84 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
Aug. 1870, Bernoulli 1019 (K); Sierra del Mico, Aug. 1870, Ber- 
noulli & Cario 3233 (K); Coban, 1310 m., May 1886, Tuerckherm 
136 (coryPE coLu. of P. Vogtit: BGK); Coban, 1300 m., Jan. 
1903, Tuerckheim 8378 (GK); San Miguel Uspantén, Dept. 
Quiché, 1830 m., Apr. 1892, Heyde & Lux 3004 (GK); Zamorora, 
Dept. Santa Rosa, 1800 m., Apr. 1893, Heyde & Lux 4438 (BGK). 
— T. 2. Fia. 64. 
104. P. asperuLomEes HBK. Stems 1-2 from a slender prob- 
ably annual root, slender, narrowly 5-angulate-winged, erectish or 
loosely spreading, branched or subsimple, 8-30 cm. long. Leaves 
all whorled in 5’s (the uppermost sometimes in 3’s or 2’s), glandu- 
lar-punctate, with narrow crenulate-denticulate margin, the lower 
orbicular-obovate, 7-9 mm. long, 4.5-5 mm. wide, the middle and 
upper lanceolate or lance-elliptic, acute or subacuminate at each 
end, 9-19 mm. long, 2.7-7 mm. wide, all cuspidate, on petioles ca. 
1mm.long. Racemes 1-—(at length)5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, on 
peduncles 1-3.2 cm. long; pedicels 0.4 mm. long. Flowers faintly 
pinkish, 2 mm. long. Upper sepal orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 1 mm. 
long, the lower oblong, obtuse, 0.6 mm. long, not ciliate, each with 
2 large glands on back. Wings broadly elliptic, rounded at apex, 
short-clawed, 1.6 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Keel 2 mm. long; crest 
of 3 pairs of lobes, the posterior cuneate, entire, adnate to keel, the 
2 anterior linear or obovate, entire. Upper petals obliquely rhom- 
bic-ovate, 1.8 mm. long. Capsule suborbicular, 1.3—-1.6 mm. long, 
1.2-1.5 mm. wide. Seed shortly appressed-pilose, 1.5 mm. long. 
Aril 1.1 mm. deep, the 2 lobes oblong, appressed. — HBK! Nov. 
Gen. v. 403 (1821); Wats. Proc. Acad. xxi. 459 (1886). P. galioides 
Poir. var. major A. W. Benn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xiii. pt. 3. 29 
(1874), as tosyn. only. P. galioides Poir. var. asperuloides (HBK.) 
Britton in Morong & Britton, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vii. 52 (1892), 
as to syn. — GuaTEMALA: Carmino Real, near Izabal, 7 Apr. 1885, 
S. Watson 19 (G). British Honpuras: wet pine ridge near 
Manatee Lagoon, 6 Dec. 1905, M. E. Peck 234 (G). Without local- 
ity: Humboldt & Bonpland (fragm. of rypn: G).—T. 2. Fie. 63. 
2105. P. supatata Wats. Stems several from a biennial or 
perennial slender root, erect or rarely spreading, simple or branched, 
leafy, glabrous, 6-17 em. high. Leaves whorled about to middle of 
stem, punctate, glabrous, cuspidate, the lower (about 4 whorls) in 
5’s obovate, rounded at apex, cuneate at base, narrowly denticu- 
