March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2879 



especially toward the blade, green toward the distal end 

 even when dry, yellowish brown toward the subglabrous base, 

 otherwise strigosely ciliate; stipular bracts apparently inter- 

 axillary and more or less sheathing the stem or adnate to the 

 petiole, few ram in length, the linear adnate stipules slender- 

 ly 1-toothed, the free oblongish axillary ones slenderly and 

 pectinately toothed, yellowish brown, nearly glabrous; blade 

 orbicular, 1 cm wide, with a broad cordate sinus at the 

 base, crenate or only obscurely so, crisply strigose along the 

 veins, otherwise glabrous, flat, membranous, paler green be- 

 neath; veins in the average lamina 5, the middle one stra- 

 ight and extending to the apex, with 1 lateral pair from 

 the middle; the 2 basal lateral pairs arising from near the 

 base and divaricately or obliquely spreading, all the lateral 

 ones usually forked or branched toward the distal ends. 

 The short stalked flowers near the rootstock bearing the 

 crown of leaves, when in fruit slenderly stalked and hori- 

 zontally spreading; peduncles usually solitary, arising from 

 the axils of the basal leaves or branches, varying from 1 

 to 2 cm long, recurved at the distal end at least in the 

 fruiting state, the middle portion light green and with hya- 

 line margins, more or less compressed, sparsely ciliate, pro- 

 vided with a pair of bracts at about the middle; bracts 5 

 to 7 mm long, linear, 0.75 mm wide, apex pointed, with 

 a green midrib, sides hyaline and similarly ciliate along 

 the edges; calyx 3.5 to 4.25 mm long, at the base united 

 into a disk-like expansion and each segment extended into 

 a broadly rounded 1 mm long green and hyaline ciliate 

 margined basal membrane; the free portion of the 5 seg- 

 ments 3.25 mm long, 1 mm wide at the base, gradually 

 tapering from the base to the rather fine point, with 3 

 greenish parallel veins, otherwise hyaline and similarly cili- 

 ate along the margins, withering though subpersistent; cor- 

 olla not seen. Capsule short, trigonous, ellipsoid, 3 mm long, 

 also glabrous, pale green or whitish, loculicidally dehiscent 

 from the apex clear down to the base; carpels much con- 

 cavo-convex, terminated at the apex by a short incurved 

 point, subpersistent, the partitions of the 3 cells not com- 

 pletely extending to the center; ovules several in each cell, 

 brown, usually elliptic, somewhat compressed 0.75 mm long, 



