﻿Pittier: Genus Monopteryx Spruce 627 



Arbor parva, decidua, 8-io-metralIs, coma oblonga. Petiolus 

 communis 19-25 cm. longa; foliola 6-11.5 cm. longa, 2.5-4.5 cm. 

 lata; petioluli 4 mm. longi. Racemi usque ad 30 cm. longi, 

 floribundi; pedicelli 8-9 mm. longi; calycis tubum circa 5 mm. 

 longum, labio superiore 9 mm. longo; vexillum 13.5 mm. longum, 

 9.5 mm. latum; alae roseo-flavae, margine superiore paulo sinuata, 

 9 mm. longae, 3.5-3.8 mm. latae; stamina glabra 9-13 mm. longa; 

 pistillum 17-18 mm. longum. Legumen (an maturum?) 5.5 cm. 

 longum, 2.7 cm. latum. 



Venezuela: Cardenas Farm, Siquire Valley, State of Miranda, 

 at an altitude of about 500 m., flowers and fruits, March 24, 

 I9i3.(-H'. Pittier 6005, type; U. S. Nat. Herb. Nos. 601729, 30). 



I have named this species for my friend Dr. Alfred Jahn, a 

 distinguished explorer, engineer, and botanist of Venezuela. Its 

 local vernacular name is tasajo, a word used also to designate salt 

 beef dried in the sun. 



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