34 ALLAN HANCOCK ATLANTIC EXPEDITION REPORT 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality, "swamps of the Rio 

 Grande," Panama. 



Small tree with white flowers. Leaflets two, 10x7.5 cm to 8x4 cm, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, broadly rounded at base, coarsely white pubes- 

 cent below, sparsely so above ; calyx narrowly campanulate, 8 mm high, 

 the lobes obsolete, coarsely white pubescent; corolla minutely lepidote- 

 scabrous, ca. 4 cm long. Apparently a rare plant. 



ACANTHACEAE 

 Aphelandra Deppeana Schlecht. & Cham. 



Bahia Honda, March 28, Elmore H15; in warm moist clay soil of 

 level open forest, elevation 1 5 feet. 



Distribution: New World tropics; type locality, Hacienda de la 

 Laguna, Vera Cruz. 



The leaves are non-scabrous above, contrary to what is reported as 

 usual in the species. The young leaves are sparsely strigillose, the older 

 glabrous. 

 Blechum pyramidatum (Lam.) Urban 



Bahia Honda, March 28, Elmore Hll ; Nature Trail Camp No. 1 on 

 Madden Dam Highway, February 1, Elmore J 12; in clay soil in level 

 forest clearing, and on moist stream bank, flowers blue. 



Distribution : From mid-Sinaloa south it is widely distributed in the 

 American tropics. 



JUSTICIA PECTORALIS Jacq. 



Bahia Honda, March 28, Elmore HIO; in shaded clay soil in level 

 forest clearing. 



Distribution: A wasteland herb of tropical America and the West 

 Indies. 



Elmore reports the flowers as lavender. In appearance it closely re- 

 sembles some of the Carlowrightia. 

 Staurogyne REPENS (Nees) Kuntze 



Frijoles, Canal Zone, May 1, Elmore Y8; along railroad. 



Distribution: Nicaragua and Panama. 



This number is an annual polypodial herb, viscid pubescent with con- 

 gested fruiting spikes bearing obovate, shortly acuminate ciliate, reddish 

 purple bracts. It is doubtfully referred to this species. 



