90 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Additional specimens were collected between Mariara and Antequera, State of 
Aragua, Venezuela, altitude about 600 meters, in flower, February 5, 1913, by H. 
Pittier (no. 5805). 
A striking tree, growing in the open or parklike country and completely leafless 
at flowering time. I obtained only an imperfect specimen, this accounting for the 
deficiencies in the description of the flower. 
Lonchocarpus dipteroneurus Pittier, sp. nov. 
Subgenus Neuroscapha. A small tree, the branchlets glabrous, grayish brown, 
minutely and densely lenticellate. 
Leaves 13 or 15-foliolate, the rachis slender, canaliculate, glabrous or minutely 
pilosulous, 7 to 11.5 cm. long. Leaflets coriaceous, oblique, the petiolules canalicu- 
late, about 2 mm. long, pilosulous, the blades ovate or lanceolate, rounded and ulti- 
mately often subattenuate at the base, more or less obtusely attenuate-acuminate 
at the apex, 3 to 6 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. broad, dull green and glabrous above, paler 
and sparsely pubescent beneath, the costa and veins slightly prominent and _pilosu- 
lous on both faces. 
Flowers not known. 
Legume ovate-lanceolate, more or less concavo-convex, strongly arcuate on the 
carinal side, long-stipitate, arcuate-rostrate at the apex, glabrous, either 1-seeded, 
then about 5 cm. long and 2.5 cm. broad, or 2-seeded, then strongly contracted between 
the seeds and up to 7 cm. long; carinal margin thin-edged; vexillar margin concave 
opposite the seeds, about 5 mm. broad, each side broadly winged. Seeds oblong, 
subcylindrical, subreniform, about 6 mm. long, 12 mm. broad, light brown. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, nos. 601697 and 601698, collected on the 
Guinand Estate (Cardenas), Siquire Valley, State of Miranda, Venezuela, at an 
altitude of about 600 meters, in fruit, March, 1913, by H. 
Pittier (no. 5978). 
Known among the natives under the name of ‘‘grifo,’’ 
this species is distinct from any of those seen by me. It 
evidently belongs to the subgenus Neuroscapha, but the 
fruits are remarkable on account of their shape and of the 
strongly developed double wing on the vexillar margin. 
Lonchocarpus fendleri Benth. Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 4: Suppl. 94. 1860. Fiaure 40. 
A deciduous tree 4 to 12 meters high, with depressed 
crown, the branchlets grayish, lenticellate, at first 
canescent-tomentellous. 
Leaves 7 to 13-foliolate, appearing with the flowers, 
the rachis terete or subcanaliculate, 3.5 to 9 cm. long, 
Fig. 40,—Lonchocarpus fend- at first tomentose, later ferruginous-pubescent. Leaflets 
leri, a, Standard; 6, wings; ovate-oblong or obovate, rounded or cuneate at the base, 
¢, carinal petals; d, calyx and obtuse or subacute at the apex, 3.5 to 9 cm. long, 2 to 4 
stamens; e, pistil. Natural 
size. From Pittier 6045. cm. broad, at first membranous, glabrous and dark green 
above, the costa and veins pilosulous, softly tomentose 
beneath, later coriaceous, glabrous and lustrous above, the costa and veins impressed, 
beneath paler, more or less rufous-tomentose, the costa and veins prominent. 
Racemes axillary, the rachis gray-pubescent, about 14 cm. long or shorter. Pedun- 
cles geminate, simple, about 6 mm. long, gray-pubescent; bracts and bractlets elongate- 
oblong, hardly 1 mm. long, tomentose without, the latter solitary (?) and close to 
the calyx. Calyx subturbinate-campanulate, obsoletely 5-toothed, about 5 mm. 
long, gray-pubescent without. Petals pinkish purple; standard orbicular, smooth 
and attenuate at the base, emarginate at the apex, sparsely pubescent without, the 
