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machine for seven cents a pair. Under such conditions was his book 
revised. r. HOWELL, however, was very cheerful at all times and 
betrayed no impatience with depressing external conditions. 
According to his own statement, the picture here produced is the only 
one ever taken of him. It represents him seated at his typewriter with 
the first copy of his revised flora. Behind him are seen stacks of com- 
pleted mittens. It was made by the writer during a visit, October 14, 
1910.—Huron H. Situ, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 
THE SEEDLING OF PHYLLOCARPUS 
(WITH ONE FIGURE) 
When recently collecting insects at Gualan, Guatemala, Mrs. 
COCKERELL was so fortunate as to senover a new species of Phyllocar pus, 
a genus previously known 
from a single species found 
in Brazil. It is a large 
tree, with magnificent red 
flowers, much visited by 
insects. The circumstances 
ee -attending the discovery 
1.—Seedling of Phyllocarpus, n. sp.. have been related at some 
from Gu salen, Guatemala, by W. P. Cocxerett; length in the Canadian 
apical leaflet not expanded. Entomologist (September 
IgI2, pp. 278, 279). Seeds 
were later obtained by Mr. E. Morris, and we were successful in getting 
some of them to germinate. I described the seedling in an early stage, 
before the fleshy cotyledons had appeared, and was away from home 
during the development of the later stages. From the accompanying 
figures it will be seen that the seedling is essentially like that of Caesal- 
pinia. At the stage represented by the figures, the following characters 
are apparent: 
Epicotylar stalk strongly pubescent, with spreading fine hairs as long 
as half its diameter, and more abundant short curled ones; petioles the 
same, only more hairy; first leaves 7-foliolate; leaflets light pea green, 
rather broad lanceolate, quite entire, nearly sessile, but inequilateral at 
base; perfectly glabrous except the margins, which are densely white- 
hairy, and the midribs beneath, which are hairy like the petioles.—T. D. 
A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado, Boulder. 
