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Neea psychotrioides. — Fruticose (6-8 ft.), dichotomous, 



smooth except rufo-fuscous pubescence of younger parts and 

 inflorescence, branchlets terete and grayish: leaves suboppo- 

 site, 4-verticillate at forks, unequal in the pairs, equilateral, 

 oblong (4-5x1^-1^) in., acuminate, base rounded, petioles 

 short (2-4 l); corymbiform cymes long pedunculate from 

 forks of branches, subequaling leav^es, axes 3-5-approximated 

 and in fruit divaricate, cymules 3-flowered; calyculate bracts 

 2-4, subulate (^1.), persistent: staminate perianth not seen; 

 the pistillate nearly sessile, oval (2 L), mouth contracted, ru- 

 dimentary stamens 8~io, ovary globose, style subexsert, stig- 

 ma dilated: anthocarp ellipsoid (3^x2 L), compressed, pu- 

 bescent, pluristriate, constricted below tomentulose limb. — 

 N. Wiesneri Heimerl, nearly related as described and figured 

 in detail (Botan. Jahrb. xi. 89, t. ii), differs by elliptic-Iance- 

 olate leaves dimorphous in the pair, terminal 2-3-choto- 

 mous open glabrous inflorescence, slender elongated pedicels, 

 ovate-tubulous perianth, fimbriate stigma, glabrous terete 



anthocarp not striate. N. 



ifolia Ruiz et Pav. , also 



related, is distinguished by elongated 5-staminate perianth, 

 etc. — 



Escuintla, alt. i,ioo ft., Mch. 1890, J. D. 5., (Ex 



Leaves glab- 



PLcit. 2,069). 



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Dalechampia SCANDENSL,, var. triseeta. 



rate, elobate and cordate-ovate, or chiefly trisect vvith peti- 

 olulate leaflets. — San Juan Mixtan, Dept. Escuintla, alt. 500 

 ft., Apr. 1890, 



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altitudine mediocris vel humilis; ramulis crassis asperatis; 

 squamis fulcrantibus 10-12 mm. long! subcoriaceis castaneis 

 lanceolatis longe acuminatis margine laciniato-fimbriatis, fim- 



briis ascendentibus vix intertextis; fasciculis dense approxi- 



matis 5-phylIis basi vaginatis, vaginis circa 12 mm. long. 

 e squamis lanceolatis pluribus constantibus, squamis infimis 

 subcoriaceis ad margines integris sursum paulatim increscen- 

 tibus, squamis 



mediis ad margines 



albidis longe fimbriatis, 



fimbriis horizontaliter divergentibus intertextis fasciculum ob- 

 volventibus, squamis summis hyalinis integris; foliis circa 

 13 cm. long. I mm. et ultra lat. rigidis triquetris ad angulos 

 Tulatis apice subulatis, canalibus resiniferis parvis paucis- 

 simis sub epidermide positis } vel nullis; stomatibus in utroque 

 latere per series 6-^ dispositis; amentis masculis pluribus ad 

 apices ramulorum capitatim-aggregatis, singuHs 25-30 mm. 



