Cephalotomandra fragrans Karst. & Triana

Cephalotomandra panamensis Standley, sp. nov
Young branches stout, brownish, glabrous; petioles stout, 2-2.5 cm. long, glabrous, shallowly canaliculate on the upper side; leaf -blades oval, oblong-oval, or ovate-oval, 11-20 cm. long, 5.7-1 1 cm. wide, rounded or subcordate at the base and very abruptly short-decurrent, acute or acutish at the apex, subcoriaceous, bright-green, glabrous, the costa coarse and prominent, the lateral veins slender, prominent, 6-8 on each side, distant, ascending ; peduncles stout, 9-12 cm. long, glabrous, the cymes 6-8 cm. wide, divaricately branched, the branches puberulent, the pedicels stout, 1-4 mm. long; staminate perianth 3-4 mm. long, glabrous or obscurely puberulent, the limb 3 mm. broad, the lobes very short, obtuse; fruit ellipsoid, 12-14 mm. long, 5-6 mm. in diameter, glabrous, coarsely costate; seed ellipsoid, reddish-brown, 7 mm. long.
Type collected in Panama, Sutton Hayes 998 (herb. Columbia Univ.).
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