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thicket near La Unién, Salvador, near sea level, February, 1922, by Paul 
C. Standley (no. 20646). The following additional specimens have been 
collected: 
Satvapor: Acajutla, Calderén 1663; Standley 21975. 
Honpuras: Amapala, Standley 20744. 
It is probable that this is the tree reported from the Gulf of Fonseca by 
Hemsley as P. oblongum Benth. The Salvadorean plant is distinguished 
from that species by its elongate spikes and very small flowers. The vernac- 
ular name employed at La Unidén is mongollano, a name applied also to P. 
dulce (Roxb.) Benth. 
Apalatoa choussyana Standl., sp. nov. 
Tree, the branchlets and leaves glabrous; bud scales densely brownish- 
tomentulose; leaflets 6 or 8, oblong or lance-oblong, 3-6.6 cm. long, 1.5-2 
cm. wide, acute or short-acuminate, with blunt tip, unequal at base, cuneate 
on one side, rounded on the other, thick and firm, lustrous above, paler 
beneath, the costa subimpressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral 
nerves not conspicuous; petiolules 2 mm. long, the leaf rachis and petioles 
together 5-8 cm. long; rachis of the inflorescence and peduncle in fruit 5-9 
cm. long, glabrous; fruiting pedicels 4—5 mm. long, stout; legume orbicular 
or rounded-oval, 5-7 em. long, 4-5.5 cm. wide, thin, with slightly thickened 
margin, densely and minutely fulvous-tomentulose, conspicuously rugose. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 1,152,621, collected on the Finca 
San Nicolds, Salvador, May, 1923, by Dr. Salvador Calder6n (no. 1573). 
At the request of Dr. Calder6én this species is named in honor of Mr. 
Felix Choussy, for many years a resident of Salvador and formerly director 
of the Escuela de Agronomia, of the Salvadorean government, which was 
located at Izaleo. The vernacular name of the tree is said to be chichzpate. 
Only one species of Apalatoa has been reported previously from Central 
America, A. Acuminata (Benth.) Standl.,4 which was collected by one of the 
collectors who accompanied the British ship Sulphur in its voyage along the 
western coast of tropical America. The type of this species is said to have 
come from ‘‘Central America,” and it is probable that it was collected either 
at Realejo, Nicaragua, or about the Gulf of Fonseca. The writer has seen 
no specimens of A. acuminata, but according to the description, it differs from 
A. choussyana in its large, abruptly acuminate leaflets, which are widest 
above the middle. Apalatoa antillana (Urban) Standl.* also is closely 
related to the Salvadorean tree, but differs in its larger, thinner, and com- 
paratively narrow leaflets. 
Cashalia Standl., gen. nov. 
Large unarmed trees; leaves odd-pinnate, the leaflets herbaceous; stipules 
minute, caducous; flowers racemose, the racemes elongate, many-flowered, 
simple, the bracts and bractlets caducous; calyx tube broadly campanulate, 
4 Crudia acuminata Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 89. 1844. 
5 Crudia antillana Urban, Symb. Antill. 6: 10. 1909. 
