5. Sanchezia parvibracteata Sprague & Hutchinson Sanchezia sprucei var. salvadorensis Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 44: 116. 1907. Type collected in a garden in the city of San Salvador, El Salvador, December, 1906, by Luis V. Velasco, No. 8985.
Sanchezia parvibracteata Sprague & Hutchinson, Kew Bull. 1908: 253. 1908. Type taken from a plant cultivated at Kew but originally grown in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon, in 1905. The stock was col- lected somewhere in tropical America. A large suffrutescent herb; stems smooth, subquadrangular, the angles rounded; leaf blades oblanceolate, up to 26 cm. long and 7 cm. wide or more, acuminate, subfalcate, narrowed at base and de- current on the petiole, glabrous, undulate or shallowly dentate, punc- ticulate above, the costa and lateral veins (11 or 12 pairs) prominent beneath, the cystoliths on both surfaces numerous, about 0.5 mm. long; inflorescence a sparingly branched terminal panicle up to 16 cm. long, and 3 to 4 cm. broad, the fascicles usually several-flowered, sessile, subsecund, the bracts subtending them triangular-ovate, subconnate, 10 to 12 mm. long, about 6 mm. wide at base, the bracts subtending the flowers ovate, up to 16 cm. long and about 9 mm. wide, obtusish, glabrous, ciliolate; bractlets oblanceolate, 15 mm. long, about 4 mm. wide, sparingly puberulent without, ciliolate, both bracts and bract- lets firm, green or yellowish toward tip; calyx 2 cm. long, the seg- ments oblanceolate, 4 to 6 mm. wide, acutish, glabrous proximally, puberulous distally, ciliolate, yellow; corolla ochre, 4 to 5 cm. long, about 5 mm. broad immediately above the ovary, about 10 mm. in diameter at throat, rather densely pubescent distally with yellowish retrorsely curved hairs, the lower portion glabrous, the lobes oblong, about 6 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, emarginate; stamens exserted 7 to 8 mm. beyond mouth of corolla, the filaments tomentose at and above the insertion, thence sparingly pilose (the hairs up to 1.5 mm. long), but distally glabrous, the anthers 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, the sacs pubescent, the basal lobes ending in subulate spreading spurs about 1 mm. long; staminodes 15 mm, long, sparingly pilose; ovary and style glabrous; capsule not seen. Usually found in gardens but sometimes growing wild along streams, possibly as an escape. Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia. PUTUMAYO: Banks of the Río Guamues between its mouth and San Antonio, Cuatrecasas 11231 (US).