VOL. XV. NO. 2- BOTANICAL GAZETTE - FEB.. 1890. 



Undescribed plants from Guatemala. VIL 



JOHN DONNELL SMITH. 

 CWITH PLATE3 III and IV.) 



j5V^(7a:v5 ProL^el in Fl. Brasil. 



Smooth 



except insertion of petioles and of leaflets : rhizome tuberose, 

 woodv, dentate with thick ovate reddish scales : leaflets ter- 

 nate,' subcoriaceous, purple and linear-punctate beneath, 

 lobes widely diverging and oblong-rhomboidal, the exterior 

 one o( lateral leaflets reduced to a cuneate wing : scape little 

 exceeding leaves, 4-6 inches long, umbellately 4-flowered : se- 

 pals lanceolate, apex biglandular: corolla more than twice 

 longer (5-6 hnes), purple ; longer filaments ciliolate, edentu- 

 late : styles barbate : capsule lanceolate-oblong, a little exceed- 

 ing calyx, ceils 3-4-seeded. — Low grounds near Coban, 

 Depart. Alta Verapaz, alt. 4,300 feet, April 1889, J. D. S. 

 (Ex PI. Guat., qu. edid. J. D. S., 1682.) 



flanburia parviflora. Botan. Gazette, xiii, 299.— Leaves 



undivided and oblong-lanceolate, or 2-3-partite, margin 

 entire or coarsely dentate : monoicous flowers from same or 

 distinct axils, peduncle of the female twice exceeding raceme 

 of the male : fruit obliquely ovate-Ianceolate, sparsely echi- 

 nate and tnberculate.— The characters, completing descrip- 

 tion, are drawn from my collections in clearings at Pansam- 

 aIa,'April, 1889, the stems, many yards long, forming 



thickets. (Ex Pi. cit. 1509.) 



Styrax Guatemalensis.— Tree 30-40 feet high ; pubescence 

 of branchlets, petioles and inflorescence stellular, flavescent 

 sprinkled with red : leaves glabrous, membranaceous, oval 

 or obovate, acuminate, base acute, entire, 3-4 inches long, 

 half as broad : flowers nodding, 5-8 in a terminal short loose 

 raceme, also single or geminate from upper axils, 8 lines 

 lon'»-: calyx sub-equaling pedicel and petioles, truncate, 

 teethnearly obsolete : petals twice exceeding calyx, canescent, 

 one-third-adnate, imbricating, oblong, obtuse : shortly mon- 

 adelphous stamens inserted below throat : ovarv one-third- 

 immersed,ovulcs about 24.— Sasis, Depart. AltaVerapaz, alt. 



000 



H. Helmrick (Ex Pl. cit. 1690 



grandifolia Ait. differs by discolorate leaves, toothed 



calyx, long raceme ; 



descrtpt 



