March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2829 



in thin plates, quite thick, similarly colored beneath the 

 epidermis, inner side whitish, provided with thickly plaited 

 spines; branches very long, spinescent, drooping, the ul- 

 timate ones relatively short and suberect; twigs reddish 

 brown and light gray lenticelled, the young apical portion 

 short pubescent. Leaves alternate, mostly horizontal, 1 to 2 

 dm long, imparipinnate; petiole only a few cm long, fur- 

 rowed or grooved along the upper side, short pubescent, 

 the rachis very similar; leaflets 5 to 13, membranous, their 

 sides inequilateral except the terminal one, the obtuse to 

 acute or even acuminate apex recurved, the basal leaflets 

 usually smaller and ovately elliptic, the upper ones ovately 

 oblong, sessile or subsessile, entire around the rounded or 

 trnncately rounded base, otherwise usually crenate or sub- 

 entire, the average 4 cm long by nearly one half as wide 

 diagonally across the middle, glabrous and somewhat shin- 

 ing on the upper surface, nerves and reticulations beneath 

 sparsely pubescent or puberulent; midrib bold and soft hairy 

 beneath, puberulent in its small channel upon the opposite 

 side; lateral nerves 5 to 8 on each side, divaricate from 

 and relatively prominent at the midrib, coarsely reticulated 

 toward their distal ends, otherwise reticulations obsolete. In- 

 florescence terminal and erect, odorless, only few and short 

 paniculately branched, 1 dm long or shorter or longer, short 

 pubescent; the ascending branches occasionally subtended by 

 solitary leaves or leaf-like bracts, rebranched above the mid- 

 dle, the lower branches of the larger branches subtended 

 by oblanceolate bracts, the ultimate branches subtended by 

 much reduced linear though similarly pubescent bracts; ped- 

 icels 5 to 8 mm long, puberulent, subtended by bracteoles, 

 strict; bud truncately ellipsoid; calyx pulverulent, red, small, 

 thick, disk-like, 5-toothed; corolla inserted upon the coria- 

 ceous calyx, the 5 or 6 segments nearly free, submembran- 

 ous widely spreading or reflexed, unequally in width, ob- 

 long 2 to 4 mm long, at the apex a trifle truncate and 

 rjuberulent, reddish brown on the outside, greenish on the 

 upper side, yellowish when dry; ovary bright red, short el- 

 lipsoid or subglobose, 3 mm across, glabrous, fleshy, ver- 

 tically rugose below the middle, longitudinally rugose above 

 the middle, surrounded by the contiguous light pink fil- 



