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racemes about 1 dm. long; bracts minute, deciduous; calyx 4—5 mm. long, ciliolate on the 

 margin, upper two lobes united to near the tip forming a broadly deltoid ovate lip. the lower 

 three deltoid, close together; corolla pale-violet, about 15 mm. long; banner broadly obovate, 

 retuse, with prominent callosities; wings with rounded basal auricles; keel-petals oblanceolate, 

 without basal auricles; pod about 7 cm. long, glabrous. 



Type locality: Grande. Hidalgo. 

 Distribution: Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Hidalgo. 



6. Gliricidia meistophylla (Donn. Smith) Pittier, 

 Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 86. 1917. 



Lonchocarpus meistophylhis Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 56: 55. 1913. 



A shrub, 3-5 dm. high, branched from the base; branches glabrous or sparingly pubescent 

 when young; leaves 3-5 cm. long; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; leaflets 15-19, oblong, 

 9-13 mm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, glabrous except the midrib beneath, rounded at both ends or 

 retuse at the apex, revolute on the margins; racemes 4—6 cm. long; calyx glabrous, except the 

 puberulent margin, 5 mm. long; upper lip retuse, the lower minutely 3-toothed; corolla rose- 

 purple, 10-12 mm. long; banner orbicular; blades of the wings oblong, with indistinct basal 

 auricles; keel-petals strongly falcate towards the apex; ovary with a stipe 3 mm. long, glabrous, 

 8 mm. long, 6-ovuled; pod unknown. 



Type locality: Cuesta de Quililha, near Perulha, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



26. SAUVALLELLA Rydb. Am. Jour. Bot. 11: 480. 1924. 



Shrubs, with odd-pinnate leaves, subulate free stipules, and minute lanceolate stipels. 

 Flowers in axillary racemes, with small bracts and no bractlets. Calyx short- turbinate, 

 broader than high, the teeth minute, the lower three triangular-subulate, the upper two minute, 

 close together, obtuse. Banner suborbicular, short-clawed, with somewhat spreading sides, 

 shorter than the wings. Wings obliquely obovate, short-clawed, with a prominent basal 

 auricle. Keel-petals lunate, acute, united to the apex, longer than the other petals. , Stamens 

 diadelphous, the sheath cylindric, not dilated above. Ovary many-seeded, glabrous; style 

 glabrous, slightly curved at the base; stigma terminal; pod flat, linear, stipitate, many-seeded. 



Type species, Corynella immarginata C. Wright. 



1. Sauvallella immarginata (C. Wright) Rydb. Am. Jour. 

 Bot. 11: 480. 1924. 



Corynella immarginata C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana 5: 333. 1S69. 

 Corynites immarginata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 173. 1891. 



A shrub; branches puberulent, in age gray; stipules lance-deltoid, 3-5 cm. long, acuminate; 

 leaves 9-12 cm. long; rachis puberulent. strongly sulcate; leaflets 1 1-15, lance-oblong to nearly 

 linear, acute at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base, mucronate, 1-3 cm. long, glabrous on 

 both sides or puberulent beneath; stipels minute, lanceolate; racemes short, axillary; pedicels 

 3-5 cm. long; calyx turbinate, 4 mm. high, 5 mm. broad, 5-lobed, the lower three lobes less 

 than 1 mm. long, the upper two minute, close together, obtuse; corolla rose-red; banner sub- 

 orbicular, retuse, 1 cm. long; wings obliquely obovate, obtuse, 13 mm. long, with a lanceolate 

 basal auricle; keel-petals lunate, acute, 15-17 mm. long. 



Type locality: Cajarbana, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Western Cuba. 

 Illustration: Am. Jour. Bot. 11: pi. 36 A. 



