Pentagonia macrophylla Benth.

Watsonamra pubescens Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb
17:441. 1914.
Tree, 3-4 meters high, the branchlets succulent, hirtellous; petioles naked, 4-10 cm. long, densely short-hirtellous; leaf-blades obovate-oval or elliptic-oval, 26-48 cm. long and 12-24 cm. wide or larger, acute at each end, chartaceous, densely short-hirtellous, green above, paler beneath, the lateral veins prominent, 12-14 on each side, dichotomous near the margin; inflorescence few-flowered, the peduncles 5 mm. long or shorter, the very stout pedicels 2-3 mm. long; bracts oval or broadly ovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, obtuse, sparsely sericeous outside; hypanthium 6 mm. long, densely sericeous; calyx about 2 cm. long, densely sericeous below, sparsely so above, the lobes oval or oblong, about 1.5 cm. long, obtuse; corolla hirtellous outside, the tube slender, 2.5 cm. long, 3.5 mm. thick, the lobes ovate, acute, 5 mm. long; filaments slender, villous; style 1.8 cm. long, pilose above; fruit (immature) globose, 1.2-1.4 cm. in diameter, pilose.
Type locality: Along the railroad near Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama, altitude 20 to 25 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Watsonamra macrophylla (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen 302. 1891.
Pentagonia macrophylla Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 105. 1845.
Shrub or small tree, about 3 meters high, the branchlets finely sericeous when young; stipules triangular-lanceolate or ovate, 3-4.5 cm. long, long-attenuate, minutely sericeous outside; petioles naked, 3.5-7 cm. long, minutely sericeous or glabrate; leaf-blades rhombicoval, ovate-oval, or oblong-elliptic, 14-54 cm. long and 10-28 cm. wide or larger, attenuate to rounded and short-decurrent at the base, acute at the apex, entire, chartaceous, glabrous above, minutely sericeous beneath along the veins, the lateral veins prominent, 13 or 14 on each side, straight, dichotomous near the margin; cymes fewor many-flowered, sessile or short-pedunculate, the flowers sessile or short-pedicellate, the pedicels tuberculate; bracts oval or ovate, 1-2 cm. long, obtuse or acute, persistent; hypanthium 6-8 mm. long, densely sericeous; calyx about 1 cm. long, cleft nearly to the base, red, the lobes oval, suborbicular, or broadly ovate, rounded or obtuse at the apex, sparsely and minutely sericeous or glabrate; corolla yellowish-white, sparsely and minutely sericeous outside, the tube 2.5 cm. long, 2.5-6 mm. thick, the lobes broadly ovate, 4-7 mm. long, acute or acutish.
Type locality: Panama.
Distribution: Panama.