NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 29 
about 12 cm. long, the rachis about a half longer, both very 
stout, nearly terete. Leaflets 5 or 6 pairs, imperfectly opposite, 
nearly sessile, the petiolules about as broad as long, shaiply 
ed. Stamens 
numerous, distinct, unequal in the bud.  Pistil strongly curved. 
Beni River shore, Bolivia, July 1886. (H. H. Rusby No. 
978). 
Lotoxalis phaseolifolia. 
ore or less puberulent throughout. Stems shrubby, tall. 
Stipules apparently deciduous, not seen. Petioles 6 to 15 cm. 
long, very slender, sulcate. Leaflets 3, the lateral on stout 
petiolules 2 mm. long, the blades 5 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. 
broad, inequilaterally ovate, with blunt or rounded base and 
acuminate and acute summit, very thin, bright-green, sparsely 
short-pilose on both sides, the venation scarcely prominent, 
the secondaries 5 to 7 on each side, besides one that forms the 
ate, and acute, finely nerved. Dissecting material wanting. 
Capsule 6 mm. long, broadly ellipsoidal, short-stipitate, the 
stipe broader than long, ribbed, the pod bearing 5 short, stout, 
distinct styles, and enclosed by the persistent calyx. Seed 
nearly as long as the pod, ovoid, short-beaked, strongly muri- 
cate, slightly curved. 
“A shrub of 1.5 meters, at Antaheracana near Cochabamba, 
Bolivia, 750 meters altitude, June I909." (Otto Buchtien, 
No. 2232.) 
