A NOTEWORTHY COLLECTION OF 
ANDIRA GALEOTTIANA 
BY 
Ricuarp Evans SCHULTES 
Among other plants recently sent from the Botanical 
Museum to Dr. Paul C. Standley for study, there was 
a specimen of the rare Andira Galeottiana belonging to 
the Leguminosae. 
Andira Galeottiana Standley in Contrib. U.S. Nat. 
Herb. 20 (1919) 217. 
Mexico: Oaxaca, District of Choapam, San Juan Lalana, long. 95° 
45’, lat. 17°25’, alt. 600 m., May 10, 1989, Schultes & Reko 852 
(Econ. Herb. Oakes Ames No. 3930; Herb. Gray; Herb. Field Mus. 
Nat. Hist. ). 
The type of Andira Galeottiana, an endemic of the 
District of Choapam (Oaxaca) and adjacent parts of Vera 
Cruz, was collected in Catemaco, Vera Cruz (Nelson 
424). A second collection was cited in the type descrip- 
tion as ‘‘collected at Lalana (Chinantla) Puebla, July, 
1844, by H. Galeotti (no. 3464)’’. This citation should 
be corrected to read: ‘‘Lalana(Chinantla), Oawaca.. .’ 
Andira Galeottiana has not been collected in Puebla so 
far as herbarium records indicate. 
Schultes & Reko 852 was collected in San Juan Lalana, 
the same village where Galeotti, nearly a century ago, 
found the cotype. It is apparently the third collection 
of this tree. 
In Lalana, Andira Galeottiana is called by the Chi- 
nantec name mo-dzaw and by the Zapotec name gva-bia. 
In 1844, Galeotti recorded the Spanish vernacular name 
as macayo, and in 1939, Reko and I found the same name 
still in use for this plant. The species is abundant in La- 
lana where its profusion of rose-purple panicles is very 
conspicuous on the hillsides in May and June. 
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