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of subtruncate or rounded, and the apex is in many of the leaves 

 distinctly acuminate rather than acute. 



288. Bauhinia caribaea sp. nov. (Plate XX.) 

 A slender sparsely branched shrub up to five meters high; the 

 leaves 3-6 cm. long, petioled, broadly suborbicular, at the base 

 broadly and obtusely cordate, at the apex deeply and acutely cordate, 

 the median nerve exserted in the sinus as a short point, leaves bi- 

 foliate, somewhat lustrous above, paler below; leaflets connate about 

 two-thirds of their length, ascending, 3-4.5 cm. long, 15-28 mm. wide, 

 below minutely and very shortly pilose, finally glabrescent above, 

 rounded at the base, the apex broadly obtuse, the margin entire, 

 the nerves 3 (or 4), the exterior curved, the interior nearly straight; 

 petioles 8-12 cm. long, slender, densely and minutely short-pilose; 

 racemes pseudo-terminal; pedicels densely and minutely appressed 

 pilose, the bracts linear-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long; flowers 15-25, 

 zygomorphous; calyx spathaceous during flowering, reflexed and 

 finally marcescent, minutely pilose, 5-dentate, about 15-20 mm. long; 

 petals 5, subequal, 10-16 mm. long, 2-3.5 mm. wide, furnished with a 

 claw about 4 mm. long, lanceolate, long acuminate, marginally undu- 

 late; stamens inserted in the throat, the lowest one fertile, 2-3 cm. 

 long, arcuate; the sterile ones 9, more or less connate-spathaceous 

 above the base, about 10-13 t^^- long; the anther oblong, 2-2.5 rnni. 

 long, attached at the middle; ovary on a stipe 5-7 mm. long; the fruits 

 (legumes) usually solitary in the raceme, linear-oblong, about 5-6 cm. 

 long, 9-12 mm. wide, with a stipe 2-2.5 cm. long, minutely and 

 densely hispidulous, the sides of the pod eventually glabrescent, the 

 apex acute and mucronate with the persistent base of the style. 



Frutex usque 5 m. altus, gracilis, sparse ramosus; foliis 3-6 cm. 

 longis, petiolatis, late suborbicularibus, basi late obtusangule cordatis, 

 apice valde acutangule cordatis, nervo medio in sinum breviter 

 setaceo-producto, bifoliatis, supra nitidulis, subtus pallidioribus; 

 foliolis circiter 2/3 connatis, adscendentibus, 3-4.5 cm. longis, 15-28 

 mm. latis, subtus minute et brevissime pilosis, supra demum glabres- 

 centibus, basi rotundatis, apice late obtusis, margine integerrimis, 

 nervis 3 (-4), nervis exterioribus curvatis, interioribus subrectis; 

 petiolis 8-12 cm. longis, satis gracilibus, dense minute et brevissime 

 pilosa; racemis pseudoterminalibus; pedicellis dense et minute ap- 

 presso-pilosis; bracteis lineari-lanceolatis, 1-1.5 mm. longis; floribus 



