6 The Botanical Gazette. (January, 
nervo centrali vix ad } longitudinis sue nervos adscendentes 
utrinque 5 mittente, petiolo hirsuto basi vaginante, pedun- 
culo quam petiolus breviore, amento ipso per anthesin limbi 
dimidium vix equante apice mucronato, bractea obovato- 
oblonga apice rotundata utrinque dense villosa, filamentis 
elongatis antheris ellipticis quam filamenta pluries brevioribus, — 
ovario conico parce piloso apice in stylum circiter eo equilong- 
um glabrum attenuato, stigmatibus linearibus recurvis. — 
Ramuli juniores dense villosi dein subglabrati, in sicco nigres- — 
centes leves, amentiferi circiter 2" crassi, collenchymate in| 
cortice continuo zona fibrosa continua intus aucto, fasciculis — 
intramedularibus uniseriatis. Limbi in sicco membranacei i 
nigrescentes pellucido-punctulati ad 20™ longi ad 9™ lati, 
juniores leves dein supra subbullati. Petiolus ad limbi latus — 
longius circiter 2™ longus. Amentum per anthesin circiter 
6™™ crassum. Stamina 4 filamentis longis exsertis. Stigmata — 
3.—Species P. /razuant C. DC. proxima, ab eo nervorum 
numero bractea apice obtusa ac longius densiusque pubescente — 
et antheris oblongis discrepans.—San Miguel Uspantdn, De-— 
part. Quiché, alt. 6,000", April 1892, Heyde & Lux, no. 3,462. 
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usque nervos utrinque 4 alternos adscendentes nervulosqu 
validos mittente, petiolo basi ima vaginante dorso hirtello, — 
pedunculo quam petiolus circiter } longiore puberulo, amento — 
ipso limbi dimidium vix zquante apice mucronulato, bracte® 
pelta triangulari margine dense et longiuscule hirsuta pedicello 
extus piloso, antheris subglobosis quam filamenta brevioribus, 
ovario glabro, bacca glabra.—Suffrutex 1-1.5” altus, ramulis 
junioribus hirtellis dein glabris punctulis albis conspersis 
2.5™" crassis in sicco teretibus, collenchymate in cortice sub- 
continuo zonaque fibrosa discontinua intus aucto, fasciculi 
intramedullaribus uniseriatis. Limbi in sicco membranace 
connectivo supra loculos brevissime producto. Bacca tetra 
gona stylo destituta vertice in sicco rufescens. Stigmata 3: 
San Miguel Uspantdn, alt. 8,000, April 1892, Heyde & i 
no. 3,460; Cerro Gordo, Depart. S. Rosa, alt. 3, 500", Sept 
1892, Heyde & Lux, no. 3,827. 
