202 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Type in the John Donnell Smith Herbarium, collected at El Balao, Province 
of Manabi, Ecuador, in forests, flowers, April, 1893, by Baron Eggers (no. 
14648). 
Through its pubescence and long-stipitate glands Inga balaensis evidently 
belongs to the Vulpinae, but it does not seem to be closely related to any other 
species of the group. The leaflets are 2-jugate, an exceptional feature recorded 
heretofore only in I. guilleminiana Benth. On the other hand, it has the broad 
stipules noted in I. setosa, I. multicaulis, I. barbata, and others. The flowers 
are comparable with those of certain species of the Longiflorae, 
Inga codonantha Pittier, sp. nov. PratE 102. 
A tree, 10 to 12 meters high, the young branchlets, rachis of leaves, and 
peduncles fuliginous-hirtous. 
Rachis of the leaves narrowly winged, about 9 em. long, the petiolar part 
wingless, 1.5 cm. long, the wings 7 mm. long or less; stipules linear-lanceolate ; 
glands small, subsessile, pertuse; leaflets d-jugate, petiolulate, thick, coriaceous, 
the petiolules densely fuliginous-hirtous, 2 to 3 mm. long, the blades ovate, 
rounded at the base, acute at the apex, fuliginous-pubescent above, with the 
costa densely hirtous and the veins and venules impressed-reticulate, densely 
soft-pubescent and strongly reticulate beneath, with the hairy costa and veins 
very prominent; leaflets of the basal pair about 4 cm. long and 2 cm. broad, 
those of the terminal pair 8 to 8.5 cm. long, 3.5 to 4.5 em. broad. 
Floral spikes terminal, 2 or 3-clustered, the peduncles about 2.5 em. long; 
floral buds large, globose, the bractlets absent or very small and deciduous; 
calyx stipitate (the stipels 2 to 4 mm. long), broadly campanulate, fuliginous- 
pubescent, 11 to 18 mm. long (including the stipels), the teeth ovate, 3 to 4 
mm. long; corolla narrow at the base, broad at the apex, white, densely villous, 
16 to 19 mm. long, the lobes broad and rounded, about 4 mm. long; staminal 
tube included ; ovary 4-sulcate(?). 
Legume not known. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 530517, collected at Campoalegre 
(Cauca?), Colombia, at an altitude of 1,500 meters, flowers, November 6, 1899, 
by E. Langlassé (no. 27). 
In the shape of the flowers and in the large globose buds Inga codonantha 
recalls I. sessilis, whose place among the Pseudingae seems to be with the 
Vulpinae. The ovary of the new species, however, is apparently 4-sulcate, and 
this may indicate a tetragonous fruit. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATH 102.—From the type specimen of Inga codonantha. Natural 
size, 
Inga chrysotricha Pittier, sp. nov. 
A small tree; branchlets more or less hairy, the younger growth densely 
covered with long, golden yellow hairs, 
Rachis of the leaves hirsute, narrowly winged, 5 to 10.5 cm. long, the petiolar 
part nude, about 5 cm. long, the wings 1 em. broad or less; stipules broadly 
ovate-cordate, acute, persistent, about 8 mm. long and 10 mm. broad, hairy with- 
out, glabrous, brownish (in sicco), and finely parallel-veined within; leaflets 
4 or 5-jugate, suboblique, membranous, almost sessile (the petiolules 1 mm. or 
less) ; glands small, long-stipitate, geminate between the lower pair of leaflets; 
leaflet blades ovate to lanceolate, rounded at the base, short-acuminate at the 
apex or abruptly contracted into a subulate point, sparsely hairy or glabrescent 
above, the costa and veins more or less covered with long hairs, paler and 
sparsely hairy beneath, the costa and veins hairy and prominent, the margin 
ciliate; blades of the basal pair 3 to 4 em. long, 1.1 to 1.7 cm. broad, those of the 
terminal pair 8.5 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 6 cm. broad. 
