196 The Botanical Gazette. [July,. ' 



pound panicles, ovate sepals, half smaller white maculate 

 flowers, lanceolate corolla-seg-mentssmooth without and albo- 

 furfuraceous within, pubescent ovary. — Santa Rosa, alt. 5,000 

 ft., Sept. 1888, V. Tiirckheim, (Ex pl. cit. 1,442). 



Fiiubristemma ealycosa.— Leavesoblong-cordate (4-6 in.), 



abruptly acuminate: pedunclcs (6-10 I.) exceeded by petioles, 

 the much longer pedicels cymosely and radiately 6-8 fascicu- 

 late. flowers an inch in diameter: segments of calyx oval, 

 pallescent: segments of corolla somewhat longer, narrower, 

 glabrous, dark-yellow, dextforsely convolute: exterior crown 

 lobeless, densely long-f^mbriate; lobes of the interior ovate, 

 equalHng fringe, bidentate, naked: anthers appendiculate b'e- 

 low with a bicornute wing, caudicle nearly as long as pollen- 

 mass: follicle not seen. — Fimbristemvia, as limited bv Turc- 

 zaninow and not of Bentham and Hooker, is represented by 

 one otherspecies, F. gonoloboides Turcz., which differs cx char. 



by peduncles exceeding petioles and bif^d, half larger corolla 



twice cxceeding calyx, lobed exterior crown, lobes of the in- 

 tenor entire and with an inner cucullate appendage, anthers 

 ttpped with a membrane. CallcEolcpiiim WarscczvicrJi Karst. , 

 cited by Benth. & Hook. as a second species of Fimbristcmma, 

 is maintamed by its author to be generically distinct by form 

 of crown, and to belong by position of pollen-masses to the 

 group of CynanchccB rathcr than to Gonolobcce. (Botan. J.ahrb. 

 vin. 36o).--Chucaneb Mt., Dept. Alta Verpaz, alt. 6.000 ft., 

 Apr. 1889. J. D. S., (Ex PI. cit. 1,500). 



rnl^rtn?'''"^?'' ^'■'''''^ XVI.- Fig. ]. floweriag branch. Fig. 2, flower with 

 pf/^ l?r ^'"^^"^'"^, ^'g- ^- ^^*">°^ ""-°- Fig. 4, interior crown. 

 va?iou;]/enlarged.1- P""^'^""^^^^^^- ^^'^' ^ ^ ^^-^' ^-^ ^'- others are 



Nephradeiiia fruticos^ — Erect virgate shrub 6-8 ft. hi-h- 

 leaves Iinear-Ianceolate (6-8x1-1^ in.), tapering acutely to 

 apex and short (5-7 1.) petioled, eglandular, palc beneath, 

 conspicuousarching veinsabout- 15 to a side: cymes extra- 

 axillary, scarcely half as long as leaves, pedicels exceeded by 

 peduncle and 3-8-subfascicuIate in one or two bracteose clus-' 

 ters: corolla rugose, 15-nerved, pale-yellow, 9 lines broad. 

 semi-hd tube tvvice exceeding oval ciliate calyx-segments, 

 half-oyal lobes naked and cmarginate: processes of crown 

 equalhng gynostegium, half-free; the adnate half small, tri- 

 angular. inflated and concavely bilobate at base. margin en- 

 tire, prolonged into subulate free upper half; pollen-mas.ses 



