l88 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [J^b'' 



[Froni the Botanical Gazette» Vol. xiii, No. 7.] 



Uiidescribed plauts froiu Guatem«ila. IV 



JOHN DONNKLL SMITH 



(WITH PLATE XI.) 



Gouzalea tliyrsoidea.— Pilose : leaves except veins glabrate, 

 oblong (8-9 inches), each end acuminate, shortly petioled ; 

 thyrsus virgate, a foot long ; flowers 3-7, pedicellate, in scat- 

 tered nearly sessile cymose clusters : cal^-x-tube produced ; 

 teeth smooth, colored, small, triangular, unequal : corolla- 

 tube cylindrical, 7 lines long ; lobes nearly half as long, of a 

 darker red, farinaceous and arachnoid w^ithin, their contact 

 in ajstivation alternately imbricate and induplicate-valvate : 

 anthers barely included : style scarcely attaining to their 

 base ; divisions of stigma 4, Hnear : disk radiately S-lobuled : 

 ovary 4-locular. — Mountains of Pansamala, Dept. Alta Ve- 

 rapaz, alt. 3,800 feet, May, 1887. (Ex Plantis Guatemalensi- 

 busTuerckheimianis,quas edidit John Donnell Smith, 1249.) 



ILikania pyramidata.— High-cHmbing shrub with ferruginous- 

 " hirsute branches,petioles and inflorescence : leaves pubescent, 

 more scabrid above, ovate-lanceohite, slenderly acuminate, 

 4-8 inches long, base truncate or rounded, margin with an 

 angulate tooth and distant callose points, nerves from base 

 in 2-3 remote pairs : panicles pyramidal, compound, densely 

 flowered, 6-12 inches long ; branches brachiate, leafy-bracted 

 below, the upper alternate ; heads loosely corymbose, pedi- 

 cels equaling involucre ; its bracts glabrate, linear-oblong 



(2 lines), apex obtusish and pubescent, subtending bract 



shorter and lanceolate or none : corolla equaling involucre ; 

 Hmb campanulate, exceeding slender tube, cleft to middle in 

 ovate-lanceolate lobes : akenes nearly smooth, a little ex- 

 ceeded by involucre and sordid-white pappus. — Forest near 

 Coban, Dept. Alta Verapaz, alt. 4,300 feet. January, 18S7. 



(ExPl. cit. 1106.) 



Zexmeuia Guatemaleusis. — Fruticose, scabrid, cano-pilose : 



leaves muricate-scabrous above, hairy beneath, tripli-nerved, 



mucronately denticulate, ovate-lanceolate, 4-6 inches long, 



spatulately naiTowed to dilated connate base : peduncles 



cano-Ianate, 3-5, subumbellate at apex of branches, exceeded 



by subtending leaves : heads hemispherical, 5 lines high ; 



exterior bracts of biserial involucre 5, herbaceous, a third 



lono-er than the 8 inferior: rays 8, bidentate, 6 lines long : 



