Part 3, 1911] RUTACEAE 175 



pedicels short, bibracteolate at the base, sparsely pubescent ; sepals narrowly lanceolate, 

 3-4 cm. long, acute, puberulent on the outside ; lobes of the corolla oblong to ovate, densely 

 sericeo-villous without. 



Type locality : In dark forests of Teapa, Tabasco. 

 Distribution* : Southern Mexico, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. 

 Illustration : Hemsl. loc. cil. pi. 12. 



2. GALIPEA Aubl. PI. Gtiian. 2 : 662. 1775. 



Small trees or shrubs, with terete branches and twigs leafy chiefly at the apex. Leaves 

 alternate or opposite, 1-3-foliolate. Flowers perfect. Calyx cup-shaped and more or less 

 distinctly 5-toothed, or deeply parted. Petals 5, hypogynous, alternate with the calyx-lobes, 

 united up to or beyond the middle, free above. Stamens 5-8, adnate below to the corolla- 

 tube, 2 fertile ; filaments flat and broad, abruptly narrowed and subulate above the middle ; 

 anthers oblong; sterile filaments subulate toward the apex. Disk cup-shaped, including 

 or exceeding the ovary. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled. Ovules two in each cell, superposed. 

 Style filiform ; stigma 3-5-lobed. Capsule 5-celled; carpels united by their sides, at length 

 separating, obtusely keeled on the back, dehiscent to the middle only. Seeds solitary in 

 each carpel ; testa crustaceous. 



Type species, Galipea trifoliata Aubl. 



1. Galipea Ossana DC. Mem. Mus. Paris 9: 149. 1822. 



Sciuris Ossana Nees & Mart. Nova Acta Acad. Leop. -Carol. 11 : 715. 1823. 

 Raputia Ossana Engler. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 12-' : 104. 1S74. 



A small tree with glabrous branches; leaves alternate, 3-foliolate, petioled.the petioles 

 subcylindric, 5-7.5 cm. long; leaflets glabrous, the lateral subsessile, elliptic, 7-12 cm. long, 

 3-5.3 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, obliquely rounded or somewhat obtuse at the base, 

 the terminal leaflet short-petioluled and somewhat larger; midrib prominent beneath; in- 

 florescence terminal, exceeding the leaves; pedicels pubescent; calyx deeply parted, the 

 lobes ovate, acute, persistent in fruit; corolla-lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 

 appressed sericeo-pilose ; the two fertile stamens with pubescent, flat, linear-lanceolate fila- 

 ments, the anthers oblong ; the sterile stamens linear-subulate, gland-tipped ; disk 10- 

 toothed, surrounding the ovary ; style long, filiform ; stigma indistinctly 5-lobed ; fruit 

 solitary at the ends of the branches; carpels oblong, 1 cm. long, short-apiculate ; seed 

 subglobose, black, slightly rough. 



Type locality : Havana, Cuba. 



Distribution : Cuba. 



Illustration : Mem. Mus. Paris 9 : pi. 10. 



Excluded species 

 Raputia? heterophylla DC. Mem. Mus. Paris 9 : 153 (1822), is TecomaleucoxylonMa.it. 

 (according to Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : 551. 1896). 



3. POMPHIDEA Miers, Apocyn. S. Am. 18. 1878. 



Trees or shrubs (?), with opposite glandular-punctate leaves. Inflorescence racemose, 

 axillary. Flowers perfect. Calyx of 5 unequal, imbricate sepals, two of which are exterior, 

 broader, and twice the length of the three inner ones. Corolla funnel-shaped, the lobes 5 

 (rarely 4), convolute in aestivation, glandular. Stamens 5 (rareh- 4), alternate with the 

 segments of the corolla ; filaments united below to the corolla-tube, linear, flat ; anthers 

 introrse, parallel. Disk of 5 free, erect, linear-oblong lobes, which are truncate and crenu- 

 late at the apex, surrounding the base of the ovary. Ovary 2-celled, 2-grooved. Style 

 thick, subterete. Stigmas 2 on the truncate apex of the style. Fruit unknown. 



Type species, Pomphidea Swartziana Miers. 



1. Pomphidea Swartziana Miers, Apocyn. S. Am. 19. 1878. 

 Leaves simple (or unifoliolate?), oblong-ovate, 7-8.5 cm. long, 3.2-3.8 cm. broad, 

 acuminate at the apex, obtusish at the base, yellowish-green above, yellowish-ferruginous 



