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slightly revolute, punctate, 5-12 mm. long, 1-3 nun. wide. Ra- 

 cemes depressed-subglobose, G-12 nun. (axis becoming 3.5 cm.) 

 long, 6-13 nun. thick, on peduncles 2-20 cm. Long, usually naked; 

 pedicels 2-2.5 mm. long. Flowers varying from (yellowish ?) white 

 through pink to deep magenta-purple, 4.5-5 mm. long. Upper 

 sepal elliptic-ovate, strongly cuspidate, 5-nerved, 2.3 mm. long; 

 lower ovate, acuminate, strongly cuspidate, 1.8 mm. long; each 

 sepal bearing 2-3 small glands dorsally toward base. Wings ellip- 

 tic, obtuse at the very strongly cuspidate apex, cuneate-rounded 

 not clawed at base, strongly 3-nerved, bearing a few small glands 

 on back, 4.5-5 mm. long, 1.6-2.3 mm. wide. Keel 4.7 mm. long; 

 crest of 3-4 pairs of lobes, the posterior lanceolate, the others linear 

 or linear-lanceolate. Upper petals equalling keel, united to it for 

 about 3 mm., the free portion obliquely lance-ovate, acutish. Cap- 

 sule ovate-oblong, bearing a double line of oval glands along the 

 septum, 3 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide. Seed conic, silky-pilose, co- 

 mose at base, 2.5 mm. long (including coma). Aril small, 2-lobed. 

 HBK. Nov. Gen. v. 396 (1821); Chod. Monog. ii. 182. t. 21. i 41 

 (1893). P. stellera DC. Prod. i. 327 (1824), fide Chod. 1. c. P. 

 longicaulis subvar. nana Chod. I.e. 183 (1893). Jalisco: Rio 

 Blanco, Sept. 1886, Palmer 553 (BGK) ; dry porphyritic hills near 

 Guadalajara, 5 Dec. 1888, Pringle 1830 (BGK); Sierra de San 

 Esteban near Guadalajara, 1525 m., 13 Oct. 1903, Pringle 11380 

 (GK). Vera Cruz: dry mountains, Zacuapan, Aug. 1906, Purpus 

 2073 (G); Mirador, Sept. 1838, Linden 176 (K); alt. 915 m., 

 Galeotti 7036 (K). Mexico without locality : Pavon (B). British 

 Honduras: low pine ridge near Manatee Lagoon, 25 Aug. 1905, 

 M. E. Peck 132 (G). Guatemala: Estanzuela, Dept. Santa Rosa, 

 760 m., Aug. 1892, Heyde & Lux 3942 (GK). Panama: Seemann 

 283 (B). Cuba: savannas, Vueltabago, 1860-64, Wright 1908 

 (BGK); poor soil near source of small stream, Cieneguita, Santa 

 Clara, 8 Aug. 1895, Combs 442 (GK). Isle of Pines: June- July 

 1901, A. A. Taylor 158 (G); near Nueva Gerona, 26 May 1904, 

 Curtiss 514 (BGK). Santo Domingo: 1852, Schomburgk 68 (K). 

 Porto Rico: pastures of Mt. Mesa, Mayaguez, 24 Oct. 1884, Sin- 

 tenis 41 (GK). Trinidad: savannas above St. Joseph, July 1848, 

 Crueger (G); O'Meara, 9 Apr. 1848, Crueger (K); savanna de 

 Omara, 7 July 1848, Purdie 29 (K); Arimo, 455 m., J. R. Murray 

 1338 (K). T. 2. Fig. 70, 70a. 



