96 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
8.8-17.5 em. longa 4.2-6.3em. lata. Flores in panicula brevi 
sessili ca. 20-flora terminali dense rufescenterque farinoso-tomen- 
tula aggregati, pedicellis ultimis ca. 2mm. longis. Calyx cam- 
panulatus subtruncatus vel obscure 5-dentatus ut panicula pu- 
bescens 7mm. longus. Corolla extus et intus sordide puberula 
7m. longa; tubus 7mm. longus; fauces tubuloso-infundibuli- 
formes ad 4m. longae; limbi lobi 5 ovales vel obovato-ovales 
margine plus minusve crenato-plicati ad 2.2 cm. longi. Stamina 
fertilia 4, staminodio 6 mm. longo adjuncto, filamentis 1.5 et 2.2 
em. longis. Discus subduplex obscure 5-lobatus. Ovarium gla- 
brum septo parallele compressum 2-loculare, placentis 2 in quoque 
loculo. Fructus deest.— Nicaracua: Hacienda Campuscus, 
30 Jan. 1903, C. F. Baker 2258 (rypr in Gray Herb.). — Described 
by the collector as a tree 30-40 feet high, with widely eee 
irregular top and gray broken bark, growing in open woods. 
species is closely related to T. Palmeri Rose of Mexico, but in tha 
species, represented in the Gray Herbarium by several collections, 
the leaves, while pilosulous beneath along the costa and the chief 
lateral veins and in their axils, are otherwise without hairs, while 
the whole under surface is densely lepidote. 
ACANTHACEAE 
BRAVAISIA proxima, sp. nov. Frutex vel arbusculus ramosus. 
Rami juventate olivaceo-virides acute quadrangulares glabri den- 
sissime cystolithigeri aetate cortice canescente donati subteretes. 
Folia elliptico-obovata vel obovata apice acuta subabrupte brevi- 
terque acuminata basi longe acuminata integra paullulum sinuata 
glabra utrinque cystolithigera infra vix pallidiora 5.5-12 cm. longa 
2.4-3.8 em. lata, in petiolis tenuibus 4-9 mm. longis, ea inflorescen- 
_tiae multo minora suprema ad bracteas reducta. Flores in panicula 
trichotoma multiflora ramum terminante glabra ad 2 dm. lata 
dispositi. Bracteolae laterales 2 ovatae vel oblongo-ovatae ut 
sepala dense cystolithigerae margine ciliolatae ceterum glabrae 
abrupte vel subabrupte mucronatae, lamina 4—4.5 mm. longa 1. 6- 
8 mm. lata, mucrone 1-2.2 mm. longo. Sepala 5 oblonga lineata 
plus minusve minute puberula margine pallido angusto ciliata 8 
-mm. longa 2.3mm. lata, apice obtusa mucrone 0.8 mm. longo 
donata. Corolla pallide lavendulacea supra medium subdense 
breviterque pilosa pilis subincurvis 3.5-3.7 cm. longa; tubus 

