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slender and prominent on both sides of the blade, finely reticulate beneath; 
margin entire. Stipules and stipels very caducous and not seen. 
Flowers unknown. 
Legume glabrous, samara-like, oblanceolate, stipitate, 11 to 11.5 cm. long, 
about 2.5 cm. broad, the basal part flat and membranous, the apex, bearing the 
seed, thicker, woody, rounded and apiculate; peduncle 2 cm. long; stipe 12 mm. 
Seed obovate, elongate, about 18 mm. long and 8 mm. broad, the hilum near the 
narrower end. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 715433, collected in forests around 
San Felix, eastern Chiriqui, Panama, at about 100 meters above sea level, fruits, 
[December 19, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 5229). 
This is very likely the species previously collected by Hayes between Gor- 
gona and Matachin and reported in the Biologia Centrali-Americana’? under 
the name of P. elegans Vog. The Panama species differs from the latter, how- 
ever, in its larger leaves and leaflets and in its legume, which is about twice as 
long, with the venation distinct and the pointed apex more prominent. The 
pubescence is also less, and the study of the flower will probably bring to light 
other differential characters. 
Named in honor of Mr. William R. Maxon, Associate Curator of the United 
States National Herbarium. 
Andira chiricana Pittier, sp. nov. 
A medium-sized tree, with an oblong crown. 
Leaves 9 to 11-foliolate, coriaceous; rachis slender, sparsely grayish-hairy, 
18 to 22 em. long; leaflets petiolulate. Petiolules minutely brownish-pubescent, 
5 mm. long; leaflet blades elliptic, rounded or subcuneate at the base, acumi- 
nate at the tip, glabrous above, minutely tomentose and paler beneath, 3 to 8 
em. long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. broad, the largest leaflets terminal. Stipules subulate, 
hairy, caducous, 6 to 7 mm. long; stipels stiff, glabrous, not over 2 mm. long. 
Panicles terminal, erect, densely flowered, twice branched, the rachis mi- 
nutely brownish or grayish-pubescent; bracts like the stipules; bractlets linear, 
1 to 2 mm. long, very hairy, fugacious. Flowers 14 to 15 mm. long, including 
the short (1 mm.) hairy pedicel. Calyx campanulate, acute at the base, 
densely brownish-pubescent, about 5 mm. long, the anterior tooth rounded, the 
4 posterior ones acute. Petal glabrous, pinkish purple; standard obovate, 
attenuate at the base, emarginate, subauriculate on one side (the left side, 
looking at the flower from the back), short-unguiculate, the total length 12 
mm., the breadth 11 mm., the claw about 2 mm. long; wings 2-auriculate or sub- 
cordate at the base, almost straight, rounded at the tip, the claw 3.5 mm. long, 
the blade 8.8 mm. long and 4 mm. broad; carina 11.5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, 
faleate and obtuse at the tip, the petals auriculate, the claw 4 mm. long. 
Stamens diadelphous. Ovary stipitate, grayish-hairy throughout, 2-ovulate, the 
style with a few long stray hairs. 
Legume not known. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 677755, collected near David, 
Chiriquif, Panama, flowers, March 28, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 3372). 
Andira chiricana is the only known Central American species of the genus’ 
having the ovary villous all over. The other species of its group are Brazilian. 
It seems closely related to A. frazinifolia Benth., but differs in having the 
ovary 2-ovulate and hairy from the base, the stipules and bracts subulate, and 
the leaves coriaceous. 
*Bot. 1: 316. 1880. 
