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softly pilose like the inflorescence-axis and pedicels with subspread- 
ing slightly curved shorter and wide-spreading slightly longer hairs. 
Leaves ovate, obtusish to acute, mucronulate, cuneate at base, 
firm, with about 5 pairs of lateral nerves, somewhat reticulate, 
above dark green, softly pubescent with longish ascending hairs, 
beneath somewhat paler, densely and softly spreading-pilose along 
the veins, less densely or sparsely so between them with spreading 
or ascending hairs, 2.5-7.1 cm. long, 1.1—2.8 em. wide, on densely 
and puberulous with short wide-spreading hairs, rather deeply but 
narrowly emarginate, 9-11 mm. long, 7-8.8 mm. wide. Seed ellip- 
soid, pilose, 6 mm. long. Aril 3 mm. long, with very indistinct 
umbo, scarious, somewhat pubescent and ciliate, with obliquely 
ascending dorsal edge and obliquely descending ventral, the mar- 
gin about 6-toothed, not lobed. — Chod. Monog. ii. 35 (1893). — 
Panama: Boquete, Veraguas, Feb. 1849, Seemann 1645 (BK); 
without locality, Seemann p. p. (G: probably a part of Seemann 
1645). — Based by Chodat on specimens collected by Wagner 
(‘‘ fase. 3. 2 Send.’’) in Panama in the Provinces Chiriquiri and 
a 
66. P. isotricha, nom. nov. Suffruticulosa erecta 4 dm. alta et 
ultra basi invisa. Caulis sparse ramosus dense pubescens pilis aliis 
lateraliter incurvis subaequalibus aliis perpaucis paullo longioribus 
incurvis adjectis. Folia ovata vel rhomboideo-ovata rare ovalia 
acuta rare obtuse mucronata basi cuneata chartacea subreticulata 
(venis lateralibus ca. 5-6-jugis) supra subsparse subtus subdense 
puberula pilis incurvis brevibus (subtus perpaucis longioribus inter- 
dum adjectis) 3.5-6 cm. longa 1.1-2.5 em. lata, in petiolis 2-2.5 mm. 
longis. Racemi anthesi 4-7 cm. longi aetate 15-18.5 cm. longi 
subdensiflori ut caules puberuli. Sepala ovato-lanceolata acumi- 
nata sparse pilosa et ciliata 4 mm. longa. Alae oblongo-obovatae 
obtusae in costa sparsissime puberulae margine glabrae 8-9.5 mm. 
