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genus. The Zauca Gulf or Bay does not figure on modern maps of Venezuela, but it 
can be surmised from the type localities of the other Jacquinian species that it is an 
inlet of the Golfo Triste, in the vicinity of Curiepe and Higuerote—that is to say, a 
locality in the same district where my no. 5960 was collected. 
The vernacular name of B. coccinea is also ‘“‘rosa,’’ ‘‘roso,”’ ‘‘macho.’’ The tree 
grows in rocky, shaded gorges and does not seem to be very common, 
6. Brownea speciosa Reichenb.; DC. Prodr. 2: 477. 1825; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 
212, 1864. 
A small tree, 6 to 8 meters high. Bark dark gray, verrucose on the younger branch- 
lets. 
Leaves paripinnate, 1 to 3-jugate, 4 to 6-foliolate, entirely glabrous; leaflets coria- 
ceous; rachis terete, blackish, more or less verruculose, 4 to 7 cm. long; petiolules 
thick, 5 mm. long; leaflet blades ovate to obovate, eglandulose, rounded or sube- 
marginate at the base, rounded and abruptly acuminate at tip, 7.5 to 16 cm. long, 
4 to 7 cm. broad, the basal pair always smaller. Stipules caducous, not seen, 
Flowers in fascicles of 6 to 8 at the ends of the branchlets. Bracts caducous, not 
seen. Peduncles often geminate, thick, about 1.5 cm. long, glabrescent; pedicels 
9 to 15 mm. long, slender, pubescent. Sheath funnel-shaped, minutely pubescent, 
2.5 cm. long, divided into two lobes, one of the sinuses deeper than the other; lobes 
about 7 mm. long, ovate, acute. Receptacle tube 1.4 to 1.5 cm. long, stiff, broadened 
at the tip (5 mm. wide) pubescent; calyx lobes 4, glabrous, the anterior one ovate- 
oblong, often subemarginate, 2.5 cm. long, 1.2 cm. broad, the remaining ones narrowly 
elliptic, 2.5 cm. long, 7 mm. broad, all obtuse at tip. Petals 5, obovate, attenuate 
into a narrow claw 3.5 to 3.7 cm. long, 1.3 to 1.7 cm. broad, rounded or obscurely 
emarginate at tip, glabrous, pink. Stamens 10 or 11, unequal, 5.2 to 5.6 cm. long, all 
united from the base into a tube 3.5 cm. long and free only for the upper 2 cm. or 80; 
anthers ovate, about 3.5 mm. long and 2.2 mm. broad. Pistil 6.8 cm. long, long- 
stipitate; ovary 7 to8 mm. long, 7-ovulate, densely whitish-pubescent; style 4.7 cm. 
long, slender, glabrous; stigma capitellate, papillose, dark purple. 
Fruit not collected. 
VENEZUELA: Valley of Rfo Limén, on the new road from Maracay to Ocumare de 
la Costa, Aragua, altitude about 700 meters, flowers, April 18, 1913, Pittier 6054 (U. 8. 
Nat. Herb.). 
7. Brownea macrophylla Linden, Cat. no. 18. 11. 1863; Gard. Chron. 1873: 777. 
f. 149. 1873. 
A tree 6 to 12 meters high, the trunk 20 to 35 cm. in diameter, with sparse ramifi- 
cation. Young twigs villous. 
Leaves paripinnate, large, with 3 to 6 pairs of leaflets; rachis 20 to 40 cm. long, 
subsulcate toward the base, more or less terete, unevenly villous-pubescent; petiole 
1 to 1.5 cm. long, thick, terete. Lower and terminal pairs of leaflets opposite, the 
intermediate ones more or less alternate-distichous; petiolules 5 to 6 mm, long, rather 
thick, densely pilose-pubescent; leaflet blades elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or sub- 
cuneate and glandular at the base, ending with a long, acute acumen, the first pair, 
close to the insertion of the petiole, about 10 cm. long and 2 cm. broad, the terminal 
pair largest, 32 cm. long and 7.5 cm. broad; costa prominent beneath the blade and 
villous, the rest of the leaflet glabrescent and eglandulose. 
Flowers 30 to 50 together in large capitate spikes, growing profusely on the surface 
of the trunk, from base to top, and sometimes on the larger limbs. Bracts large, 
broadly ovate and from 2 to 5 cm. long, at base of spike, obovate-elliptic, about 6 em. 
long and narrowing to 2 mm, near end of the same, all pinkish white, more or less 
pubescent outside and sparsely so inside. Flowers fire-red, in the axils of the bracts; 
1 Tf I remember correctly, it is broad and flat, as in B. coccinea. 
