48 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
bescent everywhere except on margin with comparatively long and 
spreading hairs, 4.5-5.8 mm. long, 1.2-1.8 mm. wide. Keel 
sparsely appressed-pubescent, 44.6 mm. long. Upper petals nar- 
rowly obovate, equalling the keel. Capsule orbicular, densely cili- 
ate and pubescent with rather short wide-spreading hairs, 9 mm. 
long, 8.5-9 mm. wide. Seed dully silky-pilose, 5 mm. long. Aril 
membranaceous-scarious, 2.2 mm. deep, short-pilose, the dorsal 
edge ascending, the ventral subvertical, the margin irregularly 
lobulate. — Benth.! Bot. Sulph. 67 (1844). — Honpuras: Gulf of 
Fonseca, Sinclair (type: K, fragment G); sandy loam, arid 
banks, Gulf of Fonseca, Nov. 1838, Barclay 2647 (B). A specimen 
in hb. Kew., collected by Friedrichsthal in Guatemala, is somewhat 
doubtfully referred here. — T. 2. 
58. P. Hayesii, sp. nov. Caules plures e basi fruticulosa erecti 
sparse ramosi flexuosi subdense pubescentes pilis aliis brevibus in- 
curvo-patentibus aliis longis patentibus vel adscendentibus rectis 
vel vix curvatis 1-1.2 dm. alti. Folia ovata acuminata basi cuneata 
ut caules subdense pubescentes reticulato-venosa (venis lateralibus 
ca. 5-jugis) 2.1-3.2 em. longa 0.9-1.1 cm. lata, in petiolis 1.5 mm. 
longis; infima minora ovalia obtusa. Racemi ramos et caules ter- 
minantes ca. 15-flori 3.5-3.8 cm. longi. Flores 5-6 mm. longi. 
Sepala ovata acuminata sparse incurvo-puberula ciliolata 2.7 mm. 
longa. Alae ovales apice rotundatae basi vix cuneatae ad costam 
et apicem versus sparse incurvo-puberulae sparse ciliolatae 5.8 mm. 
longae 4 mm. latae. Carina 5.5 mm. longa. Petala superiora late 
obovata apice rotundata. Capsula submatura orbicularis emar- 
ginata basi truncato-rotundata in lateribus incurvo-puberula sub- 
patenti-ciliolata 8.5 mm. longa 8 mm. lata. Semen (valde imma- 
turum) pilosum. Arillus (submaturus) 1.5 mm. altus, margine 
scarioso lato parum undulato sparse piloso, margine dorsali des- 
cendente angulum ca. 45° formante. — GuaTeMaLA: plains about 
Guatemala City, July 1860, Sutton Hayes (typn: G).—T. 1. 
Fic. 29. 
59. P. consobrina, sp. nov. Suffruticulosa infra ramosa 2.4 
dm. alta. Caulis ramique dense pubescentes pilis patenti-incurvis 
pilis longioribus patentioribus perpaucis vel mancis. Folia inferiora 
ovalia obtusa media et superiora late ovata acuta basi late cuneata 
subvenoso-reticulata, (venis lateralibus ca. 6-jugis) tenuia sed de- 
mum subfirma supra subsparse puberula pilis incurvis infra vix 
