102 P H Y T L G I A Vol. 3, no. 3 pubescent, sharply ridged; leaf -soars shield-shaped, with 3 bundle-scars* Leaves inmense, croivded near the ends of 1±ie branches; petioles 1«5~2.5 on. long, minutely closely tomen-tose; blades liiinly coriaceous, subelliptic to oblanoeolate, 13 — 65 cm. long;, 6 — 22 cm. broad, truncate or obtuse at base, rounded at apQx, "the margins minutely and irregularly spinose-serrate^ the leaf-surface densely brovm-tomentose -when young, becoming glabrous above, but persistently rusty-pubescent be-neath, "Hie hairs crowded, 3-or 2-branohed from ihe summit of an erect stalk, the secondary nerves I''— 40 paira, not greatly ascending (forming angles of 70 to 40 degrees), arcuate near the leaf -margins, somewhat impressed on the upper side of ihe leaf, the ribs and veins raised on the tinder side, the tertiai^ ies prominent, the reticulation open and sharply raised, the venulae fomdng a prominulous network on the upper side. Inflow escences in dense clusters above the leaf -scars on defoliated branches; pedicels 4—6 mm. long, minutely and closely appress-ed-tomentose; sepals 5, slightly vinlted at ^the base, orbicular-ovate, 2~3 ram. long, roimded at the apex, closely appressed-tomontose outside, the outer sepals sparsely pubescent within, the inner sepals glabrous vrithin, membranous and minutely fim-briate on the margins. Corolla v/ell exserted from 'the calyx, cylindric v/hen fully expanded; corolla-tube about 2.^ mm. long, very sparsely app re ssed-pube scent in patches outside; corolla-lobes 5, ovate, 1.5 — 1*8 ram. long. sone-vThat acute at apex, gla-brous. Complete stamens not seen (? reduced to sharp-pointed staminodes 1~1. 3 mm. long); filaments attached near the base of the corolla-tube. Ovary densely hirsute, conical, merging into the style at the apex, 5-celled; ovules axile-basally at-tached; style very short, about 0.3 mm. long, grooved; stigna obscurely 5-lobulate. Type: Bicardo de Lemos Fr6es 10^0 , Brazil, Bahia, basin of Rio Pardo, municipality I tamb6 , savanna, NgVember 19, 1942, de-posited in the Kxnkoff Herbarium at the New lork Botanical Gar-den, "llacaco Jaqueira". The type collection examined consists of tiTO sheets, one of flovrering material, -the other of a single large leaf; the former is selected as the type. Additional material examined: R^ d£ L. Fr6os 1038, Brazil, Bahia, basin of Rio Catole Grande, muni'oTpality tfonquista, Sao Paulinho, rjovomber 11, 1942, deposited in the JS.rukoff Herbarium at the llev; York Botanical u-arden. "Macaco Jaqueira". This sheet contains sterile branches with leaves. A NOTE ON SCHIEGELIA AND DEmiATOCALYX Joseph V. Monaohino During the course of routine work in the herbarivim of the New York Botanical Garden I encountered a collection by Ducke (256; Yale Ser. No. 32632) from Sao Gabriel filed incorrectly
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