species in this assemblage. Striking characters, other than its rubiginous 
indumentum, are its entire, not lobed leaves, short petioles, dense racemes, 
the few racemes not arranged in panicles, the pedicels persisting for a time 
after the flowers fall, but when the fruits are mature nearly all the pedicels 
have fallen, leaving very prominent projecting SCars on the somewhat thick- 
ened rachis. 
Bauhinia melanophylla sp. nov. $ Phanera. 
Frutex scandens, ut videtur altus, ramis glabris, teretibus, in sicco atris, 
junioribus parcissime pubescentibus glabrescentibus; foliis membranaceo- 
chartaceis, in sicco atris, utrinque nitidis, in ambitu suborbicularibus, 7-12 
cm. longis latisque, basi perspicue cordatis, 11-nerviis, lobis late rotundatis, 
apice breviter lobatis, lobis 2-2.5 cm. longis e basi latissimis sursum angus- 
tatis, acute acuminatis, supra glabris, subtus ad basim parce adpresse cilia- 
tis glabrescentibus; petiolo 487$ cm. longo, parcissime adpresse-hirsuto 
glabrescenti; inflorescentiis terminalibus racemis circiter 6 elongatis pe- 
dunculatis paniculam formantibus, pedunculis 7-9 cm. longis, glabris vel 
glabrescentibus, cirrhis ad 10 em. longis, partibus floriferis 10-20 cm. longis, 
subdense adpresse sordide cinereo-pubescentibus, pedicellis circiter 1 cm. 
longis, dense adpresse pubescentibus, vel superioribus (alabastris) breviori- 
bus, bracteis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 3-4 mm. longis, bracteolis vix 1 mm. 
longis: floribus sub anthesin 3-3.5 cm. diametro, alabastris obovoideis, late 
rotundatis, dense, breviter, sordide adpresse-pubescentibus; calycibus in- 
