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the leaflets and the size and shape of the legume. On the other hand, the 
specimens, though incomplete, seem not to agree with any other species in the 
genus, so that even in the absence of the flowers it seems safe to regard them 
as representing a hitherto undescribed species, 
A NEW VENEZUELAN SPECIES OF CLITORIA. 
Clitoria dendrina Pittier, sp. nov, FIGure 62. 
A small tree, 4 to 5 meters high, the limbs ascending, the branchlets slightly 
pubescent or glabrate. 
Leaves 3-foliolate, the rachis subangular, more or less tomentose-pubescent, 
9.5 to 18 em, long, the petiolar part about 6 times as long as the interfoliolar 
part. Leaflets thick, the petiolules terete, tomentose- 
pubescent, 7 to 9 mm. long, the blades broadly ovate or 
rhomboid-ovate, rounded or subcuneate at the base, obtuse 
or subacute at the apex, 8 to 12 cm, long, 8 to 10 em, 
broad, puberulous above, the costa and veins more or less 
impressed, beneath paler, tomentose-pubescent, the costa, 
veins, and transverse veinlets brownish and strongly 
prominent. Stipules and stipels caducous, not seen. 
‘iN Inflorescence terminal, short-branched, many-flowered, 
Fra, : 62. — Petals of Une rachis about 4 cm. long, grayish-hairy; floral pedicels 
Cliteria dendrina, © to T mm. long, pubescent, the basal bractlets oblong- 
a, Wing; b, carinal lanceolate, hairy, 1 to 2 mm. long. Flowers about 4.5 em. 
petal. Natural size. Jong, Calycinal bractlets ovate, acute, about 38 mm, long 
rom type specl- ong 2 mm. broad, pubescent. Calyx tubular, 12 to 14 
mm, long, pubescent without, the teeth short (about 4 
mm. long), ovate-acute. Petals dark purple, pubescent without, persistent; 
standard obovate, attenuate to the base, emarginate at the apex, about 3.5 cm. 
long, 3 cm. broad; wings long-unguiculate, the claw about 9 mm. long, the blade 
oblique-obovate, obtuse at the apex, 19 to 20 mm. long; carinal petals coherent 
at the apex, the claw slender, about 15.5 mm. long, the blade faleate, 9.5 mm, 
long, 4.5 mm. broad. Staminal tube 18 mm. long, straight, the free part of the 
filaments 1 to 8 mm. long, abruptly bent; anthers ovoid; vexillar stamens 
free at the base. Ovary substipitate or Sessile, about 14 mm. long, tomentose, 
about 12-ovulate; style long, recurved, hispidulous almost to the capitellate 
stigma. 
Legume pedicellate, stipitate, glabrous; pedicels thick, about 1 cm. long, 
glabrescent; stipe 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 3 mm, thick, pubescent, geniculate at the 
apex; legume proper linear-elongate, flat, attenuate at the base, apiculate at 
the apex, 18 to 25 cm. long, about 1.5 em. broad, dark brown without, whitish 
within, the sutures slightly thickened. Seeds lenticular, brown, about 7 mm, in 
diameter, inserted on a broad, triangular placental expansion. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 601479, collected along Rfo Limé6n, 
near Maracay, State of Aragua, Venezuela, at an altitude of 440 meters, in 
flower and fruit, January 27, 1913, by H. Pittier (no. 5773). 
This species, which is a real tree, growing quite independently of the sur- 
rounding vegetation, belongs in the section Clitorianthes Benth., in the sub- 
division characterized by having the floral bractlets much shorter than the 
calyx. The only other species of this group reported so far from Venezuela is 
C. javitensis (H. B. K.) Benth., in which the stems are also thick and woody 
but climbing or trailing, the bractlets lanceolate, not ovate, and the leaflets 
glabrous or glabrescent, ovate or elliptic, and acuminate, 
