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135. P. Satviniana A. W. Bennett. Similar in habit, inflores- 
cence (1.7 cm. long or less), pubescence, and leaves; stems 1 dm. 
long or less. Flowers apparently always with green not purple 
midribs, 3 mm. long. Sepals ovate, obtusish to acutish, 0.9 mm. 
long. Wings obovate, obtuse (apparently acute by inflexion), 3 
mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide. Keel 1.5 mm. long. Capsule elliptic, 
very narrowly winged, 2.3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide. Seed oblong, 
puberulous, 2 mm. long. Lobes of aril oblong, 1.2 mm. long. — 
A. W. Benn.! Journ. Bot. xvii. 203 (1879); Chod. Monog. ii. 288 
(1893). — GuaTEMALA: ridge above Calderas, 2530 m., 20 Oct. 
1873, Salvin (cotyPE: K); grassy places, Llano de la Laguna de 
Ayarces, July 1870, Bernoulli 695 (coTypE: K). 
36. P. oxysepala, sp. nov. Fruticulosa pluricaulis caulibus 
tenuibus sparse minute strigillosis vel incurvo-puberulis ramosis 
adscendentibus 5-35 longis. Folia linearia acuminata mucronata 
l-nervia crassiuscula subsessilia subglabra vel sparse incurvo- 
puberula 5-13 mm. longa 0.8-1 mm. lata. Racemi laxi- vel sub- 
densiflori demum 6 cm. longi. Sepala ovato-lanceolata acuminata 
plus minusve inflexa medio viridia albo-marginata 1.5-1.8 mm. 
longa. Alae spathulato-obovatae apice obtusae late albo-margin- 
atae 3-3.5 mm. longae 0.8-1.3 mm. latae. Carina 1.5 mm. longa. 
Capsula elliptica loculo postico angustissime alato 2.6 mm. longa 
1.5 mm. lata. Semen oblongum teres breviter pilosum 2 mm. 
longum. Arillus 1.2-1.5 mm. altus, umbone minimo lobis 2 later- 
alibus oblongis appressis scariosis. — GUATEMALA: San Miguel 
Uspantdén, Dept. Quiché, 1830 m., Apr. 1892, Heyde & Luz 3005 
(GK); Santa Rosa, Dept. Baja Verapaz, 1525 m., Apr. 1887, 
Tuerckheim 1202 (type coutt.: GK).— T. 2. Fie. 85. 
137. P. virmpis Wats. Several-stemmed, suffruticulose, the 
stems subsimple or branched, spreading, rather densely puberulous 
with very short wide-spreading hairs, 5.5-11 em. long. Leaves 
obovate-spatulate, acutish at the mucronate apex, long-cuneate at 
base, coriaceous, 1-nerved, scarcely revolute, sparsely spreading- 
puberulous, 5-11 mm. long, 1.5-3.6 mm. wide. Racemes loosely 
flowered, 1-2.5 em. long. Upper sepal oval, the lower ovate, ob- 
tuse, herbaceous with very narrow white border, 1 mm. long, 
Wings obovate, obtuse, not involute, green with narrow white mar- 
gin, 2.6 mm. long, 0.9 mm. wide. Keel 2.3 mm. long; crest of 2 
pairs of lobes, the posterior adnate, the anterior bifid. Upper petals 
