width with the upper half regularly and conspicuously 
sinuate. Herrania lemniscata has leaflets which are at 
least 80 cm. long and 40 cm. wide with the margin very 
deeply pinnatilobate with usually four irregular, for the 
most part widely triangular or widely lanceolate-acumi- 
nate segments, each up to 18 cm. long and 9-10 cm. 
wide. 
Herrania kanukuensis FP. I. Schultes in Caldasia 
2 (1943) 11; in Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 13 
(1949) 277. 
Hitherto known only from the type collection from 
the Kanuku Mountains in adjacent British Guiana, er- 
rania kanukuensis is now registered, through the collec- 
tion cited below, from northern Amazonian Brazil. 
Inasmuch as Herrania kanukuensis has never been 
illustrated, it has seemed advisable to publish, with this 
phytogeographical note, a drawing of this species (Plate 
».&.S. EO BY 
Brazit: Territorio do Rio Branco. Lower Rio Branco, Tapanaruca. 
““Tree in clump, 3 meters; rouge flowers. Lowland, border of high 
forest.’’ February 23, 1948, Ricardo de Lemos Frées 23003, 
Herrania kofanorum RP. 1. Schultes sp. nov. 
Arbuscula parva, tenuis gracilisque, usque ad quinde- 
cim pedes alta, ex radice plerumque unus truncus erec- 
tus, cylindricus, apice ramosus, cinereo-nigro cum cortice 
scrobiculato et scabrido, usque ad septem cm. in diame- 
tro crescens. Rami ferrugineo-tomentosi, denique sub- 
glabrati, subteretes sulcatique. Ramuli similes sed to- 
mentosiores. Folia ad trunci apicem collecta, ampla, 
digitata, longissime petiolata, septem-foliolata, stipulata. 
Stipulae caducae, lineares, acutae, 2.5-8 cm. longae, 
circa 8 mm. latae, siccae, extus hispidulae vel strigillosae, 
intus usu subglabrae. Petioli robusti, teretes sed obscuris- 
sime suleati, basi leviter dilatati, subferruginei, densissime 
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