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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



mit, entire, liglit-g-ray-gTeen, softly hairy, especially beneath. 

 Racemes terminal, pediincled, very slender, very laxly flowered, 

 the flowers often two together. Bracts none or caducous, not 

 seen. Pedicels filiform, little spreading, mostly 3 mm. long. 

 Calyx about a third as long as the corolla, the upper and lower 

 sepals about equal in length, the two lower united to about the 

 middle, triangular-acuminate. Standard a little longer than the 

 keel, obovate, the claw almost none. Keel and wing very nar- 

 row, twisted at the summit. Stamens connate for about 4/5 of 

 their length. Style more than half as long as the ovary, inflexed 

 so as to point partially downward. Pod 5-jointed, the sinuses 

 intruded almost ecjually on both sides, the joints broadly oval 

 or suborbicular, 2 to 3 mm. long, the seed central, the margin 

 narrowly thickened. 



Reyes, 1,000 feet, H. H. Rushij, October 25, 1921 {no. 1318). 



Meibomia ovalis 



Puberulent. Branches slender, erect. Stipules 4 or 5 mm. 

 long, lance-ovate, mostly inaequilateral, obtuse or acutish. Peti- 

 oles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the leaflets 3, the lateral petiolules 1 mm. 

 long, the rachis and petiolule of the terminal 5 or 6 mm. long 

 Stipellae of the lateral leaflets a little longer than their peti- 

 olules, linear-attenuate, brownish, very thin, those of the termi- 

 nal leaflet similar and a little longer. Leaflets oblong, or ellip- 

 tical, the lateral to 4 cm. long and 1.5 cm. broad, the terminal 

 about a half larger in all dimensions ; all with rounded base and 

 minutely apiculate summit, the margin very thinly revolute and 

 minutely ciliate, thin; above deep-green and sparsely short- 

 pilose, beneath very pale and sparsely pubescent, the midrib and 

 secondaries lightly prominent beneath, the secondaries 6 to 8 

 on a side, strongly ascending and connecting near the margin, 

 the venation coarsely anastomosing. Racemes terminal, soli- 

 tary, long-peduncled, slender, very loosely flowered, the flowers 

 solitary, the bracts subulate, acuminate, acute, about one fifth the 

 length of the pedicel, which is 6 to 10 mm. long, very slender, 

 little spreading. Two lower sepals connate only at the base, 

 ovate, acuminate and acute, more than half as long as the corolla, 

 the upper a little longer. Vexillum 6 mm. long and nearly as 

 wide, the claw short and broad. Wings about 4 mm. long, the 

 keel a little longer. Stamen-tube nearly as long as the wings, 

 coherent almost to the minute anthers. Ovary pubescent, green, 

 a little longer than the wings, strongly incurved. Fruit not seen. 



Rurrenabaque, 1,000 feet. //. H. Rushij, October 15, 1921 {no. 

 1285). 



