94 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
slightly revolute, punctate, 5-12 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide. Ra- 
cemes depressed-subglobose, 6-12 mm. (axis becoming 3.5 cm.) 
long, 6-13 mm. thick, on peduncles 2-20 em. long, usually naked; 
pedicels 2-2.5 mm. long. Flowers varying from (yellowish ?) white 
through pink to deep magenta-purple, 4.5-5 mm. long. Upper 
sepal elliptic-ovate, strongly cuspidate, 5-nerved, 2.3 mm. long; 
lower ovate, acuminate, strongly cuspidate, 1.8 mm. long; each 
sepal bearing 2-3 small glands dorsally toward base. Wings ellip- 
tic, obtuse at the very strongly cuspidate apex, cuneate-rounded 
not clawed at base, strongly 3-nerved, bearing a few small glands 
on back, 4.5-5 mm. long, 1.6-2.3 mm. wide. Keel 4.7 mm. long; 
crest of 3—4 pairs of lobes, the posterior lanceolate, the others linear 
or linear-lanceolate. Upper petals equalling keel, united to it for 
about 3 mm., the free portion obliquely lance-ovate, acutish. Cap- 
sule ovate-oblong, bearing a double line of oval glands along the 
septum, 3 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide. Seed conic, silky-pilose, co- 
mose at base, 2.5 mm. long (including coma). Aril small, 2-lobed. — 
HBK. Nov. Gen. v. 396 (1821); Chod. Monog. ii. 182. t. 21. f. 41 
(1893). P. stellera DC. Prod. i. 327 (1824), fide Chod. 1. c. P. 
longicaulis subvar. nana Chod. 1. c. 183 (1893). —Jatsco: Rio 
Blanco, Sept. 1886, Palmer 553 (BGK); dry porphyritic hills near 
Guadalajara, 5 Dec. 1888, Pringle 1830 (BGK); Sierra de San 
Esteban near Guadalajara, 1525 m., 13 Oct. 1903, Pringle 11380 
(GK). Vera Cruz: dry mountains, Zacuapan, Aug. 1906, Purpus 
2073 (G); Mirador, Sept. 1838, Linden 176 (K); alt. 915 m., 
Galeotti 7036 (K). Mexico without locality: Pavon (B). British 
Honpuras: low pine ridge near Manatee Lagoon, 25 Aug. 1905, 
M. E. Peck 132 (G). Guaremaua: Estanzuela, Dept. Santa Rosa, 
760 m., Aug. 1892, Heyde & Lux 3942 (GK). Panama: Seemann 
283 (B). CuBa: savannas, Vueltabago, 1860-64, Wright 1908 
(BGK); poor soil near source of small stream, Cieneguita, Santa 
Clara, 8 Aug. 1895, Combs 442 (GK). Is. or Pines: June—July 
1901, A. A. Taylor 158 (G); near Nueva Gerona, 26 May 1904, 
Curtiss 514 (BGK). Santo Dominco: 1852, Schomburgk 68 (K). 
Porto Rico: pastures of Mt. Mesa, Mayaguez, 24 Oct. 1884, Sin- 
tenis 41 (GK). Trrnmap: savannas above St. Joseph, July 1848, 
Crueger (G); O’Meara, 9 Apr. 1848, Crueger (KK); savanna de 
Omara, 7 July 1848, Purdie 29 (K); Arimo, 455 m., J. R. Murray 
1338 (K). — T. 2. Fie. 70, 70a. 
