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to 12 cm. long, 6 to 8 cm. wide, acuminate, nearly glabrous above, except 

 the somewhat pubescent midrib, hirsute beneath with scattered hairs, 

 the nerves 5 to 6 on each side of the midrib; stipules 2 to 3 mm. long, 

 the stipels 6 to 8 mm. long, subulate. Infloresence axillary, the flowers 

 crowded at the apex of the much elongated peduncle in a racemose panicle, 

 the flower-bearing portion 15 cm. long or less, the branches about 7 cm. 

 long; pedicels densely pubescent, 1.5 cm. long, three or four from the 

 tip of each branchlet; bracteoles at the base of the calyx very slightly 

 pubescent, green, 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, exceeding the calyx in bud, 

 deciduous. Calyx about 2.5 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter, densely grayish 

 pubescent but without stinging hairs, the teeth very unequal, the upper 

 one broad, 8 mm. long, the apex emarginate, the lower one very broad, 

 short, also emarginate, the lateral ones broadly ovate, acute or subobtuse. 

 Corolla white, the keel 8 cm. long, inflexed at the tip; wings 7 to 7.5 cm. 

 long, 1.5 cm. wide; standard 5 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, the apex rounded. 



Type specimen No. 6233 (A. D. E. Elmer), Sablan, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, April, 1904, a vine in thickets and forests. 



This species is apparently in the section Carpopogon, but in the absence 

 of fruits this can not be definitely determined. In his notes Mr. Elmer 

 describes the fruit as a pod 6 inches long covered with brown stinging 

 hairs, but has no notes as to whether or not the pod was smooth or 

 plaited, but is of the opinion that it w T as smooth. No specimens of the 

 fruit were preserved. 

 Pithecolobium parvifolium sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree 4 to 6 m. high, with evenly bipinnate leaves, 6 to 12 

 pairs of pinna 1 , and 10 to 28 jugate leaflets, the leaflets 5 to 10 mm. long, 

 the terminal pair similar to the others in shape and size. Branches dark 

 brown, striate, more or less pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves 8 to 

 18 cm. long, the rhachis ferruginous pubescent, 6 to 12 cm. long, the petiolar 

 portion 1.5 to 3 cm. long, with a rather prominent sessile gland below 

 each pair of pinna 1 ; pinna? 8 to 10 mm. apart, their rhachises ferruginous 

 pubescent, the upper ones gradually longer, the distal 5 to 8, the basal 

 2 to 3 cm. long; leaflets 5 to 8, rarely 10 mm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, 

 those on the upper pinnae 18 to 28 jugate, on the lower pinnae about 10 

 jugate, trapeziform, the apex acute or subobtuse, the base inequilaterally 

 truncate, the upper and lower margins parallel, the midrib diagonal, 

 shining above, dull and brown beneath, both surfaces with scattered 

 ferruginous hairs ; petiolules or very short. Infloresence a terminal 

 panicle about 15 cm. long, the branches ascending, angular, and with the 

 axis densely ferruginous pubescent. Flowers in small subumbellate corymbs 

 1 cm. across or less, the peduncles 1 to 2 cm. long, vertically superposed 

 above bracts on the branches and on the axis. Calyx campanulate, 2 

 mm. long, externally ferruginous pubescent, with 5 short deltoid teeth. 

 Corolla white or yellowish, densely ferruginous pubescent externally, 6 to 

 7 mm. long, the lobes ovate, acute or subobtuse, nearly half as long as 

 the tube. Filaments glabrous, united below into a short tube, the free 

 portions 8 to 9 mm. long. Ovary pubescent, stipitate. Pod spirally 

 twisted, 7 to 9 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, dark red, densely rusty pubescent, 



