84 BLAKE: NEW Pons FROM COLOMBIA 
obliquely rounded 1 mm. above base on other side, rather densely 
and evenly spreading- pubescent outside and ciliate, about 
5-veined, the veins forked above and anastomosing toward the 
margin; upper petals 4.8 mm. long, pilose within to middle, the 
~~ agi rick obovate, rounded, glabrous, about 7- -nerved; keel 
mm. lon 
yes at base subcordate; seed 4 mm. long (including ay 
oblong-oval, terete, densely appressed: silky- pilose; aril 1.3 
high, 1.8 mm. long, casque-shaped, white, subcorneous eee 
oes. 3-lobed from near the middle, the lobes equal, the dorsal 
the broadest. 
CoLomsiA: On sandstone cliff at Honda, Dept. Tolima, 
250-350 m., 3-4 Jan. 1918, F. W. Pennell 3602 (TYPE in her- 
barium of the N. Y. Botanical Garden; duplicate in U.S. Na- 
tional Herbarium). Open clayey loam, Melgar, Dept. Cundina- 
marca, 500-600 m., Dec. 1917, Pennell 2902. Open woodland, 
west of San Lorenzo, Dept. Tolima, 500-700 m., Dec. 1917, 
Pennell 3549. Open rocky slope, Honda, Dept. Tolima, 300- 
400 m., Jan. 1918, Pennell 3582. 
Polat diversa belongs in the subgenus Hebeclada, and may | 
be distinguished readily by its densely pubescent wings. At 
maturity it is distinctly frutescent, but it also flowers as a seed- 
ling, as shown by Pennell 3549, which in all other characters is 
identical with the type of the species. 
P. Smithii sp. nov. 
Suffrutescent, densely incurved-puberulous; leaves ovate, 
eglandular hairs; wings obliquely oval-obovate, 5-6 mm. long, 
3.8-4.5 m m. wide, inequilateral, ciliolate; capsule quadrate- oval, 
ong, shorter than the wings; seed 4.2 mm. long, 
subsericeous- pilose. 
uffrutescent, erect, about I meter high, simple or Spareey 
branched, the base not seen; stem subterete, 2-3 mm. thick, 
greenish, densely incurved-puberulous, a few longer She 
hairs sometimes present; leaves alternate; petioles pubescent 
like the stem, 2-4 mm. long; blades ovate, 5.5-8 cm. long, 2—4.2 
cm. wide, acuminate : (sometimes abruptly so), at base cuneate 
or rounded-cuneate, membranaceous, above deep green, evenly 
spreading-puberulous on surface (the hairs along the veins shorter 
and incurved), beneath sparsely spreading-puberulous on surface, 
