Erythroxylum panamense Turcz.

ines or merely by an area of distinct texture; petioles ca. 3 mm long, canaliculate; stipules bicostate, otherwise not striate, 2-3 mm long, sometimes minutely ciliate or scarious margined, often persistent. Inflorescences numerous, almost crowded, several-flowered fascicles; bracts resembling the stipules; pedicels 1-2 mm long with well marked, rounded angles. Flowers numerous, fragrant, with the calyx ca. 1 mm long, divided about halfway, the lobes deltoid, valvate in bud; petals white, 3-4 mm long, the broad, thick costa drying reddish brown, ventrally ap-pendaged, with a nectary between the appendage and the petal lamina; filament tube as long as or slightly shorter than the ovary; ovary mostly truncate, the stigmas capitate. Fruit a juicy red drupe 7-9 mm long, ellipsoid, slightly curved.