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Н. magnifolia. Costa Кіса. 
Н. ovata. "Venezuela. 
H. Rovirosae. "Tabasco; Guatemala. 
Н. pedicellata. Colombia; Venezuela; Trinidad; Dominica; 
St. Vincent. 
Н. tubiflora. Colombia. 
Н. viridifolia. Costa Rica. 
Н. brachystemon. New Grenada. 
Н. Brittoniana. Costa Rica. 
Hamelia axillaris Sw. of Jamaica, reduced by Grisebach to 
Н. lutea Rohr, is maintained as a species, on the evidence of the 
specimens collected long ago by Swartz and by W. Wright, 
preserved in the herbarium of the British Museum, but this does 
not appear to be conclusive, and axillaris is the older name. 
For this species Mr. Wernham cites also Tonduz 0098 in the Kew 
Herbarium, but this is from Costa Rica not Jamaica. 
H. pedicellata Wernham does not appear to be certainly dis- 
tinct from H. erecta Jacq. (Н. patens Jacq. a posterior name) 
from which it is separated by its scanty pubescence and “ mostly ” 
pedicelled flowers; but some of the flowers of H. erecta are often 
pedicelled, and as Mr. Wernham remarks, the pubescence of 
erecía is a very variable quantity. 
To the genus may be added: 
Hamelia scabrida sp. nov. 
A small tree, 4 m. high. Leaves opposite, or those of small 
twigs whorled in 3's, broadly ovate, rather firm in texture, the 
blade 10 cm. long or less, short-acuminate at the apex, rounded 
or narrowed at the base, scabrate with numerous scattered short 
conic papillae on the upper surface, pubescent and with some 
similar papillae on the veins beneath; veins about 7 on each side 
of the midrib, widely ascending; petioles 2 cm. long or less; 
stipules triangular, subulate-tipped; flowers sessile or short- 
pedicelled, secund on the branches of terminal forking cymes; 
calyx campanulate, glabrous, 3-4 mm. long, its teeth triangular, 
abruptly subulate-tipped, 1-1.5 mm. long; corolla yellow, 
narrowly funnelform, 3-4 cm. long, its lobes 3 mm. long, obtuse; 
stamens and style very nearly as long as the corolla; berry oblong, 
10-14 mm. long, 8-9 mm. in diameter; seeds 1 mm. long, shining, 
distinctly minutely tuberculate. 
