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vel usque ad 3 fasciculatim aggregatis patentibus vel deflexis sub- 

 densifloris, tomentosis ; bracteis ovatis subacuminatis brunneis adpresse 

 villosis ; pedicello fructifero filiformi 2-3 mm. longo tomentoso ; calyce 

 fructifero ca. 3.5 cm. longo, tubo angaste ovoideo molliter subadpresse 

 tomentoso ca. 6-7 mm. longo ca. 4 mm. diametro, alls 2.5 cm. longis 5 

 mm. latis spatulato-oblougis glabriusculis 3-nerviis reticulato-venosis 

 apice rotundatis pallide viridibus subdiaphanis ; sepalis interioribus 

 subulatis glabris, parte libera ca. 4 mm. parte adnata ca. 1.5 mm. longa ; 

 achaenio attenuato-ovoideo obtusissime trigono, angulis tumidis leviter 

 sulcatis in parte superiore sulci pubescentibus ; stylis liberis, stigma- 

 tibus linearibus recurvatis. — -Gualan, Department of Zacapa, Guate- 

 mala, alt. 128 m., January 11, 1905, C. C. Beam, no. 231 (type, in hb. 

 Gray). This species belongs to the § Hexasepalae of Meisner, and 

 § Pseudorivprechtia of Bentham and Hooker, these authors dividing 

 the genus on different characters. It is nearly related to li. Cmningti 

 Meisn., known to the author only from Meisner 's description (DC. Prod, 

 xiv, 179). If the characters there given are correct, the plant here 

 characterized is certainly distinct, as is shown by its larger leaves, 

 longer calyx, the presence of pubescence on the lower surface of the 

 leaves, decidedly rugose branches, spreading or deflexed racemes, etc. 



Aeschynomene Deamii Robinson & Bartlett, n. sp., fruticosa 

 2 m. alta laxe ramosa aspectu glabra ; caulibus teretibus lignescenti- 

 bus striatulis fusco-brunneis glabris ; foliis petiolatis oblongis 5-7 ^m. 

 longis; foliolis ca. 18-jugis lineari-oblongis glabris utrinque viridibus 

 supra minutissime nigro-punctatis subtus pinnatim venosis basi obliquis 

 apice rotundatis mucronatis 9-10 mm. longis 2 mm. latis ; rhachi supra 

 sparse puberula subtus glabra ; petiolo 1 cni. longo ; stipulis 1.5 mm. 

 longis subulatis brunneis acutissimis ; racemis axillaribus 2-7-floris ; 

 pedunculis 10-17 mm. longis filiformibus glabris ; bracteis ovatis her- 

 baceis margine scariosis apice acutis supra basin afifixis basi rotundatis 

 liberis ; pedicellis anthesi ca. 4 mm. longis fructiferis ca. G mm. longis ; 

 calyce glabro 2-partito, labio dorsali ovato ca. 7 mm. longo ca. 5.5 mm. 

 lato obtusiusculo, labio ventrali angustiore ca. 9 mm. longo acuto ; vex- 

 illo obovato 12 mm. longo 10 mm. lato apice rotundato basi modice 

 angustato ; alis semiobovatis basi a latere superiore obtuse auriculatis ; 

 carinae petalis ca. 11 mm. longis; staminibus quinis connatis ; legu- 

 mine ca. 13-seminato ca. 1 dm. longo 6.5 mm. lato fragili utrinque 

 undulato, segmentis subquadratis margine crassiusculo faciebus glaber- 

 rimis levibus modice nervosis nee rugosis ; seminibus atrobrunneis 

 lunatis levissimis subnitidis 5 mm. longis 3 mm. latis. — San Felipe, 

 Department of Izabal, Guatemala, 15 February, 1905, C. C. Beam, no. 

 26 (type, in hb. Gray). In its numerous leaflets of oblong-linear shape 



