210 The Botanical Gazette. [June, 4 
bracts (foliola stipuloidea of Miers) imbricating, the upper 
decussate and rhomboid-lanceolate with scarious tips: calyx 
sparingly glandular, campanulate (3' high and broad), trun- 
cate, subdenticulate near margin: corolla puberulous, veiny, 
roseate and purplish, 3 inches long, tube narrowed gradually 
and not contracted at calyx, lobes more than half as long: 
stamens included: ovary ovoid (13 x }'), closely glandular- 
tuberculate, lips of stigma semicircular, ovules regularly 
I-seriate within margin of dissepiment.—In the absence of 
capsules the generic characters have not been satisfactorily 
verified.—Climbing high with flowers that fade to white, 
banks of the Rio Ocosito, Depart. Quezaltenango, alt. 250 
April, 1892, J. D. S., (ex Pl. cit. 2,688). 
Fruticose: leaves membran- 
cuneately prolonged (13-23) into short petiole: rachis 
solitary sessile spike short (1-14), cano-pilose ; bracts twice 
exceeding internodes, concave, nearly scarious, veiny, pu 3 
cent, obovate-oblong (6x 3'), prolonged into a half as long 
recurved convolute cusp, margins I—2-spinulo-dentate: sepals 
subequalling bract, elongate-lanceolate, aristate, little ex 
ceeding the similar bractlets: corolla glandular-pubescent, - 
crimson, 2}-21" long ; posterior lip erect, oblong (11X34) 
quite entire; anterior lip as_ long, broadly (6 
oblong, lobes connecting lips lingulate (4'): capsu 
seen.—Well marked by third part of leaf mostly ‘ 
an alate petiole, squarrose spike, sepaloid bractlets, 
upper lip of corolla.—Chupadero, Depart. Santa Rosa, 
5,000, Oct., 1892, Heyde & Lux, (ex Pl. cit. 4,037): a 
EXPLANA sails ing branch. Fig. 2, E 
laid open. vio. faery _ ‘eis igs. pps: pistil with bracts a 
sepals. (Figs. I and 2 are natural size; the others are slightly enlarge? 
PHYTOLACCA ICOSANDRA L., var. oetogyna. 
branaceous, lanceolate-oblong, long-attenuate : PY obtuse: 
ing triquetrous pedicel (3—4') : sepals oblong (23% ), : 
stamens shorter, 14-18: styles 8: fruit depressed oot, | 
abortion fewer-seeded. San Miguel Uspantan, alt. 7; 7 
April, 1892, Heyde & Lux, (ex Pl. cit. 3,031. iy 
Tradescantia Guatemalensis C. B. Clarke (EUTRADRT 
TIA).— Umbellis sessilibus bibracteatis, corolla intens® mbent, 
antherarum loculis ovatis approximatis. Stems — 
