(516 ) 
smooth, compressed, 4 mm. long, the sharp convexity of the hilum 
about half its length. 
“Apolo, 4800 ft., Feb. 22, 1902” (No. 97) 
0. 106, same locality, collected on the preceding day, the 
‘Flowers yellowish,” is a slightly more robust form of the same. 
It seems to be the same as Spruce No. 2208, and was also col- 
lected by Sinclair on the Gulf of Fonseca. 
Eriosema fusiformis sp. nov. 
Pilose throughout with ne tater white hairs, which arise, 
from minute papillae the lat mparting a scurfy appearance to 
the surface; stems from a rene conico-fusiform tuberous-thickened 
root, 10-20 cm. long, erect or ascending, thickish, very leafy, 
the leaves sessile, trifoliolate; stipules erect, 5-8 mm. long, 2-3 mm. 
broad, lanceolate, attenuate, brown, strongly nerved; lateral 
leaflets subsess sile, almost equaling the terminal, which has a 
short, $ $ m. lon mm. broad, 
lanceolate, scarcely acute, thick, the midrib and 4-6 pairs of 
strongly ascending secondaries reddish, prominent underneath, 
the margin thickened, revolute. Flowers not seen. Very young 
fruit sessile and concealed by the erect-appressed upper leaves. 
“Prairies, Apolo, Mar. 4, 1902” (Wo. 29). 
Bang No. 427 pp., called “‘427a,” from Yungas, 1890, published 
as E. crinita, is the same 
Eriosema sp. nov.? 
Pilose throughout with long ferruginous hairs with thickened 
bases; stems from a stout, woody, vertical, connico-fusiform tuber- 
ous-thickened root, 7-15 cm. long, erect, subsimple, very leafy; 
stipules 8-10 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, finely attenuate from the 
leaflets uniform, the lateral about two-thirds to three-fourths the 
length of the terminal, linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblan- 
ate, 3-6 cm. long, 4-6 mm. broad, acute; venation finely 
reticulate, prominent bork $1 ides, especially lar the 
secondaries very irregular in number and appearance, the ‘lower 
nearly erect, the upper, or sometimes all, interarching near the 
margin. Expanded flowers not seen. Corolla in the bud reddish- 
purple; pedicel very short and stout; calyx-tube cupulate, about 
4 mm. broad and 2 or3 mm. high, the lobes triangular, attenuate, 
the lowest very finely so and 4 or 5 mm. long; capsule cae I2-I 
mm. long, two-thirds as broad, sal mucronate, brow 
“Apolo, Mar. 8, 1902” (No. 9 
No. 117, “hills near Apolo, oe ft., Feb. 20, 1902,” seems to be 
a glabrate form of the same. 
