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orange inner bark is used for making ropes); "palo amarillo," "palo de rosa 

 amarilla" (Durango); "panaco" (Acapulco, Guerrero); "madera de pasta" 

 (Veracruz, Ramirez); "apompo," "pongolote," "cojon de toro" (Oaxaca); 

 "pochote" (Tabasco, Oaxaca); "cocito" (Chiapas); "tecomasuchil" (Chiapas, 

 Guatemala); "quie-riga," "quie-quega," "huarumbo," "flor izquierda" 

 (Chiapas and Oaxaca, Scler); "chuun," "chum," "chimu" (Maya, Yucatan); 

 "tecomaxochitl" (Nahuatl) ; "tecomasuche" (Guatemala); "bombon," 

 "catamericuche" (Nicaragua); "poro-poro" (Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, 

 Colombia); "flechero," "batabana," "bototo" (Venezuela, Colombia); 

 "botija" (Cuba). Kunth^ mentions the local names "botulo" (Guayaquil) 

 and "carnestolendas" (Aragua, Venezuela). The branches root readily if 

 thrust into the ground, and are frequently used to form hedges. 



The original description of this species is so brief that it would not sufhce 

 to distinguish between M. regia and M. vitijolia as generally adopted. Will- 

 denow gives the locality as Brazil, but Martins and Zuccarini, who examined 

 the original in the Willdenow Herbarium, accredit it to Campeche, and their 

 statement is here taken as authority for the use of the name in its generally 

 accepted sense. Mahuria ? speciosa, which was based by Choisy on a single 

 flower collected at Santa Marta by Bertero, is considered by St. Hilaire, who 

 examined the original, as scarcely distinct from M. regia. It is clear, how- 

 ever, from the good specimen collected at the same locality by Herbert H. 

 Smith, that the name belongs rather to M. vitijolia. 



The ovarv' of Cochlospernmm hihiscoides w^as wrongly described by Kunth 

 as glabrous. 



4. Maximilianea triphylla Blake, sp. nov. 



Small tree; branchlets glabrous, lenticellate ; petioles glabrous, 12.5 to 

 16 cm. long; leaflets 3, on petiolules 1 to 2 mm. long, the blades nearly mem- 

 branaceous, the terminal one obovate-oval, 14.5 cm. long, 7.8 cm. wide, short- 

 pointed with obtuse apex, broadly cuneate at base, glabrous, entire, margin- 

 ate, light green, the chief nerves about six pairs, curved, ascending at an angle 

 of about 60°, the secondary veins somewhat prominulous ; lateral leaflets 

 similar, oval, inequilateral, 12.5 cm. long, 6 cm. wide; flowering axis 6 cm. 

 long, with about 5 short horizontal branches, sordid-puberulous toward the 

 tip, each bearing toward apex about 4 flowers; pedicels obscurely puberulous, 

 2.8 cm. long; sepals 5, the two outer elliptic-oblong, rounded, sordid-pilose, 

 dark colored, about 1.7 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, the three inner suborbicular, 

 broadly rounded, densely canescent-pilosulous, 2 cm. long; petals 5, cuneate- 

 obovate, apparently emarginate at apex, bright yellow, 5 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 

 cm. wide; stamens very numerous, with free glabrous filaments, the anthers 

 3'ellow, linear, 4.8 to 6 mm. long, dehiscing by a single terminal pore and two 

 minute basal pores; ovary densely tomentose, 5-celled; style glabrous, 3.5 

 cm. long. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,065,095, collected in hedges 

 at Valencia, Venezuela, April (flowers) and July (leaves), 1920, bv H. Pittier 

 (no. 8930). 



" H. B. K. Nov. Gen. and Sp. 7: 223. 1825. 



