iSgi.] 



Un described pla n ts from Gua tem a la . 



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rounded base to acute mucronulate apex. — Pansamahi forest, 

 alt. 4,000 feet, July 1887, v. Tlirckheim (Ex Pl. cit. 1332.) 



ArctosTAPHYLOS PUNGENS H. B. K., (;iof Gray), var. 

 cratericola. — Younger parts and racemes puberulous: branch- 

 . lets trigonal from stout short (1 line) petioles: leaves crowded, 

 smooth and shining, punctate bcneath, oval or obovate 

 (6-7xJ:-5 llnes), each end obtuse, apcx callose: capituliform 

 racemes scarcely equalling leaves, 4-6-flowered, coloured 

 bracts exceeding abbreviated pedicels: filaments circularly 

 dilated at middle, chiefly beardless; anthers nearly half as 

 long, equallingshort smooth awns: style excecding stamens. — 

 Tufted, with prostrate branches a foot or more long, on rocks 

 in the crater of Volcan de Agua, alt. 12,000 feet, April 



1890, J. D. S. (Ex Pl. cit. 2150.) 



SOLANUM OLIV.-EFORME, Botan. Gazette, XTV. 28, XV. 28. 



ExPLANATioN OF Plate II. — Fig. I, portion of a plant in flower. Fig. 2, 

 portion of a plant in fruit. Fig. 3, vertical section of flower. Fig. 4, stamen. 

 Fig. 5, pistil. Fig. 6, transverse section of fruit. Figs. i and 2 are natural 



size; the others are variously enlarged. 



Daphiiopsis Tuerclvheimiaiia (§ Nordmannia Benth. et 



Hook.) — Epiphytal (?), dichotomous: petioles short, incras- 

 sate; lcaves coriaceous, glabrous, ovate-lanceolatc or lanceo- 

 late (3-5 in.), caudately produced, base acute, margin revolute, 

 veins immersed: umbelliform staminate fascicles lateral 

 and terminal, subsessile, bracteate, pilose, 5— 7-flowcred, 

 pedicels short: perianth 5-G-timcs longer (3^-4 lines), clavate, 

 smooth within, lobes one-fifth as long with alternate ones the 

 broader: superior stamens partly exsert, interior insertedabove 

 middle of tube: abortive ovary hirsute, globose, equalling 

 style, ovulc manifest; stipe long as pistil (.^ line) ; scales as 



united in cylindrical dentate sheath splitting variously: 

 fertile flowers not seen. — Inflorescence apparently similar to 

 that of a recent Brazilian species, D. Siiioicia?ia Taubert, 

 Bot. Jahrb. XII, Beibl. 7, which seems incorrectly referred 

 to the section Neivira Griseb. — PansamaUi forest, alt. 3,800 

 feet, Sept. 1886, v. Tiirckheim. (Ex Pl. cit.1039.) 



MvRTOCARPA longipes Liebm., var. Yzahalensis. — Leaves 



round-oval, abruptly cuspidate, petioles from a third to nearly 



branches of pistillate 



long, 



as 



long 



and like veins 



strigillose: 



inflorescence 2-3, twice dichotomous, flowcrs sessilc: achenia 

 black and shining, scabrid with sparse short hairs: stigma 



