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rounded, sometimes cuneate at the base, obtuse or obtusely acuminate at the 
apex, 4 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 4 cm. broad, dark green above, paler beneath; costa 
impressed on the upper face of the leaflets, strongly prominent on the lower 
face; veins very numerous, parallel, more or less prominulous on both faces, 
simple to the marginal nerve or sparsely branching; intermediate veinlets more 
or less parallel to the veins and somewhat anastomosed. Stipules indurate- 
spinescent, arcuate, concave on the lower side, pilosulous or glabrous. 
Inflorescence paniculate, terminal, 15 to 80 cm. long, loose, ramified, the 
rachis terete, more or less pilosulous or pubescent, 3 times ramified. Bracts 
spinescent, yellowish, pilosulous, arcuate (like the stipules). Peduncles 
(branchlets of third order) 3 to 10-flowered, provided at the base with scaly 
or spinescent bracts, Pedicels 2 to 3 mm. long, densely grayish-pubescent, 
bracteolate at the base. Flowers 9 to 10 mm. long. Calyx campanulate, 
o-toothed, persistent, 5 to 5.5 mm. long, substriate, glabrous or sparsely pubes- 
cent without, the carinal tooth longer, narrow and acute, the lateral teeth 
broader, obtuse or acute. Calycinal bractlets suborbicular, glabrous or puberu- 
lous, up to 1.5 mm. long and broad, entire. Petals 
purple, glabrous or sparsely pubescent without; stand- 
ard strongly reflexed, the claw 1 to 1.5 mm. long, the 
blade orbicular or ovate, obtuse, subtruncate, or atten- 
uate at the base, emarginate with broadly rounded 
lobes at the apex, 7 to 9 mm. long, 8.5 to 9 mm. broad; 
claw of the wings 2 to 2.5 mm. long, the blade obliquely 
obovate, narrow and more or less distinctly auriculate 
on the vexillar side at the base, broad and obtuse at 
the apex, about as long as that of the standard, 2.5 to 
3.5 mm. broad; carinal petals strongly falcate, the claw 
2 to 2.5 mm. long, the blade broadly rounded-auriculate 
on the vexillar side, more or less obtuse at the apex, Fic. 54.—Ploral details 
7.5 to 8 mm. long, 8 mm, broad, the carinal margin more > t lien mane 
or less reflexed. Stamens monadelphous, the filaments Standard; b, wings: 
arcuate, the anthers oblong. Ovary 1-ovulate, long- c, carinal petals; 
stipitate with a tubular disk at the base, compressed, d, calyx; e, ovary. 
appressed-villous or villous-tomentose, the style straight, Nataal ono | om 
glabrous, the stigma inconspicuous. Herbarium, em ay 
Fruit entirely glabrous, long-stipitate, the stipe slender, 
7 to 10 mm. long, the whole 5 to 6.5 cm. long, the seminal part narrow (5 to 7 mm. 
broad), elongate, strongly veined, attenuate at the base, the wing oblong, cultri- 
form, obtuse, apiculate (on the vexillar side of the apex), up to 16 mm. broad. 
Seed oblong, arcuate, compressed, brownish, about 15 mm. long, 4 mm. broad. 
Type from the Aragua Valley, Venezuela, collected by Humboldt and Bon- 
pland. Above description based upon specimens from near Colonia Tovar, 
Fendler 2226, for the leaves and flowers, and Valle del Limén, near Maracay, 
State of Aragtia, Venezuela, Pittier 6077, for the fruit and seed. 
The following specimens also belong here: 
VENEZUELA: La Trinidad de Maracay, State of Aragua, flowers, February, 
1913, Pittier 5791. 
CotomBiA: Santa Marta, alt. 170 meters, flowers and young fruits, April, 
1901, H. H. Smith 2026 (distributed as M. lineatum Benth.). 
All these specimens agree in a general way with Vogel’s description, except 
in one important detail. Following Humboldt’s notes, this author gives the 
plant the status of a tree, while, according to notes taken at the time of the 
collection of my own specimens, it is a scandent shrub. Further information 
on the habit of this species is desirable, 
