DESGBIPTION OF SPECIES. 89 



Order PROTEACB^. 

 Tribe EMBOTHRIE.<E. 



LOMATIA SAPORTANEA LcSQ. 



Hayden'8 Ann. Kept., 1874, p. 346; Cret. and Tert. PI., p. 51, PI. iir, Fig. 8. 

 Todea f Saportanea Lesq., Cret. FL, j). 48, PL xxis, Figs. 1-4. 



Correction to be made to the description of this species as given in Cret. 

 and Tert. FL, p. 51 : 



Leaves compound; leaflets opposite, more or less distant (not always 

 connate), sometimes narrowed to the base and sessile or decurrent by a sub- 

 base along the branches by a narrow margin. The rachis of the pinnae is 

 round and comparatively narrow, abruptly cut at the base of the upper pair 

 of leaflets, or sometimes enlarged above them and terminating in a sim|)le, 

 . lanceolate, short, and narrow pinnule, which is thus terminal and has the 

 same character as the lateral ones. It is the same as that ligured in Cret. 

 FL, PL XXIX, Fig. 4. 



LoMATiA Saportanea var. longifolia Lesq. 

 Cret. and Tert. FL, p. 52. 



Tribe PERSOONIEvE. 



Peesoonia Lesquereuxii, sp. nov.> 

 PL XX, Figs. 10-12. 



Leaves subcoriaceous, sessile or very short-pedicellate, obovate, obtuse 

 or subemarginate at apex, gradually atteimated to the base; secondaries 

 alternate, few, very thin, curved upward in traversing the blade at an acute 

 angle of divergence, camptodi'ome. 



The leaves, 3""" to 5""° long, L.'i™ to 'Ilf' Inroad in the upper part, are 

 narrowed to the base, slightly decun-ent in reaching the short petiole and 

 larger toward the rounded or su])emarginate apex; the secondaries, three 

 or four pairs, are parallel, nuich curved upward in diverging from the me- 

 dian nerve at an angle of 25" to 30°. 



'This species wiis naraed " Persoonia Heerii, sp. nov.," by Prof. Lesquerenx in his manuscript, but 

 as this name is preoccupied by Persoonia Heerii of Pilar (Fl. Fnss. Snsedjina, 1883, p. 72, PI. xiii, Fig. 

 16), it becomes necessary to change the speciBc name. Inasmuch as he had deemed this species worthy 

 of bearing the name of the distinguished Heer, a compliment that the laws of nomenclature will not 

 in this case permit to be carried out, it seems especially di-sirable that the compliment be returned and 

 that it be named for himself. I have, therefore, changed the name to Persoonia Lesquereuxii. — F. H. K. 



