68 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
1898, Langlassé 316 (G). Tasasco: Atasta, 30 Aug. 1889, Rovi- 
rosa 602 (K). Mexico without locality: Pavon (B). GUATEMALA: 
Mazatensugo, Nov. 1870, Bernoulli & Cario 3191 (K); between 
Jocoy (?) and San Geronimo, Aug. 1870, Bernoulli 998 (KK); Santa 
Rosa, 915 m., July 1892, Heyde & Lux 3007 (K). Cusa: Wright 
112 p. p. (G); Cieneguita, 18 June 1895, Combs 213 (GK). JAMAICA: 
St. Andrew, McNab (K); Kings House Grounds, 25 Nov. 1897, 
Harris 6904 (BJ); Hope Gardens, 215 m., 2 Sept. 1901, Harris 8153 
(J). Sr. Tuomas: Cowells Hill, 8 Dec. 1876, Eggers (G). GREN- 
apa: Mardigras, St. Georges, 14 Aug. 1905, Broadway 1818 (G). 
Tosaao: Scarboro, 29 Sept. 1912, Broadway 4252 (B). TRINIDAD: 
B. de Schack (K); Crueger (K); Lockhart (K); Fendler 271 (K); 
Queens Park, 1848, Purdie 36 (K).— T. 2. Fia. 45. 
86. P. NIcARAGUENSIS Chod. Stems hispid with spreading hairs, 
striate, leafy, bearing many short (3-5 cm.) ascending leafy flower- 
ing branches near the base. Leaves lanceolate or lance-linear, mu- 
cronate, usually glabrescent or sparsely puberulous, 3-4.5 cm. long, 
4-5 mm. wide. Racemes terminal and extra-axillary, loosely few- 
flowered, 1.5-4 cm. long. Flowers 4 mm. long. Sepals glandular- 
ciliate. Wings obovate-spatulate, not angulate, subemarginate, 
inequilateral, not ciliate. Upper petals cuneate at base, suborbicu- 
lar above. Capsule short-stipitate, ovate-elliptic, emarginate, 2.5 
mm. long and wide. Seed ovoid, golden-sericeous. Aril small. — 
Monog. ii. 54 (1893). — Not seen; described by Chodat from Levy 
238, Nicaragua (hb. Boiss.), with which Pittier & Durand 348, from 
Costa Rica, was doubtfully associated. 
87. P. cottina Brandegee. Perennial, the stems 3 dm. long, 
pubescent, sparsely branched. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, attenuate 
at base into a short petiole, puberulent, 3-4 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, 
the lower much smaller. Racemes axillary or extra-axillary. Flow- 
ers 4 mm. long. Upper sepal glandular-ciliate. Wings obovate, 
inequilateral, shorter than capsule, 4 mm. long. Keel yellowish- 
white. Upper petals purple. Capsule elliptic-oblong. Seed cylin- 
dric, appressed-hairy. Aril large, curved, 2-horned, white. — 
Brandegee, Zoe v. 204 (1905). — Described from Cerro Colorado, 
Sinaloa. Not seen; description compiled. 
88. P. Puanetuast Molt. & Gomez. Herbaceous perennial (?), 
erect, sparsely branched, 3.5 dm. high, the stem and branches 
rather densely pubescent with incurved ved-spreadl 
