PITTIER—PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 159 
HIPPOCRATEACEAE. 
A NEW SPECIES OF SALACIA. 
Salacia blepharodes Pittier, sp. nov. Ficure 88. 
A small tree 3 to 4 meters high, with flat, spreading crown. Bark gray, almost 
smooth. Branchlets divaricate, nodose. 
Leaves alternate or subopposite, clustered at the ends of the year’s growth, coria- 
ceous, smooth, short-petiolate; petioles 2to3 mm. long. Leaf blades ovate-lanceolate 
to obovate, attenuate at base, rounded or acute at tip, 
4 to 6 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. broad; margin serrate, 
revolute. 
Inflorescence axillary or on leafless nodes, sessile or 
almost so, one red flower growing at a time out of a 
budlike cluster of small brown bracts. Pedicel white, 
smooth, slender, about 15 mm. long, sheathed at the 
base in ashort bractlet, this brown and fringed on the 
margin. Calyx, corolla, and disc connate at the base. 
Sepals ovate and irregular, fringed at the tip, 2 to 
2.5 mm. long, 2mm. broad. Petals irregularly ovate ; 
. ‘ . Fig. 88.— Salacia blepharodes. a, 
and denticulate, contiguous on their broadest part, ~ power seen from above: b, sepals: 
narrower and slightly distant at the base, between 2.5 _¢, petals;d,disc and stamens, flat- 
and 3 mm. long and broad. Disc flat, about 2.5 mm. _ tened and out of shape; e, stamen; 
wide. Stamens 5, yellow, inserted on the margin of ee section of ovary. 
the disc; filament short (0.8 to 1.2 mm. long), flat- ; 
tened; anthers extrorse, broadly rounded, splitting longitudinally. Ovary 3-celled; 
style none; stigma obscurely 3-lobulate. 
Fruit and seeds unknown. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 677476, collected on the outskirts of the 
forest around El Potrero, Chiriqui Volcano, Panama, at an altitude of 2,800 to 3,000 
meters, flowers, March 12, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 3086). 
BOMBACACEAE. 
BOMBACOPSIS, A NEW CENTRAL AMERICAN GENUS BETWEEN 
BOMBAX AND PACHIRA. 
Although the late K. Schumann, in the Pflanzenfamilien ' included 
in a single genus the species of Bombax L. and Pachira Aubl., the 
majority of botanists have continued to keep them apart. Not- 
withstanding the close affinities between the two groups, their 
separation seems to be fully justified. In the structure of the 
flower there are clear differences of detail while the differences in the 
fruit and seeds are fundamental. 
CHARACTERS OF BOMBAX. 
The staminal tube of Bombax is short and thick, and, in B. bar- 
rigon, for instance, is divided first into 5 short fascicles, each of which 
in turn splits into 2 smaller bunches, containing about 140 stamens 
each, the filaments of which are free. The petals of Bombax are 
elliptic-lanceolate or ovate and slightly adherent to the staminal 
165: 60. 
