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MEMOIRS OF THE KEW YORK BOTAXICAL GARDEN 



long, stout, recurved. Blade 12 to 18 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, 

 ovate, with round or subcordate base, short-acuminate, obtuse, 

 bright-green on both sides, the secondaries 14 to 18 on each side, 

 the outer portions strongly falcate, connecting very close to the 

 margin, connected by very numerous curved tertiaries, the vena- 

 tion strongly and finely anastomosing, prominent on both sur- 

 faces. Peduncles 2 to 4 cm. long, stout, quadrangular, reddish, 

 shorter than the panicles, which are densely flowered at the ends 

 of the branchlets. Bractlets minute. Flowers subsessile, the 

 calyx-tube infundibular, about 2.5 mm. long, the limb 1.5 mm. 

 broad, the very short, broadly ovate obtuse teeth erect and ap- 

 pressed, short-ciliate. Corolla fleshy, the tube about 3 mm. long 

 and nearly as broad, the limb a little shorter, 4-lobed, the lobes 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, erect, subcarinate. Corolla wholly pu- 

 berulent on both surfaces. Filaments attached about the middle 

 of the tube, short-pilose, dilated below, the exserted portion 

 somewhat recurved, nearly as long as the corolla. Anthers re- 

 flexed, oblong, longitudinally dehiscent, cordate, the lobes 

 rounded. Style about equaling the stamens, stout, upwardly 

 thickened, short-pilose, the stigmas 2, sharply truncate. Disk 

 tumid, hemispheric, blackish or deep-purple. 



San Buena Ventura, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, December 1, 

 1921 (»o. 1738). "A small shrub on river-margin. Flowers 

 white, very fragrant." 



Macrocnemum hirsutum 



Inflorescence and lower surfaces of the young leaves short- 

 hirsute. Branchlets short, stoutish, obtusely angled, enlarged at 

 the upper portions of the internodes, leafy. Stipules caducous, 

 to 3 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, oblanceolate, with rounded sum- 

 mit, thickish, brown or purplish. Petioles unequal, to 2 cm. 

 long. Blades to 13 cm. long and 5 cm. broad, obovate, with 

 mostly obtuse base and a very short, broad, obtuse point at the 

 summit, entire, thick, drying brownish, the midrib channeled on 

 the uj^per surface, prominent beneath, as are the slender sec- 

 ondaries, which are about 10 or 12 on each side, mostly scrobicu- 

 late in the axils, spreading at an angle of about 45 degrees, and 

 lightly curved towards the end, connected by few crooked ter- 

 tiaries. Panicles in the upper axils, rather small, long-pedun- 

 cled, the bractlets subulate, very small, the hairs somewhat fer- 

 ruginous. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx-tube infundibu- 

 lar, about 7 mm. long, finely nerved, the limb about 2 mm. broad, 

 shallowly lobed. Corolla-tube about 8 mm. long, infundibular. 



