188] UNDESCRIBED PLANTS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA 157 
puberula. Discus pulvinatus. Ovarium conicum lepidotum, 
ovulis in utroque loculo 4-serialibus. 
Leaves simple, crowded toward the end of branchlets, membranaceous, 
minutely lepidote, 13-17 < 4.5—5°™, midrib stout beneath; lateral nerves 
spreading at nearly a right angle, 14-18 to the side, conspicuous beneath. 
Peduncles stout; bracts linear, 1.5°™ long. Calyx smooth and shining, 
becoming black in drying, 3.2°™ long. Corolla (imperfectly developed in the 
specimens) scarcely twice longer than calyx, eternally glabrescent, tube at 
base 5™" broad. Stamens inserted a little below middle of tube, subexsert; 
cells of anthers elliptical, 4™™ long, divaricate. Disk 3™™ high, 5™™ broad. 
Ovary 5" long, lips of stigma obtuse. Capsule not present.— Approaching 
F, ebtusifolia Bur. by its equally large calyx, but differing by sessile and 
acuminate leaves and by inflorescence. 
Forests of Tablazo, Costa Rica, alt. 1800", Apr. 1893, Zonduz, no. 7937 
. Mat. C.R, 
Aegiphila odontophylla Donn. Sm. (§ Cymosar Schau.)— 
Pubes pallide ochracea, in ramulis inflorescentiaque tomentulosa, 
in calyce foliorumque nervis subfurfuracea. Ramuli obtuse quad- 
fangulati verrucosi. Folia praeter nervos glabrescentia oblongo- 
Sbovata acute acuminata in petiolum attenuata, ambitu toto 
= setrato. Pedunculi petiolos subaequantes cymis pluries 
ee laxifloris paulo breviores. Calyx obconicus venosus, 
semiorbicularibus nervo excurrente apiculatis. Corolla 
abra, lobis ovalibus. 
ring wresoPPOsite, I-1.49™ x 3.5-:,.5°m- lateral nerves 8-I0 to the side, like 
mie €nt and conspicuous beneath; margin, except at base, conspicu- 
Cymes ite teeth antrorse and mucronate-apiculate ; petioles 1-1.5° long. 
* ag furnished with a few large glands, lobes 1.5™™ long. Corolla 
aa “Morphous, 1.2°™ long ; lobes obtuse, 5™™ long. Drupes not present. 
1838 p; ts ®n southern slope of Vulcdn Barba, Costa Rica, alt. 2100", July 
» Aulier, no, 288 herb. nat. C. R. 
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