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Cassiinae pt 1 NY-Botanical_gardens_Vol. 35_1 - Copy.pdf - Antbase

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116 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. <strong>35</strong><br />

middle-Amazonian (Martius s.n. at M and Spruce 1110, 1558 in hb. Benth.) were<br />

referred by Bentham (1870, p. 104) to a mixed and imperfecriy realized Cassia<br />

hoffmannseggU, a name which, by lectotypificarion in this paper, has become a<br />

synonym of Senna latifolia.<br />

9. Senna sandwithiana Irwin & Barneby, sp. nov., coroUae androecuque forma<br />

ut videtur S. bacillari proxime affinis, sed racemis simul e truncorum<br />

ramulorumque vetusriorum nodulis ac e foliorum maturorum axillis<br />

erumpentibus (nee corymboso-panicularis) diversa, fohis maximis nec­<br />

non cauliflorescenria S. ruizianam (procul allopatricam) referens sed<br />

ab hac corolla majori leguminisque elongari recri seminibus 2 (nee 4)-<br />

seriaris remorior.—GUYANA, upper Mazaruni basin: n.-e. side of Mt.<br />

Ayanganna, 914 m, 1.VIII.1960 (fl), S. S. & C. L. Tillett WiihR. Boyan<br />

^./957._Holotypus, <strong>NY</strong>; isotypi, K, US; w. bank of Kamarang River<br />

above Utschi mouth, 550 m, 23.X.1960 (fr), S. S. & C. L. Tillett<br />

^5775.—paratypi fruct., K, <strong>NY</strong>.<br />

Trees 5-9 m with trunk up to 8 cm diam and terete, smooth, obscurely striate<br />

young branches, appearing glabrous up to the minutely pilosulous inflorescence<br />

but the branchlets, ventral face of If-stalk and margin of lfts often obscurely<br />

puberulous with fine incurved hairs up to 0.1-0.2 mm, the ample, thinly charta­<br />

ceous reticulate lfts olivaceous subconcolorous, sublustrous above and duU beneath,<br />

the corymbose-paniculate inflorescences both cauliflorous from knobs on<br />

the trunk or old branches and axUlary to annotinous (older) lvs, but then much<br />

shorter than them.<br />

Stipules not seen, caducous from small pustuliform scars.<br />

Lvs (2-)2.5^ dm; petiole including longitudinally wrinkled pulvinus 2.5-7 cm,<br />

at middle 1.8-3.4 mm diam, the ventral sulcus shallow, defined by low thickened<br />

ridges; rachis 3.7-7.5 cm, almost always longer than petiole; gland 1 sessUe between<br />

proximal pair, plumply linguiform or ovoid-pyramidal obtuse, 1.5^ mm<br />

tall; pulvinules wrinkled 5.5-9 mm; distal pair of lfts very obliquely ovate- or<br />

obovate-elli<strong>pt</strong>ic, shortly acuminate, (12.5-)15-32 x (6-)7-16 cm, ±2-2.4 times as<br />

long as wide, at very base cuneately decurrent into the pulvinule but above this<br />

rounded to subcordate on proximal side, the forwardly incurved midrib with<br />

±8-14 pairs of major cam<strong>pt</strong>odrome (and often some intercalary) secondary veins<br />

finely prominulous on ventral and sharply carinate on dorsal face, the fine tertiary<br />

and rericular venularion about equally prominulous on both faces, the ultimate<br />

defined areoles of the mesh

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