444 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 678351, collected near Marraganti, 
Panama, April 3, 1908, by R. 8S. Williams (no. 999). Duplicate type in the 
herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 
This is closely related to the preceding species, but seems amply distinct in 
the short auricles, short, broad calyx, broader and shorter bracts, and few- 
flowered cymes. The collector states that the leaves are sometimes a meter 
long and that the flowers are red. 
10. Watsonamra tinajita (Seem.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 302. 1891. 
Pentagonia tinajita Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 184. pl. 28. 185-4. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near David, Province of Chiriqui, Panama. Type collected 
by Seemann (no, 1595). 
RANGE: Province of Chiriqui, Panama. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED! 
. Panama: Vicinity of David, Chiriquf, alt. 30 to 80 meters, Pittier 8369. 
Vicinity of San Felix, eastern Chiriqui, alt. 0 to 120 meters, Pittier 
5214. 
A small tree, 2 to 4 meters high. According to Seemann, the native name is 
*tinajita ’ and the fruit is edible, but of an insipid flavor. The fruits are 1U to 
17 mm. in diameter and densely tuberculate. The seeds are about 38 mm. long, 
obtusely angled, and few. 
11. Watsonamra gymnopoda Standley, sp. nov. 
A shrub. 2 to 2.5 meters high; young stems fleshy, stout, obtusely quadrangular, 
glabrous or nearly so; stipules 38 to 6 cm. long, oblong-ovate or lance-oblong, 
acuminate or attenuate, silky-strigillose outside, glabrous within; petioles 7 to 
23 cm. long, slender, naked below, winged on the upper half, the wings 15 mm. 
wide or less, strigillose-puberulent or glabrate; leaf blades 54 to 68 cm. long, 66 
to 72 cm. wide, ovate-triangular in outline, glabrous above, strigillose-paberu- 
lent along the veins beneath, pinnatifid nearly to the midrib, with 4 to 6 divi- 
sions on each side, these divergent, oblong-linear, 6.5 cm. wide or less, narrowed 
toward the base, gradually tapering toward the acute apex, prominently veined, 
the terminal one short and only slightly broader than the others; cymes densely 
few-flowered, on stout peduncles 6 to 9 mm. long; bracts oblong, obtuse or acute, 
23 mm. long or less, sparingly strigillose-puberulent outside, ciliate; flowers not 
seen; fruit globose-ovoid, 14 mm. in diameter and 18 mm. high, sparsely tuber- 
culate and puberulent, not striate; seeds numerous, brown, obtusely angled, 
minutely favose, 3 to 4.5 mm. long. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 678985, collected in forests, Loma 
de Gloria, near Fat6, Province of Colon, Panama, altitude 10 to 100 meters, in 
July or August, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 3858). Additional material, consisting 
of young leaves, is mounted on sheet 678934. 
This is most closely related to Watsonamra tinajita, but the petioles are not 
winged to the base, as in that species, the leaf segments are narrower, the in- 
florescence is pedunculate and fewer flowered, and the fruit is larger, of a dif- 
ferent shape, and not densely tuberculate. 
GEOCARDIA, A NEW NAME TO REPLACE GEOPHILA. 
The name Geophila Don, applied in 1825 to a group of herbaceous 
plants of the family Rubiaceae, in antedated by Geophila Bergeret, 
given in 1803 to a member of the Liliaceae. No other name seems 
