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Leaves bipinnate, the main rachis about 34 cm. long, terete, sparsely lenti- 
cellate, pilosulous, with large, swollen nodes; pinns 4-jugate, the rachis terete 
and pilosulous, with swollen nodes, the first pair 5-foliolate, its rachis about 
10 cm. long, the second pair 8-foliolate, the rachis 7 em. long, the third pair 
with one leaflet articulate on a rachis 1.3 em. long, the single leaflets of the 
upper pair inserted directly on the main rachis; leaflets coriaceous, glabrous, 
articulate, the petiolules flat or shallow-sulcate above, 0.7 to 1.2 em. long in 
the lateral leaflets, about 4 cm. in the terminal ones, the blades ovate-elliptic, 
acute at the base, with a swollen joint, acuminate at the apex, 10 to 16 cm. 
long, 3.5 to 8 cm. broad, paler and finely reticulate with prominent venation 
beneath ; prophyllum stipulaceous, obovate-spatulate, glandular, 6 to 7 mm. long. 
Inflorescence racemose, axillary, bracteate, growing from the old wood; 
racemes about 8 cm. long, the rachis thick, grayish-pubescent; bracts geminate, 
ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 cm. long, 0.6 cm. broad, sparsely hairy on both faces; 
pedicel thick, about 1 cm. long; bractlets geminate, ovate, conchoid, clasping, 
obtuse and often slightly emarginate at the apex, 2.5 cm. long, nearly 2 em. 
broad when flattened ; calyx tubular-campanulate, 1.2 to 2 cm. long, irregularly 
lobulate, open to the base on one side(?), glandular along the upper margin, 
minutely pilosulous without; corolla about 4.5 cm. long, funnelform-campanu- 
late, yellow, glabrous without, hairy inside at the insertion of the stamens, the 
basal tube broad, about 7 mm. long, the lobes not seen; stamens didynamous, 
glabrous, the filaments incurved, 2.4 and 3.4 cm. long (the longer stamens reach- 
ing the base of the lobes), the anther cells divaricate, ovoid, 4 mm. long; 
staminode 5.5 mm. long, glabrous, spatulate at the apex; disc pulvinate, thick, 
1.3 to 1.5 mm, high; pistil about 3 cm. long, the ovary elongate, slender, thicker 
at the apex, sparsely scaly, about 4.5 mm. long. 
Fruit not known. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 601679, collected on the Guinand 
Estate (Cardenas), Siquire Valley, State of Miranda, Venezuela, in open 
meadows, flowers, March 19, 1913, by H. Pittier (no. 5963). 
The specimens at hand are, unfortunately, scanty and not very complete, but 
the species evidently belongs to the Euadenocalymnae near A. comosum DC.. 
differing from all other representatives of the genus in the compound leaves with 
very prominent articulations. 
Adenocalymna cocleense Pittier, sp. nov. 
An erect, deciduous shrub, “ the stems 5 cm. in diameter or more” (Williams 
in seched.), the young branchlets 4-angular, densely furfuraceous-tomentose. 
Upper leaves all 3-foliolate, appearing with the flowers, the petioles terete, 
subsulcate, densely furfuraceous-tomentellous, 4.5 to 7.5 em. long; petiolules 
canaliculate, furfuraceous-tomentellous, the middle one 1.5 to 2 cm., the lateral 
ones 0.7 to 1 cm. long; leaflet blades broadly ovate, rounded at the base, acute 
or subacuminate and mucronulate at the apex, 6 to 7.5 cm. long, 4 to 5.5 cm. 
broad, sparsely covered on both faces with short, branched hairs, the costa and 
veins more densely hairy; stipule-like phylla scarious, broadly triangular-acute, 
pubescent, about 3 mm. long. 
Inflorescence terminal, short, the rachis, peduncles, and pedicels furfurace- 
ous-tomentellous; bracts linear, boat-shaped, tomentellous without, glabrous 
within, up to 7 mm. long, early deciduous; bractlets inserted at the base of, and 
nearly as long as or longer than the pedicels, these about 6 mm. long; calyx 
tubular-campanulate, 7.5 mm. long, 5-toothed, furfuraceous-tomentellous with- 
out, eglandular, the margin ciliate, the teeth narrow, mucronate, wide apart; 
corolla straight, tubular-funnelform, pink within, whitish at the base, 4.7 to 5 
cm. long, furfuraceous-tomentellous without, glabrous within except at the 
