PITTIER—-MIDDLE AMERICAN SPECIES OF LONCHOCARPUS. 91 
claw 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long, the blade about 8.5 mm. long and 11 mm. broad; wings 
oblong, subfalcate, auriculate, obtuse, glabrous or sparsely pilosulous without, the 
claw 5 mm. long, the blade about 9 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad; wings falcate, auriculate, 
obtuse and narrow at the apex, the claw 5.5 mm. long, the blade 8 mm. long, 3.6 mm. 
broad. Staminal tube not dilated at the base, the openings narrow, gradually closing 
toward the apex, the filaments alternately long and short, the anthers ovate, sparsely 
setulous at the base. Ovary linear, stipitate, densely grayish-pubescent, about 8 mm. 
long, 6-ovulate; style arcuate, glabrous; stigma inconspicuous. 
Legume coriaceous, stipitate, more or less ferruginous-velvety, 1-seeded, lanceolate- 
acuminate, about 8 cm. long and 2 cm. broad, or sometimes 2 to 4-seeded, up to 12 cm. 
long and 2 cm. broad. Seeds broadly reniform, flattened, about 11 mm. broad, light 
brown with white hilum. 
The type (in Kew Herbarium) was collected at Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, by A. 
Fendler (no. 2219!, flowers, 1863?, fruits). 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: La Trinidad de Maracay, Aragua, in light forest, alt. about 440 
meters, in flower, April 17, 1913, Patter 6045; in fruit, February 3, 1918, 
Pittier 5803. Colonia Tovar, Fendler 1863? (a duplicate of the type specimen, 
Gray Herb.). Mariara, Aragua, in fruit, February 5, 1913, Pittier 5804. 
Bentham placed this species among his Eriophylli and suggested also that it may 
come near Lonchocarpus rugosus, among the Densiflori. It is, however, fundamentally 
distinct on account of the unbranched peduncles, the shape of the basal openings 
of the staminal tube, and the setulous anthers. 
Lonchocarpus fendleri pubescens Pittier, subsp. nov. 
A deciduous tree about 15 meters high, the trunk straight, the crown depressed. 
Leaves 7-foliolate, imperfectly developed at flowering time. Leaflets oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous above, minutely but densely pubescent beneath. Floral spikes intensely 
purple, the calyx and petals also purple. 
Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, no. 601779, col- 
lected in the valley of El Limén, near Maracay, Aragua, Vene- 
zuela, in forests, flowers, April 18, 1913, by H. Pittier (no. 
6052). 
At Maracay, Lonchocarpus fendleri was known under the 
name of ‘‘mahomo” or “‘majomo,’”’ but at Mariara, not far 
distant, it was pointed out to meas the ‘‘mijagua” or ‘‘mijao,”’ 
which is also the current appellation for Anacardiwm rhino- 
carpus. 
Lonchocarpus margaritensis Pittier, sp. nov. Ficure 41. 
A tree or a shrub, the branchlets brownish, lenticellate, at 
first puberulous. . gs . Fig. 41.— Lonchocarpus 
Leaves 7-foliolate, the rachis slightly canaliculate, shortly marperiencis. o, Stand- 
ferruginous-hairy, 10 to 12 cm. long. Leaflets subcoriaceous, ard; b, wings; ¢, carinal 
petiolules about 4 mm. long, densely brown-hairy, the petals; d, calyx and sta- 
blades ovate or oblong, rounded or subcuneate-attenuate at Mens; ¢,pistil. Natural 
the base, acute and mucronulate at the apex, 2.5 to 9.5 cm. size. From Johnston 23. 
long, 2.8 to 3.2 cm. broad, puberulous and light green above, paler, reticulate, and 
softly pubescent beneath, the costa and veins immersed above, prominent beneath. 
Stipules triangular, apiculate, ferruginous-pubescent, about 5 mm. long, early de- 
ciduous, 
Racemes axillary, subpaniculate at the ends of the branchlets, the rachis ferru- 
ginous-hairy, 3 to 7.5 cm. long. Peduncles and pedicels pubescent, the former not 
over 1 mm. long, the latter 2 to 2.5 mm. long; bracts and bractlets linear, hairy, about 
