84 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 



Aug. 1870. Bernoulli 1019 (K); Sierra del Mico, Aug. 1870, Ber- 

 noulli & Cario 3233 (K); Cohan, 1310 m., May 1886, Tuerckheim 

 13(i (cotypb (DLL. of P. Vogtii: BGK); Coban, 1300 m., Jan. 

 1903, Tuerckheim 8378 (GK); San Miguel Uspantan, Dept. 

 Quiche, L830 m., Apr. 1892, Jlri/dc & Lux 3004 (GK); Zamorora, 

 Dept. Santa Rosa, 1800 m., Apr. 1893, Heyde & Z/wz4438 (BGK). 

 T. 2. Fig. 64. 



10 1. P. AsrERULOiDES HBK. Stems 1-2 from a slender prob- 

 ably annual root, slender, narrowly 5-angulate-winged, erectish or 

 loosely spreading, branched or subsimple, 8-30 cm. long. Leaves 

 all whorled in 5's (the uppermost sometimes in 3's or 2's), glandu- 

 lar-punctate, with narrow crenulate-denticulate margin, the lower 

 orbicular-obovate, 7-9 mm. long, 4.5-5 mm. wide, the middle and 

 upper lanceolate or lance-elliptic, acute or subacuminate at each 

 end, 9-19 mm. long, 2.7-7 mm. wide, all cuspidate, on petioles ca. 



1 mm. long. Racemes l-(at length) 5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, on 

 peduncles 1-3.2 cm. long; pedicels 0.4 mm. long. Flowers faintly 

 pinkish, 2 mm. long. Upper sepal orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 1 mm. 

 long, the lower oblong, obtuse, 0.6 mm. long, not ciliate, each with 



2 large glands on back. Wings broadly elliptic, rounded at apex, 

 short-clawed, 1.6 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Keel 2 mm. long; crest 

 of 3 pairs of lobes, the posterior cuneate, entire, adnate to keel, the 

 2 anterior linear or obovate, entire. Upper petals obliquely rhom- 

 bic-ovate, 1.8 mm. long. Capsule suborbicular, 1.3-1.6 mm. long, 

 1.2-1.5 mm. wide. Seed shortly appressed-pilose, 1.5 mm. long. 

 Aril 1.1 mm. deep, the 2 lobes oblong, appressed. HBK! Nov. 

 Gen. v. 403 (1821) ; Wats. Proc. Acad. xxi. 459 (1886). P. galioides 

 Poir. var. major A. W. Benn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xhi. pt. 3. 29 

 (1874), as to syn. only. P. galioides Poir. var. asperuloides (HBK.) 

 Britton in Morong & Britton, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vh. 52 (1892), 

 as to syn. Guatemala: Carmino Real, near Izabal, 7 Apr. 1885, 

 >S. Watson 19 (G). British Honduras: wet pine ridge near 

 Manatee Lagoon, 6 Dec. 1905, M. E. Peck 234 (G). Without local- 

 ity: Humboldt & Bonpland (fragm. of type: G). T. 2. Fig. 63. 



105. P. subalata Wats. Stems several from a biennial or 

 perennial slender root, erect or rarely spreading, simple or branched, 

 leafy, glabrous, 6-17 cm. high. Leaves whorled about to middle of 

 stem, punctate, glabrous, cuspidate, the lower (about 4 whorls) in 

 5's obovate, rounded at apex, cuneate at base, narrowly denticu- 



