PITTIFR—PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 125 
mm. long. Pedicels filiform, 5 to 10 mm. long, provided at the base with small, 
rounded, caducous bractlets. Calyx campanulate, 6 to 7 mm. long, bearing at 
the base 2 ovate bractlets about 1 mm. long; teeth subequal, irregular, minutely 
ciliate. Petals yellow; standard ovate-orbicular, attenuate into a slender claw, 
about 13 mm. long and 11 mm. broad; wings narrowly unguiculate, auriculate, 
ovate-elliptic, rounded at tip, 12 to 13 mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. broad; carinal 
petals cohering at the apex and nearly of the same size and shape as the wings. 
Stamens about 10 mm. long, the vexillar one free almost to the base; anthers 
ovate, apiculate. Ovary long-stipitate, l-ovulate, glabrous; style slender, in- 
curved. 
Legumes few or single on each rachis of the inflorescence, elliptic, rounded 
at both ends, 9 em. long, exclusive of a stipe 1 cm. long, 3.5 broad ; pedicel 6 mm: 
long. Mature seed not seen. 
Type in the Kew Herbarium. 
The following specimens are of this species: 
Panama: David, Chiriquf, a fine tree, producing a beautiful wood (See- 
mann). Hospital grounds at Ancén, Canal Zone, flowers, February, 
1912, Pittier 5724. Rio Congo, southern Darién, fruit, June, 1914, 
Pittier 6988. 
Costa Rica: Currés, on the banks of the Diquis River, near Boruca, 
Province of Puntarenas, alt. about 100 meters, a small tree, the trunk 
15 to 20 cm. in diameter, in flower, March 4, 1898, Pittier (Inst. Ffs. 
Geogr. Costa Rica, no, 11954). 
Reported also from Colombia and Venezuela. 
Bentham gave only a short diagnosis of this species, this accompanied with 
a plate, which is excellent in every detail but for the lack of fully developed 
leaflets. The present description is founded mostly on my specimens from 
Panama, in small part on the Costa Rican ones, which were first identified by 
Captain John Donnell Smith. There are small discrepancies between Bentham’s 
drawing and my specimens; in the latter, for instance, the pedicels are mostly 
slender and much longer than the calyx, and the standard is slightly emargi- 
nate. The Costa Rican specimens were from a small tree and have no mature 
leaves. 
Platymiscium dubium Pittier, sp. nov. 
A middle-sized tree, forking low, with rounded, depressed, or elongate crown. 
Bark grayish, finely lenticellate on young twigs. 
Leaves opposite, 5 or T-foliolate, imparipinnate, entirely glabrous; rachis 
terete, 8 to 10 cm. long. Leaflets coriaceous, glabrous, opposite or nearly so, 
light green above, paler beneath ; petiolules thick, slightly canaliculate, 4to6 
mm. long; blades ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, broader and rounded at the base, 
acuminate at the apex, the lateral ones 5 to 9 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, the 
terminal one usually a little larger (9 to 11 cm. long, 4 to 5 cm. broad). : 
Stipules semiorbicular, thick, caducous. 
Racemes simple, short (3 to 7 cm. long), axillary. Flowers not known. 
Pod thin, coriaceous, elliptic, rounded at both ends, 6.to 8 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 
cm. broad, glabrous, the stipe about 7 mm. long, the pedicel not over 5 mm. 
long. Seed elongate, subreniform, flat, 7 mm. long, 3 mm, broad. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 679925, collected near Chepo, 
Panama, at about 60 meters above sea level, in fruit, October, 1911, by H. 
Pittier (no. 4762). 
Although it goes under the same common name of “ quira,” of Indian origin, 
this species can not be confused with Platymiscium polystachyum Benth., from 
which it differs obviously in habit as well as in the number, size, and texture of 
