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time contributed dried specimens to the Kew Herbarium. 
According to Mr. C. Hummel, Forestry Officer, British Honduras, 
the name “ Balsa Wood ” is applied in —— Honduras to the 
wood of three different trees, namely, “ Pollak’ (Ochroma sp.), 
“Moho ” (Belotia Campbellit) and “ ena ” (Schizolobium 
. Kellermanii). 
11. B. tabascana, Sprague, sp. nov. 
Ramuli dense pubescentes, demum glabrescentes, longita 
dinaliter rugulosi; internodia 1-5-2-5 cm. longa. Folia ovata 
vel ovato-oblonga, longiuscule acuminata, basi rotundata vel 
subtruncata, 6-13-5 cm. longa, 2:5-6-5 cm. lata, acumine 
0-5-1 em. longo, serrulata, denticulis ascendentibus vel subap 
pressis 1-3 mm. distantibus, firme chartacea, valde discolora, 
puberula, nervis grossius .pilosis, subtus indumento duplici, 
inferiore griseo minute tomentello, superiore fulvescente grosse 
pubescente; petioli dense grosse pubescentes, 1-1-5 cm. longi. 
Thyrsi 1-1-5 em. longi, plurifiori, in axillis foliorum juvenilium 
(seu bractearum foliacearum) in ramulis axillaribus abbreviatis 
2-5-5 cm. longis, Sepala 5-5-6-5 mm. longa, 1-5-1-75 mm. lata. 
Petala oblongo-spathulata 5-5-5 mm. longa, 1-3-1-4 mm. lata, 
subintegra vel apice irregulariter plus minusve biloba. Capsula 
ignota, 
VERNACULAR Name. Palincano. 
Mexico. Tabasco: Lomas de San Sebastian; fl. March, 
Rovirosa 416. 
A well-marked species, distinguished at the first glance by 
the thyrses, which are borne in the axils of very young leaves 
(or foliaceous bracts) on axillary short-shoots. The leaves are 
relatively short and broad, and are asperulous on the upper 
surface. 
SYNONYMA EXCLUDENDA. 
Adenodiscus, Turcz. = Heliocarpus, Linn 
A. mexicanus, Turcz. = H. mexicanus, pee (H. glabrescens, 
Hochr.). 
XXXIV.—NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SOUTH AFRICAN 
PLANTS.—III.* 
JosepH Burrt-Davy. 
Indigofera ansiana,  Burtt-Davy {Leguminosae- 
Galegeae]: ; I. Woodw, Bolus, affinis, sed foliolis angustioribus et 
non distincte mucronatis differt. 
* The following ten numbers (11-20) were intended for publication 
with Nos. 1-10, in Part I. (Kew Bull. 1921. p. 49), but were accidentally 
omitted; they are therefore published here as Part III. Part Il. 
appeared i in Kew Bull. 1921, p. 191. 
