PITTIER—-MIDDLE AMERICAN SPECIES OF LONCHOCARPUS. 85 
The affinities of this species seem to be with Lonchocarpus sericeus (Poir.) H. B. K.., 
but the leaflets are more numerous and distinctively shaped, the flowers small, the 
ovary 2-ovulate, etc. 
EXCLUDED OR DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
LONCHOCARPUS ERIOPHYLLUS Benth. Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4: Suppl. 94. 1860. 
FiaureE 36. 
This is the type of the section Eriophylli Benth. The tree differs from the usual 
Lonchocarpus type in the very numerous leaflets, the long narrow wings, and the 
numerous ovules. In the absence of the legume it might just as well find a place 
in the genus Gliricidia. Langlassé’s specimens, cited below, have been compared 
with the type, through the kindness of the authorities of the Royal Botanic Gar- 
dens at Kew, and are described as follows: 
A tree 4 to 5 meters high; young shoots, rachises of the leaves and inflorescences, 
petiolules, and pedicels softly grayish-tomentose; bark of the branchlets reddish 
brown, smooth, the lenticels inconspicuous. 
Leaves 11 to 23-foliolate, the rachis up to 14 cm. long; petiolules 3 mm. long; leaflet 
blades oblong, sometimes oblique, broadly rounded at the base, subacute and mu- 
cronulate at the apex, 2 to 3.5 cm. long, 1 to1.5 
cm. broad, pubescent above, grayish villous to- 
mentose beneath; costa and veins impressed and 
often conspicuous on the upper face, prominent 
beneath. Stipules very small, triangular-acute, 
early deciduous. 
Spikes axillary on the young shoots, erect, 10 to 
12 cm. long, rather densely flowered. Flowers 
geminate, about 2 cm. long from base of calyx to 
apex of the petals, the peduncles 4 mm. long, the 
pedicels 5 to6 mm. long; bracts and bractlets very 
small, ovate, deciduous. Calyx broadly and shal- 
lowly cupulate, 5 to 6 mm. long, softly tomentose 
without, 5-toothed, the 2 anterior teeth more or 
less rounded, close together, and almost coalescent, 
the 3 posterior ones remote and acute. Petals red- me aan wines ormel pet ale. 
dish purple, softly villous without, glabrous within; — natural size, 
standard suborbicular, the claw 3 mm. long, the 
blade 17 mm. long, 16 mm. broad, the median axis and claw in a straight line; wings 
oblong, subfalcate, oblique, slightly adhering to the keel, the claw about 4.5 mm. 
long, the blade 15 to 15.5 mm. long, 4.5 mm. broad; carinal petals falcate, slightly 
coherent, the claw 4.5 mm. long, the blade 15 to 15.5 mm. long, 5.5 to 6 mm. broad. 
Stamens 10, monadelphous, glabrous. Ovary linear, sessile, densely hairy, 11 or 12- 
ovulate, 12 mm. long; style slender, glabrous, strongly arcuate, 7 to 7.5 mm. long, 
ending in a lateral, liguliform stigma. 
Legume not known. 
Type collected near Chilla, in the vicinity of Puebla, Mexico, by Andrieux (no. 
439). 
A second collection is from Los Hornos, Michoacdn or Guerrero, Mexico, ‘altitude 
700 meters, in flower, June, 1899, Langlassé. 
LoncnocaRPus oBovaTus Benth. Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4: Suppl. 93. 1869. 
Of this species I have seen only fragmentary specimens, kindly sent from Kew, 
consisting of a leaflet, remarkable for its long petiolule and reminding one by 
‘ 
