588 PHANEROGAM I A. 



This is well characterized by Gardner ; but the name is not well 

 chosen, since the leaves of each pair, although sometimes very 

 unequal, are not rarely of about the same size. The flowers are 

 much congested on the branches of the thyrsus, and densely hirsute 

 externally. Calyx-teeth short and triangular, rather blunt; the throat 

 10-ribbed inside. Petals oblong-ovate, or at first broadly ovate, 

 pointed. The narrowed apex of the three-celled ovary is free. The 

 species needs to be compared with C. Carassana, DC. 



9. Clidemia dasyteicha, Sp. Nov. 



G. foliis ovalibus seu ovato-oblongis acuminaiis basi obtiisis subdenticu- 

 latls quinquenerviis supra glabratis subtus pube simplici brevi indutis, 

 costis cum peiiolis brevibus ramulisque subtetragonis setis debilibus 



patentibus iisdem hispidul'is creberrime vestitis ; panicula terminali ; 



floribus in ramulis patentibus glomerato-congestis ; calyce hispidulo, 

 dentibus subidatis recurvis; petalis lanceolatisacuminatissimis, 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



We have only a rather imperfect specimen of this apparently well- 

 marked and undescribed species, which belongs to Naudin's section 

 Euclidemia. The stem is probably shrubby or frutescent. The 

 somewhat quadrangular ultimate branches, like the short petioles (4 to 

 6 lines long) and the principal ribs of the leaves underneath, are 

 thickly clothed, at least when young, with fulvous, rather coarse and 

 long, but weak and spreading hairs, which are themselves minutely 

 hispid or barbed for their whole length. This pubescence becomes 

 matted and somewhat furfuraceous, and probably is detached when 

 old. Leaves ample, from 5 to 7 inches long, equal or unequal in the 

 pairs, oval or ovate-oblong, acuminate, minutely denticulate, obtuse at the 

 base, membranaceous in texture, green and early glabraie afyove, or 

 minutely setulose-scabrous, and with some simple, short, and stiff 

 bristles persistent on the ribs, softly pubescent with short and simple 

 crisped hairs underneath, five-ribbed j the lateral ribs near the margin 

 and weaker, the three stronger ones often originating just above the 

 base : the transverse veins very numerous, and connected by similar 

 veinlets. Panicle terminal, shorter than the leaves, furfuraceous- 



