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leaves ovate to oval, acute, the base short-cuneate and tapering 
into the petiole, margin entire, not or very narrowly revolute, 
15-30 cm. long, one-third as broad, coriaceous, pale, glabrous 
both sides, above slightly shining with the midrib broad and 
channelled, underneath prominently reticulate; bracts triangular- 
ovate, slenderly and sharply acuminate, 6 mm. mm. 
broad; panicles 3 or 4, terminal or sub-terminal, tomentellate, 
the e peduncles about 4 cm. long, stout, dark, the panicles about 
8-10 cm. long, one-half to two-thirds as broad, lax and open; 
calyx 1.5 mm. long, enlarging somewhat after flowering, the 
triangular-subulate, acute, erect teeth a little shorter than the 
tube; corolla 3 mm. long, the tube short, the lobes oblong, 
erect, the essential organs much exserted. 
Yungas, 1890 (418). Distributed as Chimarrhis. 
Warszewiezia coccinea (D.C.) Klotsch, Mon. Ber. Akad. Wiss. 
Berl. 1853, 496. Yungas, 1890 (284). = Rusby 1954. 
Coccocypselum canescens, Willd., ex Ch. & Sch. Linnza, iv. 139. 
Yungas, 1890 (270). == Resembles Rusby 1896. 
Hoffmannia brachycarpa, Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xviii. 108. 
Yungas, 1890 (336). = Rusby 2522. 
HOFFMANNIA PALLIDA, sp. п. Branches woody and terete, pubes- 
cent, the younger parts, petioles, stipules, ро» ete, fer: 
ruginous-tomentose; stipules triangular, scarcel mm. lon 
and broad, acute ; leaves oblanceolate, tapering а both ends, 
much so at the base into a slender petiole of the most 
variable length, those of the pair being very unequal, 3-8 cm. 
long by 1-2 cm. wide, entire, or toward the apex sparingly 
and minutely уни above sparsely and very minutely T 
strigose, underneath very pale, similarly stigose and on the mid- 
rib and veins rer tomentulose; flowers few, the Ej 
cels slender, the latter 5-10 mm. long ; calyx tube а the open 
flower oblong, еще angled, 2 mm. long by I broad, 
the teeth triangular-sinuate ; corolla 5 mm. long, sender and 
delicate, the lobes oblong, very obtuse, surpassing by 
the ee organs; fruit nearly globose, 4-5 mm. in dates 
pale brov 
Yungas, о en 
HOFFMANNIA PEAR sp. n. Branches herbaceous, tetragonal, 
eeply sulcate, ee stipules very small, broadly triangu- 
lar; leaves oval-oblong, acuminate at both ends, the base taper- 
ing into a slender petiole I-2 cm. in length, the blade 6 to 12 
cm. in length and about half as broad, strigose and tomentose 
as in the last, the midrib broad and margined; peduncles 
crowded, pubescent, slender, 1-2 cm. long, 5-8-flowered, the 
