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5. Duggena ovatifolia (Donn. Smith) Standley, Contr. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 126. 1916. 



Gonzalea ovatifolia Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 27: 336. 1899. 

 Gonzalagimia ovatifolia B. h. Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 45: 405. 1910. 



Shrub, 2-3 meters high, the branchlets slender, densely pilose-sericeous; stipules narrowly 

 triangular-subulate, 6-8 mm. long, strigose; leaves mostly subsessile, the petioles stout, 4 mm. 

 long or shorter, the blades oval-ovate or broadly oblong-ovate, 7.5-12 cm. long, 3.5-6.5 cm. 

 wide, rounded at the base, abruptly or subabruptly acuminate to long-attenuate at the apex, 

 membranaceous, bright-green above, glabrous or strigose along the veins, the venation plane 

 or prominulous, slightly paler beneath, sericeous-strigose when young, especially along the 

 veins, glabrate in age, the lateral veins prominent, 8-11 on each side, broadly arcuate-ascend- 

 ing; inflorescence spiciform, 8-33 cm. long, the peduncles 2-3 cm. long, the cymules 1-5- 

 flowered, sessile, the pedicels 2 mm. long or shorter; bracts subulate, 5 mm. long or shorter, the 

 bractlets minute; calyx and hypanthium densely strigose, the hypanthium 1.5 mm. long, 

 the 4 calyx-lobes 1-2 mm. long, oblong or elliptic, obtuse; corolla white, strigose, 3-3.5 mm. 

 long, the tube stout, the 4 lobes rounded, half as long as the tube or shorter; stamens 4, in- 

 cluded; style quadrifid, included; fruit depressed-globose, white at maturity, tetracoccous, 

 2.5-3 mm. broad, strigose; seeds brown. 



Type locality: Atirro, Province of Cartago, Costa Rica, altitude 600 meters. 



Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama. 



6. Duggena brachyantha (A. Rich.) Standley, Contr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 18: 125. 1916. 



Pelesia spicata Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1945, in part. 1806. 



Gonzalea brachyantha A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 16. 1850. 



Gonzalea Petesia Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 321. 1861. 



Gonzalagimia hirsula Petesia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 284. 1891. 



Gonzalagunia Petesia Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23: 289. 1894. 



Gonzalagunia brachyantha Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 400. 1912. 



Duggena Pelesia Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 126. 1916. 



Shrub or small tree, up to 5 meters high, the branches slender, brown, strigose or pilose 

 when young; stipules 5-10 mm. long, triangular, subulate-acuminate, densely sericeous within; 

 petioles 0.4—1.5 cm. long; leaf -blades narrowly elliptic-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or ovate- 

 oblong, 6.5-15.5 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, acute or attenuate at the base, usually subabruptly 

 acuminate to long-attenuate at the apex, membranaceous or chartaceous, bright-green above, 

 often lustrous, glabrous or when young sparsely pilose, the venation prominulous, paler be- 

 neath, sparsely pilose, especially along the veins, or glabrate, the lateral veins prominulous, 

 5-9 on each side, arcuate, usually ascending at an angle of 45° or less; inflorescence spiciform, 

 6-15 cm. long, often dense, short-pedunculate, the cymules few-flowered, sessile or subsessile, 

 the bracts subulate, 2-3 mm. long, the pedicels 1 mm. long or shorter; calyx and hypanthium 

 1.5-2 mm. long, sparsely strigillose, the 4 calyx-lobes deltoid, acute or obtuse, shorter than the 

 tube; corolla white, about 3 mm. long, sparsely appressed-pilose, the 4 lobes about half as 

 long as the tube; style quadrifid; fruit tetracoccous, globose, about 2.5 mm. in diameter; 

 seeds brown. 



Type locality: Near Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola. 



7. Duggena thyrsoidea (Donn. Smith) Standley, Contr. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 126. 1916. 



Gonzalea thyrsoidea Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 13: 188. 1888. 

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



Branches stout, hirsute; stipules deltoid-acuminate, 6-7 mm. long; petioles stout, 5-8 mm. 

 long, hirsute; leaf-blades elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 20-23 cm. long, acuminate at each end, 

 lustrous above, sparsely pilose, pilose beneath along the veins; inflorescence about 30 cm. long, 

 the flowers pedicellate, in 3-7-flowered subsessile cymes; hypanthium short, the calyx-lobes 

 triangular, unequal; corolla sparsely appressed-pilose outside, the tube 14 mm. long, 3 mm. 

 thick in the throat, the lobes nearly half as long, farinaceous and arachnoid within; anthers 

 subexserted; style included, the stigma 4-lobate; ovary 4-cellcd. 



Type locality: Mountains of Pansamala, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, altitude 1140 meters. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



