DEC. 4, 1923 §STANDLEY: NEW PLANTS FROM SALVADOR II 437 
Type in the herbarium of the University of Illinois, collected at San 
Salvador, Salvador, by Paul C. Standley (no. 19129). 
Cuscatlania Standl., gen. nov. 
Slender perennial herbs with branched stems; leaves opposite, those of a 
pair very unequal, the blades entire; flowers in terminal few-flowered leafy- 
bracted inflorescences, cymose-paniculate, solitary or in pedunculate clusters 
of 2 or 3, surrounded by an involucre of 4-8 distinct foliaceous bracts; perianth 
funnelform, corolla-like, purple-red, the tube elongate, scarcely constricted 
above the ovary, the limb shallowly 5-lobate; stamens 3, the filaments fili- 
form, slightly exserted, inserted upon the perianth tube at its middle, the 
anthers didymous; ovary oblong, the style filiform, exserted, the stigma 
capitate; anthocarp oblong-obovoid, constricted at base and apex, almost 
equally 10-costate. 
Type species, Cuscatlania vulcanicola Standl. 
In general appearance the present plant closely resembles some of the 
species of Allionia and Mirabilis, to which it is no doubt related. In those 
genera, however, the flowers are surrounded by a calyx-like involucre of 
united bracts. The insertion of the stamens upon the perianth tube is 
unique in the family Allioniaceae, so far as I am aware. 
Cuscatlania vulcanicola Standl., sp. nov. 
An ascending or decumbent herb, the slender branches glabrous below, 
puberulent or villosulous above; petioles slender, mostly 1-1.5 cm. long, 
glabrous or sparsely puberulent; leaves of a pair very unequal, the smaller 
less than half the size of the larger ones; larger leaf blades ovate to oblong- 
ovate or lance-oblong, 5-12 cm. long, 3-4.5 em. wide, acuminate or long- 
acuminate, very unequal at base, on one side rounded, on the other acute or 
acuminate, slightly fleshy, glabrous or nearly so, with numerous and con- 
spicuous raphids on both surfaces; cymes dense, the bracts numerous, leaf- 
like, 1-2 em. long, densely viscid-villosulous, short-petiolate, the branches of 
the inflorescence also densely viscid-villous; flowers sometimes solitary and 
often in clusters of 2 or 3, the subtending bracts free to the base, 4 to 8, 
foliaceous, lanceolate or oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 10-15 mm. long, 
acute or acuminate, narrowed at base into a short petiolule, long-ciliate and 
viscid-villous; perianth about 3 mm. long, the tube very slender, densely 
viscid-villous with very short hairs, the throat 3-4 mm. in diameter; fruit 
about 8 mm. long and 3 mm. in diameter, very sparsely and minutely 
hirtellous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,137,438, collected in a 
quebrada near the base of the Vole4n de San Vicente, Departamento de San 
Vicente, Salvador, altitude about 500 meters, March, 1922, by Paul C. 
Standley (no. 21678). 
The generic name is derived from Cuscatldn, the ancient name of the 
region which now forms the Republic of El Salvador. 
Capparis stenophylla Standl., sp. nov. 
‘Shrub, 1-1.5 m. high, glabrous throughout; leaves mostly clustered near 
the ends of the branches; petioles very variable in length, often nearly ob- 
