Ruagea insignis (C. DC.) T. D. Pennington

Cabralea insignis C. DC. Bot. Gaz. 19: 1. 1894
Leaves equally pinnate, 6.5-7 dm. long; petioles and rachis terete or nearly so, pilose, the petiole 10-13 cm. long; leaflets about 38, opposite, subopposite, or alternate, narrowly oblong, 11-17 cm. long, 2.5-3 cm. broad, acute to abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, with a somewhat blunt tip, more or less inequilaterally rounded or acutish at the base, glabrous above, pilose on the prominent midrib beneath, reticulate-veined, with slender veins, membranaceous, the upper leaflets subsessile, the lower ones short-petioluled ; flowers unknown; capsule "indehiscent, about 4.5 cm. in diameter," glabrous, brown, the cells one-seeded; seeds ellipsoid, 1.8-2.2 cm. long, 1.2-1.5 cm. broad; cotyledons fleshy, elliptic. The species is unsatisfactorily known to me.
Type locality: Acatepeque, Zacatepequez, Guatemala. Distribution: Guatemala.

Guarea caoba C. DC. Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 421. 1905
A tree with glabrous branches, the young twigs puberulent; leaves 3-4 dm. long; petioles and rachis grooved above, minutely puberulent when young, glabrous in age; leaflets 10 or 12, opposite or alternate, oblong to oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, 10-15 cm. long, 3.5-6 cm. broad, equilateral or nearly so and more or less rounded at the base, short-acuminate at the apex, glabrous above, the midvein impressed, minutely puberulent to glabrous beneath, short-petioluled, minutely pellucid-dotted, thin, the midvein and lateral veins prominent; inflorescence raceme-like, 9-12 cm. long; flowers pedicelled, the pedicels minutely puberulent; sepals suborbicular, imbricate, minutely puberulent, ciliate, not long persisting in fruit; petals oblong, 6-7 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, glabrous or with few minute, mostly appressed, scattered hairs; staminal tube cup-shaped, glabrous or nearly so, the margin crenulate; anthers oblong; ovary glabrous ; style glabrous; stigma orbicular; capsule globose, 3 cm. broad, glabrous; seeds ellipsoid or somewhat ovoid.
Type locality: Forests of Trejos, Las Vueltas, Tucurrique, Costa Rica. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.