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much larger, ovate, rounded at the base, abruptly short-acuminate 

 and acute at the apex, thin, deep-green, the venation very slender, 

 lightly prominent underneath, the rather crooked secondaries 

 about 6 pairs, connecting near the margin : panicle (but one seen) 

 5 or 6 cm. long, loosely few- flowered : pedicels about I cm. long : 

 calyx companulate, 8 mm. long, 6 mm. broad, as pressed, rounded 

 at the base, truncate and entire at the apex, thickish, obscurely 

 nerved : abruptly contracted base of light-yellow corolla-tube 1.5 

 cm. long, 3.5 mm. broad, as pressed, cylindrical, the remainder 3 

 cm. long, 1.6 cm. broad, campanulate, the spreading border 4 cm. 

 broad, the lobes sub-rotund. 



Falls of Madeira, Brazil, Oct., 1886 (no. 11 50). 

 Callichlamys riparia Miquel, Linnaea, 18 : 254. 1844. Yungas, 

 4000 ft, 1885 (no. 2271). 



Tccoma Capensis Lindl. Bot. Reg. pi. my. Yungas, 4000 ft., 

 885 (no. 2448). 



Tecoma GaudicJiandii DC. Prod. 9: 223. Unduavi, 8000 ft, 

 Oct., 1885 (no. 2412). . 



Tecoma mollis (HLB.K.) Nov. Gen. et Sp. 3: 144. Sorata, 

 8000 ft, February, 1886 (no. 1 128). The same as Mandon's no. 

 503. 



Jacaranda aattifolia Humb. & Bonp. PL Aequin. I : 59. pi 

 ^7. Yungas, 6000 ft, 1885 (no. 1164). 



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Jacaranda longiflora Britton, sp. nov. 



Glabrous : branchlets stout, soft, whitish : petioles dark-pur- 

 ple, coarsely sulcate, 5 or 6 cm. long: primary petiolules 1.5- 



2 cm. long, about 4 pairs : entire leaf (but one seen) 3.5 dm. long, 



3 dm. broad, bipinnate, the leaflets about 6 pairs on the principal 

 pinnae, subsessile, 3-5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, ovate, 

 mostly slightly inequilateral, blunt at the base, abruptly short- 

 pointed and acute at the apex, entire, thin, dark-green, venation 

 lightly prominent underneath, the secondaries about 10 pairs, at 

 an angle of about 45 , slightly up-curved : panicles fascicled, about 

 '•5 dm. broad, loosely flowered, the peduncles dark, 1.5-2 cm. 

 long : bracts 5-8 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate and acute : 

 pedicels about 5 mm. long thickened at the summit, mostly 2- 

 bracteolate : calyx campanulate with a turbinate base, about 8 mm. 

 'ong, 5 mm. broad, the teeth 1-2 mm. long, very acute, the 

 onuses very broad and shallow: corolla 6-7 cm. long, slightly 

 curved ; base of the tube contracted abruptly, 1 cm. long, 5 mm. 

 Jr oad, the remainder infundibular, 4 cm. long, 1.25 cm. broad. 



