em. long and 8-4 cm. wide, rather abruptly acuminate, 
with an obtuse tip, slightly narrowed toward the obtuse 
base, glabrous at maturity, dark above when dried, 
slightly lustrous, the venation not elevated, almost con- 
colorous beneath, the slender costa prominent, the lateral 
nerves about nine on each side, slender, subarcuate, 
ascending at an angle of forty-five degrees or more, ir- 
regularly arcuate-anastomosing near the margin, the 
prominent veins laxly reticulate; flowers apparently in 
raceme-like panicles, the panicles terminal, branched from 
the base, up to 13 cm. in length, divaricately branched, 
the branches rather stiff, slender, at first densely brown- 
tomentose, becoming glabrate, the flowers borne on 
short, thick pedicels ; follicles conspicuously asymmetric, 
almost semiorbicular, about 2.5 em. long and 1.5 em. 
broad, subcompressed, contracted at the base into a thick 
stipe which is 7 mm. long or less, obtuse and apiculate 
at the apex, densely hispid-tomentose with rather long, 
densely matted, brown hairs. 
Mexico: Oaxaca, District of Choapam, San Juan Lalana, a tangled 
vine growing on large forest trees, long. 95°45’, lat. 17°25’, alt. 700 
m., May 9, 1939, Richard Evans Schultes § Blas Pablo Reko 833 (Type 
in Herb. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. ; Isoryrrs in Econ. Herb. Oakes Ames 
No. 8613; Herb. Gray). 
In connection with the description of Connarus Schul- 
tesu, Dr. Standley writes: ‘‘The only representative of 
the genus recorded previously for Mexico is Connarus 
lentiginosus Brandegee, of which, through oversight, no 
mention is made in Trees and Shrubs of Mexico. That 
species, of Chiapas, differs in having more numerous 
leaflets, and is evidently not closely related to this plant 
of Oaxaca. While a respectable number of Connarus 
species are known from Central America, none of them 
have fruit similar to that of CL. Schultesit, whose indument 
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