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Hassler 7017, type collection of this species (in the British Museum), 
is in young fruit only but shows the generic characters of Zexmenia. 
In this species only the upper leaves are alternate, the lower being 
opposite. 
’  ZEXMENIA LEUCACTIS Blake, Journ. Bot. lili. 307 (2 Oct. 1915). 
— Zexmenia chiapensis Brandegee ! Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. vi. 
197 (30 Oct. 1915). — Additional specimens of this species are: 
GUATEMALA: Colomba, Quezaltenango, 3 Feb. 1917, Holway 823; 
Esquintla, 335 m., 19 Feb. 1916, Holway 505; San Felipe, 
Retalhuleu, 12 Jan. 1917, Holway 693 (“wet places, 8 ft. 
high”); Rio Samala, Retahuleu, 520 m., April 1894, J. D. Smith 
2854. The slightly later Z. chiapensis Brandegee, based on 
Purpus 7192, from Finca Irlanda, Chiapas, is identical with my 
Z. leucactis. This name proves to have been unfortunately 
chosen, for the fresh color of the rays is shown by Holway’s plant 
to be bright yellow. The whiteness of the ligules in the type was 
evidently due to fading. The species is related to Z. virgulta 
Klatt, but distinct in the dense fine soft pubescence of the under 
leaf-surface. 
Noroprera BREviPES (Rob.) Blake, Journ. Bot. liii. 227 (1915). 
Good specimens collected by Prof. E. W. D. Holway (no. 493) at 
Guatemala City, Guatemala, at an elevation of 1465 meters, on 
15 Feb. 1916, afford the following data regarding the habit of the 
species: “a big climber, with woody stems 13 inch in diameter, 
climbing over trees and sending out very slender branches 10 feet 
long or more.” Other specimens, from Guatemala City, 21 Dec. 
1916 (Holway 615) were taken from a “ shrub, 15 feet high, with 
long slender branches.” 
VERBESINA apleura, sp. nov. Frutex 5m. altus sect. Ver- 
besinariae, caule valido brunneo medulloso subappresse piloso 
omnino non alato. Folia alterna (infima invisa) media ovata vel 
subovali-ovata acuminata mucronata basi late cuneata irregu- 
lariter serrata (dentibus ca. 20-jugis depresso-triangularibus ob- 
tuse calloso-mucronulatis) submembranacea penninervia venulis 
translucentibus supra scabriuscula_pilis brevibus incurvis basl 
glandulari-tuberculatis subtus similiter pubescentia pilis lo er. 
ibus et mollibus 14-20 em. longa 5.5-8.3 cm. lata, in petiolis nudis 
sordide pilosis 2.5-3.7 cm. longis et ultra; superiora (ramealia) 
similia basi longius cuneata minora 5.5-10 cm. longa 1.7-3.8 em. 
