210 The Bolanical Gazette. [June, 
 bracts (foliola stipuloidea of Miers) imbricating, the upper 
' decussate and rhomboid-lanceolate with scarious tips: calyx 
sparingly glandular, campanulate (3' high and broad), trun-- 
cate, subdenticulate near margin: corolla puberulous, veiny, 
roseate and purplish, 3 inches long, tube narrowed gradually 
and not contracted at calyx, lobes more than half as long: 
stamens included: ovary ovoid (11X2), closely glandular- 
tuberculate, lips of stigma semicircular, ovules regularly 
I-seriate within margin of dissepiment.—In the absence of 
capsules the generic characters have not been satisfactorily 
verified. —Climbing high with flowers that fade to white, 
banks of the Rio Ocosito, Depart. Quezaltenango, alt. 250", 
April, 1892, J. D. S., (ex Pl. cit. 2,688). 
Aphelandra Heydeana.—Fruticose: leaves membran- 
aceous, nearly smooth, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptical 
(5-8 x 2-3"), acuminate, more or lessabruptly contracted and 
cuneately prolonged (11—21") into short petiole:  rachis of 
solitary sessile spike short (1-131"), cano-pilose ; bracts twice 
exceeding internodes, concave, nearly scarious, veiny, pubes- 
cent, obovate-oblong (6x3^, prolonged into a half as long 
recurved convolute cusp, margins 1—2-spinulo-dentate: sepals 
subequalling bract, elongate-lanceolate, aristate, little ex- 
ceeding the similar bractlets: corolla glandular-pubescent, 
crimson, 21—23" long ; posterior lip erect, oblong (11 x 335), 
quite entire; anterior lip as long, broadly (6:) obovate- 
oblong, lobes connecting lips lingulate (4: capsules not 
seen. —Well marked by third part of leaf mostly simulating 
an alate petiole, squarrose spike, sepaloid bractlets, entire 
upper lip of corolla. —Chupadero, Depart. Santa Rosa, alt. 
5,000", Oct., 1892, Heyde & Lux, (ex PL cit; 4,032). i 
. ExrLANATION OF PrarE XXIIL Fig. 1, flowering branch. Fig. 2, corolla 
laid open. Figs. 3 and 4, bracts Figs. 5 and 6, pistil with bractlets and 
 sepals. (Figs. 1 and 2 are natural size; the others are slightly enlarged.) 
. . PHYTOLACCA ICOSANDRA L., var. oetogyna.— Leaves mem- 
branaceous, lanceolate-oblong, long-attenuate : bract equal- 
ing triquetrous pedicel (3-4) : sepals oblong (21 x 1), obtuse: 
stamens shorter, 14—18: styles 8: fruit depressed-globose, by 
abortion fewer-seeded. San Miguel Uspantán, alt. 7,000*, 
April, 1892, Heyde & Lux, ex rTL oot 493110. 
Tradescantia Guatemalensis C. B. Clarke (EUTRADESCAN- 
. TIA).- Umbellis sessilibus bibracteatis, corolla intense coerulea, 
antherarum loculis ovatis approximatis.—Stems procumbent, 
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