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winged, conspicuously nervose, 3.5 mm. long. Seed cylindric, 
barely curved. Lobes of aril linear, membranaceous, sinuate, 1/3 
as long as seed. — Chod. Bot. Jahrb. lii. Beibl. 115. 84 (1914), as 
P. microlonchum. — Based on Seler 3138, from lightly wooded lime- 
stone hills, Chaculé-Uaxac Canal, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, and 
Seler 3123. — Not seen; description compiled 
132. P. dolichocarpa, sp. nov. Caules plures basi suffruticulosi 
e radice lignosa simplices vel sparsissime ramosi 1-3.5 dm. alti 
sulcati sparse minutissime incurvo-puberuli mox denudati. Folia 
linearia acuminata cuspidulata crassiuscula glabra supra planius- 
cula subtus convexa evenia 3-4.5 mm. longa 0.3 mm. lata. Racemi 
demum 5-10 cm. longi laxe multiflori. Flores albi purpurascenti- 
venosi 2.7-3.2 mm. longi. Sepala ovata medio purpurascentia su- 
perius obtusum 1.4 mm. longum, inferiora mucronulata vel acuta 
1—1.2 mm. longa. Alae spathulato-obovatae obtusae basi paullum 
obliquae glabrae 3-sub-5-nerviae 2.7-3.2 mm. longae 1.1-1.3 mm. 
latae. Carina 2.6 mm. longa; crista e lobis ca. 4-jugis oblongis inte- 
gris vel 2-3-lobatis constans. Petala superiora oblonga apice ro- 
tundata 2.2-2.3 mm. longa. Capsula oblonga 2 mm. longa 1 mm. 
lata, loculo postico paullo longiore dehiscente angustissime alato, 
antico indehiscente immarginato. Semen (e loc. post.) cylindricum 
breviter pilosulum 1.5 mm. longum, arillo 1 mm. longo, lobis 2 
lateralibus scariosis linearibus appressis; semen (e loc. antico) 
simile sed arillo deficiente. —San Luts Porost: Minas de San 
Rafael, May 1911, Purpus 5566 (Type coLtu.: BG); Bagre, 0 
de San Rafael, May 1911, Purpus 5165 p.p. (BG).—T. 2. 
Fie. 83. 
133. P. scoparta HBK. Fruticulose, the stems numerous, fas- 
cicled from a woody root, branched, slender, striate, finely in- 
curved-puberulous, 7.5-13 cm. long. Leaves rather crowded, 
linear-acicular, acuminate to the cuspidate apex, coriaceous, 1- 
nerved but not sulcate beneath, glabrous or very sparsely incurved- 
puberulous, subsessile by a pale slightly narrowed base, 5-9 mm. 
long, 0.4—-1 mm. wide. Racemes terminal, densely flowered or loose 
below, 0.5—2.3 em. long. Flowers white, the wings green or purplish- 
maroon along the midline, 2.6—2.9 mm. long. Sepals oval or ovate, 
obtuse to subacute, with green or purplish central line and white 
border, 0.9-1 mm. long. Wings obovate, barely mucronulate at 
the obtuse (by inflexion apparently acute) apex, cuneate at base, 
