92 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
2 mm. long, early caducous. Calyx cupulate, sinuate-toothed, 3 to 4 mm. long, 
minutely pubescent without. Petals pink; standard suborbicular, callous-plicate 
at the base, emarginate at the apex, minutely pubescent without, barbate at the base 
within, the claw about 1.5 mm. long, the blade 10 mm. long, 12 mm. broad; wings 
oblique, broadly obovate, slightly winged, obtuse, sparsely pilosulous at the base 
of the blade without, the claw about 3 mm. long, the blade 8.5 mm. long, 5 mm. 
broad; carinal petals falcate, broad, obtuse, densely pubescent without, the claw 
2.5 mm. long, the blade about 8 mm. long, 5 mm. broad. Staminal tube glabrous, 
the filaments alternately short and long. Ovary linear, stipitate, densely cano- 
pubescent, about 7 mm. long, 4-ovulate; style very long (nearly 5 mm.), geniculate, 
sparsely ciliate on the inside; stigma subglobose, capitellate. 
Legume subchartaceous, lanceolate, stipitate, acuminate and mucronate at the 
apex, about 9 cm. long, 2.6 cm. broad, 1-seeded, pale brown, pubescent. Seed 
reniform, compressed, about 6.5 mm. long, 11 mm. broad, dark brown. 
Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected at El Valle, 
island of Margarita, Venezuela, flowers and detached fruits, July 7, 1903, by J. R. 
Johnston (no. 23). 
Distributed as L. velutinus Benth., but very distinct, especially as to floral char- 
acters, and related probably to the species of the section Spongopteri. 
Lonchocarpus sanctae-marthae Pittier, sp. nev. 
PuaTte 1, D (facing p. 54). Ficure 42. 
Section Paniculati. A deciduous, spreading tree 10 to 15 meters high, the branch- 
lets grayish, glabrous, covered with inconspicuous lenticels. 
Leaves 5 to 9- (mostly 7-) foliolate, glabrous (pubescent at the earliest stage), the 
rachis obscurely canaliculate, 6 to 14cm. long. Leaflets membranous, the petiolules 
slightly canaliculate, 4 to 5 cm. long, the blades ovate or 
oblong, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, obtusely 
subacuminate at the apex, 3.5 to 11 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. 
broad, minutely reticulate on both faces, light green above, 
paler or glaucescent beneath, the costa and veins promi- 
nent. 
Racemes axillary (mostly on defoliate nodes), sub- 
paniculate at the ends of the branchlets, the rachis angu- 
lar, puberulous or pubescent, 4 to 14 cm. long. Pedicels 
simple, often geminate, 3 to 6 mm. long, sparsely pubes- 
cent; bracts and bractlets very small and deciduous, ob- 
long, pubescent, the latter distant from the calyx. Calyx 
broadly cupulate, about 4 mm. long, minutely and 
Fig. 42.—Lonchocarpus sanc- sparsely pubescent, purplish, the margin sinuate and 
tae-marthae. a, Standard; b, itregularly short-ciliate. Petals pink; standard orbicular, 
wings; c, carinal petals; d, broadly attenuate at the base, emarginate and pubescent 
calyx and stamens; ¢, piss at the apex, the claw about 2 mm. long and broad, the 
Oe Natural size. From H. bade 10 mm. long, 11.5 mm broad; wings oblique, nar- 
H. Smith 107. By ta : } ’ 
row, auriculate, obtuse, callous, concavo-convex and bulg- 
ing out at the base, sparsely pilosulous without, the claw 4 mm. long, the blade about 
9 mm. long, 3.5 to 4 mm. broad: carinal petals falcate, callous, concavo-convex and 
bulging out at the base, auriculate, subobtuse, slightly pubescent without and cili- 
ate at the apex, the claw 4.5 to 5mm. long, the blade 7.5 mm. long, 3 to3.5 mm. 
broad. Staminal tube almost straight, glabrous, the anthers hairy at the base. 
Ovary linear, stipitate, minutely pubescent, about 7 mm. long, 6-ovulate; style 
slightly arcuate, sparsely pubescent at the base; stigma bilobulate, inconspicuous. 
Legume ovate-lanceolate or elongate, stipitate, acute or obtuse at the apex, sub- 
membranous, glabrous, rounded on the margins, either 1-seeded and 4 to 4.5 cm. long, 
