26 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ FeblTia>-y, 



[Froin the BoTAiNiCAL Gazette, Vol. xiii. No 2.] 



Undescribed plants froni Guatemala. 11. 



; JOHN DOXNELL SMITH. 



Clirjsochljiinys Guatemallecaiia. (§ Tovoinitofsis) . — Arboreous, 

 branchlets terete : leaves oblanceolate, 4-9 inches long. a 

 third as broad, shortlv acuminate, narrowed acuminately to 

 a short petiole, chief lateral veins 10-12, younger leaves 

 aureo-punctate and delicately reticulate with free veinlets : 

 panicle short-peduncled, 3-4'inches long, tri-quadri-trichoto- 

 mous, ultimate clusters cyniose, axes complanate, bracteoles 

 triangular and concave ": flowers in specimens seen pseudo- 

 hermaphrodite ; alahasha round-oval, half the length of 

 pedicels ; bracts 2, ovate, \\ lines long : sepals 4, oval, nearly 

 equal, 3 lines long : petals 4, obovoid, a little exceeding 

 sepals, like them striate and punctate : stamens eftete, in- 

 definite, concrete at base, equaling ovary, external ones 

 shorter, filaments flat and linear-tapering : stigmas 5, cune- 

 ately oblong, confluent at base, exceeding diameter of 5- 

 locular ovary.— Forests of Pansamala. Depart. Alta Vera- 

 paz, alt. 3,800 feet, June, 1886. (-Ex Plantis Guatemalensi- 

 bus Tuerckheimianis, quas edidit John Donnell Smith. 989.) 



Harpalyce ruplcola.— A shrub : petioles 6-9 lines long, like 

 the racemes ferruginous-pubescent ; leaves 4-5 inches long ; 

 leaflets 11-15, oblong, retuse, rounded at base, i inch or less 

 lon<s half as broad, terminal one the longest, dlminishing to 

 lovv^est pair one-half shorter and oval, at fnst puberulous 

 above and aureo-atomiferous beneath, both surfaces soon 

 glabrate and minutely reticulatcd, impunctate, margins revo- 

 lute, petiolulate : racemes axillary or from leafless nodes in 

 terminal panicles, nearly equaling leaves, 12-18 flowered, 

 peduncle equaling petiole, pedicel 4 lines long: calyx to- 

 mentose, atomiferous,' oblong-falcate, hall an mch long: 

 petals purple, auricled on one side ; vexillar exceedmgthe 

 TS 9 lines long, 7 lines broad, round-obovate, auncle 

 minute ; alar 2^ lines broad ; carinal a little shorter, partly 

 coherin<^: staminal sheath cleft to base ; greater anthers 

 linear-oblong, f linelon^; others ovate, one-thn-d as long : 

 ovary linear, i locular, 6-7 ovulate.-Approachmg // «r3^;-- 

 escens Grav, the originals of which (Ervendberg 18, Coulter 

 -^t6\ in Harvard Univ. herb. difter by their coriaceous ob- 

 scurelv veined leaves atro-punctate beneath the close pubes- 

 cence of under surface, short racemes of smaller flowers, 

 1 • r„..T„*^^ ,,^..iii,,,r. cmnllf^r Ipss heteromorDhous anthers. 



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