BLAKE—-NEW PLANTS FROM VENEZUELA, 523 
to 6.2 em. wide, entire, caudate-attenuate (the point 0.7 to 2.5 cm. long, 2 to 4 
mm. wide), ¢«uneate to broadly rounded at base, 5-nerved, above deep green, 
slightly lucid, glabrous, beneath paler green, obscurely strigillose along the 
base of the veins, prominulous-reticulate on both sides; inflorescences axillary, 
essentially glabrous, the axis 2 cm. long or less, several-flowered ; bracts round- 
. ish, ciliolate, 1 mm. long; pedicels glabrous, about 7 mm, long; calyx glabrous, 
in flower 4 cm. long, the narrowly campanulate tube 1 cm. long, the limb spatha- 
ceous, splitting irregularly ; petals cuneate-oblanceolate, white, rounded at apex, 
4.2 cm. long, 1.2 em. wide; stamens 10, all fertile, inserted at apex of calyx tube, 
alternately unequal, the filaments united at base. the longer ones 3.7 cm. long, 
the shorter 2.8 cm., the anthers 7 to 8 mm. long; pistil free throughout, glabrous, 
5.3 em. long, the ovules about 16; fruit (submature) linear, glabrous, 21 em. 
long, 1.5 em. wide, on a stipe 2.3 cm. long. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,065,082, connected in monsoon 
forest at Guaremales, on road from Puerto Cabello to San Felipe, Carabobo, 
Venezuela, altitude 10 to 100 meters, May 20 to June 10, 1920, by H. Pittier 
(no. 8851). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMEN EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: Forested hills of Guaremales, road from Puerto Cabello to 
San Felipe, altitude 350 meters, July 2, 1920, Pittier 8914. 
This species belongs to the section Pauletia, and is related to Bauhinia 
petiolata (Mutis) Triana, which has much larger flowers and stamens longer 
than the petals. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 40.—Bauhinia caudigera, from the type specimen, Natural 
size. 
Chaetocalyx retusa Blake, sp. nov. 
Twining herb, the stem branching, slender, sparsely hispid, the hairs with 
swollen bases; stipules subulate, 2 mm. long; petioles sparsely pilose or hispid- 
pilose, 2.5 to 4.2 em. long, the rachis 1.3 to 3 cm. long; leaflets 5, on sparsely 
pilose petiolules 0.5 to 1 mm, long, the blades oval or the terminal obovate- 
oval, 1.8 to 3 em. long, 1 to 2 em. wide, at apex retuse and mucronulate, at 
base rounded to cuneate, membranaceous, sparsely pilose beneath at base, 
puncticulate, the lateral veins about 5 pairs, prominulous beneath; flowers 
solitary or paired in the axils, the pedicels sparsely hispid-pilose toward apex, 
very slender, 1.8 to 2 cm. long; calyx 7 mm. long, the teeth subulate from an 
ovate base, ciliate and tipped with a stiff hair, the upper united about one- 
third their length, 3.8 mm. long, the lower 2 to 2.5 mm. long, the calyx tube 
38 mm. long, each sinus, except the uppermost, with a dark-based bristle ; 
flowers yellow; banner 12 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, the claw 3 mm. long, ciliate, 
the blade suborbicular, emarginate, pilosulous on back but not ciliate; lateral 
petals 11.5 mm. long, the glabrous claw 3.5 mm. long, the cuneate-oblanceolate 
blade obtuse, auriculate on upper side at base, ciliate (especially on lower mar- 
gin and toward apex) with long white hairs, provided on outer side toward 
base above with four series of pockets between the veins; keel petals 11.5 mm. 
long, united at a short distance below the rounded apex, clawed and auriculate 
at base of limb, finely glandular-margined below apex; stamens glabrous ; 
ovary short-stipitate, densely pilose like the lower portion of the style and 
somewhat hispid-setose, 11-ovulate. 
Type in the United States National Herbarium, no. 1,065,085, collected in 
monsoon forest at Guaremales, on road from Puerto Cabello to San Felipe, 
Carabobo, Venezuela, altitude 10 to 100 meters, June 20, 1920, by H. Pittier 
(no. 8879). 
Nearest Chaetocalyr scandens (L.) Urban, of the Lesser Antilles, which has 
rounded or very obtuse leaflets, a sparsely setuliferous, otherwise glabrous 
calyx 7 to 8 mm. long, and a corolla 15 to 17 mm. long. 
