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comparison, informs me that there are now no leaves on the speci- 
mens in the Paris Herbarium. 
2. Podopterus guatemalensis Blake, sp. nov. 
Shrub or tree; branches somewhat zigzag, with short inter- 
nodes and spinescent branchlets, gray-barked and densely spread- 
ing-puberulous, becoming purplish-fuscous and glabrate; leaves 
in clusters of two to four; petioles densely sordid-pilosulous with 
loosely spreading hairs, 4-15 mm. long; blades broadly obovate 
or oval-obovate, 2.2-4.3 cm. long, 1.8-3.2 cm. wide, broadly 
rounded or obtuse, sometimes slightly emarginate, narrowed to a 
rounded or cordate base, coriaceous, above dull green or in age 
somewhat shining, along costa densely pilosulous, on surface 
essentially glabrous or sparsely spreading-pilosulous and glabrate, 
beneath dull green, along costa densely spreading-pilosulous, on 
surface densely, permanently, and sordidly spreading-pilosulous 
with loose hairs or sparsely so and subglabrate, finely prominulous- 
reticulate on both sides, the chief lateral veins about six pairs; 
fascicles many-flowered, on usually leafless branches; pedicels 
glabrous, 12-17 mm. long, winged for half their length or more, 
about 4.5 mm. broad at base of calyx; calyx in fruit 8 mm. long, 
glabrous, the three outer segments with a wing 2 mm. wide, the 
two inner ovate, obtuse, cucullate, 5 mm. long; stamens eight, the 
filaments glabrous, subulate; achene trigonous-ellipsoid, obtusish 
at each end, 5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, flat or rounded on one 
side, sulcate on the others, pale brownish; styles three, spread- 
ing, I mm. long. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1038152, collected 
at Barranquillo, Department El Progreso, Guatemala, altitude 
550 meters, March 15, 1920, by Wilson Popenoe (No. 973). 
The following specimens have likewise been examined — 
GuaTEMALA: El Rancho, Department Jalapa, March 10, 
1905, Kellerman 4004. 
The vernacular name of this species is given by Mr. Popenoe 
as ‘‘cruzito.” 
>3. PoDOPTERUS CORDIFOLIUS Rose & Standl. Proc. Biol. Soc. 
oo Washington 33:66. 1920 
Originally described from a collection made by M. E. Jones 
(No. 103) at Manzanillo, Colima, on June 25, 1892. A specimen 
collected by C. R. Orcutt (No. 3306) at Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, on 
April 19, 1910, is also in the U. 5. National Herbarium. 
