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Leaves from lance-elliptic to lanceolate or linear, sparsely hirsute 

 above, conspicuously ciliate beneath, conspicuously venose beneath 

 with prominent lateral nerves, 2-4 cm. long, 7-16 mm. wide. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, 7-12-flowered, about 2-4 cm. long; rachis puberu- 

 lous or subhirsute; pedicels 2.5 mm. long. Flowers violaceous, 6 

 mm. long. Sepals lance-linear, hirsute, acute. Wings obovate- 

 oblong, very obtuse, slightly reticulate, sparsely long-haired on the 

 back. Upper petals shorter than the keel, with broadly linear limb, 

 at apex acute or subacute, neither dilated nor emarginate. Ovary 

 obovate, long-pilose; immature capsule elliptic-obovate, very hir- 

 sute. Chod. Bot. Jahrb. lii. Beibl. 115. 74 (1914), as P. trichop- 

 terum. Based by Chodat on Seler 2796 and 2904, from limestone 

 hills, Uaxac Canal, 1300-1400 m., Dept. Huehuetenango, Guate- 

 mala. Not seen; description compiled. 



63. P. costaricensis Chod. Several-stemmed from a suffruti- 

 culose base, 2-6 dm. high, the stems ascending or erect, more or 

 less densely incurved-puberulous with few or many longer spread- 

 ing hairs intermixed. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or 

 usually acuminate, at base cuneate or broadly rounded, mucronu- 

 late, thin but chartaceous, somewhat reticulate (lateral nerves 4-6 

 pairs), subsparsely incurved-puberulous both sides, usually with a 

 few longer but scarcely spreading hairs intermixed, 2.5-6.6 cm. 

 long, 8-23 mm. wide, on petioles 1-2 mm. long. Racemes some- 

 what loosely flowered, 3-12.5 cm. long. Flowers purplish. Sepals 

 lanceolate, acuminate, cilate and somewhat densely incurved-pu- 

 berulous, 2.5-3 mm. long. Wings oblong to oblong-oval, rounded 

 at apex, sparsely puberulous along costa and toward apex, 8-10 

 mm. long, 4.2-6 mm. wide. Keel glabrous, 8-9.5 mm. long. Upper 

 petals obovate-oblong, 7 mm. long. Capsule elliptic, emarginate, 

 ciliate and puberulous with short spreading hairs, 10.5 mm. long, 

 9 mm. wide. Seed (immature) sparsely short-pilose. Aril (sub- 

 mature) 2.7 mm. high, with small densely pilose umbo, the unclu- 

 late-lobulate scarious margin broad; dorsal margin abruptly 

 erectish, anterior obliquely descending. Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. xxx. 298 (1891); in Dur. & Pitt. Primit. Fl. Costar. i. 201 

 (1891); Monog. ii. 30. t. 14. f. 21-24 (1893). (?) P. guatema- 

 lensis Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. lx. 454 (1913), not of A. W. 

 Bennett. Guatemala: Skinner (K); mountains near Guate- 

 mala City, 15 Aug. 1860, Sutton Hayes (G); Cerro del Carmen, 



