NOTEWORTHY SPERMATOPHYTES. 537 
puberulis; involucro paullo quam eo formae typicae imbricatiori, 
squamis purpureo-viridibus striatis, exterioribus rupert as plus 
minusve acutatis, intermediis ciliatis. UATEMALA ‘ 
Volean de Atitlan, Solola, alt. about 2135 m., Prof. E. W. D. Holway, 
no. 187 (Typr, in Gray Herb.). 
Eupatorium Shaferi, spec. nov., herbaceum vel vix basi paullo 
molliter lignescens glabrum 3-4 dm. altum; caule basi paullo decum- 
bens fistuloso purpureo-brunneo ad mediam partem folioso; foliis 
oppositis ovato- vel lanceolato-oblongis utroque acuminatis serratis 
utrinque glaberrimis subtus paullo pallidioribus 4-8 em. longis 2-3.5 
em. latis pinnativeniis; petiolo 1-1.5 em. longo supra canaliculato; 
panicula parva 4 cm. solum diametro sub-6-capitulata vel ampliori 
3-chotoma 1 dm. diametro multicapitulata; bracteis oblanceolato- 
linearibus, bracteolis lineari-subulatis; pedicellis ca. 1 em. longis 
adscendentibus obscurissime puberulis; capitulis 1 em. diametro 
15-20-floris; involucri 2-3-seriati squamis subaequalibus laxe imbri- 
catis oblongis obtusis vel apice rotundatis ciliolatis quam flosculis 
dimidio brevioribus post fructus delapsum persistentibus et reflexis, 
disco maturitate leviter convexo glabro; corollis glabris tubulatis 
sursum modice gradatimque ampliatis 3 mm. longis purpureis; achae- 
niis 5-angulatis deorsum decrescentibus basi substipitatis glabris 
aetate fuscis pallide costatis 2.8 mm. longis; pappi setis simplici- 
bus tenuibus sordide albis achaenium longitudine subaequantibus.— 
Cvusa: on rocks by water near top of falls, Arroyo del Medio, Oriente, 
alt. 450-550 m., 20 December, 1909, J. A. Shafer, no. 3227a (TYPE, in 
herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard., photograph and fragments in Gray Herb.); 
also on rocks by water, same locality, date, and collector, no. 3227 
(herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.; photograph and fragments in wits Herb.). 
Evratortum urticarrotium Reichard, var. angustatum (Gray), 
comb. nov. E. ageratoides L.f ., var. angustatum Gray ay FL i. pt. 2; 
101 (1884). E. angustatum (Gray) Greene, Pitt. iv. 277 (1901). 
Kyrstenia angustata (Gray) Greene, Leafl. i. 8 (1903). 
Evpatortum vittrottum (Sch. Bip.) Klatt, Leopoldina, xx. 90 
(1884). Hebeclinium vitifolium Sch. Bip. ex Klatt, I. c. To the 
Synonymy of this rare and little known tee species may be added 
Bulbostylis triangularis DC. Prod. vii. 268 (1838) and Carphephorus 
triangularis (DC.) Gray, Pl. Wright i. 86 (1852) ex Hemsl. Biol. Cent.- 
Am. Bot. ii. 109 (1881). The type-specimens, both of DeCandolle’s 
and of Klatt’s species, are exceedingly fragmentary, yet material is 
sufficient to show close correspondence in general contour, dentation, 
size, and yenation of the leaf, open divaricately branched panicle, 
