Granadan botanist M. Triana for identifying it with the plant 
of Mutis. 
Descr. A glabrous shrub, with slender terete woody pen- 
dulous or inclined branches. Leaves alternate, distichous, 
spreading, four to five inches long, ovate or almost deltoid, 
obtusely caudate-acuminate, quite entire, base rounded, with 
five slender nerves from the top of the petiole, reticu- 
lately veined, coriaceous, even, dark green ; petiole very 
variable in length, one-half to one and a half inch long, 
slender, swollen at the apex and base. Flowers white, three 
inches long, few together in a very short terminal subsessile 
raceme ; rachis thick ; pedicels very short, placed close toge- 
ther ; bracteoles minute, triangular. Calyx tube campanu- 
late, half an inch long; limb spathaceous and splitting at 
the base into five segments which cohere at the obtuse apex, 
cylindric and curved in bud. Petals white with a faint rosy 
tinge, narrowly obovate-spathulate. Stamens nearly three 
inches long, with white declinate then ascending filaments 
that are shortly monadelphous ; anthers narrowly hastate, 
nearly half an inch long, yellow. Ovary narrowly linear, 
with a slender free stipes, nearly half an inch long, gradually 
contracted into a stout style with a two-lobed thickened 
stigma. — J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Tip of filament and anther; 2, pedicel and ovary; — both enlarged. 
