March 27, 1915] Two Humored Twenty Six New Species— II 2737 



diverse, linear or laciniately lobed, those from the petiolules 

 much reduced; lateral leaflets ovate in general outline, abrupt- 

 ly and narrowly acuminate, tips strongly recurved, base 

 very broad and truncately rounded, quite unsymmetric, the 

 outer side twice as broad as the nearly straight inner 

 side and broadly rounded below and toward the base, 

 mostly descending, coriaceous, paler green beneath, nearly 

 fiat, curing dark brown on both sides, glabrous, the larger 

 ones 18 cm long by one half as wide below the middle, 

 entire; the terminal leaflet symmetric, equal in size, base 

 broadly obtuse to obtusely rounded; midrib conspicuous be- 

 neath, straight in the lateral leaflets; lateral nerves 5 to 7 

 pairs, plane above and like the midrib conspicuous beneath, 

 ascending especially the basal pair, the outer basal nerve 

 3 to 5-branched along its lower side, the next above it 

 fewer branched and the third one merely forked, cross bars 

 few and faint. Peduncle green, thread-like or wiry, gla- 

 brous, quite strong and elastic, axillary, 3 to 7 m long, 

 at the end corymbosely paniculate; branchlets 1 to 3 dtn 

 across, thick, alternatingly rebranched, the ultimate ones rather 

 numerous, striate or roundly angular, short velvety brown 

 tomentose, subtended by glabrous scars of fallen bracts; 

 buds pale green or yellowish tinged, when dry appearing 

 dark velvety, also short tomentose, ellipsoid, 1.5 cm long, 

 one half as thick across the middle, the abruptly apical 

 point tipped, sessile and solitary from the end of the 

 compressed 1 to 1.5 cm long pedicel, subtended by a pair 

 of bracts; caducous bracts leathery, 5 to 8 mm long, oblong, 

 similarly tomentose; calyx a flattened cup, thick and rigid, 

 on the outside densely covered with a velvety brown pu- 

 berulence, 2 cm long, nearly as wide, the truncate throat 

 somewhat oblique by the extention of the lower one half 

 which usually bears 3 blunt points, the middle one of 

 which is the largest; corolla fleshy, pale eulphureus when 

 fresh, turning black while drying, glabrous; banner 4.5 cm 

 long, auriculately constricted at the base into a 5 mm long 

 claw, apex broadly rounded, the lamina elliptic and more 

 or less folded upon the ventral side; the wings 7.5 cm long, 

 the lamina 5.5 cm long by 1 cm wide at least, obtusely 

 rounded at the apex, the basal 2 cm claw-like and dense 



