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18: 274 1928 Wet forest, Yerba Buena, northeast of San Isidro, Prov Heredia, 2,000 meters, Standley & Valeria 1+9989 Also in the region of El Copey, at 2,200 meters.

Panama.

A shrub of 1-3 meters, the young branches minutely puberulent or glabrous; stipules cadu- cous, broadly ovate, 8-10 mm long, ferruginous; leaves slender- petiolate, oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, usually broadest above the middle, 9-17 cm long, 25-55 cm wide, abruptly acumi- nate, long-attenuate to the base, sparsely barbate beneath in the axils of the nerves, otherwise glabrous; inflorescence terminal, cymose- paniculate, long-pedunculate, open, many-flowered, 45-95 cm long, the branches minutely puberulent, the pedicels 1-3 mm long, in fruit sometimes 8 mm long; calyx 1 mm long, shallowly dentate or subtruncate; corolla greenish white, glabrous, the tube 5 mm long; fruit 5-6 mm long.

Psychotria Tonduzii Standl.