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6. Erythrina cochleata Standl., sp. nov. 
Shrub, the branches gray, apparently unarmed; petioles stout, glabrous or 
nearly so, unarmed; leaflets ovate or ovate-oblong, 10.5 to 15.5 cm, long, 4.5 to 
6.5 cm. wide, rounded at the base, narrowed to the acuminate apex, subcoria- 
ceous, concolorous, glabrous at maturity, the venation finely and prominently 
reticulate; racemes about 6 cm. long, the rachis brown-tomentulose; calyx 2 cm. 
long, narrow, brown-tomentulose or glabrate, cleft on one side at the top for 
about 8 mm., the limb acute, with 2 small teeth on each side; standard oblong- 
linear, 7 cm. long, about 6 mm. wide, glabrous, the keel shorter than the calyx; 
fruit 2 or 3-seeded, coiled into a complete circle, slightly constricted between the 
seeds, glabrate, long-stipitate; seeds scarlet, about 9 mm. long. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 861527, collected at Hacienda La 
Colombiana, Costa Rica, by A. Tonduz (no. 228). 
The leaflets are similar to those of H. lanceolata, a species with a shallowly 
bilobate calyx. The fruit is quite unlike that of any other species known to the 
writer. 
The vernacular name is given as “ poré.” 
7. Erythrina rubrinervia H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 434. 1823. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Fusagasuga, Colombia. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca (Nelson 1966); Veracruz (Nelson 435, 79); Chiapas 
(Nelson 3842); Guatemala (Goll 246; Heyde & Lug 3293); El Salvador (Pit- 
tier 1930) ; Nicaragua (Baker 631); Panama (Pittier 2541, 6939, 4731). Also 
in Colombia. 
Known in Guatemala as “ pito.” 
Erythrina berteroana Urban,’ described from Cuba and Colombia, seems to be 
this species. The Veracruz specimens have a slightly shorter standard than 
the more southern ones, but do not differ otherwise. 
8. Erythrina lanceolata Standl. Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb, 17: 432, 1914. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, San Cristébal de Cande- 
laria, Costa Rica. 
9. Erythrina montana Rose & Standl., sp. nov. 
Stems herbaceous, from a stout elongate root, tomentulose when young but 
soon glabrate; leaflets suborbicular, deltoid-orbicular, or ovate-deltoid, 4 to 
13 cm. long, 3 to 9 cm. wide, truncate or broadly rounded at the base, rounded 
to very acute at the apex, thick, bright green, concolorous, tomentulose along 
the veins when young, usually minutely aculeolate beneath along the veins, the 
venation very prominently reticulafe on both surfaces; calyx 1.2 to 2.7 cm. 
long, thin, sparsely tomentulose or glabrate, shallowly bilobate; corolla ap- 
parently purplish green, the standard 5 to 7 ecm. long, 0.8 to 1.2 cm, wide, 
slightly curved, glabrous; fruit 1 to 4-seeded, slightly constricted between the 
seeds, nearly glabrous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 301042, collected in the Sierra 
Madre, near Santa Teresa, Tepic, Mexico, August 9, 1897, by J. N. Rose (no. 
2137). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Duraneo: Otinapa, 1906, Palmer 450. Durango, 1896, Palmer 362. Near 
El Salto, July, 1898, Nelson 4546. 
JaLisco: Chiquilistlin, May, 1892, Jones 180. 
ZACATECAS: Near Plateado, September, 1897, Rose 3634. Near Monte 
Escobedo, August, 1897, Rose 3597. 
1Symb. Antill. 5: 370. 1908. 
