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vel usque ad 3 fasciculatim aggregatis patentibus vel deflexis sub- 
densifloris, tomentosis ; bracteis ovatis subacuminatis brunneis adpresse 
villosis ; pedicello fructifero filiformi 2-3 mm. longo tomentoso ; calyce 
fructifero ca. 3.5 cm. longo, tubo anguste ovoideo molliter subadpresse 
tomentoso ca. 6-7 mm. longo ca. 4 mm. diametro, alis 2.5 em. longis 5 
mm. latis spatulato-oblongis glabriusculis 3-nerviis reticulato-venosis 
pice rotundatis pallide viridibus subdiaphanis; sepalis interioribus 
subulatis glabris, parte libera ca. 4 mm. parte adnata ca. 1.5 mm. longa; 
achaenio attenuato-ovoideo obtusissime trigono, angulis tumidis leviter 
suleatis in parte superiore sulci pubescentibus ; stylis liberis, stigma- 
tibus linearibus recurvatis.—Gualan, Department of Zacapa, Guate- 
mala, alt. 128 m., January 11, 1905, C. C. Deam, no. 231 (type, in bb. 
ray). This species belongs to the § Heasepalae of Meisner, and 
§ Pseudoruprechtia of Bentham and Hooker, these authors dividing 
the genus on different characters. It is nearly related to 2. Cumingit 
Meisn., known to the author only from Meisner’s description (DC. Prod. 
xiv, 179). If the characters there given are correct, the plant here 
characterized is certainly distinct, as is shown by its larger leaves, 
longer calyx, the presence of pubescence on the lower surface of the 
leaves, decidedly rugose branches, spreading or deflexed racemes, ete. 
Aeschynomene Deamii Robinson & Bartlett, n. sp., fruticosa 
2 m. alta laxe ramosa aspectu glabra ; caulibus teretibus lignescenti- 
bus striatulis fusco-brunneis glabris ; foliis petiolatis oblongis 5-7 em. 
longis ; foliolis ca. 18-jugis lineari-oblongis glabris utrinque viridibus 
supra minutissime nigro-punctatis subtus pinnatim venosis basi obliquis 
apice rotundatis mucronatis 9-10 mm. longis 2 mm. latis ; rhachi supra 
sparse puberula subtus glabra; petiolo 1 em. longo; stipulis 1.5 mm. 
longis subulatis brunneis acutissimis; racemis axillaribus 2~7-floris; 
pedunculis 10-17 mm. longis filiformibus glabris ; bracteis ovatis her- 
baceis margine scariosis apice acutis supra basin affixis basi rotundatis 
liberis ; pedicellis anthesi ca. 4 mm. longis fructiferis ca. 6 mm. longis; 
calyce glabro 2-partito, labio dorsali ovato ca. 7 mm. longo ca. 5.5 mm. 
lato obtusiusculo, labio ventrali angustiore ca. 9 mm. longo acuto; VeX- 
illo obovato 12 mm. longo 10 mm. lato apice rotundato basi modice 
angustato ; alis semiobovatis basi a latere superiore obtuse auriculatis; 
carinae petalis ca. 11 mm. longis; staminibus quinis connatis ; lega- 
mine ca. 13-seminato ca. 1 dm. longo 6.5 mm. lato fragili utrique 
undulato, segmentis subquadratis margine crassiusculo faciebus glaber- 
rimis levibus riodice nervosis nec rugosis ; seminibus atrobrunnels 
lunatis levissimis subnitidis 5 mm. longis 3 mm. latis. —San Felip® 
Department of Izabal, Guatemala, 15 February, 1905, C. C. Deam, 00. 
26 (type, in hb. Gray). In its numerous leaflets of oblong-linear shape 
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