STANDLEY—TROPICAL AMERICAN PHANEROGAMS. 139 
17 to 19, 1911, by William R. Maxon (no. 5397). Also collected between the Rio 
Ladrillo and Los Siguas Camp, southern slope of Cerro de la Horqueta, Chiriquf, 
Panama, altitude 1,200 to 1,700 meters, March 17 to 19, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 3159). 
Related to Faramea occidentalis (L.) A. Rich., which is represented by several 
Panama collections, but differing in its smaller leaves, umbellate rather than corym- 
bose inflorescence, and shorter corolla. 
Faramea scalaris Standley, sp. nov. * 
A glabrous shrub; young branches slender, green; stipules 5 to 7 mm. long, united 
and sheathing, the free border rounded, obtuse, or acutish, with a mucronate tip 1.5 
mm. long or less; petioles very stout, 2 to 5 mm. long; leaf blades narrowly elliptic- 
oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, 10 to 16 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, acuminate, often 
rather abruptly so, to a rounded tip, acute at the base, bright green, rather thin, the 
midvein very prominent, the lateral nerves 8 to 14 on each side, divergent nearly at 
right angles, anastomosing near the margin in a very conspicuous marginal vein; 
flowers in a compound umbellate inflorescence about 4 cm. long, the peduncle about 
15 mm. long; bracts minute, pedicels 3 to 4 mm. long, strongly tinged with blue; 
calyx and ovary together 2 mm. long, campanulate, glabrous, blue, the limb dentate, 
the teeth triangular, acutish, corolla purplish white, glabrous, 11 to 12 mm. long, the 
tube slender, slightly broadened in the throat, the lobes ovate-oblong, 4 mm. long, 
obtuse; fruit not known. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 677656, collected in the humid forest 
between Alto de las Palmas and top of Cerro de la Horqueta, Chiriqui, Panama, altitude 
2,100 to 2,268 meters, March 18, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 3265). 
The affinities of the present species are apparently with the Brazilian Faramea 
salicifolia Presl, but in that plant the stipules are long-aristate and the venation of the 
leaves is very different. 
Guettarda foliacea Standley, sp. nov. 
A small tree or large shrub, branching from the base, with spiny arcuate branches; 
older branches slender, terete, dark brown, the youngest ones obtusely quadrangular, 
densely strigose-hispidulous; stipules 5 mm. long, oblong-triangular, early deciduous; 
petioles slender, 10 to 22 mm. long, strigose-hispidulous; leaf blades elliptic or elliptic- 
oval, 10 to 16 cm. long, 3.5 to 5.5 cm. wide, rather abruptly acute, acute to obtuse at 
the base, thinly membranous, bright green, very sparsely hispid on the upper surface 
with rather short hairs, strigillose beneath, prominently veined, the veins slender, 
about 8 on each side; peduncles slender, 10 to 15 mm. long, strigose-hispidulous, 
bearing few densely cymose sessile or short-pedicellate flowers; bracts 4 to 5 mm. long, 
narrowly oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, green and foliaceous, persistent, glabrous 
on the inner surface, sparsely pubescent on the outer, long-ciliate; calyx broadly 
cylindric, 2 mm. long, densely pubescent with short appressed hairs, the margin 
truncate and entire or nearly so; corolla tube 15 to 17 mm. long, slender, densely 
sericeous, the lobes oblong or oblong-oval, obtuse, 4 mm. long; style about 2 cm. long, 
slender, bearing a few long slender appressed hairs, the stigma very small; fruit not 
seen, 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 679116, collected along the Trinidad 
River, Canal Zone, Panama, near sea level, July 19 to 21, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 
4031). 
Readily distinguished by the large, foliaceous, long-ciliate bracts. The leaves, too, 
are very large and thin, being similar in texture to those of G. ramuliflora. 
Hamelia pauciflora Standley, sp. nov. 
Shrub with slender branches, the older ones grayish, terete, the younger ones 
obtusely angled, sparsely short-villous; stipules very small; petioles rather stout, 2.5 
mm. long or less; leaves mostly in 3’s, the blades broadly ovate to ovate or oval-ovate, 
15 to 28 mm. long, 7 to 15 mm. wide, acute or acutish, acute or obtuse at the base, 
