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“On dry hillsides near Lake Titicaca, 12,600 ft., Aug. 28, 1901” 
(No. 2418). 
Species, according to description, near to P. patencana (Ulbrich). 
Meibomia rhynchosiifolia sp. nov. 
te elongated, slender, ascending, purple, sulcate, clothed 
with dia curved, yellow hairs; stipules 3 mm. long, tri- 
the veins purple; aera? elongated, sparsely branched, loosely 
flowered, very pilose, the flowers mostly in pairs; bracts similar to 
stipules, "caducous; nan about 8 mm. lon eevee, calyx about 
fruiting calyx, pilose; ies bout 5-jointed, the joints rhomboid- 
oval, the sutures nearly equally indented 
‘Trailing on ground, the flowers purple; Apolo, 4800 ft., Feb. 27, 
1902” (No. 305). 
Machaerium latifolium sp. nov. 
Glabrous; branchlets slender, gray, finely verrucose; leaves 
10-20 cm. long, the petioles nearly a fourth of the total length; 
leaflets ie 795 gat es Res m. long, stout, mostly recurved; 
blades 3.5—-7 cm. 2.5-4 cm. wide, ovate, ounded to subcordate 
at the base, se ace very can green, slightly shining above, 
where sa midrib is impressed, the venation slender, inconspic- 
uous, coarsely reticulate; fruiting calyx 1.5 mm. long, nearly as 
broad, bar little enlarged above, short-lobed; stipe ae slender, 
5 mm. long; lower portion of pod 15-18 mm. long, 7-1 m. broad, 
slightly curved, oval, slightly contracted where it joins © the wing, 
which is strongly falcate, 3-3.5 cm. long, 12-14 mm. at the 
middle portion, blunt, ue reticulate, the margin sieht and 
sharply thickened on both s 
“Mychariapa, 3500 ft. ee . 1902” (No. 246). 
The same collected Pearce on the Coroico River at about 
4000 {t. elevation. 
Machaerium juglandifolium sp. nov. 
Glabrate on the lower leaf-surfaces, very minutely puberulent; 
branchlets slender, flexuous, terete, gray, finely verrucose; leaves 
17-25 cm. long, including the petioles, which are 4-5 cm. long; 
leaflets 6-7 pairs, very short petiolulate, 5-8 cm. long, 2-3 cm 
