ste ` ' H Pittier. 
Arbor alta, coma rotundata. Petioli 9—17,5 em, petioluli 2—6 mm 
longi; foliolum medium 12—22 cm longum, 5—8 cm latum. Calyx 3— 
4,5 em longus. Petala ca. 16 cm longa; antherae 5—6 mm longae. 
Pistillum ca. 16 em longum; stigmatis lobuli fere 1 mm longi; fructus 
15—20 em diametiens. 
Costa Rica: Reventazon Valley: la Florencia near Turrialba; flowers 
and fruits November 1897, Tonduz (Inst. phys.-geogr. 11305, type): las 
Vueltas de Tucurrique, fl. and fr. April 1899, Tonduz (Inst. phys. 
geogr. 13111). ; 
Identified at the Paris Museum as P. macrocarpa Cham. et Schlecht. 
but differs in the shape, size and indumentum of the leaflets, the sessile 
flowers, the large, characteristic glands covering the stipitate calyx, the 
short stamiral tube and the unusually large fruits. 
7. Pachira villosula Pittier, spec. nov. 
Foliis 5—7-foliolatis, petiolo longo tereti vel subanguloso; foliolis 
petiolulatis elliptico-lanceolatis vel obovatis, basi cuneatis, apice sub- 
acuminatis obtusis vel rotundatis interdum mucronulatis, supra glabris, 
venis subtus pilis furcatis sparse vestitis; stipulis lanceolato-apiculatis 
cito deciduis; floribus in axillis foliorum superiorum solitariis coaetaneis; 
pedunculo crasso ferrugineo-pubescente; calyce longe stipitato anguste 
infundibuliformi truncato, extus ferrugineo-pubescente, intus griseo- 
tomentoso; petalis quam calyx 6-plo longioribus laciniatis extus ferru- 
gineo-pubescentibus, intus sparse pubescentibus; staminibus quam corolla 
brevioribus; tubo stamineo quam filamenta dimidio breviore crasso, extus 
pubescente; filamentis basi cum tubo purpurascentibus, apice obscure 
purpureis; antheris curvatis; pistillo quam petala paullo breviore; ovario 
ovoideo pubescente; stilo basi anguloso cinereo-tomentoso, apicem versus 
glabro atro-purpureo; capsula ovata, ferrugineo-pubescenti. 
Arbor usque ad 30 m alta, trunco erecto, cortice laevi. Petiolum 
9—14 em longum; petioluli 3—8 mm longi; foliolum medium 11-18 cm 
longum, 5—6 cm latum; stipulae 18 mm longae, 8 mm latae. Pedun- 
culi 0,6—1 cm longi, 6 mm diametro, Calyx 3,5—4,5 cm longus, 1,2 cm 
apice diametiens, glandulis saepe obsoletis; bracteolae cito deciduae. 
Petala 23-26 cm longa, 1,5 cm lata. Tubus stamineus 6,7 cm longus; 
staminorum phalanges 11—14 cm longae.  Pistillum 22 cm longum. 
Capsula 18 cm longa, 12 em diam. 
Panama: Banks of Mamoni River, in the tide-belt below La Capi- 
tana, province of Panama; flowers et fruit October 23, 1911, Pittier 
4578 (type). 
Closely related to Pachira macrocarpa-Cham. et Schl. from which it 
differs mainly by the villose leaflets, short peduncles and a long, funnel- 
shaped calyx. 
8. Quararibea asterolepis Pittier, spec. nov. 
Ramulis novellis sparse tenuiter lepidotis; foliis glabris, petiolo 
recto, lamina aequilatera ovata, basi rotundata vel subacuta, apice an- 
guste acuminata; stipulis subulatis pubescentibus deciduis; floribus soli- 
