Alseis blackiana Hemsl.

Alseis blackiana Hemsl. Diag. PL Nov. 30. 1879
Tree, the trunk furrowed and twisted, the crown small, flat, the branchlets thick, glabrous; stipules lance-linear, 1-1.5 cm. long, thick, glabrous, ciliate; leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, the petioles slender, 1-3.5 cm. long, glabrous, the blades oblanceolate or obovateoblong, 7-20 cm. long, 1.8-6 cm. wide, long-attenuate at the base, subabruptly acuminate at the apex, or very obtuse and apiculate, thin, bright-green, concolorous, sparsely strigose when young but soon glabrate, the venation prominent beneath, the lateral veins slender, numerous, nearly straight; spikes stout, short-pedunculate, simple, 6-25 cm. long, densely flowered, the rachis tomentulose, the flowers very shortly pedicellate; hypanthium narrowly turbinate, 2 mm. long, puberulent or glabrate; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, glabrous, scarcely 0.5 mm. long; corolla white, 2.5-3 mm. long, glabrous outside, the lobes very short, semiorbicular; filaments densely bearded; anthers 0.8 mm. long; style glabrous; capsule 9-12 mm. long, about 2 mm. thick, brownish; seeds brown.
Type locality: Panama. Distribution : Panama and Colombia.