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.March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2807 



green, horizontally spreading, subterete, 5 to 8 cm long or 

 the smaller leaf petiole shorter, glabrous, blackish brown 

 when dry, leaving large scars after falling; leaflets trifoliate, 

 thinly coriaceous, horizontally spreading, very unequal in 

 size, glabrous, conduplicate on the upper sublucid side, be- 

 neath a shade lighter green, curing darker brown on the 

 upper surface, the entire margins subinvolute when dry, apex 

 abruptly terminated into a short recurved point, base broad- 

 ly obtusely rounded, elliptic, greatly varying in size, the 

 larger lamina 12 cm long by one half as wide across the 

 middle, the smaller leaflets one half as large; midrib plane 

 above, prominent beneath, darker brown than the leaf sides 

 in the dry state; lateral nerves 10 to lf> pairs, divaricate, 

 ascendingly curved toward the disappearing tips, reticulations 

 very minute; petiolule 5 mm long, similar in color and gla- 

 brous, ascendingly curved, only very ^hallowly grooved along 

 the upper side. Inflorescence erect from the uppermost leaf 

 axils, paniculate, 5 cm long or much shorter, commonly 

 branched from above the middle or from near the base, 

 usually solitary but when branched opposite, relatively short 

 and cinereous; branches subtended by small bracts, appearing 

 thickened toward their distal ends, the ultimate ones more dense- 

 ly cinereous or subolivaceus tomentulose; flowers pure white, 

 with a Bweet anise odor; pedicels clustered toward the ends 

 of the ultimate relatively thick branchlets, 2 mm long, usu- 

 ally somewhat curved, olivaceus puberulent, subtended at 

 the base by short thick and similar pubescent bracts; calyx 

 4-segmented, rotately spreading, persistent, united at the 

 base; segments ovately triangular, 1 mm long, on the back 

 toward the base finely puberulent, on both sides with large 

 lighter colored punctate glands, obtusely rounded at the apex; 

 corolla bud rugosely ellipsoid, valvate; petals as many as 

 calyx segments and alternating with them, more numerously 

 gland punctate above the middle, glabrous, inwardly curved 

 and more or less twisted, submembranous, nearly as wide 

 across the base; stamens 4, alternating with the petals, 

 similarly curved; filaments 2.5 mm long, glabrous, flattened 

 and widest toward the base; anther elliptic from the side 

 view, 1 mm long, dorsifixed or versatile, notched at both 

 ends, the cells longitudinally dehiscent and well separated; 



