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Leaves from lance-elliptic to lanceolate or linear, sparsely hirsute 
above, conspicuously ciliate beneath, conspicuously venose beneath 
with prominent lateral nerves, 2-4 cm. long, 7-16 mm. wide. Ra- 
cemes terminal, 7—-12-flowered, about 2-4 cm. long; rachis puberu- 
lous or subhirsute; pedicels 2.5 mm. long. Flowers violaceous, 6 
mm. long. Sepals lance-linear, hirsute, acute. Wings obovate- 
oblong, very obtuse, slightly reticulate, sparsely long-haired on the 
back. Upper petals shorter than the keel, with broadly linear limb, 
at apex acute or subacute, neither dilated nor emarginate. Ovary 
obovate, long-pilose; immature capsule elliptic-obovate, very hir- 
sute. — Chod. Bot. Jahrb. li. Beibl. 115. 74 (1914), as P. trichop- 
terum. — Based by Chodat on Seler 2796 and 2904, from limestone 
hills, Uaxae Canal, 1300-1400 m., Dept. Huehuetenango, Guate- 
mala. — Not seen; description compiled. 
63. P. cosraricENsis Chod. Several-stemmed from a suffruti- 
culose base, 2-6 dm. high, the stems ascending or erect, more or 
less densely incurved-puberulous with few or many longer spread- 
ing hairs intermixed. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
usually acuminate, at base cuneate or broadly rounded, mucronu- 
late, thin but chartaceous, somewhat reticulate (lateral nerves 4-6 
pairs), subsparsely incurved-puberulous both sides, usually with a 
few longer but scarcely spreading hairs intermixed, 2.5-6.6 cm. 
long, 8-23 mm. wide, on petioles 1-2 mm. long. Racemes some- 
what loosely flowered, 3-12.5 em. long. Flowers purplish. Sepals 
lanceolate, acuminate, cilate and somewhat densely incurved-pu- 
berulous, 2.5-3 mm. long. Wings oblong to oblong-oval, rounded 
at apex, sparsely puberulous along costa and toward apex, 8-10 
mm. long, 4.2-6 mm. wide. Keel glabrous, 8-9.5 mm. long. Upper 
petals obovate-oblong, 7 mm. long. Capsule elliptic, emarginate, 
ciliate and puberulous with short spreading hairs, 10.5 mm. long, 
9 mm. wide. Seed (immature) sparsely short-pilose. Aril (sub- 
mature) 2.7 mm. bigh, with small densely pilose umbo, the undu- 
late-lobulate scarious margin broad; dorsal margin abruptly 
erectish, anterior obliquely descending. — Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Belg. xxx. 298 (1891); in Dur. & Pitt. Primit. Fl. Costar. i. 201 
(1891); Monog. ii. 30. t. 14. f. 21-24 (1893). (?) P. guatema- 
lensis Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. Ix. 454 (1913), not of A. W. 
Bennett. —GuatemaLa: Skinner (K); mountains near Guate- 
mala City, 15 Aug. 1860, Sutton Hayes (G); Cerro del Carmen, 
