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and shining upper leaf-surfaces ; branchlets and petioles strongly 
angular; stipules and stipellae not seen; petioles 3 or 4 cm. long, 
dilated at the base, the internodes about 2 or 2.5 cm. long; leaflets 
mostly 15, the petiolules 4 or 5 mm. long, dilated, blacks tomen- 
tose, the blades .5 to nearly 1 dm. long, 3.5-6 cm. broad, the upper 
larger, oval-ovate, the base slightly cordate and very oblique, the 
apex very short- -pointed ; entire, revolute, thick, coriaceous, the 
midrib and 6-8 pairs of primaries impressed above, very stout and 
prominent beneath; panicles terminal, mostly about 2 dm. long, 
open, the peduncle and branches very stout and strongly angled, 
the latter erect; flowers sub-sessile, about 5 mm. long and broad ; 
calyx, and especially the corolla, gray-tomentose, the filaments 
and ovary densely bright ferruginous-hirsute; fruit not seen, ap- 
parently glabrate 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1690). Dedicated 
to Prof. Dr. L. Radlkofer, who kindly determined the genus. 
Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Swz Obs. 166. Between Guanai and 
Tipuani, Apr.-June, 1892 (1386). 
Cassia trachypus Mart. Fl. Bras. 15: Part 2, 122. Between 
Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.-June, 1891 (1345) — Rusby's 986. 
Cassia hirsuta L. Sp. Pl. 378. Vic. Guanai, July, 1892 (1605). 
Cassia bicapsularis L. Sp. Pl. 376. Espirito Santo, 1891 (1188). 
Cassia versicolor Meyen in Vog. Syn. Cass. 29. Espirito Santo, 
1891 (1171). 
Cassia racemosa Mill. Dict. ed. 8, no. 19. Vic. Guanai, July, 1892 
(1610). 
Cassia bacillaris L. f. Supp. 231.  Mapiri, July-Aug., 1892 (1561) 
— Rusby's 2400. 
Cassia—sp. in flower only, not represented at Kew, but fruit is 
necessary for identification. Below Cochabamba, 1891 (1090). 
Bauhinia inermis (Cav.) Pers. Syn. 1: 455 ? Between Guanai 
and Tipuani, Apr.-June, 1892 (1342). The legume is rather 
shorter and broader than in the type. 
Tamarindus Indica L. Sp. Pl. 34. Between Tipuani and Guanai, 
Dec. 1892 (1736). 
Copaiba Langsdorffii (Desf.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 172 (Copaifera 
Langsdorffii Desf. Mem. Mus. Par. 7: 377. pi r4} Vic. Mapiri, 
July-Aug. 1892 (1508). The fruit appears rather too large 
and the leaflets too broad, inequilateral and falcate for the 
species, but the specimen is in fruit only. 
