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blades lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 6 to 13 cm. long, 1.3 to 2.5 cm. broad, 
rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, more or less obtuse or acute at the 
apex, with an incurved tip; margin finely and distinctly serrulate, each tooth 
bearing a dark, caducous nectarial gland; marginal hydathodes more or less 
numerous, in the shape of broad, rounded teeth; costa impressed above, salient 
beneath, as also the numerous slender, arcuate primary veins. Stipules ovate- 
reniform, fimbriate on the margin. 
Spikes about 10 cm. long, solitary, terminal, androgynous or rarely only 
male; floral glands oblong; bracts broadly ovate-obtuse, fringed on the mar- 
gin; bracteoles reduced to hairlike appendages. Female flowers 6 to 8, dis- 
tant; perianth bilobulate; ovary globose; stigmas 3, sessile. Clusters of 
male flowers close together, 7 to 12-flowered ; perianth yellowish, 2-cleft; 
stamens 2. 
Capsules 3 to 6 on each spike, sessile, ovoid to depressed-globose, 10 mm. 
long, 13 mm. in diameter, the sutural furrows distinct, the septal ones obso- 
lete. Seeds lenticular, apiculate, smooth, about 6 mm. long and broad. 
The following specimens are of this subspecies: 
Panama: Southern parts of the Province of Panama, Seemann 1243. 
Pefia Prieta near Panama City, close to the sea beach, fruit, July 
29, 1911, Pittier 4070. Sabana de Dormisolo near Chepo, Province of 
Panama, leaves only, October, 1911, Pittier 4659. Around Aguadulce, 
Province of Coclé, near sea level, leaves only, December, 1911, Pittier 
4951. 
This form has already been considered by both Dr. Huber and Dr. Pax as 
being possibly a mere variety of 8. aucuparium Jacq., with which its affinities 
are indeed so very close that our specimens seem to be nearer Jacquin’s origi- 
nal type than is H. H. Smith 1916, cited by Pax under S. aucuparium, From this 
they differ in having the leaves distinctly alternate and longer, narrower, and 
more acute at the tip, the petioles shorter, the blades thicker, and the margin 
conspicuously serrate. In the Aguadulce specimens, however, the leaves are 
obtuse at the base, while in those from Panama and Chepo they are acute. 
This latter character is the only one given by Dr. Pax to distinguish S. morit- 
sianum from S. aucuparium, and the fact of its not being constant should de- 
cide the fate of the species. The capsules of the Pefia Prieta tree seem to be 
larger and more depressed than in S. aucuparium; they are described, how- 
ever, from specimens preserved in alcohol, and this may account for dis- 
crepancies. The detailed study of the flowers may yet bring to light really 
good distinctive characters, but, as the matter now stands, it must be con- 
fessed that there would be little reason to maintain S. moritzianum as a dis- 
tinct species. 
SAPINDACEAE. 
A NEW SPECIES OF TALISIA FROM PANAMA. 
Talisia panamensis Pittier, sp. nov. 
A shrub, 1 to 3 meters high, the stem erect, unbranched. 
Leaves glabrous, bunched at the ends of the stems, at first drooping and 
intensely pinkish, later spreading or ascending and green, the rachis subterete, 
29 to 33 cm. long. Leaflets 5 or 7, coriaceous, subopposite or alternate, the 
petiolules more or less thickened, canaliculate, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, the blades 
oblong, cuneate at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex, 12 to 21 cm, long, 
4.5 to 6 cm. broad, dark green and lustrous above, the costa and veins im- 
pressed, beneath paler, conspicuously reticulate, the costa and veins very 
prominent. 
