219 
* 
mm. long, oblong-oblanceolate, strongly sagittate, the apex 
slightly incurved, the caudae slightly recurved ; entire pistil about 
the length of an anther. 
Yungas, 1890 (274). Apparently the same as Glaziou's 14064. 
Near F. Brasiliensis A.DC. 
FORSTERONIA OBSCURA sp. n. 
Branchlets numerous, slender, strongly recurved, 1.5-2 dm. 
long including the panicle, leafy, dark brown, minutely puberu- 
lent; petioles stout, margined, 5-7 mm. long; leaves 6-10 cm. 
long, 2-3 cm. Broad, lanceolate, the base blunt to rounded, the 
apex tapering and acute, membranaceous, rigid, very dark green, 
glabrous, minutely puberulent on the midrib below, the princi- 
pal primary Veins 8-10 pairs, these connected by sub-parallel 
secondary ones; panicles shortly and stoutly peduncled, narrowly 
pyramidal, curved, 6-10 cm. long, about 2 cm. broad, brown; 
flowers on short stout slightly angled pedicels, each subtended by 
one or two subulate downy bracts; calyx-teeth open and reflexed 
in the bud, lance-linear, tapering from the base, acute, 3 mm. long; 
disk 5-lobed, the lobes slightly exceeding the ovaries, rounded at 
the apex; corolla 4 mm. long, the tube very short, barbellate 
within, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute; stamens 3 mm. long, 
the anthers one-half longer than the filament ; ovaries short, broad. 
Songo, Nov. 1890 (855). 
Ecurres Borıvıana Britton, Ms. 
Branches slender, reddish, glabrate; the younger portions, peti- 
oles, pedicels and calyx very finely strigose ` petioles 5-7 mm. long, 
stout; leaves 6-10 or 12 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, oblong-ovate, 
the base rounded and subcordate, the apex abruptly short-acumi- 
nate, acute, entire, upper surface as above described, lower surface 
soft gray-downy, principal veins 6 or 7 pairs, connected by the 
secondary ones; peduncles more than half the length of the 
leaves; flowers very shortly and stoutly pedicelled, the calyx 3 
mm. broad, its lobes triangular, acute, 1.5 mm. long and broad, 
the base pilose within and lined by a ring of small ligulate glands 
of irregular size; disk cup-shaped, closely enclosing the ovaries, 
half as long as the calyx, a little shorter than the ovaries, the mar- 
gin shallowly and sinuately lobed ; tube and throat of corolla 3 cm. 
long, cylindrical, somewhat dilated in the upper third, the lobes 
I.5 cm. long; throat of corolla densely bearded at and below the 
insertion of the stamens; filaments very short, strongly curved ; 
anthers oblong, 4 mm. long, reaching within 3 mm. of the base 
of the corolla-lobes; fruit 18-20 cm. long, the joints about 3 mm. 
long, 5 mm. broad, dark brown, black-dotted. 
MEM. Torr. Bor. Cp, Vol. IV., Part 3, Sig. 2, March 12, 1895. 
