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nent, the lateral veins slender, 5-10 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 45°-60°; 
inflorescence terminal, slender-pedunculate, the flowers short-pedicellate, in loose few-flowered 
pedunculate cymes, these arranged in a narrow thyrsiform panicle about 10 cm. long; bracts 
small, linear; hypanthium finely strigillose, pyriform-globose; calyx-lobes 4, very unequal, 3 of 
them small, lance-linear, attenuate, the fourth elliptic-oblong, 2.5—-3 mm. long, foliaceous, 
green, obtuse or acutish; corolla thinly strigillose outside, the tube rather stout, 5—6 mm. long, 
the 4 lobes rounded, 1.5 mm. long, spreading, the throat naked; anthers and style included. 
Type collected at Pansamala, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, altitude 1140 meters, April, 1886, 
H. von Tuerckheim 897 (U.S. Nat. Herb. no. 49965). 
29. Rondeletia capitellata Hemsl. Diag. Pl. Nov. 28. 1879. 
Shrub, the branches slender, terete, brownish, pilose, strigillose when young; stipules 
triangular-subulate, 5-7 mm. long, erect, persistent, strigillose; leaves opposite, the petioles 
rather slender, 3-9 mm. long, strigillose, the blades ovate, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic-oblong, 
7.5-12 cm. long, 2.5—4.5 cm. wide, acute or abruptly short-acuminate at the base, subabruptly 
acuminate or attenuate at the apex, thin, green above and glabrous or when young sparsely 
strigillose, beneath pilose-strigillose with very short hairs; inflorescence terminal, the flowers 
sessile or short-pedicellate in lax or dense few-flowered cymes, these short-pedunculate, arranged 
in a narrow thyrsiform short-pedunculate panicle about 12 cm. long; bracts linear, strigillose; 
hypanthium globose, finely strigillose; calyx-lobes 4, unequal, lance-triangular, 0.7—1 5 mm. 
long, acute or acutish, spreading, equaling or shorter than the hypanthium; corolla red, thinly 
strigillose outside, the tube slender, 6-8 mm. long, naked in the throat, the 4 lobes rounded, 
undulate, spreading, about 1.5 mm. long; anthers scarcely exserted. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION: Veracruz and Oaxaca. 
30. Rondeletia secundiflora B. L. Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 45: 
403. 1910. 
Shrub, the branches terete, densely grayish-strigillose; stipules triangular-subulate, 2 mm. 
long, erect; leaves opposite, the petioles slender, 4-6 mm. long, grayish-strigose, the blades 
ovate-lanceolate, 7—9 cm. long, 2—3.5 cm. wide, acute at the base, acuminate or attenuate at 
the apex, very thin, appressed-pilosulous, slightly paler beneath, the lateral veins about 8 on 
each side; inflorescence terminal, secund, 6-8 mm. long, the flowers subsessile in few-flowered 
cymes, these arranged in a spike-like panicle; hypanthium subglobose, densely hirsute; calyx- 
lobes 4, spatulate-linear or narrowly lanceolate, 1.4-2 mm. long, unequal, hirsute, erect; corolla 
9 mm. long, strigillose outside, the tube slender, the throat naked, the 4 lobes rounded, 1.3 
mm. long, spreading. 
TYPE LOCALITY: In woods, along the road from Patin to Escuintla, Guatemala. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
IV. Calycosae. Leaves large, thin or thick, more or less pubescent, acute or acuminate. 
Stipules large or small, erect or reflexed, sometimes foliaceous. Inflorescence terminal, corym- 
bose or paniculate, many-flowered, the flowers 4-parted; calyx-lobes often large and foliaceous; 
corolla of large or medium size, glabrous or pubescent outside, the throat naked. Capsule 
small, globose. Seeds exalate. 
31. Rondeletia Galeottii Standley, sp. nov. 
Shrub, glabrous throughout, the branches stout, terete or subangulate, grayish, rimose, 
the internodes short or elongate; stipules reniform, foliaceous, reflexed, 5—6 mm. broad, reticu- 
late; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 4-8 mm. long, the blades oval-obovate or oblong- 
obovate, 8-17 cm. long, 3.5—8 em. wide, acute to attenuate at the base, subabruptly acuminate 
at the apex, chartaceous, dark-green above, paler beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the 
lateral veins slender, 5—7 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, the 
margins plane; inflorescence terminal, cymose-corymbose, the peduncles slender, 3.5—6.5 cm. 
