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cm. longi, sat dense cincinnos stipitatos 2-4 floros gerentes; bracteae 

 bracteolaeque minutae, glabrae vel puberulae ; pedicelli 3-5 mm. longi, 

 supra basin articulati. Flores albi. Sepala duo exteriora tertiam in- 

 teriorum partem aequantia, glabra vel puberula, margine ciliolata, 

 interiora elliptica, 3 mm. longa. Petala tenera obovato-spathulata, 

 intus glandulis laxe adspersa : squamae dimidiam petalorum partem 

 vix superantes, margine ciliatae, superiores crista brevi biloba appen- 

 diceque deflexa brevi obtusa barbata, inferiores crista dimidiata den- 

 tiformi instructae. 'fori glandulae ovatae, puberulae. Stamina ima 

 basi puberula. Cermen (floris ^) rudimentarium puberulum. 



Panama: Along Rio Fato, Province of Colon, fl. July 9, 191 1, 

 Pittier No. 3886 (Type, U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 678961)*; fl. Aug. 16, 

 1911, Pittier 4188 (U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 679289) ; Hato del Jobo 

 above San Felix, eastern Chiriqui, fl. December 28, 191 1, Pittier No. 

 5418 (U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 715641). 



Obs. — Paullinia funicularis Radlk. is to be incorporated in Sect. 

 XII (Caloptilon) among the species related to P. cauliflora Jacq. and 

 P. hispida Jacq., from which it differs in its deeply 3-sulcate-funi- 

 fonn stem and the very numerous pellucid dots of the leaflets. 



TALISIA NERVOSA Radlk., sp. nov. 



Arbuscula eramosa, pyramidalis (Pittier), praeter paniculas glabra, 

 trunco tereti, cortice laevi f usco ; folia paripinnata, 5-juga, inferiora 

 quam superiora multo majora (Pittier), petiolo mediocri tereti basi 

 incrassato. rhachi supra bisulcata subtus carinata ; foliola sat magna, 

 ex oblongo lanceolata, acuminata, basi acuta petiolulis brevibus bul- 

 boso-incrassatis insidentia, rigide chartacea, nervis lateralibus ap- 

 proximatis utrinque ca. 13 obliquis strictis supra impressis subtus 

 valde et quidem obtuse prominentibus prope marginem subrevolu- 

 tum manifeste arcuatim anastomosantibus, utrinque glabra nee nisi 

 subtus ad nervos pilis minutissimis subulatis adspersa glandulisque 

 stipitatis turbinato-capitatis parcis ornata, nitida, e viridi fusce- 

 scentia; panicula mediocris, folia dimidia superans, pauciramosa; 

 flores — non visi, nisi partes sub fructu relictae ; calyx 5-lobus, lobis 

 anguste imbricatis obtusis, exterioribus leviter carinatis, pulverulen- 

 to-puberulis intus glabris; petala — ?; discus margine et intus hir- 

 sutus ; stamina pilosula ; fructus majusculus, obovoideo-ellipsoideus, 

 obsolete trigonus, sessilis, stylo persistente longiuscule apiculatus, 

 apice (ut et stylus) adpresse puberulus, ceterum glabratus, leviter 

 granulatus, partim suberoso-squamulatus, pericarpio crassiusculo tra- 



