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slightly emarginate at the apex, 6.5 mm. long, 6 mm. broad, silky-pubescent 
without; wings oblong, oblique, broadly 1-auriculate, obtuse, slightly pubescent 
at the base, the claw 1.5 to 2 mm. long, the blade 4 to 4.5 mm. long; carinal 
petals slightly falcate, semihastate-auriculate, pubescent at the base and along 
the carinal margin, the claw as in the wings, the blade 4.5 mm. long, 2 mm. 
broad. Stamens monadelphous, glabrous, the anthers ovoid. Ovary 1-ovulate, 
almost straight, long-stipitate, provided at the base with a tubular disk, this 
about 1 mm. long, glabrous, the stipe glabrous, the ovary proper fuliginous- 
hairy; style glabrous, recurved, about 1.3 mm. long. 
The following specimens have been examined: 
Mexico: Cérdoba Valley, State of Veracruz, 1865-6, Bourgceau. 
Ex Sarvapor: Southern slopes of Santa Ana Volcano, alt. 1,000 meters, 
flowers, February 18, 1907, Pittier 2057. 
Drepanocarpus venezuelensis Pittier, sp. nov. Freure 59. 
A low, bushy, half-trailing shrub, unarmed, the branchlets terete or more or 
less longitudinally suleate, with reddish brown, rimose bark, the younger parts 
minutely appressed-pubescent. 
Leaves 7 to 11-foliolate, the rachis 6 to 12 cm. long, at first ferruginous- 
pubescent, later glabrescent. Leaflets coriaceous, the petiolules ferruginous- 
pubescent or glabrescent, 4 to 5 mm. long, the blades 
v7 oblong, rounded or subcuneate at the base, obtusely 
we acutate or subacuminate at the apex, 5 to 11 cm. long, 
EQ 1 —aQ 1.5 to 3.5 em. broad, dull, glabrous, and prominulous- 
— WR reticulate above, paler, minutely appressed-pilosulous, 
and reticulate beneath, the costa and veins impressed 
above, very prominent beneath. Stipules ovate-acumi- 
nate, 2 to 4 mm. long, coriaceous, puberulous without, 
caducous. 
Fic. 59.—Floral details Inflorescences paniculate, axillary or terminal, the 
of Drepanocarpus . . 
venezuelensis. a, Yachis ferruginous-pubescent, the secondary branchlets 
Standard; b, wings; (5 to 11 cm. long) and the peduncles often fasciculate 
ce, carinal petals; at the nodes; peduncles simple or ramified, 5 to 
d, calyx; @ Ovary. g Aowered, 1 to 3 cm. long. Bracts ovate-acuminate, 
Natural size, From . 
type specimen, ferruginous-pubescent, about 2 mm. long, caducous; 
bractlets obovate, very small, hairy, subpersistent. 
Flowers sessile, 8 to 9 mm. long. Calycinal bractlets ovate to obovate, 1 to 2 cm. 
long, 1 to 5 mm. broad, ferruginous-pubescent. Calyx campanulate, 4 to 5 mm. 
long, minutely ferruginous-pubescent, the teeth very short, rounded and broad. 
Petals white with purple veins; standard straight (not reflexed), minutely 
ferruginous-pubescent without, the claw broad, about 2.5 mm. long, the blade 
ovate, attenuate at the base, rounded and broadly emarginate at the apex, about 
6 mm. long and 5 mm, broad; wings glabrous, strongly oblique, the claw slender, 
<.5 to 3 mm. long, the blade ovate, shortened at the base on the vexillar side, 
obtuse at the apex, 5.5 to 6 mm. long, 2.5 to 3 mm. broad; carinal petals strongly 
falcate, glabrous, the claw as in the wings, the blade about 5 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 
min. broad. Stamens monadelphous, glabrous, the filaments thick, the anthers 
small, subglobose. Ovary 1-ovulate, long-stipitate (stipe 3.5 to 4 mm. long), 
brownish-pubescent, provided at the base with a very short tubular disk; style 
glabrous, straight, about 1.1 mm. long. 
Legume not known, 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 601838, collected at El Cedral 
de las Ajuntas, near Los Tegues, State of Miranda, Venezuela, in flower, April 
27, 1913, by H. Pittier (no. 6108). 
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