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blunt at the base, obtuse but minutely apiculate at the apex, mone 
thick and rigid, the venation strongly impressed above, the midrib 
pilose; pod 1.5 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. broad, inequilaterally ellip- 
tical, minutely apiculate ; seed 15 mm. long, compressed, dark-brown 
with the thicker margin whit 
‘Scarce, on dry gravelly hills ; the flowers yellow.” Coripata, 
Yungas, March 18, 1894. (Vo. 2094.) 
?MacHAERIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM Vogel, Linnaea 11: 193. 1837. 
‘¢ A tree 25-30 ft. high, growing in wet forest-mould, the flowers 
blue.” Coripata, March 14, 1894. (Vo. 2790.) The same 
as Rusby 23766. 
Machaerium Bangii sp. nov. 
Stems and inflorescence ferruginous-tomentose ; leaves pilose 
upon the veins; branches coarsely angled; branchlets elongated, 
dark, lightly angled; spines about 6 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad at 
the base, lightly recurved, ferruginous ; petioles 1-2 cm. long, stout, 
dilated at the insertion ; Tend ves 1.5-2 dm. long, pinnate, the leaflets 
12-15 on each ae alternate; petiolules ‘about 1 mm. long, nearly 
as broad; leaflets 3-4.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. broad, lance- pica, 
rounded at the base, emarginate at the apex, thi in, dark-gr een above, 
yellowish-green underneath with the midrib asia aaa the venation 
obscure, the secondaries very numerous; panicle 3 dm. or more 
long and broad, loose and open; ae about 2 mm. long, stout; 
calyx thick, dark- purple, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, campanulate, 
the base rounded or truncate, the mouth oblique, the short lobes 
triangular, obtusish with acute wae orbicular, thick bractlets 
nearly half as long as the calyx; corolla dark-purple, thick, lightly 
pilose, abruptly flexed a little shove. the calyx; vexillum, exclusive 
of the short claw, 9 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, cordate at both ends ; 
ing 8 mm. long, exclusive of the claw, 4 mm. ae strongly 
auricled, the auricle semi-rhomboidal, 1 mm. broad; keel 6 mm 
ovary oblanceolate, acuminate at both ends, long-stipitate, pilose. 
‘¢ A shrub, not very tall, the stem very thorny, the flowers light- 
blue. In dry, sunny, gravelly places.” Coroico, August 30, 1894. 
(No. 7399 9.) ‘Sometimes the Indians use the leaves instead of 
coca.’ 
? DREPANOCARPUS LUNATUS (L. f.) G. Meyer, Primit. Fl. Esseq. 
