^ 



I89I-J 



Undescribed Plants from Giiatemala, 



197 



attached at base: stigma convex, exumbonate: immature fol- 



licle fusiform, tapering to long 



stipe. 



in 



Benth. 



et Hook. , the nearest congener, is a herbaceous perennial 

 with linear-oblong leaves" rounded and glandular at base, cili- 

 ate corolla, adnate coronal processes cymbiform, stigma um- 

 bonate. — Rocky islands in Rio Rubelcruz, Dept. Altn 

 Verapaz, alt. 2,500 ft., May 1887, v. Turckheim, (Ex Pl. 



J 



Soleiiophora eriibesceiis. — Glabrous, rubescent, tumid 



nodes marked by an interpetiolar hne: leaves oval to elliptical- 

 oblong, the larger in the pairs 2-3^ in. long, the other a third 

 smaller, apex acutish, base inequiJateral, coriaceous, rubes- 

 cent beneath, indistinctly sinuate-serrate, petioles from \ to 

 \ as long as leaves: flowers single on shorter axillary peduncles 

 bibractcate in middle, or few in trichotomous cymes chiefly 

 terminal: calyx coriaceous, 5-costate, rubro-maculate, obconic 

 (9 !.), in flower \- and in fruit ^-adnate, lobes ovate (2 1.}: 

 corolla infundibuliform, twice exceeding calyx, yellow, |-tubu- 

 lar, limb expanding to 8 lines broad; lobes suberect, trans- 

 versely oblong (2x5 L), the interior the greatest and 

 pectinate-crenate: style 2-lobulatc: fruit baccate, oval (5 L), 

 crimson, crow^ned with persistent 2-lobed gIand.--Habit pe- 

 culiar by glabrity and small leaves. — Rocks of.a waterfall, 

 Pansamahi, alt. 3,800 ft., May 1887, v. Turckheim, (Ex Pl. 

 cit. 731); same locality, Apr. 1889, J. D. S., (Ex PL cit 1,684). 



Besleria Pansamjilana {Podobeslcria Bcnth. et Hook.j. — 



EpiphytaL repent, ligneous branches ascending a foot or two, 

 pubescent: leaves shortly pctiolate, unequal in the pairs, 

 obovate-oblong (5-6 in.), the lower smaller and obovate- 

 rhomboid, acuminate, base obliquely acute, serrulate above 

 middle, under surface pale-pubescent: peduncles single from 

 one or both uppermost axils, half as longas leaves, i-flowered: 

 calyx-segments nearly distinct, ovate* (4-5 L), green, pluri- 

 nerved, the 2 exterior narrower: corolla from narrow saccate 

 base horizontally supine, ventricosely calceiform, 14 lines 

 long, less than half as high, crimson; throat facing upwards 

 midway betwcen base and ventral apex, constricted (3 L); 

 divisions of small limb roundish, unequal, erect: genitals in- 

 cluded: cells of anthers forming nearly a circle, connective 

 orbicular: disk annular: style short (3 L), ^-bilobed. — Related 

 to B. Onogastra Hanst. by the corolla curiously resembling 

 the lip of Cypripcdium, but distinct by inflorescence, oalyx, 



