60 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
a. Sepals densely ciliate, b 
b. Wi Sg s densely ciliolat 
€. paren of ree puberulent to densely stri- 
d. Sesd fades atnienicae: capsule 8 mm. long, 10 mm. 
WI re RPL Pigs Bee ei ee 74. P. floribunda, 
d, Seed gray-pilose, not tomentose; capsule 7 mm 
long, 7 SWIG ee 15. P. sphaerospora. 
c. Branches of inflorescence subtomentose.......... 76. P. Securidaca. 
b. Wings glabrus or minutely glandular-ciliolate, e 
: Tee te i, ee 77. P. apopetala. 
Wigs 3-3 tases: Won ee RO eae: 78. P. hondurana. 
a. Sande pies slahdulemalliate: wings glabrous........... 79. P. tonsa. 
74. P. rLoripuNDA Benth. Frutescent, branched, erect, 1—-1.6 
m. high, the stems and branches sparsely or densely pubescent with 
more or less incurved or somewhat spreading hairs of unequal 
length, occasionally strigillose. Leaves ovate, acute or shortly 
acuminate, mucronate, cuneate or rounded at base, chartaceous at 
length coriaceous, finely reticulate (lateral nerves 9-10 pairs), green 
above, paler and finely whitish-maculate beneath, rather sparsely 
strigillose or at length glabrate on both surfaces, 3.5-9.2 em. long, 
1.2-3.8 em. wide, on petioles 3-7 mm. long. Racemes rather loosely 
many-flowered, up to 2.3 dm. long, axillary and terminal, rarely 
branched, the axis and pedicels (8-13 mm. long) varying from 
’ appressed-puberulous to shortly subspreading-pilosulous. Flowers 
violet-purple. Sepals subequal, obtuse, oval, very densely ciliolate, 
very sparsely pubescent dorsally, 3.8 mm. long. Wings suborbicu- 
lar, rounded at apex, abruptly shartidlcwed at base, rather strongly 
venose, ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, 8-11 mm. long, 8-10 mm. 
wide. Keel ciliate on claw, 9-10 mm. long. Upper petals obovate, 
ciliate above toward base, 8 mm. long. Lateral petals present, 
lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long. Capsule ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, 
distinctly stiped, transversely broad-oblong, strongly obcordate, 
reticulate, 8 mm. long, 10 mm. wide. Seed (with aril removed) 
seein not compressed, pilose-tomentose, 3-3.5 mm. in diameter. 
Aril m. long, thick, fleshy-coriaceous, somewhat excavated 
Giecalie parti pilose. — Benth.! Pl. Hartw. 58 (1840); A. W. 
Benn. Journ. Bot. xvii. 141 (1879); Chod. Monog. ii. 64. t. 15. f. 
39-40 (1893). P. americana ¢. floribunda (Benth.) Ktze. Rev. i. 48 
(1891). — Cutapas: pine forests, Pueblo Nuevo, Feb. 1840, Lin- 
den 172 (K); walls of temple at Zonaguia, Hartweg 447 (TYPE COLL.: 
BK); without definite locality, 1843-44, Jurgensen 541 (BGK), 
Ghiesbreght 22 (G), 737 (G). Mexico without locality; Jurgensen 
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