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solete and frequently as much as 7 cm. long, slender; leaf blades narrowly 
lanceolate to lance-linear, mostly 17-26 em. long and 1.5-6 em. wide, acute 
to long-attenuate at apex, rounded or subcordate at base, lustrous above and 
with prominulous venation, paler beneath, the venation very prominent, 
rather thin; flowers subumbellate, on peduncles 2.5—5 cm. long, the pedicels 
slender, 6-20 mm. long; sepals imbricate in bud, rounded-ovate, obtuse, 
2-3 mm. long; petals white, 12 mm. long or more; immature fruit long- 
stipitate, cylindric, somewhat torulose. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 1,137,442, collected in a 
quebrada near San Vicente, Salvador, altitude about 500 meters, March, 
1922, by Paul C. Standley (no. 21681). The following additional specimens 
have been examined. 
SALVADOR: Sonsonate, alt. 220 meters, Standley 22330. Sierra de Apaneca, 
near Finca Colima, Departamento de Ahuachapdn, Standley 20121. 
Nicaraaua: Without definite locality, Wright. 
Capparis stenophylla may be no more than a narrow-leaved form of C. 
baducca L., a common species of Central America, but the leaves are of so 
distinctive a form that it seems probable that the Salvadorean shrub merits 
specific rank. 
Sedum salvadorense Standl., sp. nov. 
Plants perennial, the stems suffrutescent, about 14 cm. high and 6 mm. 
thick, granular-papillose above; leaves rather few, alternate, narrowly 
spatulate-oblanceolate, 2-9 em. long, 0.5-2 em. wide, obtuse or rounded at 
apex, narrowed below into a broad petiole, flat, thin and flaccid, green, the 
young ones granular-papillose; inflorescence a dense few-flowered cyme 
about 2 em. broad, the bracts small, linear or oblanceolate, papillose, the 
pedicels slender, 2-8 mm. long; sepals linear-oblong, 44.5 mm. long, nar- 
rowed to a blunt apex; petals white, oblong-ovate, equaling the sepals, 
cuspidate-acute. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,136,003, collected on a rock 
in forest, Finca Colima, Sierra de Apaneca, Departamento de Ahuachapan, 
Salvador, January, 1922, by Paul C. Standley (no. 20143). 
Only a single colony of the plants was found, and the plants were some- 
what withered as the result of the long dry season. In spite of their unsatis- 
factory condition, the specimens seem to represent a species clearly distinct 
from any heretofore reported from Central America or from Mexico. 
Prunus axitliana Standl., sp. nov. 
Shrub or tree, 3—-7.5 m. high, glabrous throughout, the crown broad and 
rounded, the young branchlets bright red; petioles slender, 7-11 mm. long, 
bright red; leaf blades ovate or elliptic-ovate, 5.5-11 em. long, 2.5-5 em. wide, 
obtusely acute or acuminate, rounded to subacute at base, very lustrous on 
the upper surface, the costa depressed, paler and dull beneath, the slender 
costa salient, two small round glands present on the lower surface of the blade 
about 3 mm. above the base; fruiting racemes solitary on young branchlets 
of the year, stout, about 4 em. long, few-fruited, the pedicels stout, 6 mm. 
long; calyx deciduous; fruit subglobose, 10-12 mm. in diameter. 
