98 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
glabrous, slightly revolute, 1-nerved, 8-25 mm. long, 0.4-0.8 mm. 
wide, on petioles ca. 0.5mm. long. Racemes rather loosely or some- 
what densely cylindric, 1—9 (axis at length 13) em. long, 5—-5.5 mm. 
thick; bracts quickly deciduous; pedicels 0.8-1 mm. long. Flowers 
rosy, 2 mm. long. Sepals 1 mm. long, obtuse, the upper broadly 
ovate, the lower ovate. Wings obovate, rounded at apex, cuneate 
at base, 3-nerved, 2 mm. long, 0.9 mm. wide. Keel 2 mm. long; 
crest of 2-3 pairs of lobes, the posterior 2-lobed, the inner division 
cuneate, the outer linear, the 1-2 anterior pairs linear-lanceolate, all 
obtuse. Upper petals obliquely oblong, emarginate at the some- 
what narrowed apex, 1.7 mm. long. Capsule oblong, very slightly 
narrowed toward apex, with a row of glands each side of septum, 
1.6-1.8 mm. long, 0.8-0.9 mm. wide. Seed subcylindric, sub- 
sparsely appressed-pubescent, 1.2 mm. long. Aril very minute, 2- 
lobed, appressed, about 1/10 as long as seed. — St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 
Merid. ii. 8 (1829), excl. vars. in part; Chod. Monog. ii. 226. t. 24. 
f. 4-5 (1893); Rob. in Gray, Syn. FI. i. pt. i. 455 (1897). P. lepto- 
caulis T. & G.! Fl. N. Am. i. 130 (1838); Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 
xxii. 398 (1887). P. Pringlei Wats.! Proc. Am. Acad. xxv. 142 
(1890). P. paludosa St. Hil. var. exappendiculata Chod. Monog. 
ii. 226 (1893). P. gracilis auct. plur., non HBK.—Jaxisco: Guada- 
lajara, Sept. 1886, Palmer 447 (BG); wet places near Guadalajara, 
16 Nov. 1889, Pringle 2148 (corypE cou. of P. Pringlet: G); wet 
places, plains of Guadalajara, 2 Oct. 1889, Pringle 2452 (coTYPE 
cou. of P. Pringlei: BGK); high meadows, barranca of Portillo, 
3 Oct. 1908, Barnes & Land 235 (G). Vera Cruz: Vera Cruz to 
Orizaba, F. Mueller 925 (K); Orizaba, Botteri 819 (K), 829 (B), 
1118 (G). Moretos: wet meadows near Cuernavaca, 15 Nov. 
1895, Pringle (G); moist meadows near Cuernavaca, 1525 m., 9 
Sept. 1903, Pringle 11381 (GK). Mexico without locality: Pavon 
(B). Guatemata: El Jute, Dept. Quiché, 3355 m., Apr. 1892, 
Heyde & Lux 3006 (GK). Cusa: savannas, Vueltabajo, 22 July, 
Habo del Medio, 24 Aug., Hanabana, 13 March, Wright 1904 
(BGK); Laguna de Castellano, Prov. Habana, 1905, Baker & 
Alarca 4330 (K). Istz or Pines: June-July 1901, A. A. Taylor 156 
(G); near Nueva Gerona, 19 Feb. 1904, Curtiss 358 (BGK). Also 
‘in the southern U. 8. and $.A.—T.2. Fic. 75, 75a.—Frequently 
confused with P. paniculata, which is finely glandular, and with 
P. gracilis, which has an aril 1/3 as long as seed. Dr. Robinson 
