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wide, lance- cas aes rounded or subcordate at the base, 
thickish, the margin revolute, dark above, pale beneath, the 
venation oe fecedlate slightly prominent above, strongly sO 
beneath, the secondaries 8-10 pairs; racemes short and few- 
flowered, short-peduncied; flowers sessile; fruiting ely 2 mm. 
long and broad, Sane gira oe stipe 4-6 mm. long, 
curved; pod mm. wide, very slightly coarsely 
reticulate, he nas ee ieee 
“A small tree; Tumupasa, 1800 ft., Jan. 6, 1902” (No. 529). 
Machaerium jacarandifoliam sp. nov. 
Inflorescence, etc., ferruginous tomentose; branchlets blackish- 
purple, stout, the older portions having a gray, roughish bark, 
and armed with short, very stout, straight spines; stipules 3-4 m 
long, lance-ovate, acuminate, thin; leaves crowded, 
long, on very short petioles; leaflets 30-40, very shortly petiolulate, 
8-15 mm. long, 2.5-5 mm. broad, oblong-lanceolate, the summit 
a 
about 12 mm. long a 8 mm. bro ad, the remaining portion 30-35 
mm. long, 12 mm. wide, ae margin iehtly cere | the aoe 
coarsely reticulate. 
“Fifteen ft. high and 8 inches in diameter; Apolo, 4800 ft., 
July 18, 1902” (No. 1436). Probably the same as Bang No. 
argo. It was collected by Pearce at Machariapu, 6000 ft., and 
“above Paquelin.”” The species is near M. angustifolium Vonel 
margin sinuately lobed; corolla deep-purple, smooth, the exserted 
portion about twice as long as the calyx. 
Platymiscium ellipticum sp. nov. 
Younger portions and lower leaf-surfaces minutely puberulent, 
the pods ferruginous-tomentose; branchlets short, stout, widely 
spreading, Guia Si purple, otek stipules not 
seen; leaves 7-10 long, the petioles short, angled; leaflets 
alternate, nostly 6; peices 2mm. long, stout, costate, the blades 
2-5 cm. lon ng, 10-25 mm. wide, ovate or oval, ‘obtuse or minutely 
retuse and mucronulate, mostly rounded at ‘the base, thick, the 
