396 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
obtuse or acutish, green on the under surface, not at all glaucous, the margins 
more or less purplish; inflorescence an equilateral raceme or sometimes becom- 
ing a narrow panicle; peduncle elongated, 20 to 30 cm. long, leafy (in our 
herbarium specimens often naked); sepals distinct, semiterete, acute, glaucous, 
unequal, spreading with age; petals distinct nearly to the base, erect except the 
tips, these spreading, salmon-pink in color; stamens 10; scales white. 
Collected by William R, Maxon, at Chuacts, between Salama and Las Canoas, 
January 22, 1905 (no, 3406, tvpe), and at Zunil, Department of Quezaltenango, 
Guatemala, February 24, 1905 (no. 3605). Ample living material of the first 
number was sent to Washington and has been used in drawing up this descrip- 
tion. These plants grew in the pockets of nearly solid rocky slopes, falling 
down over the surface, as shown in the accompanying illustration. Here they 
were fully exposed to the sun and were surrounded by starved shrubs and 
grasses and a species of Mamillaria. 
This species must be near FE. australis, but it has different foliage and 
flowers. 
Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 478890. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLVIITI.—Plant in its natural habitat. From a photograph 
taken by Mr. Maxon. 
Villadia guatemalensis Rose, sp. nov. 
Very much branched, spreading, generally procumbent, the flowering branches 
erect or ascending; leaves closely set, standing nearly at right angles to the 
stem, pale yellowish green, terete, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, pointed; flowers few, the 
first terminal, the others from the axils of the leaves, all sessile; sepals ovate, 
green, nearly distinct: corolla lemon-yellow, its tube short but definite, its 
lobes spreading; styles slender; carpels erect even in age, 
Collected by William R. Maxon near Chuacts, between Salama and Las 
Canoas, Guatemala, January 22, 1905 (no, 3411), and flowered in Washington, 
January, 1906. 
Type U. 8S. National Herbarium no. 473398. 
