VOL, XIV, NO. 2 -BOTANICAL GaZETTE -FEB.. 1889 



Undescribed plants froiu Guatemala. VI. 



JOHN DONNELL SMITH 



(WITH PLATES VI aiid VII.) 



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GuATTERiA GRANDiFLORA. — Arboreous : lcaves shortly 

 petloled, r.oriaceous, glabrous except pilose midrib beneath, 

 obovate-oblong (6-8 inches), a third as broad, cuspidate : 

 peduncle terminal, 1^2 inches long, articulated midway, 

 lanceolate bract an inch long : petals thrice exceedmg ovate 

 sepals, oblong (14-16 lines), obtuse, nearly equal, fleshy, 

 fuscous-velvety, the 3 interior gkxtinose-papillate tovvard 

 base within: berries few (10-12), glabrous, elhpsoid, each 



end obtuse, 10 Hnes long, half as broad, 4-times exceeding 

 incrassate stipe ; seed corrugate.— Pansamala forest, Depart. 

 Aha Verapaz, alt. 3.800 feet, May, 1887 (Ex Pl. Guat. 



J. D. S., 1,235).— The few other species 

 with shortly stipitate carpels, of which G. J^nmducnstsTv.e\. 

 Planch., seems the most nearly related, differ respectively, 

 as described, by axilhiry inflorescence, or smaller flowers, 

 or less elongate fruit. 



Clidemia cymifera (§ Sagrcea Cogn.).— Branchlets, 

 petioles, leaf-veins and calyxes stellate-furfuraceous, rubes- 

 cent: leaves a little or twice exceeding petioles, ovate-acum- 

 inate 3-=; inches long, somewhat unequal in the pairs, 5-7- 

 nerved from cordate base, ghibrate above, margms scabro- 

 ciliate: cymes from axiHary bracteolate nodes pseudo-fasci- 

 cled at iength 1-3 and pedunculate, trichotomous, ii-2 

 inches long; axes divaricate, filiform, exceeding flowers, 

 dabrous, red : calyxurceolate, teeth shortly subulate-appen- 

 aao-ed: petals obovate-oblong (4-5 Hnes), twice exceeding 

 calvx roseate : anthers incurved, shorter than filaments, in- 

 appendicuLate connective not produced : ovary one-third 

 free, conical apex glaucous : berry «val.-Rocks of a water- 

 fall, Pansamala, ah. 3,800 feet, June, 1885 (Ex PL cit. 709). 



Blakea Guatemalensis (§ Euhlaliea Triand).— Fur- 



