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leaflets ovate, rounded or subcordate at the base, acutely long-cuspidate, 12 to 18 cm. 
long, 4 to 7 cm. broad, Blades of the terminal leaflets up to 40 cm. long and 11 cm. 
broad, elliptic, cuneate-rounded or more or less rounded at base, long-cuspidate. 
Costa and lateral veins prominent beneath, the latter arcuate and twice anastomosed 
along the margin. Minor venation finely reticulate. 
Inflorescence terminal, almost sessile on branchlets often defoliated at blooming 
time; flowers pink. Bracts pubescent outside, broadly ovate and clasping at the 
base cf the flower head, narrowing toward the top into a linear appendage 5 cm. long, 
all pale pink. Pedicels 5 mm. long, hairy. Sheath tubular-campanulate, bilabiate, 
nearly 4 cm. long, hairy-tomentose outside, the lobes not over 5 mm. long. Recep- 
tacular tube cylindrical, slightly obconic, 2 cm. long. Divisions of the calyx 5, more 
or less connate at the base, elliptic, rounded or subacute at the tip, 2.5 cm. long. 
Petals 5, 4 to 6.5 cm. long, the median one spatulate, about 6 mm. broad, the lateral 
ones oblique, narrower, often irregular or subauriculate. Stamens 11, about 9 cm. 
long, movadelphous. Pistil 12 cm. long from top of receptacle; ovary hairy-tomentose ; 
style slender and glabrous except at the base; stigma capitellate. 
Legume 12 to 14 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, short-stipitate, compressed, winged on the 
ventral side with the suture salient in the form of a sharp ridge, narrowly furrowed 
along the dorsal side, 3 or 4-seeded, ending in a short, thick apex, pale brown pubes- 
cent, dehiscent. Mature seeds not seen. 
Panama: In montosis Tierra Firme, Porto Bello, Pihl (type). Wooded hills of 
Sperdi near Puerto Obaldia, San Blas Coast; a single tree, in blossom, the inflorescence 
half worm-eaten, September 8, 1911, Pittier 4408. In forests around Porto Bello, flowers 
and fruits, March 22, 1914, N. F. Petersen (Pittier 6522). (Two latter in U. S. Nat. 
Herb.) 
The type of this species was collected, as were our own specimens, in the Regen- 
wilder of the Atlantic watershed of Panama. De Candolle gives as its synonym the 
Hermesias of Loefling, and Grisebach tries to identity it with a Brownea coccinea 
Loefl., to which no other reference is found. Both authors have evidently erred. 
Berg’s description applies quite satisfactorily to the Sperdi plant and this is altogether 
distinct from any known Venezuelan species. It is perhaps more closely related to 
B. negrensis Benth., but differs by the unusual size of the terminal leaflets, the relative 
proportions of the flower parts, and the sepals apparently all free, a case unique in the 
genus, 
The specific name rosa-del-monte cannot be declined and so is hardly tenable. Some 
authors have remedied it by simply suppressing the two last words, calling the species 
Brownea rosa. It must be remembered, however, that rosa is the generic vernacular 
name for Brownea and that in Panama the name rosa del monte is specific for Berg’s 
plant. It is suggested that using Brownea rosa-montis, i. e., the direct translation of 
rosa-del-monte, would be the way to set right the defective name originally used. 
9. Brownea latifolia Jacq. Fragm. Bot. Ilustr. 25. pl. 17. 1809. 
Leaves 3-jugate, glabrous; rachis 10 cm. long; petiole 1 cm. long; petiolulos 5 mm. 
long, thick; basal leaflet blades ovate-elliptic, long-acuminate, scarcely oblique, 10 
cm. long, 4 cm. broad; terminal leaflets obovate-elliptic, quite oblique, the acute 
half inside, 16 cm. long, 6 cm. broad; all the leaflets with a gland on the inside at the 
base of the costa. 
Inflorescence of 2 or 3-clustered, terminal racemes. Clusters many-flowered. Clus- 
ter bracts ovate, increasing in size from the base, sparsely pubescent outside; floral 
bracts linear, about 2.5 cm. long. Pedicels 5 mm. long, pubescent. Sheath 1.9 mm. 
long, cleft only a little deeper on one side than on the other, sparsely pubescent, 
the lobes often slightly emarginate at the tip. Receptacular tube 1.2 mm. long, 4 
mm. wide at tip. Sepals 2.2 cm. long, glabrous, the anterior one 9 mm. broad, emargi- 
nate at tip, the others 3mm, broad. Petals 3.8 cm. long, obovate, subemarginate at 
