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the base, the upper rather sharply pointed at apex and keel 

 shaped, the lateral ones more elongated, all obscurely veiny 

 and glandular punctate; petals citrinus, 6 to 8 ram. long, 

 subequal, more or less all straight and expanded, conspicuously 

 veiny, the upper one or banner purplish streaked on the 

 ventral side, rotund and emarginate at apex, its base gradually 

 extended into the broad thick claw, ihe lateral ones or 

 wings obovately oblong and with slenderly tapering claws, 

 the lower ones or keels a trifle shorter and similar to the 

 uppermost one, all brown woolly hairy on the outside of 

 the claw at least; stamens 9, fertile, freely inserted upon a 

 thickened base, 1 cm. long, nearly straight and equal; 

 filaments compressed, widest at the roseus base, crisply hairy 

 except toward the distal greenish end; anther black in the 

 dry state, elliptic, 1 mm. long, bilobed at base and 

 basifixed; pistil about as long as the stamens, the 3 mm. 

 long sessile and subterete ovary soft pubescent, the 6 to 7 

 ram. long style subglabrous toward the ascendingly curved 

 constricted stigmatic portion. Pods upon 1.25 cm. stalks^ 

 compressed, cuneate, sharply pointed at the distal ventral 

 suture, 1 dm. long, 3.5 cm. wide across the truncate apex, 

 gradually narrowed to the broadly rounded base, ridged and 

 leathery brown when dry, glabrous, obscurely veiny from the 

 sides, pendant, with flat rotund seeds 2 cm. long. 



Type specimen number 12969, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 



Collected in jungled woods in wet more or less stony 

 soil at 25 feet. Distributed as a variety of C. sappan Linn. 

 but now I think it merits specific rank. 



Parkia harbesonii Eim. n. sp. 



Middle sized tree; trunk 1 m. thick or less, 15 to 20 

 ra. high, with its main branches toward the top, crooked and 

 only subterete; branches divaricately spreading, crooked and 

 similarly rebranched, forming an umbrella shaped crown; 

 twigs suberect, likewise crooked, gnarly or nodose, glabrous, 

 yellowish gray, densely lenticelled. Leaves alternate, term- 

 inally clustered, ascending or horizontally spreading, 2 to 4 

 dm. long or longer, compound, pinnate from below the middle; 



