60 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
the former usually biflorous, 3 to 5 mm. leng, the latter 2 to 3 mm. long; bracts and 
bractlets very small, ovate-oblong, hairy, the latter inserted slightly above the middle 
of the pedicel. Calyx cupulate, densely fulvous-pubescent without, 4 to 4.5 mm. 
long, distinctly 5-toothed, the 2 carinal teeth largest, the vexil- 
lar one smallest. Petalsdeep red; standard broadly orbicular, 
bilobulate at the base, emarginate at the apex, almost flat, 
densely silky-villous without, the margins inflexed, the claw 
oblique, about 1 mm. long, the blade 8.5 mm. long, 9.5 mm. 
broad; wings ovate, auriculate, adhering to the keel, glabrous, 
the claw about 3 mm. long, the blade 8.5 mm. long, 3 to 
3.5 mm. broad; carinal petals ovate, obtuse, subauriculate, 
densely silky-villous without, the claw as in the wings, the 
bladed to 5.5 mm. long, 3.5mm. broad. Vexillar stamen free 
Fia, 7.—Lonchocarpus erio- at the base, the staminal tube short and broad. Ovary linear, 
carinalis. a, Standard; Stipitate, densely tomentose, about 4.5 mm. long, 2 or 3-ovu- 
b, wings; c, carinal petals; late; style sharply recurved, relatively long, tomentose at the 
d, calyx and stamens; ¢, hase; stigma capitellate. 
Pistil. Natural size. From = 7 e¢ume broadly ovate-lanceolate, compressed, attenuate 
Langlassé 320. 
at the base, obtuse at the apex, densely rufous-tomentose, 1 
or rarely 2 or 3-seeded, 7 to 8.5 cm., or when 2 or 3-seeded up to 10 or 11.5 cm. long, 
3.5 to 4 cm. broad. Seeds reniform, dark brown with white hilum, 15 mm. broad, 
nearly 10 mm. long, and 2 mm. thick. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Mexico: El Valle Grande, Guerrero, alt. about 400 meters, September 5, 1898, 
in flower, Langlassé 320 (type collection, a specimen in U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
Near Acapulco, Guerrero, in flower and fruit, October, 1894, to March, 1895, 
Palmer 226. Near Manzanillo, Colima, in fruit, December, 1890, Palmer 984. 
The common name of the species is ‘‘palo de oro,’’ an allusion to the golden hue 
of the flower masses. 
Closely related to Lonchocarpus rugosus Benth., but departing from it in the arrange- 
ment of the inflorescence, the size and color of the flowers, the shape and dimensions 
of the fruits, the number of the leaflets, etc. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 2.—See p. 57. 
8. Lonchocarpus jaliscensis Pittier, sp. nov. 
A shrub or a small tree, the bark of the trunk and larger limbs gray and verruculose, 
that of the branchlets brownish and lenticellate; young shoots more or less puberulous. 
Leaves 7 to 13-foliolate, the rachis canaliculate, fulvous-hairy, 6.5 to 13.5 cm. long. 
Leaflets subcoriaceous, the petiolules densely hairy, 3 to 4 mm. long, the blades 
orbicular-ovate, obovate, or oblong, rounded at the base, obtuse and sometimes 
emarginate at the apex, 1.5 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. broad, puberulous or gla- 
brescent above, the costa and veins immersed, softly hairy beneath, the costa and 
veins prominent, the margins revolute. 
Flowers not known. 
Legume ovate-lanceolate, shortly attenuate-stipitate at the base, obtuse at the 
apex, l-seeded, about 4 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 cm. broad, dark brown hairy without, the 
margin thin-edged, broader on the vexillar side. Seed reniform, thick, reddish 
brown, about 8 mm. long and 14 mm. broad. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 301874, collected at Bolafios, State of 
Jalisco, Mexico, in fruit, September, 1897, by J. N. Rose (no. 2923). 
Although the only specimen is rather incomplete, it is sufficient to show distinct 
specific characters, the place of the species being close to Lonchocarpus eriocarinalis 
Micheli, from which it differs principally in the smaller leaves and legumes. 
