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middle portion, diced: crenate; pericarp cartilaginous, thick- 
ened; seed 2 mm. long, strongly reniform, moderately flattened, 
smooth. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1068). It is possible that when the 
fruit and seed characters of Za are better known, it will be 
found that this is generically distinct. 
PATAGONIUM GRANDIDENTATUM Sp. n. 
oary-pubescent ; root vertical, stout; stems numerous from a 
perennial crown, ascending, elongated, slender, sparingly branched, 
the branches similar ; stipules 2-3 mm. long, two-thirds as 
broad, inequilateral, ovate, acute or acuminate; leaves conspicu- 
ously but unequally petioled, bearing mostly about 10 leaflets on 
each side, these unequally distributed but approximately about 
the length of their se alae leaflets subsessile, 53-7 mm. long, 
3-5 mm. broad, obovate, or the larger inclining to truncate and 
triangular-obovate, about $-toothed, the teeth large and rounded 
ith acute sinuses, thick, the venation obscure and impressed 
euis racemes terminal, the lowest flowers in the axils of small 
leaves ; bee similar to the stipules; pedicels about as long as 
the fl s, 5 mm. or in fruit about a half longer; legume (exclu- 
sive of "pelde and beak) about 2 cm. long, 3.5 mm. broad, tipped 
with a subulate or filiform beak of variable length, of about t7 
joints, beset with small dark green glands; sinuses of the articula- 
tions extending less than half way across ; ‘seed ri ch brown, lentic- 
ular, one-half to two-thirds as broad as the legume. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1012). 
Stylosanthes Guyanensis subviscosa Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras, 15: 
Part 1,192. Between Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.—June, 1892 
(1459). Determined by Dr. P. Taubert. 
Metbomia cajanaefolia (DC.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 195. Guanai, 
Apr.-June, 1892 (1417) = Rusby’s 964. 
Lathyrus pubescens H.and A. Bot. Beech. zi. Near snow-line, 
Mt, Tunari, 1891 (1023) — Rusby’s 1011. 
Bradburia Plumiera (Turp.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 164. (Centro- 
sema Plumiera Turp. Ann. Mus. Vind. 2: 110.) Espirito Santo, 
1891 (1273). 
Erythrina rubinervia H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 6: 434.  Mapiri, July- 
Aug., 1892 (1515). 
Styzolobtum rostratum (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 208 (Mucuna 
rostrata Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 15: Part 1, 171.) Vic. Guanai, 
July, 1892 (1599.) 
