l888.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 299 



[From the Botanical Gazette, Vol. xiii, Ko. 11.] 



Undescribed plants froiii Guateulala. V 



JOIIN DONNELL SMITII. 



(WITH PLATES XXIII and XXIV.) 



VocHYSiA GuATEMALENSis. Bot. Gazette, xiT, 131. ExplMnation of 

 Plate xxni; Fig. 1. FLowerina; branch— natural size. Fig;. 2. Irnniature 

 capsule. Fig. 3. Flower. Fig. 4. Same with pistil exposed. Fig. 5. 

 Staminode. Fig. 6. Stamen. Fig. 7. Anterior petal. Fig. 8. One of the 

 lateral petals. Fig. 9. Vertical section ot ovary. Fig. 10. Ovuie. Fig. 

 11. Diagram of flower. (Figs. 3-11 are vanously enlarged.) 



HanlMii-ia i>arviflora.-Leaves roiindish, base emargi^nate, 

 5-6 inches long, 5-times exceeding petiole, triphnerved, tn- 

 partite nearly to base, divisions oblong-hmceohite : shortly 

 peduncled racemes i2-i5-flo\vered, flexuose, nodding, twice 

 exceeding petioles, spreadihg pedicels equalling flowers : 

 calyx urceohite-campanulate, 6 Hnes long, nearly half as 

 broad, teeth minute ; corolhi-segments ovate, half as long as 

 calyx, reflexed: fihiment-cohimn 4 lines long, anthenterous 

 gloWe-turbinate head 2 hnes broad, cells in 10-12 pairs: 

 pistilhite flowers not seen.— The other species of this genus 

 //. Mexicana Seem., has long-petioled uniformly undivided 

 leaves exceeded by peduncles of rigid racemes, sparse 

 twice-larger flowers, a shortly campanul.te calyx, anther- 

 cells in more numerous lines.— PansamaLa, alt. 3,800 feet, 

 April, 1S8S. (Ex PL Guat. Tuerckh.. qu. edid. J. D. S., 

 1366.) 



Calea tnolH>toma.- Branclies divaricate, fusco-tomcntose : 

 leaves petiohite. 12-18 lines long, subcordate, tnphnerved, 

 remotelv serruhate, scabrid above, cano-tomentose beneath : 

 pedicels^^of simple or compound terminal corymbs 3, halt an 



