184 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 
striate, the seeds very prominent, the margins thin and sulcate, the stipe slen- 
der, about 8 mm. long, the peduncles 3.5 cm. long. 
Type in the John Donnell Smith Herbarium, collected at Las Vueltas de 
Tucurrique, Reventazén Valley, Costa Rica, in forests, at an altitude of 900 
to 1,000 meters, fruits only, April, 1899, by A. Tonduz (Inst. Fis. Geogr. Costa 
Rica, no. 18056). 
The leaves recall those of Inga leptopoda Schlecht., but the legumes are 
strikingly distinct from those of any other known species. 
Inga cycladenia Pittier, sp. nov. 
Branchlets terete, the minute pubescence covering the numerous dotlike 
lenticels. 
Rachis of the leaves minutely pubescent, slightly marginate, 8.5 to 4.5 em. 
long, the petiolar part 1.5 to 2 cm.; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, 
about 7 mm. long; leaflets 2-jugate, coriaceous, very shortly petiolulate 
(petiolules about 1 mm. long) ; glands orbicular, peitate, up to 4 mm. in diame- 
ter; leaflets ovate, broadly cuneate at the base, abruptly contracted into a 
narrow acumen nearly 2 cm. long, sparsely pilosulous and lustrous above, 
minutely soft-puberulent beneath, 11.5 to 14.5 em. long, 5 to 7 cm. broad, the 
densely pubescent costa and veins very prominent beneath. 
Floral spikes 2 to 4-clustered in the axils of the terminal leaves, the pe- 
duncles pubescent, angulate, 3 to 5 cm. long, the flower heads short and dense; 
flowers sinall, sessile; calyx tubular-campanulate, sparsely and minutely pu- 
bescent, 3.4 to 4 (3.8) mm, long; corolla tubular, gradually broadening toward 
the apex, silky-pubescent, 6.6 to 7.4 (7.1) mm, long, the lobes broad, acute, 1.5 
to 2 mm. long; staminal tube included, the stamens (measured from the base) 
about twice the length of the corolla, the capitellate style slightly longer. 
Legume not known. 
Type in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected at 
Micay-Sayjé and Timbiquf, Colombia, flowers, June, 1901, by F; C. Lehmann 
(B. F. 662). 
Conspicuous by its enormous discoid glands, this species reminds one some- 
what of Inga rufincrvis in the pubescence and arrangement of the inflorescence, 
and of I. acrocephala in the size of the flowers, these, however, being very dis- 
tinctly shaped. 
Inga myriocephala Pittier, sp. nov. 
Branchlets angulate, densely set with linear-elliptic lenticels, the younger 
parts ferruginous-pubescent. 
Rachis of the leaves glabrous, slightly marginate beneath each pair of leaf- 
lets, 5 to 15 em. long, the petiolar part 1 to 4 cm. long; stipules linear, acute, 
about 8 mm. long, glabrescent, deciduous; leaflets 4-jugate, rarely 2 or 3-jugate, 
more or less oblique, short-petiolulate, coriaceous, glabrous; glands small, 
globose, pertuse, subsessile; leaflet blades elliptic-lanceolate, acute at the base, 
acuminate at the apex, dark green above, paler or ferruginous and reticulate 
beneath, the costa and veins slightly prominent on both sides, the blades of the 
basal pair 7.5 to 8.5 cm, long, 3 to 3.5 cm, broad, those of the upper pair about 
15 cm. long, 6 cm. broad. 
Inflorescences very numerous, paniculate on the terminal branchlets; spikes 
2 or 3-clustered in the axils of undeveloped leaves, the peduncles 2 to 3 em. 
long, slender, sparsely ferruginous-pubescent, the flower heads dense, very 
short, broader than long; flowers sessile; bractlets spatulate or subulate, gla- 
brescent, about 2 mm. long, subpersistent; calyx tubular, 5.1 to 5.8 (5.4) mm. 
long, sparsely and minutely pubescent, the teeth very short and obtuse; corolla 
