8 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
Ad oras Río Dolores in fundo Cubilquitz, Depart. Alta Verapaz, Guat., 
alt. 350", ful. rgot, voz Tuerckbheim, n. 7974 ex Pl. Guat. &c., quas ed. 
Donn Sm.— Eandem plantam, ut videtur, a cl. E. P. Johnson in Yucatan vel 
Tabasco sub n. 118 lectam in Herb. Kew. inveni. 
Zamia Tuerckheimii Donn. Sm.— Folia glabra 14-jugo-pinnata, 
rhachi petiolum sparsim minuteque aculeatum bis superante 
ultra foliola graciliter producta, foliolis suboppositis oblanceo- 
latis abrupte breviterque acuminatis in basin perangustam attenu- 
atis integerrimis, nervis in medio folioli 40 et ultra in basi 
circiter 8. Strobilus 4 lineari-cylindricus pedunculo bis longior, 
staminibus tota facie inferiore praeter plagam mediam angustam 
loculigeris. Strobilus ? brevissime pedunculatus longe cuspidato- 
acuminatus, carpidiorum seriebus et verticalibus et horizontalibus 
circiter 9. 
Truncus saxifragus primum pendens demum ascendens 1.5-37 longus 
27" crassus nonnunquam furcatus (De Tuerckheim in litt.). Folii rhachis 
trigona circiter 9?" longa, internodiis 5-7*" longis, mucrone terminali ps 
longo, foliolis firmo-chartaceis supra nitidulis subtus pallidioribus 19—24** 
longis medio 4—5*" basi 3?" latis,  Strobilus 4 14^" longus 2.5? crassus 
apiculatus, peltis cano-farinosis truncato-pyramidatis subaequa!iter hexagonis, 
staminum seriebus verticalibus circiter 24, horizontalibus circiter 36, loculis 
18-26 globosis discretis vel binatim cohaerentibus. Strobilus ? pedunculo 2 «" 
longo sustentus 18*" longus 6*" crassus, cuspide peltis sterilibus adspersa 
tenuiter conica 3*" longa, peltis cinereo-tomentulosis planis hexagonis bis et 
ultra latioribus quam longioribus. Semina coccinea obovoidea 2*7 longa 
13?" lata.— Monente Thiselton-Dyer, Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew, claro rectore, Z. 
acuminatae Oerst. ex Dyer in Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am., necnon Z. Zoufteanae 
This..Dyer, MS. in Herb. Kew, affinis; haec tamen foliolis falcatis vix 
acuminatis, illa foliolis paucioribus sensim tenuiterque acuminatis, utraque 
nervis minus crebris, diversa ; utriusque strobili ignoti. 
In praecipitiis saxosis udis umbrosis prope Cubilquitz, Depart. Alta Vera- 
paz, Guat., alt. 350", Jul. 1900, vom Tuerckheim, n. 7786 ex. Pl. Guat. &c., 
quas ed. Donn. Sm. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.—FtG. 1, leaf, reduced to 1$ natural size.— 
FiG. 2, leaflet, natural size.— F1G. 3, staminate strobile, natural size.— F1G. 
4, vertical view of stamen, enlarged.— F 1G. 5, upper side of stamen, enlarged. 
— Fi1G. 6, lower side of stamen, enlarged.— Fr1G. 7, strobile in fruit, natural 
size.— F1G. 8, lower side of carpidium, enlarged.— F1G. 9, upper side of 
carpidium, enlarged.— F1G. 10, seed, enlarged.— F1G. 11, vertical section of 
seed, enlarged.— FiG. 12, embryo, enlarged. 
