TERTIARY FLORA OF CHILE 127 



Cassia Gavdneri Berry, sp. nov. 

 PLATE V Figs. 5, 6 



Description. Small elliptical, tardily dehiscent or inde- 

 hiscent, few or single seeded, pods. These pods are flat and 

 of a coriaceous consistency. They may be almost circular in 

 outline or may taper proximad and be slightly pointed distad. 

 They are borne on stout curved stalks up to a centimeter in 

 length and contain several flat seeds. They are distinctly 

 margined all around and the surface is slightly corrugated 

 and marked with a conspicuous network of transverse veins. 

 They range in length from 2 cm. to 3.5 cm. and in maximum 

 width from 1.5 cm. to 2.25 cm. The species is named for 

 Mr. Gardner the hospitable mine manager of the Arauco 

 Company. 



This is a characteristic type of legume strikingly like many 

 fossil and recent species of Cassia, Lonchocarpus, Dalbergia, 

 etc. The pods resist maceration well and are very abundant 

 in the Curanilahue beds, although not seen at the other local- 

 ities. The possibility of their representing the same botanical 

 species as the associated leaflets described as Cassia oxleyi 

 has already been mentioned. Since this cannot be demon- 

 strated it seems preferable to keep the two distinct, although 

 they are combined in the restoration. They may also be 

 compared with the pods of various members of the tribe 

 Dalbergiese, especially the genera Dalbergia, and Loncho- 

 carpus both of which are so abundant both as trees and 

 lianes in tropical South America. 



Order SAPINDALES 



Genus SAPINDUS Linne 



Sapindus acuminatus Engelhardt 



Sapindus acuminatus Engelhardt, Abh. Senck. Naturf. Gesell., Bd. 

 16, Heft 4, p. 670, pi. 9, fig. jo, 1891. 



The present collections show that these leaflets had stout 

 curved petioles 7 mm. in length. 



