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TJndeseribed plants from Guateiiiala. L 



JOHN DONNELL SMITH, 



VociiYsiA GuATEMALENsis. (Series Lntesccntes^ Warm,, 

 FI. Brasil. xui.^ 59.) — Smooth and shiiiing except the 

 puberulous leaf-buds, stipules, rachises and calyx-Iobes : 

 purplish branchlets costate-angled by a decurrent Hne from 

 each stipule, interpetiolar sides concave : stipules persistent, 

 ^ubulate, i^ lines long with an acute canescent tip ; petioles 

 an inch long ; leaves 3-4-verticiIlate, opposite, or upper- 

 rnost rarely alternate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at each 

 end, ^-6 inches long, less than a third as broad : thyrsi com- 

 posing leafy panicles, terminal and from upper axils, cylin- 

 drical, 4-7 inches long, rachis angulate and sulcate; cirinni 

 approximate, ^--^-flovvered, mostly about an inch long with- 

 out the flowers, peduncles and short pedicels suberect and 

 triqnetrous : flower-buds linear, scarcely 1+ lines broad, 

 slightly recurved, acuminate ; calyx sparsely dotted with red 

 glands, anterior lobes broadly ovate and a line long, lateral 

 ones rounder and smaller, posterior lobe 8-10 lines long and 

 reflexed-patent after anthesis with its slender terete de- 

 flexed spur half as long as calyx ; petals oblong-obovate, the 

 anterior one half as long as calyx and 2 lines broad, the 

 others a little shorter and much narrower ; stamen linear- 

 spatulate, nearly twice longer than petals, the 5-Iines-long 

 and i-line-broad anther narrowing at base into the tapering 

 filament ; staminodes tipped with a red gland ; style not 

 thickened above ; stigma minute ; capsule (immature) ob- 

 long, thrice longer than broad, obtusely trigonal, — Leaves 

 nearly of V. maguifica Warm., but longer-acuminate, mu- 

 cronulate, costal arches less distinct, reticulation more minute, 

 and stipules conspicuous for the series ; distinguished better 

 by floral characters, — A lofty tree, not rare in its locality, 

 with vast panicles of shining-yellow flowers, discovered by 

 Mr. H. von Turckheim in the mountain-forests of Pansa- 

 mala, Dept. Aha Vera Paz, altitude 3,800 feet, June, 1886. 

 (Planta^ Guatemalenses Tuerckheimiana% a John Donnell 

 Smith edita^, 943-') Remarkable as the only species of a larg*; 

 genus, and wnth a single exception the only representative of 

 its order, that has been found outside of South America. 



^Sets o/ tJiis series of plants are Ju eourse of preparation for distribution 'o Gray 

 Herb HarTard Universitv; Torrey Herb.. Colnmbia College; Xational Herb.. Washing- 

 ton; Kew Herb-i Londoa"; Must^um d'hist. nat. de ParU; Koaigl. botanisches Mtueum. 

 Beriin. 



