Corolla about 3 mm. long. 

 Corolla 10-17 mm. long. 



Corolla-lobes nearly half as long as the tube; corolla-tube 3 mm. 



thick in the throat. 

 Corolla-lobes one fourth as long as the tube or shorter; corolla-tube 

 about 1 mm. thick in the throat. 



1. Duggena bracteosa (Donn. Smith) Standlev, Contr. U. S. 



Nat. Herb. 18: 125. 1916. 



Gonzalea bracteosa Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 33: 252. 1902. 

 Gonzalagunia bracteosa B. L. Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 45: 405. 1910. 



Shrub, 3 meters high, the branchlets pilose-sericeous; stipules lance- triangular, 1.5-2 cm. 



long, attenuate, sericeous, persistent; petioles stout, 5-9 mm. long; leaf-blades lanceolate, 



oblanceolate-oblong, or narrowly elliptic-oblong, 9-21 cm. long, 2-7 cm. wide, acute at the 



base, acute to attenuate at the apex, membranaceous, sparsely appressed-pilose above or 



glabrate, the venation plane, slightly paler beneath, sparsely appressed-pilose, the lateral 



veins prominulous, 4-8 on each side, arcuate, ascending at art angle of 45° or less; inflorescence 



5-18 cm. long, the peduncle 2-7 cm. long, the cymules few-flowered, sessile, subtended by 



foliaceous bracts, these linear or lanceolate, 5-12 mm. long, pilose; flowers about 4 mm. long, 



the hypanthium sericeous, the 5 calyx-lobes short, triangular; corolla funnelform, strigose, 



the 5 lobes villous within; fruit fleshy, black, 4 mm. in diameter, 2-celled. 



Type locality: In deep forests near Suerre, Llanuras de Santa Clara, Costa Rica, altitude 300 

 meters. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



2. Duggena Sagraeana (Urban) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. 



Herb. 18: 126. 1916. 



Gonzalea spicata DC. Prodr. 4: 437, in part. 1830. Not Lygistum spicatum Lam. 1791. 

 Gonzalagunia Sagraeana Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 399. 1912. 



Shrub, 1-2 meters high, the branches slender, sericeous-strigose when young; stipules 

 3-6 mm. long, subulate from a triangular base; petioles 2-7 mm. long; leaf-blades lanceolate or 

 lance-ovate, 5.5-11.5 cm. long, 1.3-4.5 cm. wide, acute at the base or obtuse and abruptly 

 decurrent, abruptly or gradually long-acuminate or long-attenuate at the apex, membranaceous, 

 bright-green above, strigillose or glabrous, the venation prominulous, paler beneath, appressed- 

 pilose, especially along the veins, the lateral veins prominulous, 5-8 on each side, usually 

 ascending at an acute angle; inflorescence interrupted-spiciform, 5.5-17 cm. long, short- 

 pedunculate, the cymules 1-3-flowered, sessile, the pedicels 1-2 mm. long, the bracts minute, 



