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2.5 to 4.5 cm. broad, glabrous, the costa slightly prominent beneath, the veins 
and reticulation inconspicuous; stipels early caducous or wanting. 
Inflorescence racemose-paniculate, terminal, densely flowered, about 20 em. 
long, the rachis densely flowered, the individual racemes 5 to 9 ecm. long. 
Flowers pedicellate, the pedicels 2 to 8 mm. long, 
pubescent, subtended at the base by a minute, pubescent 
bractlet. Calyx broadly companulate, 3 mm. long, entire 
or slightly sinuate on the margin, minutely puberulous or 
pubescent, persistent. Petal 1, yellow, glabrous, the claw 
about 3 mm. long, narrow, the blade ovate or suborbicular, 
reflexed, conchoid, about 5 mm. long and broad, irregu- 
Fic. 51.—Floral de- 
tails of Ateleia 
larly sinuate on the margin. Stamens 10, 5 long and 5 herbert-smithii, a, 
short alternating, the former exserted, about 4 mm. long, Flower; b, ovary; 
the shorter ones subincluded; filaments slender, free or c,andrecium, Nat- 
ural size. From 
very slightly connate at the base; anthers dorsifixed, 
type specimen. 
broadly ovate, the connective much shorter than the cells. 
Ovary stipitate, compressed, ovate, about 3 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad, 
2-ovulate, densely brownish-pubescent; stigma sessile, ovate-elliptic and con- 
cave, placed laterally to the apex on the ventral margin; ovules 2, amphi- 
tropous, borne on a short hilum. 
Fruit not known. 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 703851, collected in Santa Marta, 
Colombia, 1898-9, by H. H. Smith (no. 817). 
The type of the genus Ateleia, A. pterocarpa Moc. & Sessé, is Mexican. Two 
or three more species have been reported from Yucatin and the Greater 
Antilles, and more recently two new additions have been described, one from 
Brazil (A. glazioviana Baill., 1892) and another from Bolivia (A. guaraya 
Herzog, 1909). The species here described inhabits the intermediate belt of 
South America, and shows the area of the genus to extend uninterruptedly 
from Mexico to Bolivia and eastern Brazil. 
Ateleia herbert-smithii differs from all the other species of the genus in the 
shape of the leaflets. These, further, are distinctly and regularly alternate, as 
in A. pterocarpa, in which they are smaller, ovate, and more numerous. The 
young pods on the type specimens are ovate and 2-seeded, with the placental 
suture winged. 
The species is named in honor of Mr. Herbert H. Smith, whose rich and well 
prepared collections of the flora of Santa Marta constitute one of the best 
recent contributions to the study of the flora of tropical America. 
A VENEZUELAN SPECIES OF APOPLANESIA. 
Apoplanesia cryptopetala Pittier sp. nov. Figure 52, 
A shrub or small tree, the young branchlets glandular and tomentellous. 
Leaves 13 to 21-foliolate, the rachis terete, 12 to 17 cm. long, tomentellous 
and sparsely glandular. Leaflets subcoriaceous, opposite, subopposite, or alter- 
nate, the petiolules 3 to 4 mm. long, grayish-hairy, sparsely glandular, the blades 
ovate-oblong, rounded at the base, rounded-emarginate at the apex, 2.5 to 6 
cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. broad, minutely pilosulous above, paler, reticulate, 
sparsely pubescent, and black-glandular beneath, the costa densely hairy and 
the veins more or less so. Stipules wanting. 
Inflorescence terminal, the numerous erect spikes paniculate, the rachis hairy, 
up to 20 cm. long. Bracts wanting; bractlets very small, hairy, acute, early 
caducous. Perfect flowers not seen. Pedicels hairy, short. Calyx hairy, 5- 
toothed. Petals 5, early deciduous. Stamens 10, the vexillar one free or 
