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tube 3.6: cm. long, this villous inside; anthers ovate, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad. 
Pistil 7.5 cm. long (stipe about 1.2 cm., ovary 8 to 9 mm., style 5.4 cm.), long-stipitate; 
ovary densely whitish-pubescent; style glabrous; stigma papillose. 
Pod about 16 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, flat, reflexed-apiculate, the ventral suture 
acute or carinate, slightly winged. Seeds not known. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, nos. 602101-3. Collected near Palmasola, 
State of Lara, Venezuela, in forest along the Aroa River, near sea level. Flowers and 
fruits, June 27, 1913, by H. Pittier (no. 6367). Known also from Puerto de la Cruz, 
State of Aragua, flowers, April, 1914, Jahn 337. 
The general description of B. racemosa Jacq. as given by De Candolle' would 
apply to this species, except as to the structure of the calyx, but when the detailed 
description of Kunth? is taken into consideration, the discrepancies become very 
evident and show that our plant is really quite distinct. Neither could it be B. 
capitella, because the definition ‘‘floribus dense capitatis” would hardly apply to 
its loose, few-flowered spikes. As there is no other possible name left, we shall have 
to consider the species new. 
5. Brownea coccinea Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 95. pl. 183. 1788. 
A small or middle-sized forest tree, with drooping boughs and rounded crown, 
Branchlets slender, terete, verruculose. 
Leaves 1 to 4-jugate, entirely glabrous; rachis 6 to 16 cm. long, terete or obscurely 
striate; petiolules thick, blackish, 3 to 5 mm. long; leaflet blades ovate-elliptic, 
cuspidate, slightly oblique, eglandulose, 7 to 16 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. broad. Stipules 
very caducous, not seen. 
Inflorescences in many-flowered, rather loose clusters, growing either single from 
the trunk, limbs, and axils of the leaves, or in 2 or 3-clustered terminal racemes (each 
cluster with 10 flowers or more). Jachis of the racemes slender, glabrous; peduncles 
of clusters thick, about 1 cm. long, hairy. Bracts of the cluster about 10, ovate, 
pinkish, brownish-hairy outside, increasing in size from the basal one, about 2 mm. 
long and broad, to the interior one, nearly 3.5 cm. long and 3 cm. broad. Floral 
bracts obovate-spatulate, obtuse, long-stipitate, about 4 cm. long, pubescent, cadu- 
cous. Pedicels 7 to 8 mm. long, thick, hairy. Sheath 3 cm. long, deeply cleft on 
one side, usually 2-lobed, sometimes 1-lobed, pubescent. Receptacle tube 1.6 cm. 
long, obconical, about 6 mm. wide at tip, glabrous outside, villous inside on margin. 
Sepals 4, 2.1 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous, the anterior one 1.2 cm. broad, the lateral 
and posterior ones 5 to 6 mm. broad. Petals 5, obovate, obtuse, 3.4 to 3.5 cm. long, 
1 to 1.1 cm. broad, pink, attenuate at the base into a claw 1.2 cm. long. Stamens 11, 
4 to 4.8 cm. long, connate, villous inside for half their length; anthers broadly ovate, 
2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide. Pistil 6.8 cm. long, with the stipe as long as the recep- 
tacle tube; ovary 8 to 9 mm. long, pauciovulate (7 ovules or less), brownish-hairy; 
style about 3.5 cm. long, hairy only at the base; stigma minute, papillose. 
Pods (immature) long-stipitate, sparsely ferruginous-hairy, 10 to 15 cm. long, the 
ventral suture flat, slightly winged, ridged along the median line, the stipe hairy, 
about 4 cm. long. 
VENEZUELA: “In rupestribus sylvaticis Zaucae, sinus maritimi Venezuelae, ubi 
florentem Julioinveni,” Jacquin (type). Guinand Estate, at the Quebrada de Cafiave- 
ral, Siquire Valley, State of Miranda, at about 600 meters, flowers and fruits, March 
20, 1913, Pittier 5960 (U. 8. Nat Herb.). 
My specimens agree quite well with both Jacquin’s description and Lamarck’s 
figure,* so that there is no doubt as to their really representing the type species of the 
1 Prodr. 2: 477. 1825. 
2H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 312. 1823. 
3 Encycl. 3: pl. 575. f. 1. 1796? 
