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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



green, flabellately 4- or 5-ribbed, the ribs strong on the lower 

 side. Pedicels slender. Bracts 7, about 1 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. 

 wide, oblanceolate, obtiisisli, green. Calyx two thirds the length 

 of the bracts, divided about half-way, the lobes ovate, acute, 

 ciliate, green, with a strong midrib. Petals about twice as long- 

 as the bracts, exceeding the stamen-column. 



Canamina, 4,000 feet, in cultivated ground, along ditches, 

 H. H. Rushy, July 15, 1921 {no. 85). 



Pavonia subtriloba 



Subsetose witli rigid, white, divergent hairs. Stipules 4 or 

 5 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate and acute, green. Petioles 

 about a fourth the length of the blades, terete. Blades 3 to 5 cm. 

 long, 1.5 to 4 cm. broad, triangular-ovate, with (or the upper 

 M'itliout) a pair of short basal lobes, with shallowly cordate 

 l)aso and obtuse summit, lightly and irregularly crenate-dentate, 

 thickish, pale beneath, 3- to 5- or 7-nerved with connecting sec- 

 ondaries, the loose reticulation lightly prominent beneath. 

 Flowers axillary, mostly solitary, the peduncles nearly equaling 

 the leaves. Bracts 7 to 10, nearly twice the length of the calyx, 

 narrowly linear, green, pilose. Calyx herbaceous, divided more 

 than half way, the lobes triangular-ovate, acute. Petals about 

 twice the length of the calyx and about 1 cm. long, yellow, but 

 drying to a rose-color. Fruit not mature. 



Canamina, 4,000 feet, 0. E. White, July 19, 1921 (no. 512). 

 "A herb 4 or 5 feet high, in cultivated ground, the flowers 

 yellow. ' ' 



PELTOBRACTEA gen. nov. 



Involucral scales stipitate and peltate. Calyx 5-lobed, cos- 

 tate, rigid, the lobes broad, acute. Petals 5, obovate, venose. 

 Stamen-tube very shortly 5-toothed at the summit, the anther- 

 clusters tending to a zonal arrangement, one circle near the sum- 

 mit, the other below the middle, with additional scattered clus- 

 ters, the free portions of the filaments very slender, the anthers 

 short and broad, obcordate, the thecae diverging upward and 

 separated by a broad connective. Ovary 5-celled, the cells 1- 

 ovuled. Style 10-lobed, the lobes short, the stigmas discoid. 

 Capsule not appendaged, 5-lobed, 5-celled, 5-seeded, the cells 

 loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds incurved, margined, the margins 

 thickened. 



