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confirmed the apparent identity. This is by no means an isolated case 
of the occurrence of identical species in Ecuador and Guatemala, but — 
it has peculiar interest from the marked character and rarity of the — 
plant concerned. Mr. Deam’s specimens were collected at Los Amates, - 
Guatemala, 10 February, 1905, and distributed as no. 97 of his set. 
He writes that only a few plants were found, and that these were growing © 
in rather wet situations deep in the virgin forest. An interesting 
morphological as well as systematic account of the species is given 
in Professor Hackel’s original characterization, Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 
111 (1890). 
Fuirena zacapana Bartlett, n. sp., rhizomate perpendiculari elon- 
gato modice incrassato ; culmis 9 dm. longis gracilibus ascendentibus 
hispidis vel ad basin glabriusculis ca. 8-foliis ; foliorum vaginis 1.5-3 
em. longis dense hispidis ; foliis linearibus utrinque hispidis usque ad 
5 mm. latis, in partibus culmi inferioribus 1 cm. longis superne 9 em. 
longis ; capitulis 3-4, infimo solitario in axilla folii supremi peduncu- 
lato, reliquis plus minusve approximatis; spiculis in capitulo quoque 
3-6 ovatis 4 mm. latis 8 mm. longis ; squamis brunneis pubescentibus 
in spiculae basi suborbiculatis in apice ovatis trinerviis, in dorso recti- 
aristatis ; sepalis 3 brunneis glabris duriusculis ovatis basi subcordatis 
longe unguiculatis apice rotundatis infra apicem in dorso breviaristatis, 
aristis retrorsum scabris; setulis 3 cum sepalis alternantibus superne 
retrorsum scabris quam achaenio multo brevioribus ; achaenio longe 
stipitato mucronato sepala paene aequante. — In swamps, Gualan, 
Department of Zacapa, Guatemala, 13 January, 1905, C. C. Deam, 
no. 423 (type, in hb. Gray). This very distinct species is nearest 0 
F. simplex Vahl, from which it differs in its lax habit, in the extreme — 
development of pubescence on the leaf-sheaths, in its short perianth- 
bristles, and long-stiped achene. 
Myriocarpa malacophylla Robinson & Bartlett, n. sp., arborea 
4m. altitudine; ramis curvatis crassiusculis molliter lignosis siccitate 
corrugato-rugulosis pallide griseis juventate tomentosis aetate glabra- 
tis, lenticellis paucis sparsis ; foliis membranaceis late ovatis cordatis 
breviter caudato-acuminatis serratis 17 cm. longis 11 cm. latis supra 
more generis sparse pilosis et cystolithis radiantibus instructis subtus 
molliter tomentosis griseis, apice candiformi ca. 1 cm. longo, nervis — 
lateralibus utrinque 4~5 ; petiolo 1.7-2 em. vel ultra longo tomentose ; 
inflorescentiis omnino sessilibus ca. 1 cm. supra basin furcatis ; rams 
1-2 dm. longis griseo-tomentosis unilateraliter floriferis; floribus ? 
arcte sessilibus ; calyeulo 2-phyllo brevissimo villoso; ovario lenticu- 
lari-ovoideo 0.7-0.9 mm. longo villoso-hispidulo; floribus @ etiam 
sessilibus, sepalis 4 ovatis obtusis villosis, staminibus 4.— Gualan, 
