Monnina sylvicola Chod. ex Th. Dur. & Pitt.

Monnina crispata Blake, sp. nov
Branching, doubtless shrubby; stem rather stout, densely and at least in youth subgriseously incurvedor incurved-spreading-puberulous; leaves elliptic-ovate to oval, 5.5-12 cm. long, 2-4.8 cm. wide, pointed or acuminate, cuneate or cuneate-rounded at base, thin, rather densely incurved-puberulous both sides, the 5-6 pairs of lateral veins prominulous beneath; petioles 3-6 mm. long; peduncles few, axillary and terminal, 0.8-5.5 cm. long; racemes cylindric, obtuse, comose at apex, rather dense, 81 3 mm. thick, the axis 1 9 cm. long or less ; bracts lance-subulate, attenuate, ciliate and pilose, deciduous, 4—5 mm. long; pedicels short-pilose, 1-2 mm. long; flowers purplish; sepals free, oblong-ovate, obtuse, ciliate and pilose, 3-5nerved, 2.2-3.2 mm. long; wings suborbicular, 4.8-5.2 mm: long, 4-4.3 mm. wide, cucullate at the rounded apex, broadly cuneate at base, glabrous, about 5-nerved; keel 6.3 mm. long; staminal sheath toward apex pilose, the filaments glabrous; fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, obtuse, rugose-reticulate, narrowly margined on lower edge, 7 mm. long.
Type collected in forests along the Rio I.adrillo and vicinitv, above El Boquete. Chiriqui, Panama, altitude 1200-1300 meters, March, 1911, H. Pittier 3289 (U.S.Nat. Herb. no. 716114). Distribution: Costa Rica and Province of Chiriqui, Panama.