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Excerpt from New Plants From Guatemala and Honduras The present paper by Dr. S. F. Blake, of the Bureau of Plant In dustry, United States Department of Agriculture, contains descrip tions of forty-six new species of flowering plants from eastern Guatemala and Honduras. The collection of which these new species form a part was made during the spring of 1919 by several members of an Economic Survey Mission sent out by the United States De partment of State, to which Prof. Henry Pittier, Dr. S. F. Blake, and Mr. G. B. Gilbert, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, were at tached as botanists. A paper containing notes on the uses and native names of the plants collected on this expedition is in process of preparation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.