78 (144) 



Perperam citatur Leguminosa brasiliensis fructu ovato, costa folii appendicibus 

 aucta Eajus Hist. II (1688) p. 1347 ad Pisuni cord. non vesic. in Sloane 

 Hist. Jam. I (1707) p. 239; cfr. P. jamaic. et barbad. 



— — Clematis pentaphylla etc. Plum. Amer. (1693) p. 76, t. 91 ad Pisum 



cordat. non vesic. in Sloane Catal. PI. Jam. (1G96) p. 111; cfr. P. ja- 

 maic. et barbad. 



— — Paullinia pinnata Linn. Spec. Ed. I et II sine uUa exciusione ad Pauli. 



pinnat. einend, ab auctoribus plurimis. 



Scandeus, fruticosa, subglabra; rami e trigono inaequaliter 5— 6-costati; corpus lignosum 

 compositum e centrali majore et periphericis 1 — 3 minoribus (raro usque ad medios circiter 

 ramos simplex, cf. obs. n. 9); folia 5-foliolato-pinnata (rarissime superiora depauperata, ternata, 

 cf. obs. n. 10); foliola ex ovato oblonga vel lanceolata, apice basique obtusa vel acuta, bre- 

 viter petiolulata, remote serrato-dentata, subcoriacea, e viridi fuscescentia, nitida, giandulis 

 microscopicis subsessilibus malleoliformibus subtusque interdum (nee non supra in nervis et 

 circa articulationes) pilis laxius densiusve adspersa et in axillis nervorum barbata, punctis 

 lineolisque pellucidis sparsis (rarius vix ullis) subtusque reti subpellucido interrupto laxiore 

 instructa, epidermide non mucigera, vix crystallophora; petiolus rhachisque pleruraque late, 

 rarius anguste alata, rarissime petiolus in uno vel in utroque latere nudus (cf. obs. n. 3); 

 stipulae parvae, lineari-subulatae, rarius majores, lauceolatae; thyrsi solitarii, laxius densiusve 

 cincinniferi, racemiformes vel rarius fere spiciformes; cincinni vix elongati, subsessiles; flores 

 minores vel mediocres, longius breviusve pedicellati, sepalis non vel vix costatis; fructus sec- 

 tionis cuneato-clavatus vel pyriformis, interdum apice trigibbosus (cf. Schumach. tab. IX, 

 fig. 1, 1), vel sterilis corniformis (cf. Schum. tab. X, üg. 2, b), subtrigonus, glaber; seraen 

 compresse et longius ellipsoideum, arillo dorso et ventre profunde fisso fere usque ad apicem 

 obtectum. 



In America tropica, capricornum in Paraguay transgrediens (frequens in Bra- 

 silia, in Guiana et in Antillarum insulis S. Domingo, Porto-Rico, S. Thomas, rarior 

 nt yidetur in Cuba, Crabbeneiland, Dominica, Martinica, S. Lucia et Trinidad, in 

 Paragay et Argentina, in Boiivia (?), Peruvia, Ecuador, Panama, Nicaragua 

 Honduras, Guatemala et Mexico), nee non ad oras et insulas Africae tropicae occi- 

 dentalis (Guinea etc.) et orientalis (Zanzibar, Mayotte, Madagascar et Mobilia) 

 et in Africa centrali: In Brasilia: Marcgrav et Piso; Pohl n. 25 ! (Hb. Vindob.); 

 Martius! (,in sylvis ad Parä, prov. Parä, m. Maj.", fruct.; Hb. Monac); Burchell n. 6717! 

 (Goyaz; Hb. Kew), 9916! (prope Para); Patricio da Silva Manso n. 35! (provinc. Mato Grosso 

 „prope Cujaba, m. Oct. 1832", flor.; Hb. Martius) = Mart. Herb. Fl. bras. n. 1244! („Serj. 

 spec; Cujaba" Cat. autogr.); Gaudichaud n. 145! (prov. Mato-Grosso, a. 1833; Hb. Par.); 

 Spruce (prov. Para, ad flum. Aripecurü, a. 1849, ex Benth. 1. c); Wallis! (a. 1861 — 64; 

 Hb. Berol.); Glaziou n. 9698! = Schwacke Hb. n. 38! (leg. Schwacke; Parä ad Laran- 

 geiras, Ilha de Marajö, a. 1877), id. 9703! = Schwacke Hb. n. 42! (leg. Schwacke; 

 Piauhy a. 1878), id. 10413! 10415! (Hb. Eichler, Hb. Warming); H. Schenck n. 4057! 4128! 

 (Berberibe prope Pernambuco, m. Jun. 1887, fruct.; coli. lign. n. 639, 64G); Rusby n. 519, 

 520 (, Falls of the Madeira, Brazil", ex Britton 1. c); 0. Kuntze! (Mato Grosso, m. Jul. 1892, 

 fruct.; specimen anomaium foliis superioribus ternatis et corpore lignoso simplici, cf. obs. n. 9, 

 n. 10); Spencer Le M. Moore n. 1063 (Mato Grosso, ad Puerto Pacheco, m. Febr. 1892, 

 fruct.; „P. angusta N. E. Browne"); Lindman n. A, 3513! (Mato Grosso, Cujaba, in fruticetis 

 densis ruderalibus „Charravasco" dictis, m. Febr. 1894; fruct. inanes, cuneiformes, apice tri- 

 gibbosi; Hb. Holm.); — in Guiana gallica: Aublet! (Cayenne, a. 1762 — 64; Hb. Banks); 

 Richard! („in sylvis et lucis arbores et dumos scandens", a. 1781 — 85, m. Jul., flor.; m. 



