BLAKE—NEW PLANTS FROM VENEZUELA, 525 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMEN EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: Vicinity of Perijai, Zulia, 1917, Tejera 81. 
Somewhat related to Pterocarpus draco L., which has a glabrous inflorescence 
and pod. 
Platymiscium diadelphum Blake, sp. nov. 
Tree, up to 20 meters high; older branches grayish, glabrous, compressed at 
the nodes, those of the year blackish green, glabrous; leaves opposite, 5-folio- 
late; stipules united, roundish, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 5 mm. long and wide; 
petioles of young leaves 4 cm. long, glabrous, the rachis 5 cm. long, the petiolules 
glabrous, 2 mm. long; blades (very immature) oblong-oval, about 3 cm. long, 
1.5 cm. wide, short-pointed, at base rounded, glabrous; racemes solitary in the 
&xils, glabrous, the peduncle 1 to 2 em. long, the axis 4.5 to 5 em. long; bracts 
lanceolate, ciliate, about 1.2 mm. long, caducous; bracteoles linear-subulate, | 
ciliate, 1.2 mm. long, very caducous; pedicels mostly paired, glabrous, 3 to 5 
mm. long; calyx campanulate, 3.8 mm. long, the two upper teeth deltoid, 0.8 mm. 
long, ciliate, the three lower triangular, 0.7 mm. long, ciliate; flowers brownish 
yellow; banner 8 to 9 mm, long, 7 mm. wide, short-clawed, the orbicular blade 
emarginate, glabrous; lateral petals 8 mm. long, glabrous, the claw 2 mm. long, 
the blade oblong-ovate, obtuse, cordate at base on upper side, subtruncate on 
lower side; keel petals similar but oblique on lower side at base; stamens 10, 
glabrous, diadelphous, the vexillar free throughout from the first: ovary long- 
stiped, glabrous, 2-ovulate. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no, 1,065,079, collected in light forest 
between La Antrada and Las Trincheras, along road from Valencia to Puerto 
Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela, altitude 300 to 400 meters, May 2, 1920, by H. 
Pittier (no. 8818). 
Related to Platymisecium floribundum Benth., which has monadelphous 
stamens, oval subpersistent bracteoles, larger calyx (4.8 to 5.8 mm. long) with 
the blunter teeth not at all or only obscurely ciliate, and corolla 12 to 14 mm. 
long. 
Coumarouna punctata Blake, sp. nov. 
Tree; branches glabrous; leaves alternate ; petiole 2.5 to 4.5 cm. long, flattened 
and narrowly winged, 4 mm. wide, the rachis 3 to 5 cm. long, not prolonged 
into a point; leaflets 4, alternate, on petiolules 3 mm. long, the blades elliptic- 
oblong or oval-oblong, 7.5 to 14.5 ecm. long, 4 to 5 em. wide, obtuse, at base 
rounded on one side, oblique on the other, strongly inequilateral, coriaceous, 
densely translucent-punctate, obscurely glandular-papillate on the costa beneath, 
otherwise glabrous, finely foveolate on both sides, the lateral veins 8 to 14 pairs, 
somewhat prominulous on both sides, the secondaries obscure ; peduncles ter- 
minal, 1.2 cm. long, like the panicle finely rufidulous-tomentellous ; panicle few- 
branched, about 6 em. long; bracts ovate, deciduous, densely gland-dotted, 7 mm. 
long, densely rufidulous-tomentellous ; pedicels stout, 3 to 4 mm. long; bractlets 
2, boat-shaped, equaling the bracts; calyx tube glandular-warty, densely rufid- 
ulous-tomentellous, oblique, 7 mm. long, the lower lip 2 mum. long, 3-toothed, 
the middle tooth longer, the two upper lobes oval-oblong, rounded, entire, 9 mm. 
long, equaling the corolla; banner glabrous, 8.5 mm. long, with reflexed margin 
and tip, thickened at base; wings 9 mm. long, oblong-oval, subcordate on upper 
side, the terminal mucro 1 mm. long; keel petals similar, somewhat tomentellous 
toward apex; ovary glabrous, curved, 0.7 mm. long; ovules solitary; style 
glabrous, 2.5 mm. long. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 1,056,631, collected from cultivated 
plants in vicinity of Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela, August 15, 1920, by H. 
Pittier (no. 9058). 
