( 490 ) 
stem about 3 dm. high, erect or ascending, slender, paniculate 
above, the en very slender, ascending, rather densely 
flowered; floral bracts about two-thirds the length of the strongly 
recurved pedicel, ovate, acute; sepals 2 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, 
rigid; petals (yellow 2) 5-6 mm. long, lanceolate, nerv rved; longest 
ong, its str ee curved anther half its length; 
pistil equaling the filaments, the style half as long as the ovoid, 
winged ovary, stout, linear, entire; our 3 mm. 
“Guanai, 1500 ft., Sept. 27, 1901” (No. 738). 
CoMMELINACEAE 
Floscopa perforans sp. nov. 
Stems rooting and rhizomatous at the base, ovis 5-10 cm. 
ae ee a single panicle at the very base and one or more at 
t mmit, stoutish, clothed below with several sheaths, or very 
meri blades, and bearing at the summit about 4-6 perfect leaves; 
petioles nee and broad, ciliate, the base sheathing; blad 
or 
slightly harsh, very finely and inconspicuously nerved; basa 
panicle long-peduncied, the peduncle being really a branch clothed 
long and broad, rather dense; terminal panicle similar but about 
twice as large, sessile; bracts ovate, thin, about as long as the pedi- 
cels, deciduous; calyx 3-3.5 m m. long, usually exceeding the pedi- 
cel, the sepals thick, broa ‘oval, obtuse, almost completely 
enclosing, but slightly shorter than the pod; pod strongly com- 
long as the pod, very slender, recurved; seeds 2, irregularly tri- 
gos gray, very strongly r ibbed. 
Trail between I[xiamas and Tumupasa, 1500 ft., Dec. 29, 1901” 
(No. 285). 
The same collected by Spruce (No. 3902) and Traill (No. rr47). 
Commelina Bangii sp. nov. 
Younger portions, leaves, etc., minutely puberulent; stems 
—8 cm. long, very slender, prostra ate and creeping, the terminal 
half erect, the internodes mostly 8-10 mm. long; basal portions 
ciothed at the nodes with truncate, membranaceous, nerve 
ricer sheaths similar to those of the leaves; blades 12-25 mm. 
, 5-8 mm. broad, ovate, finely nerved, the midrib prominent 
anes spathe ets on a slender peduncle longer than 
itself, 12 mm. long, and nearly as broad, ened cordate, the basal 
leaves nearly semicircular, acute, I1-13-r ; pe uncle stoutish, 
half an length of the bract; pedicels very ne stout; larger sepal 
half the length of the corolla, which is deep blue and 5 mm. lon 
Dissection material wanting. 
