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the limb 5-lobate, the 3 lower lobes triangular-ovate, subequal, the 2 upper 
ones similar, united for half their length; petal one, rounded-obovate, nar- 
rowed below into a broad claw; stamens 10, free, subhypogynous, the filaments 
slender but broadened below, glabrous, subequal, the anthers oval, uniform, 
attached near the base, dehiscent by longitudinal slits; ovary short-stipitate, 
2-ovulate, attenuate to a slender curved style, the stigma terminal, minute; 
fruit ovoid or cylindric, 1 or 2-seeded, turgid and subterete, coriaceous, 
bivalvate; seeds large, ovoid, exarillate, without endosperm, the cotyledons 
thick and fleshy, the radicle very short, inflexed. 
Type species, Cashalia cuscatlanica Standl., 
Cashalia cuscatlanica Standl., sp. nov. 
A very large deciduous trec, the young branchlets and petioles densely 
brown-pilose with stiff spreading hairs; leaves petiolate, the rachis 20-35 
em. long, subterete, brown-pilose; leaflets usually 11 or 13, alternate, the 
petiolules stout, 2.5-6 mm. long, densely pilose, the blades mostly oblong or 
lance-oblong, usually broadest below the middle but some‘imes broadest 
toward the apex, acuminate or long-acuminate, broadly rounded or sub- 
cordate at base, mostly 9-23 cm. long and 2.5-9 cm. wide, the lower ones 
smaller, thin, bright green on the upper surface and glabrous, beneath 
paler, densely pilose with short spreading brownish hairs, the lateral nerves 
13-19 pairs, nearly straight, extending quite to the margin, the secondary 
nerves in age prominent and closely reticulate; rachis of the racemes about 
30 cm. long, stout, densely brown-tomentose, the pedicels stout, 2-3 mm. 
long; calyx about 8 mm. long, densely brown-tomentose, the lobes about 
equaling the tube, obtuse or subacute, tomentose within; standard about 
18 mm. long, the blade 15 mm. broad, rounded at apex, tomentose on the 
outer surface, glabrous within; stamens about 15 mm. long, the anthers 
scarcely 1 mm. long; ovary densely brown-pilose, the style nearly glabrous; 
fruit 6-10 cm. long, subterete, acute at base and apex, covered with a very 
dense and fine, brown tomentum, the stipe very stout, about 6 mm. long; 
seeds terete-ovoid, 3-4 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter, pointed at base, rounded 
at apex. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 1,136,051, collected in mountain 
forest on the Finca Colima, Sierra de Apaneca, Departamento de Ahuachapdn, 
Salvador, January, 1922, by Paul C. Standley (no. 20197). The following 
additional collections belong here: 
SALVADOR: Comasagua, December, 1922, Calderén 1379. Hills near 
Santa Tecla, July, 1923, Calderén 1752. 
The genus Cashalia, a member of the family Fabaceae, appears to be closely 
related to Tounatea (Swartzia), the specimens of the Salvadorean tree bearing 
some superficial resemblance to the curious Brazilian Swartzia polycarpa 
Ducke. In the genus Tounatea, so far as can be learned, the stamens are 
always numerous. Bentham and Hooker state that the ovules also are 
numerous, but this is improbable since the various species often have one- 
seeded fruits. The calyx of Cashalia is very different from that of Townatea, 
and there is nothing to indicate that it is closed in anthesis, as it is in the latter 
genus. 
Cashalia cuscatlanica is perhaps the most abundant and probably the 
largest tree in the primeval forest of the Finca Colima. At the time of the 
writer’s visit to that region, the trees were in flower and nearly devoid of 
