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28 BOTANicAL GAZETTE. [ Fcbruarv, 



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broad; seeds 9-12, oval, flat.— A tree 12-15 feet high with 

 roseate flowers. River banks. Pansamala and Sacolol, alt. 

 ■ 37-3800 feet, June, 1885. (Ex. PI. Guat. cit. 681.) 



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RacenwscB Benth. in 



Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx, 556.)— Ghibrous, glaucescent: sup- 

 ules persistent, reniform, amplexicaul, erect, cartilagmous, 

 rubescent-palhd, flabelhite-veined, 9-18 Hnes broad,_ three- 

 fourths aslong; petioles 12-18 hnes lon*,^ pinna^ i-3-ji-ig«te, 

 4-6 inches long ; leaflets 6-8-jugate, obHquely oblong or oval, 

 base dimidiate-cordate, dark-green above, pale beneath, 12- 

 18 Hnes long, a half to two-thirds as broad, lovver pairs re- 

 <Uiced ; odd leaflet sessile, hnear-hmceohite, 5-7 hnes long, 

 palHd, deciduous : peduncles -^-^. from upper axils, or shorter 

 and subverticillate in a terminal thyrsoid sessile raceme half 

 a foot or more long ; pedicels of ^-flowered umbels 2-3 lines 

 long : calyx equaling pedicel, lobes rounded : corolla 6-7 lines 

 loncr, splitting at length nearlv to base into lanceolate stnate 

 petals : stamens 60-70, connate for half the length of petals, 

 2-2i inches long, half an inch shorter than style, white ; an- 

 thers o-labrous : legume flat, narrowly oblanceolate, about 4 

 inches' lonc-- by 8 Hnes broad ; valves coriaceous, glabrous, 

 margins much thickened.— The large leaflets with a small 

 odd one resemble those of several MacroMylhe; but the m- 

 florescence is that of C Calothyrsus Miq., C. grandiflom 

 Benth. (both collected bv Mr. V. Turckheim), and the 

 Mexican C. leflofclala Fourn. The remarkable stipules 

 seem to be approached bv those of only one other species. 

 the Brazilian C leptopoda Benth.— Santa Rosa, Dept. J3aja 



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5,000 feet, July, 1887. (Ex. Pl. Guat. cit. 



Trioleiiii paleolata,— Stem ligneous, ascending, nearly sim- 

 ple, terete, about a foot high ; beset with paleacious hairs, 

 asare the petioles, nerves and margm of leaves, ar icula- 

 tions of pedicels, and conspicuously the calyxes : leaves 

 membranaceous, glabrous, pale beneath, ovate-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, 3-5-nerved from the small cordate base, tuph- 

 nerved above, erose-denticulate ; the larger one of each pair 

 4-6 inches long, a third to a half as broad, petio e 1-2 inches 

 lonjv ; the other about a half smaller, shortly petiolcd :^ racemes 

 from the uppermost 1-4 axils, B-n-flowered rhachis m fruit 

 li--^ inches long and about equahng peduncle ; pedices 

 scarcelv a line long : calyx-lobes triangular-subulate, equal- 

 ingtube: petals 5 Hnes long, 3 Hnesbroad, pmk : appendages 



