Solandra brachycalyx Kuntze

old bark flaking in rectangles, young bark silvery brown; twigs stout, ca. 8 mm thick with a large pith and reticulate corky markings, the leaves and flowers on short shoots with an elongate cicatrix. Leaves ca. 11 cm long, broadly elliptical-ovate, apically short acuminate, basally obtuse or acuminate, often slightly oblique, slightly coriaceous or somewhat succulent, glabrous except for This content downloaded from 192.104.39.2 on Tue, 14 May 2013 16:07:58 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions678 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. 60 rows of dense, conspicuous, whitish (drying brownish) hairs along the basal portion of the midrib beneath and some hairs on the lateral veins, veins ca. 5 on each side of the midvein, the midvein slightly recurved; petioles slender, 4-6 cm long, glabrous, channeled above near the leaf, terete below. Pedicels glabrous, short and stout, 1-1.5 cm thick and about as long, broadening into the calyx and hardly distinct from it, with many light green round tubercules which extend up onto the calyx where they become elongate. Flowers with the calyx green, glabrous, mostly 8 cm long, tubular with five prominent angles extending to near the base, fleshy, splitting along 3 angles to about 1/3 the way down, perhaps further in fruit, the tips of the lobes obtuse and slightly mucronate; the corolla 15-25 cm long, craterform, fleshy, greenish-white and yellow, almost orange with age, outside with 5 strong, green, slightly sunken ribs on the tube and limb, inside with 5 large purple guide lines in the limb alternating with 5 smaller, fading guide lines, glabrous outside, glabrous inside except for conspicuous lanate tufts 5-10 mm below the point of anther insertion, the tube slender, 5-7 cm long, the limb 6-8 cm long and 5-5.6 cm across, the lobes rotund-emarginate, ca. 3 cm long, the margins laciniate; filaments slightly geniculate at point of insertion, pubescent just below, the anthers fabiform, brown, 10-12 mm long and 5 mm across (after dehiscence); ovary glabrous, apically concave at the apex, 4-loculed with no sign of obliqueness relative to the floral axis, style exserted, becoming elongate, to 25 (or more?) cm long, slender, greenish white, the stigma capitate. Fruit not seen.