Siphocampylus patens Griseb.

Siphocampylus patens Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 159. 1866
Plants suflruticose, glabrous fexcept the leaves as noted), the stems erect, up to 5 mm. in diameter, green or purplish, glabrous but somewhat roughened, 3-4 ft. high (according to Wright); cauline leaves 30 or more, spreading, coriaceous and shining, the veins somewhat impressed on the upper surface, the blades glabrous or sparsely hairy on the veins beneath, 0.8-2.4 cm. wide, 4-8 cm. long, mostly 3-4 times as long as wide, elliptic, the tip acute or broadly acuminate, the base narrowed or attenuate and subpetiolar, the margins subentire, somewhat revolute, with 2-4 callose teeth per cm., these more prominent near the serrulate ape. of the blade; upper leaves scarcely smaller; flowers few-15 in the axils of the little-reduced upper leaves, the inflorescence up to 30 cm. long, often interrupted by flowerless leaves; pedicels sprcading-ascending, atjout 1 mm. in diameter, 35-100 mm. long in fruit, smooth and glabrous, each with a pair of filiform bracteoles 2-3.5 mm. long, at the middle or below; flower 3.S-4 cm. long, including hypanthium; corolla green with a red tinge on the upper side and near the base (according to Wright), glabrous, the tube broad, shaped like an hour-glass, about 1 1 mm. long, about 4 mm. broad in the middle and enlarged toward base and apex, fenestrate at base or not at all so, the lobes oblong or elliptic to ovate, acute, not recurved, the two upper oblong or narrowly elliptic, 4-5 mm. wide, 16-22 mm. long, the three lower lobes lanceolate to ovate, 5-6.5 mm. wide, 13-18 mm. long; filament-tube 18-19 mm. long, glabrous distally, the filaments free from the corolla, distinct about half their length and there strongly hairy; anther-tube 5.5-<i.5 mm. long, the two shorter anthers densely white-tufted with hairs 2 mm. long, the others glabrous; hypanthium in anthcsis campanulate or turbinate, attenuate into the pedicel, about 10 mm. long by about 7 mm. wide when pressed flat; capsule woody, turbinate, 7-9 mm. in diameter, 10-13 mm. long, the base attenuate, the apex rounded or truncate, surpassed by the free rim of the hypanthium which is about 2 mm. high; calyx-lobes narrowly triangular or subulate, acute, entire or very remotely denticulate, 1.5-2 mm. wide at base, 6-7 mm. long; seeds ellipsoid, light brown, faintly reticulate.
TvPB uxTAi.rTV: Cuchillai de Haracoa, Orjcntc, Cuba, C. U'righl ZSS3 (inolype, OroyI). Distribution: Orient c, Cuba.