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and habit. — Mountain clifts near Santa Rosa, Uepart. Baja 

 Verapaz, alt. 5,000 feet, April, 1887, (^^ P^- Giuit cit. 

 1210.) 



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Bauhiiila Kiibeleniziaiia. (^ Casparia Z^C.j— Arborescent, 

 10-15 feet high, rufous-tomentose : stipules and bracteoles 

 linear-lanceolate, 2 lines long: petioles 9-15 lines long, in- 

 serted between a pair of minute subulate smooth spines ; 

 leaves membranaceous, ghibrate above except midrib and 

 margin, pubescent beneath with tomentose veins, ovate-ob- 

 long, cordate, 4-6 incheslong, two-thh-ds asbroad, 9-nerved : 

 lobes trianguhar, acute, an inch or less lonir, sinus nearlv 



rectanguhu": racemes extra-axillary, 15-20-flowered ; rhachis 

 at length an inch long, peduncle and pedicels a tliird shorter : 

 flowers andro-monoecious, chiefly with abortive pistils, pendu- 

 lous in thebud : calyx spathaceous, in the bud glines Jong and 

 2 lines broad, tomentose, 5-denticulate by excurrent nerves : 

 petals linear-lanceohate, spathxilate, sesslle, ciliate beneath, 

 red, diminishing from the interior one 11 hnes long and 2 

 hnes broad to the exterior one a half smaher ; stamens all 

 shortly connate, each with a hirsute process on the inside 

 near its aduation ; the fertile i,equaling petals, glabrous ; 

 the sterile about half as long, unequal, cihate : pistH tomen- 

 tose, exceeding petahs ; stipe nearly as long and style half as 

 long as the hnear 12-ovuhite ovary. — Banks of Rio, Rubel- 

 eruz, Depart. Aha Verapaz, alt. 2,500 feet, Anril, 1886 

 (Ex PL Gnat. cit. 896.) 



Bauliinia Paiisamalana. ('^ Casparia Z^Cj— Smooth through- 

 out j stipules and intrastipuhar spines minute, deciduous ; 

 petioles about 18 hnes long, incrassate at each end ; leaves 

 coriaceous, entire, round-ovate to broadly elliptical, abruptly 

 acuminate,_7-nerved, 5-7 inches long : racemes axillary and 

 terminal, simple or dichotomous, exceeding petiole, 10-20- 

 flowered ; pedicels Slines long. recurved : flowers hermaphro- 

 dite: calyx in the bud linear^ obtuse, entire, 9 lines long ; in 

 anthesis spathaceous, splitting into sepals at base only,'re- 

 flexed : petals narrowly linear, tapering into a lonf claw, 10 

 lines long, the vexillar smaller: stamens united for a line or 

 two in a sheath cleft to base ; the fertile 3, equaling petals, 

 anthers 2 lines long ; staminodes intermediate with the fertile, 

 half-connate, barbate within : pistil sigmoid, nearly equaling 

 stamens ; ovary pubescent in two lines, long-stipitate, beaked 

 with a short stout style ; stigma oblique, oval, a line long ; 

 legume coriaceous, flat, linear, 8-9 inches long, 9 lines 



