100 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1650). Also col- 
lected by Pearce in “woods near Salta" (sub Azgnonia in Herb. 
Kew). Near L. corymbifera. 
Bignonia brachypoda DC. Prod. 9g: 145. Mapiri, July-Aug., 
1891 (1500). 
BIGNONIA IMPRESSA Sp. n. 
Glabrous; branchlets stout, terete ; petioles 4-7 cm. long, stout, 
lightly angled; leaflets 3, the terminal petiolule about 2 cm., the 
lateral 1 cm. long, semi-cylindrical, hollowed with sharp edges. 
upon the upper side, the blades 1-1.5 dm. long, about 5 cm. 
broad, the terminal longer, lance-ovate, the base rounded, the 
apex bluntly acuminate; strongly revolute, coriaceous and rigid, 
but not thick, dark-green and shining above, pale underneath, 
veins strongly impressed above, very prominent beneath, the princi- 
pal primaries 5—7 pairs, i veins strongly and coarsely reticulate ; 
panicle terminal, sessile, the pedicels 1-3 cm. long; disk cup- 
shaped; calyx thick, 1. code long, nearly 1 cm. broad at the apex, 
which is not oblique, campanulate, cleft nearly to the middle, the 
lobes unequal, entire; corolla 8 cm. long, 5 or 6 cm. broad at the 
oblique mouth, the tube broadly infundibular, slightly curved and 
ventricose ; stamens reaching a little beyond the middle of the 
long, broad, flattened; fruit oblong, dm. long, 3 cm. broad, 
slightly compressed, lightly keeled ; HE (exclusive of wing) about. 
2 cm. broad in each direction 
Between Guanai and "Tipcahi B po. agis; 1892(1321). Appar- 
ently the same as Rusby's 1129, from which the descriptions of the 
fruit and seed are taken. 
BIGNONIA PEARCEI sp. n. 
(Sect. Avradidaea.) Ferruginous-hirsute or tomentose through- 
out; branchlets short and very stout, terete, light brown; petioles. 
2-3 cm. long; leaflets 3, the petiolules .5—1 cm. long, the terminal 
one-half longer than the lateral, stout, the blades 1—1.5 dm. long, 
—I dm. broad, ovate to rotund-ovate, the base very oblique and: 
subcordate, membranaceous but rigid, above very sparingly hairy, 
underneath abundantly so with the veins and 5 pairs of primaries- 
very prominent, frequently some of the lower primaries forked be- 
low the middle; panicles in the upper axils and terminal, short and’ 
broad, stoutly peduncled, many-flowered, the pedicels 3-5 mm.. 
long, rather eaters disk cup-shaped, 2 mm. long; calyx campan- 
rounded or obscurely pointed apex ; corolla 2.5 cm. long, the oblique- 
mouth 1.5 cm. broad, infundibular-campanulate, puberulent with- 
