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the lobes 12 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, lance-oval, short-acuminate, 
acute, pilose within and without, bearing 5 squamae opposite 
its lobes, these broadly oval, with rounded apex, as long as 
the disk; corolla short, hypocrateriform, 11-12 mm. long ex- 
clusive of the lobes, which are strongly reflexed, 1 cm. long 
and nearly as broad, ovate with rounded apex, pubescent 
without, glabrous within; tube within glabrous below the stamens, 
bearing a densely pilose, slightly intruded fold opposite each sta- 
men and slightly longer than the latter, alternating with these 5 
white reflexed tips ; anthers long-acuminate, very acute, narrowly 
winged along the middle of the inner face, pilose without, the cau- 
dz long and acutely acuminate, divergent, the middle portions ad- 
herent to the stigma; disk of 5 thick and fleshy oblong lobes 
with rounded apex, bluntly keeled, about equalling the ovaries; 
style including stigma, m. long, the ring thick and fleshy, the 
stigma ovoid, lightly but distinctly 2-lobed at the summit; fruit 
18-20 cm. long, thickness nearly uniform, 6-7 mm., falcate or 
nearly straight, obtuse, ferruginous ; seed blackish, 1 cm. long, flat, 
twisted and wrinkled, acuminate but not acute, the coma fine, 
2-3 cm. loug 
Yungas, 1890 (403). 
For the generic determination of this plant I am indebted to 
Dr. Johann Mueller of Geneva. 
Forsteronia Sellowit Muell. Arg. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 6: 1. IOI. 
Songo, Nov. 1891. (850) — Sellow's 7352. 
FORSTERONIA MOLLIS sp. n. 
. Soft-downy ; branchlets slender, upwardly curved, red-brown 
with light brown dots, minutely downy, leafy, the lower leaves 
small; petioles 5-8 mm. long, margined; leaves, except the low- 
