jo ' The Boianical Gazeite. [February. 



In the rhombic base of the leaves there is indication that 

 the lower leaves may be three-Iobed. 



Yertoesina Donnell-Smithii, n. sp. of Verbesinaria.— 



Pubescent, becoming glabrate, about 5" high: stem and 

 branches wingless: leaves ovate to lanceolate, scabrous puber- 

 ulent above, pubescent beneath, tapering to a more or less 

 winged petiole, acuminate, from sharply serrate or even 

 toothed to ahnost entire with a few mucronulations, lO to 

 20"^"Iong, 3 to 5'=" broad: heads about lo™"* high, rather numer- 

 ous in a^spreading cyme: involucral scales oval, obtuse, erect 

 and pubescent: chaff of the receptacle pubescent, as are the 

 very broad and somewhat toothed wings of the achenes above 

 and the stout awns.— San Miguel Uspantdn, Depart. Quiche,. 

 alt. 6-i2,ooo", April 1892, Heyde & Lux 3,385- 



Related to V. Virgintcal.., but distinct enough from the 

 forms of that variable species that I have seen, notably so m 

 the size of its heads. 



Otopappus curviflorus Hcmsley, var. glabratus, n. 



var. Leaves almost entirely glabrous and very long acumin- 

 ate, only vestiges of the scabrous character above, the lower 

 surface glabrous (instead of woolly pubescent). — Jumaytepe- 

 que, Depart. Santa Rosa, alt. 6,000", November 1892, Heyde 



ifl. 



ifl. 



menia salmeoides Sch. Bip. It is a serious question whether 



ifl^ 



Otopapp 



although the latter genus was extended by Hemsley to m- 



clude it. 



COREOPSIS Galeottii Hemsley was distributed in a previ- 

 ous collection- as C Mexicana Hemsley, no. 3,792- 



COREOPSIS TRIFOLIATA Bertol. — Buena Vista, Depart. Santa 

 Rosa, alt. 5,500'*, December 1892, Heyde & Lux 4.193- 

 Apparently reported heretofore only from Volcan de Agua by 

 Velasquez, and described by Bertolini in Fl. Guat. 



BlDENS AL AUSENSIS HBK. ? — Embaulada, Depart. Zacatepe- 

 quez, alt. 5,500% December 1889, Heyde & Lux 4, $03', San- 

 tiago, same depart., alt. 6,500% 1891, Rosalio Gomez. A 

 number of South American species of Bidens appear in the 

 Guatemalan collections, but there is such confusion of de- 

 scriptions and of speclmens in herbaria, that determinations 

 must be tentative. . This species has been reported also from 

 S. Mexico. 



