Bunneistera glauca

Bunneistera glauca (F. E. Wimmer) Gleason, Bull. Torrey
Club 52: 98. 1925.
Cenlropogon glaucus F. E. Wimmer, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 251. 1924.
Epiphytic, vine-like, trailing, glabrous; stems very slender, woody at base, up to 2.5 mm. in diameter, fistulous, green or yellowish, narrowly mng-angled below the leaf-bases, up to 70 cm. long or more; leaves numerous, 50 or fewer, spreading, stiff-papery when dry, the blades glaucous-green on both sides, slightly darker above, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, narrowed gradually to a long-acuminate, often somewhat falcate tip, rounded at base, contracted abruptly to a slender petiole 0.4-0.7 mm. long, 1.2-2.4 cm. wide by 2.7-6.5 cm. long, mostly 2-4 times as long as wide, the lateral veins becoming very slender near the margin and anastomosing inconspicuously, the margins shallowly crenate-serrate with 2-4 callose-tipped teeth per cm. ; flowers axillary, the lowest as much as 60 cm. below the apex of the stem, the fertile nodes often separated by several sterile nodes, the flower-bearing nodes not more than 5 ; pedicels spreading, usually stiff, up to 1 mm. in diameter and 50-80 mm. long in fruit, smooth and glabrous; flower 3-3.5 cm. long, including hypanthium; corolla glabrous, greenish, the tube 15-18 mm. long, scarcely dilated at base, the lobes lanceolate, the two upper lobes about 3.5 mm. wide by 10 mm. long, the lateral lobes about 7.5 mm. long; filament-tube 20 mm. long, glabrous, the filaments free below and fused to the coroUa-tube for 2-3 mm.; anther-tube about 5.5 mm. long, the three larger anthers glabrous, the two smaller ones 3.5 mm. long, with a sparse fringe of soft white hairs along the apical margin; hypanthium in anthesis cylindric, roundish at base, slightly dilated and flaring at summit, 1.5-2.5 times as long as wide when dry; fruit a much-inflated berry, 20-25 mm. in diameter by about 50 mm. long, magenta {Davidson 383), oblong-ovoid, the apex truncate, the base somewhat impressed, with sunken pedicel; calyx-lobes deltoid or ovate, blunt, 1-1.5 mm. wide at base, 1.5-2 mm. long, the margins callose-denticulatc; seeds fusiform, light brown with darker apiculate tips, very minutely longitudinally foveatereticulate, about 1.1 mm. long.
Ty'pe LOCAUTi': Panama, humid forest of Cuesta de las Palmas. southern slope of Cerro de la Horqueta, Chiriqui, at an elevation of 1700-2100 m., Piilier 3219 (US!). Distribution: Chiriqui, Panama.