Ocronzxn 21, 1907] Some New LEGUMINOSAE 226 
slightly shorter, the basal one third clawed and spurred, 
crookedly bent in the vicinity of the spur; lamina oblong, 
7 mm. wide, 18 mm. long, similarly colored; keels equalling 
the wings, the basal 8 mm. long portion slenderly clawed, 
the lamina proper lunate, obtuse at apex and strongly curved 
upward, the base free from the claw and similarly shaped, 
about 1 cm. wide, also yellow and with fine purplish streaks; 
the 10 stamens united for nearly tLe entire length, glabrous, 
3 cm. long, the free apical portion erect or ascending, quite 
thick at the base and gradually tapering, brown in the dry 
state; anthers 1 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, with acute ends; 
ovary flattened, broadly linear, entirely covered with light 
yellow granules; style exceeding the stamens, slender, pub- 
escent below the middle, terminated by a knob like stigma; 
fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 8502, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. In copses of woods of the 
Bued river below the barrio of Twin Peaks. The Igorrotes 
call it Kalat. Named after Mr. E. D. Merrill. 
Caesalpinia benguetensis n. sp.—A rigid sprawling shrub, 
on limestone cliffs; wood wiry; bark dark brown, beset with 
stiff short recurved spines and covered with lighter brown 
colored lenticels; branches quite crooked and gnarly. Leaves 
alternate, 1 to 2 dm. long, the rachis usually recurved, 
hooked beneath, covered with a short yellowish brown to- 
mentum, bearing from 5 to 7 pairs of pinnae; these pinnae 
are mostly ascending, articulate, the basal ones smaller; 
leaflets paler or yellowish green beneath, broadly oblong 
or slightly obovate, with a very short articulate stalk, 
punctate and yellowish pubescent beneath, 15 mm. long or 
less in the smaller ones, one half that in width, slightly suc- 
culent, 7 to 9 pairs. Inflorescence a terminal spicate raceme, 
erect; buds subtended by yellowish pubescent bracts which 
fall very early; flowers subpendulous, solitary, upon slender 
2 em. long and ascending pedicels; calyx united at the base 
into a shallow short tomentose cup, 5-segmented; the 4 
lateral ones 6 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, flat, obtuse or rounded; 
the lower one a trifle longer, ventrally folded, more di- 
vergent, all yellowish and minutely pubescent; petals free, 
