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Gouania pallida Rose, sp. nov. Figures 2, 3. 



High climber; branches glabrous and glaucous; leaves oblong, obtuse, slightly 

 cordate, glabrous, paler beneath, margins with remote teeth, slender-petioled ; stip- 

 ules very large, reniform, obtuse; racemes 2.25 to 2.50 dm. long; flowers white, 

 sweet-scented. 



In river bottoms climbing over large bushes; collected by l>r. Edward Palmer, 

 Acapnleo, December, 1895 (No. 228). 



This plant differs from <!. siipnlaris, the only other species possessing large stip- 

 ules, in the shape of the leaves, which are less heart-shaped at base and have the 

 margin more toothed, and in its much longer racemes, as well as in the stipules them- 

 selves. 



Fig. 2. — Leaf and atipulea of Gou- 

 ania pallida, scale §. (From a 

 specimen in U. S. National Her- 

 barium.) 



Via. 'A.— Leaf and .stipules of <iunania 

 itipularis, scale 5. (From a tracing, 

 somewhat moditied, of the original 

 specimen.) 



Gyrrmogramme sttbeordata Eaton & Davenport, sp. nov. Platk XVI. 



Fronds clustered on a short stout rhi/oma, the latter clothed with dark brown 

 slightly librillose scales, the stipes and rachises chatty with more or less deciduous 

 pubescence, surfaces naked, or minutely villous; stipes 15 to 22 cm. long, and, as 

 well as the rachises, straw-colored (in young plants dark); laminae 10 to 22 cm. long, 

 7.5 to 17.5 cm. broad, pinnately divided into from 3 to (1 pairs of lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, subcordate stalked pinnae 5 to 8.7 cm. long, and a terminal pinna with an une- 

 qually one-sided or subcordate base; pinnae entire, or in the largest forms, deeply 

 lobed with unequally rounded lobes, some of the basal lobes distinct, aud, especially 

 in the lowest pinnae, lance-ovate, acuminate, the lowermost 3.7 to 5 cm. long; or 

 sometimes the pinnae imperfectly developed, then nearly reniform with the apex cleft 



