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petioles 3-6 mm. long; peduncles few, axillary and terminal, 0.8-5.5 cm. long; racemes cyl- 

 indric, obtuse, comose at apex, rather dense, 8- 1 3 mm. thick, the axis 1 9 cm. long or less ; bracts 

 lance-subulate, attenuate, ciliate and pilose, deciduous, 4—5 mm. long; pedicels short-pilose, 

 1-2 mm. long; flowers purplish; sepals free, oblong-ovate, obtuse, ciliate and pilose, 3-5- 

 nerved, 2.2-3.2 mm. long; wings suborbicular, 4.8-5.2 mm: long, 4-4.3 mm. wide, cucullate 

 at the rounded apex, broadly cuneate at base, glabrous, about 5-nerved; keel 6.3 mm. long; 

 staminal sheath toward apex pilose, the filaments glabrous; fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, obtuse, 

 rugose-reticulate, narrowly margined on lower edge, 7 mm. long. 



Type collected in forests along the Rio I.adrillo and vicinitv, above El Boquete. Chiriqui, 

 Panama, altitude 1200-1300 meters, March, 1911, H. Pittier 3289 (U.S.Nat. Herb. no. 716114). 

 Distribution: Costa Rica and Province of Chiriqui, Panama. 



9. Monnina sylvatica'Schlecht. & Cham. 

 Linnaea 5: 231. 1830. 



1 Monnina Deppei G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 367. 1831. 

 Monnina evonymoides Schlecht. Linnaea 14: 380. 1840. 

 Monnina sylvicola Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 30': 303. 1891. 

 Monnina aestnans silvatica Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 48. 1891. 



Branching, apparently shrubby ; branches stout, incurved-puberulous; leaves lance-ovate 

 to elliptic or oval, short-pointed or acuminate, 7.3-12 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. wide, cuneate at base, 

 thin, rather sparsely strigillose both sides; petioles 3-6 mm. long; peduncles 0.7-4 cm. long, 

 several or numerous, simple or branched; racemes dense, acutish, somewhat comose, 8-11 

 mm. thick, the axis 18 cm. long or less; bracts lance-subulate, narrowed to an obtusish apex, 

 ciliate, deciduous, 4.5-5 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers probably purplish; sepals 

 suborbicular-ovate to oval-ovate, free, obtuse, short-ciliate, 1.8-2.7 mm. long; wings subor- 

 bicular or suborbicular-obovate, 4-4.7 mm. long, 4— 4.3 mm. wide, cucullate and broadly rounded, 

 rounded to broadly cuneate at base, glabrous, about 5-nerved; keel ciliolate, 4—5 mm. long; 

 staminal sheath' pilose at apex, the filaments glabrous; fruit ovoid, thickened, emarginate 

 or obtuse, rugose-reticulate, at length crested on the upper margin and with a fluted wing 

 about 1 mm. wide on the lower, 6-7 mm. long. 



Type locality: Jalapa, Veracruz. 



Distribution: Michoacan (or Guerrero) and Veracruz to Costa Rica. 



10. Monnina guatemalensis Chod. Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. 4: 249. 1896. 



Shrub; branches stout, yellowish-green, rather densely and softly spreading-pilosulous, 

 glabrate; leaves oval, 5.5-11 cm. long, 2.6-6.9 cm. wide, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, short- 

 pointed, acute or obtusish at apex, at base cuneate to rounded, yellowish-green, spreading- 

 puberulous or -pilosulous especially along nerves on both sides, the 6-8 pairs of lateral veins 

 prominulous beneath; petioles 3-7 mm. long; peduncles several toward tips of branches, 

 axillary and extra-axillary, densely spreading-pilosulous, 0.6-3.3 cm. long; racemes cylindric, 

 obtuse, somewhat comose at apex, dense, looser below, 6-9 mm. thick, the axis 16 cm. long 

 or less; bracts lance-ovate, acuminate, ciliate, sparsely pilose, 4.S-7 mm. long; pedicels 1—1.2 

 mm. long; flowers purplish; sepals free, oblong-ovate, acutish to obtuse, ciliate, 3-3.8 mm. 

 long; wings obovate-suborbicular, 4.3-4.8 mm. long, 3.3-4.1 mm. wide, cucullate at apex, 

 broadly cuneate at base, ciliate or ciliolate throughout, 5-nerved; keel finely ciliolate about' 

 to middle, 4 mm. long; staminal sheath pilose at apex, the filaments glabrous; fruit ovoid, 

 plump, rugose-reticulate, narrowly margined on both edges, 7.5-8.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Coban. Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Chiapas and northern Guatemala. 



11. Monnina subserrata Chod. Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. 4: 250. 1896. 



Branches stout, hirsutulous with very short thick hairs; leaves lanceolate, 6.5-S cm. long, 

 2.8-3.5 cm. wide, or smaller, acute, long-attenuate at base, rather thin, subdenticulate on the 



