144 The Botanical Gazette. ^" [Mgy, 
Bassovia Donnell-Smithii n. sp.—Said to be 24 dm. high, 
more or less softly pubescent or even hirsute, the upper parts 
of the stem and inflorescence glandular: leaves ample and 
thin, petioled, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, from 
almost entire to sharply sinuate-toothed or lobed, 7.9 to 17.5 
cm. long, minutely pubescent above, more conspicuously pu- 
bescent below, the midrib and principal veins usually promi- 
nently bordered by dense whitish pubescence: flowers on long 
.pedicels in rather dense axillary umbellate clusters: the gland- 
ular calyx with small but evident teeth: corolla with ovate 
obtuse or acute glandular lobes 5 or 6 mm. long: anthers 
whitish-scarious along the lines of dehiscence: *'fruit red". -.— 
Gautemala, Depart. Guatemala, alt. 5000 ft., February 1850 
(7. D. S. 2270); Duefias, Depart. Zacatepequez, alt. 5000 
ft., April 1890 (3. D. S. 2258). iced 
. BASSOVIA MACROPHYLLA. — Pansamalá, Depart. Alta 
Verapaz, alt. 3800 ft., April 1889 (TürcEkeim 1438). This 
plant was at first considered to be a variety of the new B. 
Mexicana B. L. Robinson, of Pringle's distribution of 1890, 
and is so reported in Mr. Smith's *'Enumeration"', Part II! 
However, Mr. Robinson has since kindly looked into the 
matter, and the conclusion seems evident that it is the South 
American Witheringia macrophylla, a plant of puzzling syn- 
onymy. Bentham and Hooker refer it to Zassevia, and 
S Miers to Brachistus. The disposition made of it by Bentham 
and Hooker seems to be the most natural one. 
Crawfordsville, Ind. : 
