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[From the BOTANICAL Gazette, Vol. xiii, No. 4.] 



Undescribed plants froni Guatemala. IIL 



JOHN DONNELL SMITH, 

 ■{WITH PLATE U.) 



■ Mimosa sesquijugata. (Series Sensitivm Benth.) — Fruticu- 

 lose, suberect, glabrous, unarmed : stipules linear, rigid, 

 striate, setose-ciliate, \\ lines long ; petioles firm, 12-18 lines 

 long; leaflets coriaceous, glaucous, oblong, obtuse or acut- 

 ish, mucronate, base dimidiate-cordate, 4-nerved, reticu- 

 late, 8-10 lines long, half as broad, margin and under- 

 surface rigidly setose, interior leaflet of lower pair want- 

 ing; rhachises bristly, 1-2 lines long: flowers tetrameroiis ;, 

 peduncles retrorsely strigillose, more than half as long as 

 petioles ; bracts subulate, ciHate, less than half as long as 

 corolla : calyx almost obsolete, hyaline, ciliate-toothed : co- 

 rolla glabrous, purple, i line long : stamens 3-4 lines long : 

 legume not seen. — Near the Brazilian M. glauccscens Benth. 

 ex cliar. — In rock-fissm-es near Santa Rosa, Dept. Baja Vera- 

 paz, alt.' 5,000 feet, July, 1887. (Ex Plantis Guatemalensi- 

 bus Tuerckheimianis,qiiasedidit John Donnell Smith, 1327.) 



Melampodium brachyglossuui.— Annual, herbaceous, 2-3 feet 

 high: stem pilose, glandular above, dichotomous, branches- 

 quadrangular : leaves scabrid on both surfaces, subtripli- 

 nerved, coarsely toothed, i\-2^. inches long, triangular, 

 acuminate, abruptly contracted to a winged petiole dilated 

 at base ; varying to oblong and lanceolate, cuneately con- 

 tracted below the middle, sessile : peduncles filiform, 1-2 

 inches long : heads 2 linesbroad and high ; involucral scales 

 3, shortly connate, round-acuminate, pilose ; rays 6-7,quad- 

 rate-orbicular,f line in diameter, 2-3-Iobed, pilose beneath, 

 yellow; fructiferous bracts rugose, callose - tuberculate ; 

 achenia incurved-pyriform, concentrically striate, i line long. 



" ' " ' 4,300 feet, July, 1885, 



May, 18S6. (Ex Pl. cit. 114, 761.) 



Ardisia Tuerclilieimii.— A small tree : glabrous throughout: 

 leaves coriaceous, glaucous, lineolate and punctate beneath, 

 entire, oblong, 3-4 inches long, a third as broad, apex cau- 

 dately produced and obtuse, narrowed to a short petiole : 

 corvmbs terminal, shortly peduncled, half as long as leaves ; 

 pedicels ^-^^ subumbellate at apex of flexuose rhachis and 

 of its 2-3 primarv branches, 7-9 lines long: sepals 5, ovate- 

 oblong, a third as long as petals, persistent in fruit : petals^, 

 eloneate-oblong, 3^ lines long, obtuse, white, like the sepals 



