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10 mm. long, the blades ovate to lanceolate, 8.5-11.5 cm. long, 3.5-5.5 cm. wide, 

 the base rotund, the apices acute or short-acuminate, the tip obtuse or acute and 

 mucronulate, nitid above, the venation prominulous on both surfaces; inflores- 

 cences terminal or axillary, densely appressed-puberulent, paniculate, up to 15 

 cm. long, the bracts and bracteoles minute, the pedicels 1-2 mm. long, the mature 

 buds 7-8 mm. long, subglobose; calyx 6.5-8 mm. long, split into 2-3 ascending, 

 unequal parts; petals white, 4-6, obovate or oblanceolate-cuneate, 7-9 mm. long, 



4- 4.5 mm. wide, glabrous; stamens numerous, glabrous, the filaments 3.5-9 mm. 

 long, filiform, united at the base, the anthers 2 mm. long; stigma simple; style 

 subulate, L5 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally; ovary oblong, 

 2.5-3 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, golden-sericeous, 1-3-ovulate, the stipe 0.5-3 mm. 

 long; fruit unknown. 



Specimens Examined: "In vicinibus Barra, Prov. Rio Negro," Spruce s. n. 

 (type coll.; NY); Amazonas, Brazil, Ducke 59; Manaos, Pensador, Amazonas, 

 Brazil, Ducke 142. 



The very small buds and flower parts of this species are quite distinctive; it 

 could be confused only with A. occidentalis from which it differs in its pubescent 

 stipe and glabrous, obtuse to acute-tipped, and usually fewer leaflets. 



Bauhinia benthamiana Taub. 



Frequent small arching tree to 5 m. high, flowers white, mesa 5 km. N.E. of 

 Santa Barbara Camp, State of .Monagas, November 1, 1948, Waguire, Kunbardt & Po- 

 liti, 27289. A rather frequently collected species of British Guiana, Venezuela, 

 and Northern Brazil. 



Bauhinia bicuspidata Benth. 



Shrub along sandy banks of river below falls, Danta Ralls, Rio Cuao, Novem- 

 ber 19, 1948, Maguire & Politi 27336-A. This collection fits Bentham's descrip- 

 tion very well but no authentic material has been examined. This is the first 

 record of the plant from Venezuela; it was formerly known from the states of Para 

 and Amazonas in Brazil. 



Brownea similis Cowan, sp. nov. 



Arbor ad 5 m. alta, ramulis sulcato-quadrangularibus, (cum petiolis petiolulis- 

 que) appresso-brunneo-pubescentibus, folia paripinnata, (5-) 10-jugata, petiolis 



5- 18 mm. longis, incrassatis, corrugatis, rachibus 8-40 cm. longis, teretibus, 

 nitido-fuscis, glabris, petiolulis 4-6 mm. longis, incrassatis, foliola opposita ad 

 alterna, glabra, parium infimorum 2 foliola ovata vel lanceolata, ad basim cordata, 

 leviter <naequalia, parium superiorum angusto-oblonga vel oblongo-oblanceolata, 

 ad apicem abrupte valde caudato-acuminata, ad basim latere superiore rotundo- 

 cordata, inferiore acuta et glandulifera, 4-17 cm. longa, 2-4.5 cm. lata, supra 

 griseo-viridia, infra glaucescentia; inflorescentiae terminales, sessiles, capitato- 

 racemosae, axis 4-4.5 cm. longus, cervino-pubescens, bracteis exterioribus plus 

 minusve orbicularibus, valde fusco-puberulis, 1.5-2 cm. longis, bracteis interiori- 

 bus, obovatis vel oblanceolatis, ca. 3 cm. longis, flores coccinei, pedicellis 4-10 

 mm. longis, cervino-velutinis; vaginae hypocrateriformes, 2.5 cm. longae, ad api- 

 cem 8-10 mm. latae, bilabiatae, extus valde cervino-velutinae, intus puberulae, 

 hypanthium 1.7 cm. longum, *obcuneatum, extus glabrum, intus pubescens, sepala 

 4, inaequalia, glabra, maiora lato-oblanceolata, 2.5 cm. longa, 1.5 cm. lata, minora 

 2.5-3 cm. longa, 0.7-0.9 cm. lata, petala 5, lamina 1.8-2.5 cm. longa, 1-1.7 cm. 

 lata, ovalis vel obovata, ad basim saepe biauriculata, unguiculo, filiformi, ca. 2 

 cm. longo; stamina 11, basibus exceptis libera, filamentis glabris, basibus interi- 

 oribus exceptis, ca. 4 cm. longis, antheris 3.5-4.5 mm. longis, 2-2.5 mm. latis; 

 pistillum stylo excepto fulvo-sericeum, 6-6.5 cm. longum, stipite ca. 1.5 cm. 



