March 27, 1915] Two Hu.voued Twenty Six New Species— II 2735 



posite, bijugite and in the early state with a pair of small 

 opposite pair of leaflets from the base; terminal pair of leaflets 

 sessile, ascending, subchartaceous, much paler beneath, ultimate- 

 ly glabrous, the recurved apex abruptly acute to acuminate, at 

 the blunt point deeply notched and its lobes rounded, ob- 

 tuse at the base and inequilateral, oblong, equal in size and 

 shape or only seldom unequal, the inner side narrower and 

 straight toward the base, the average ones 1 dm long by 

 4 cm wide across the middle or its widest portion, entire, 

 curing nearly equally brown on both sides; the basal pair 

 of leaflets usually unequal in size, broadly elliptic, also ses- 

 sile, 8 to 20 mm long, ultimately falling, rounded and 

 oblique at the base, broadly obtuse and minutely notched at 

 the apex, otherwise quite similar to the other pair of leaf- 

 let^; midrib prominent beneath, usually with strigose hairs 

 along its sides toward the base, plane above; lateral nerves 

 subdivaricate or ascending and straight, 5 to 9 on each side 

 and with intervening secondary ones, reticulately united 

 toward their ends, reticulations quite evident from both 

 sides; rachis 1 to 1.5 cm long, rather densely yellowish 

 brown pubescent, caniculate along the upper side. Flowers 

 in small groups, axillary or rather opposite the terminal 

 leaf, erect, upon a short common stalk which is densely 

 bracteate at the base; pedicel 1 mm thick, averaging 4 

 mm long, yellowish pubescent, strict, subtended by a whorl 

 of deciduous bracts; outer bracts ovate, 2.5 mm long, as wide 

 across the truncate base, strongly folded about the base of the 

 pedicel, coriaceous or brown and subchartaceous in the dry 

 state at least, 2-cleft, the acute apices terminating into sub- 

 callous points, finely puberulent on the dorsal side, the inner 

 2 bracts free or nearly so, almost 2 mm in length, strongly 

 folded, oblong to broadly lanceolate, glabrous except the keel 

 above the middle and along the margins; corolla spreading 

 from the distal end of the pedicel, brown when dry, mem- 

 branous, 2.5 mm long, irregularly divided but all of the 5 

 segments of equal length, glabrous, reflexed and persistent 

 after anthesis, the broader one 2 mm wide and elliptical- 

 ly oblong, the narrower ones less than one half as wide 

 and linear; stamens about 10, two thirds of them fertile, 

 the others sterile; staminodes nearly 4 mm long, membra- 



