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with a long funicle, the style curved, the stigma large, umbonate, discoid- 
oblong, with revolute margins. Follicle woody, glabrous, subglaucous within, 
ovoid-fusiform, long-stipitate, bearing at the apex the thick, persistent style ; 
dehiscence unilateral; pedicel and stipe each about 1 cm, long; body of the 
follicle 4 cm. long and 2 em. in diameter; persistent style about 38 cm. long. 
Seeds 4 in each follicle, obovate, flat, whitish, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. 
broad, including the terminal, membranous, ovate-elongate wing. 
Collected at Cariamanga, Ecuador, at an altitude of about 2,400 meters, 
November 24, 1910, by Dr. C. H. T. Townsend. 
Two species of Embothrium Forst., section Oreocallis R. Br., have been re- 
ported from the Ecuadorean Andes, E, grandiflorum Lam. and #. ruizii. Dr. 
Townsend's specimens agree fairly with the description of the latter species, 
which is here emended and supplemented by the description of the fruit and 
seed. 
CAESALPINIACEAE. 
TWO NEW SPECIES OF SCHIZOLOBIUM. 
Schizolobium covilleanum Pittier, sp. nov. 
A large, deciduous tree, 25 to 30 meters high, the trunk over 1 meter in 
diameter. Larger limbs horizontal; crown rounded-depressed. Bark grayish 
and shaggy on the trunk, brownish and covered with minute lenticels on the 
branchlets. Heart wood yellow, fine-grained and hard. Younger shoots densely 
covered with a brown downy pubescence. 
Leaves bipinnate, the mature ones (not collected) often very large, the young 
ones on floriferous branchlets 10 to 20 cm. long. Rachis ferruginous-pubescent 
or puberulous, the petiolar part of the primary costa 1.5 to 2 cm. long. Pinnze 
15 to 21, opposite or alternate, 19 to 29-foliolate, up to 8 em. long. Leaf- 
lets sessile, alternate, 5 to 10 mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. broad, suborbicular to 
ovate-elliptic or obovate, obliquely truncate at the base and strongly inequi- 
lateral, the insertion being at the lower angle, rounded and often subemarginate 
or sometimes subacute at the tip, glabrous or sparsely hairy and reticulate 
above, paler and more or less pubescent beneath. Stipules oblong, rounded at 
the apex, about 6 mm. long, scarious, ferruginous-hairy, very caducous. 
Floral racemes unbranched, 15 to 25 em. long, axillary and terminal and 
forming broad panicles at the ends of the branchlets, the rachis, pedicels, and 
calyx densely ferruginous-pubescent. Bracts- and bractlets oblanceolate, 5 to 
7 mm. long, ferruginous-hairy, early deciduous. Pedicels slender, 7 to 20 mm. 
long. Calyx tube broadly cupulate, scarcely oblique; calyx lobes 5, ovate- 
elliptic, narrowing more or less toward the rounded tip, about 8 mm. long and 
5 mm. broad. Petals 5, yellow, unguiculate, suborbicular, 14 mm. long, 12 mm. 
broad, sparsely dark-dotted toward the middle; claw 2.5 mm. long, glandular- 
hairy above near the base of the limb, pubescent near the insertion on the 
receptacle. Stamens 10, nearly 12 mm. long, the filaments densely hairy on the 
lower half, sparsely glandular-hairy on the upper half, the anthers ovate, about 
2 mm. long. Pistil 15 mm. long, densely whitish-pubescent for the lower two- 
thirds of its length, gradually glabrescent toward the tip; ovary sessile, short, 
few-ovulate, attenuate into a long style; stigma obtuse and small. 
Legume obovate-oblique, long-attenuate, stipitate, about 9.5 em, long and 
3.2 cm. broad, 1-seeded, the valves coriaceous, glabrous and smooth without, 
strongly reticulate within. Seed ovate, strongly compressed, 2.3 cm. long, 1.5 cm. 
broad. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 715287, collected along a dry river 
in the neighborhood of Poerf, near Aguadulce, Province of Coclé, Panama, at. 
