Securidaca micheliana Chod.

Elsota micheliana (Chod.) Blake
Securidaca Micheliana Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 543. 1895.
Shrub or tree, apparently not scandent, strigillose; leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 5.5-9.5 cm. long, 1.8-3.5 cm. wide, short-acuminate, at base rounded-cuneate, pergamentaceous, above dark-green, sparsely strigillose or glabrate, prominulous-reticulate, beneath glaucescent, densely strigillose; petioles 4-6 mm. long; racemes simple, 1-1.8 cm. long; bracts ovate, deciduous, 1 mm. long; pedicels strigillose, 4-5 mm. long; flowers probably rosy or purplish; sepals oval to suborbicular-oval, obtuse, 2-2. S mm. long; wings broadly oval, 8 mm. long, 5-5.2 mm. wide, rounded, ciliate except on the cuneate claw, about 9-nerved; keel ciliate about to middle on saccate portion, 7-8 mm. long; staminal tube ciliate about to middle; ovary obliquely oval, winged below, glabrous; fruit unknown.
Type locality: Atirro, Cartago, Costa Rica, at an altitude of 610 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality. {