NO- -4 NEW SAPINDACEAE RADLKOFER } 



4 mm. longo incluso 2.4 cm. longa, 1.5 cm. crassa, purpureo-nij 



Semen [.2 cm. longum, 7 mm. latum. 



Panama: Cituro, southern Darien, fl. April 14. [908, A'. \. Wil- 

 liams No. 672 (Type, U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 678204) ; Marraganti, 

 southern Darien, fl. April 6, 1908, A'. .V. Williams No. mi 4 | I 

 Xat. Herb. No. 678358). 



Obs— This species apparently belongs in Sect. I (Neurotoechus) 

 between PauUinia clavigera Schlecht. and /'. sessiliflora Radlk. The 

 leaflets are remarkable on account of their conspicuous Sclerenchy- 

 matous fibers. 



PAULLINIA FUNICULARIS Radlk., sp. nov. 



Scandens fruticosa, hirtella, mox glabrata; rami 3-angulares, 3 

 iateri, lateribus costula hirtella notatis. angulis el ipsis pilis crispatis 

 hirtellis dein glabratis denique in costas .} lamini- vel chordiformes 

 maxime prosilientes cum parte centrali tenui commissuris angustis 

 connexas leviter spiraliter tortas productis et ramus vel truncos pro- 

 funde 3-sulcatos funiformes efheientibus, cortice fusco ; corpus li?;- 

 nosum simplex, triquetrum, 3-sulcatum vel ob costulas partim ra 

 prominentibus inaequaliter 4-5-angulare,4-5-sulcatum, ram< irum adul- 

 tiorum quasi 3-alatum ; folia impari-pinnata, 3-juga, jugo infimo ter- 

 nato ; foliola ex ovali-oblongo lanceolata, terminalia ex obovato sub- 

 rhombea, omnia acuta vel subacuminata, a medio remote grossiuscule 

 dentata, subsessilia, membranacea, proeter marginem nervosque utrin- 

 que puberulos glabra, nitidula, saturate viridia, glandulis microscopi- 

 cis cernuis adspcrsa, creberrime pellucide punctata et minutissime 

 lineolata, reti utriculorum laticiferorum parum pellucid" subtus in- 

 structa, epidermide non mucigera ; petiolus nudus, rhacheos segmen- 

 tum superius sat late, interdum inferius quoque angustius alatum; 

 stipulae elongatae, lineares, imo filiformes; thyrsi in ramis juvenili- 

 bus axillares, solitarii, perbreves, pubescentes, in ramis adultioribus 

 truncisve glomeratim congesti, glabri, omnes ecirrosi (eorum ioco 

 vero in ramorum apicibus novellis pedunculi steriles longi, apice elon- 

 gate bicirrosi) ; flores parvi, glabriusculi ; fructus — I non suppetebal t. 



Trunci 1.4 cm., rami juniores .> mm. crassi. Folia ad 30 cm. 

 longa, 18 cm. lata; foliola 5-12 cm. longa, -'.5 4.5 cm. lata: petiolus 

 communis 6-12 cm. longus; rhacheos segmentum superius ad 4 cm. 

 longum alis utrinque 5 mm. latis. inferius ad. 6 cm. longum alis 1 ubi 

 sunt) utrinque 1 mm. vix excedentibus ; stipulae 7 i" mm. 1. 1 

 0.5-2 mm. latae. puberulae vel hispidulae. mox glabratae. Thyrsi i--' 



