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tip, attenuate into a claw 1.5 cm. long. Stamens 10 to 12, 4 to 4.5 cm. long, connate, 
the tube hairy inside for the first 2cm.; anthers ovate, about 3 mm. long and 1.5 mm. 
broad. Pistil 6 cm. long (stipe 1.3 cm., ovary 8 to 9 mm., style 3.7 cm.); ovary fer- 
ruginous-pubescent; style filiform, glabrous. 
Type from Caracas, Venezuela. 
Grown in greenhouse of U. 8. Department of Agriculture (no. 1840). 
A NEW SPECIES OF BROWNEOPSIS. 
Browneopsis excelsa Pittier, sp. nov. PiateE 63. 
A large tree, 25 to 30 meters high, with spreading branches drooping at the extrem- 
ities. Trunk up to about 45 cm. in diameter at the base; bark grayish and more or 
less smooth. 
Leaves paripinnate, glabrous, pink-colored and drooping when young, with 2 or 
3. pairs of nearly opposite leaflets. Common petiole 4 to 10 cm. long, slender, terete. 
Leaflets petiolulate; petiolules 6 mm. long, perfectly straight, terete, dark-colored ; 
blades ovate, long-cuspidate, 3 to 10 cm. long, 1 to 4 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, gland- 
ular at the base; costa prominent beneath the leaflet, but venation hardly distinct. 
Stipules very small and caducous. 
Inflorescence mostly terminal, with the flowers in 4 or 5 fascicles at the end of a 
thick peduncle and surrounded by numerous caducous imbricate bracts. Peduncle 
thick, 1.2 cm. long, showing the postbracteal scars. Bracts clasping, densely hairy- 
pubescent outside, the lower ones about 3 mm. long, ovate and subacute, the upper 
ones 23 to 35 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad, obovate and more or less truncate at the top. 
Sheath absent. Receptacular tube thick, coriaceous, angulate, about 8 mm. long; 
divisions of the calyx 4, petaloid, pale pink, glabrous, 3 of them elliptic, 2.5 cm. 
long, 5 mm, broad, the fourth clasping the pistil, 1.5 mm. long, 7 mm, broad, almost 
acute at the tip and with two lateral, acicular, shorter lobules. Petals obovate- 
elongate, about 30 mm. long and 5 mm. broad, rounded at the tip and attenuate 
into a long slender claw, pale pink. Stamens 14 or 15, connate at the base, the median 
ones 35 mm. long, the lateral ones shorter; filaments smooth, arcuate; anthers nearly 
10 mm. long, versatile. Pistil 6.4 cm. long from tip of receptacular tube; ovary stipi- 
tate, multiovulate, densely covered with a pale brownish gray pubescence; style 
smooth, slender, 4 cm. long; stigma capitellate. 
Legume about 18 cm. long, 3.5 cm. broad, stipitate (stipe 3 cm. long), bivalvate 
and dehiscent, coriaceous, many-seeded, falcate and rostrate at the apex, covered 
with an evanescent cinnamon-brown indument; peduncle 2.5 to 3. cm. long. Seeds 
ovoid, flattened, 25 to 30 mm. long and 17 to 22 mm. broad. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, nos, 715759-61, collected in forest near 
Garachiné, southern Darien, Panama, flowers, January 28, fruit (immature), February 
11, 1912, by H. Pittier (no. 5511). 
Represented also by specimens collected in the vicinity of Marraganti, on the 
Zurya River, southern Darien, immature fruit, April, 1908, &. S. Williams 1011 
(U.S. Nat. Herb.). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 63.—Pod and seeds, from Pinogana, southern Darien, Pittier. Natural size. 
ANACARDIACEAE. 
AN OLD AND A NEW SPECIES OF TAPIRIRA. 
Tapirira myriantha Triana & Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. V. 14: 295. 1872. 
A large tree, 25 meters high or more, the trunk 80 cm. in diameter at the base; rami- 
fication ascending, irregular; crown rounded, depressed; bark of the trunk and limbs 
grayish, rimose, that of the younger twigs grayish brown, dotted with numerous lenti- 
cels, 
