298 BOTANICAL GAZETTE {OCTOBER 
floralia gemina homomorpha subaequimagna. Pedunculi singuli vel 
2-4-ni. Calyx medio infra marginem truncatam scariosam tuber- 
culis 10 appendiculatus. Corolla infundibularis paulo ultra medium 
lobata. Antherae ellipticae filamentis altero tanto longiores. 
Frutex, ramulis novellis furfuraceis. Folia 7-10°™ longa 1.7-2.5°™ lata 
supra primum puberula mox utrinque glabra, nervis lateralibus ideas 5-6, 
venis transversis parallelis remotis parum manifestis, petiolis 5-12™™ longis et 
" pedunculis calycibusque puberulis. Pedunculi 15-31™™ longi erecti. Calyx 
hemisphaericus 3.5™™ altus, margine scariosa 1™™ lata, tuberculis squarrosis 
subconicis. Corolla violacea (cl. repertor in scheda), 16-17™™ longa in alabastro 
griseo-pubescens, lobis lanceolatis ad apicem versus et ad margines pubescentibus. 
Antherae 5™™ longae 2.5™™ latae apiculatae margine exteriore dehiscentes. 
Ovarium ovoideum 2.5™™ longum in stylum aequilongum attenuatum. Bacca 
ignota. 
In silva montana prope Coban, Depart. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, alt. 1600”, 
Jan. 1908, H. von Tuerckheim (n. II. 2060). 
Ruellia (§ DipreracantHus Baill.) pygmaea Donn. Sm.— 
Folia approximata minima oblongo-ovata acuminata basi acuta 
integra supra paleaceo-pilosa subtus nervis ferrugineo-strigillosa. 
Flores ad axillas oppositas foliorum superiorum subsessiles, bracteis 
linearibus calyce paulo longioribus corolla 5-6-plo_ brevioribus. 
Capsula puberula 4-sperma infra medium contracta et compressa. 
Caules € rhizomate longe repente foliis abortivis munito passim ascendentes 
6-8" longi simplices et petioli ferrugineo-strigillosi. Folia internodiis longiora 
superne imbricantia 13-25™™ longa 7~-10™™ Jata supra pilis longis articulatis 
aspersa utrinque lineolata, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus 4, petiolis 2-3"™ longis. 
Bracteae 4-5™™ longae paleaceo-pilosae. Calycis puberuli tubus 1.5™™ altus, 
segmenta linearia 2-2.5™™ longa. Corolla extus puberula 24™™ longa supra 
basin cylindricam 8"™ Jongam sensim et aequaliter ampliata faucibus 5™™ lata, 
lobis late rotundatis 3™™ longis. Stamina bene inclusa, antheris 2”™ lene 
Capsula oblongo-ellipsoidea 8-9™™ longa acuminata sulcata, parte solida A 
longa, seminibus orbiculatis 2™™-diametralibus margine cano-pubescentibus. ai 
R. humijusae Hemsl. proxima. : 
Hacoc prope Cubilquitz, Depart. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, alt. 600™, Maj. 
1904, H. von Tuerckheim, n. 8725 ex Pl. Guat. etc. quas ed. Donn. Sm. 
Ruellia (§ Puysrevert1a Lindau; Ser. Eglandulosae Lindau) 
guatemalensis Donn. Sm.—Folia glabra ovata vel lanceolato-ovata 
acuminata basi angustata vel rotundata margine undulata. Flores 
subsessiles 1-4-ni axillares vel in cymis axillaribus terminales ¢t 
dichotomales, cymis folia superantibus, axibus elongatis, bracteis 
