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1893.] Undescribed Plants from Guatemala. T T 
thick-coriaceous, smooth and shining, margins revolute, nerves 
few and robust: peduncles axillary, short (3-65, pilose; 
pedicels 3—7-fasciculate, half or two-thirds as long as flowers: 
tube of calyx obpyramidate, pentagonal, lobes twice longer 
(4—5^) and subulate by conduplicately cohering margins: corolla 
evenly cylindrical (1 5-17X2$), throat scarcely ampliate, 
lobes subequal (2): stamens included, twice exceeding stami- 
node, insertion barbate, anthers reniform by diverging oval 
cells: disk none: berry depressed-globose (4 X 5), fleshy; seeds 
ten to twelve, scariose-alate, enveloped in fibrose pulp.— A 
pseudo-parasitic shrub, not repent.—San Miguel Uspantán, 
alt. 8,000", Apr. 1892, Heyde & Lux, (ex Pl. cit. 3,044). 
4Egyphila faleata.— Branchlets tetragonal, thickened at 
nodes, smooth: petioles brachiate, canaliculate, short (6-95; 
leaves chartaceous, nitid, faintly punctate, oval (7-9 x 4-55, 
the younger ovate-oblong, each end broadly rounded and 
abruptly short-acuminate, falcate, base conduplicate, midrib 
salient beneath, costal nerves robust: axillary cymes half- 
equalling leaves and long-pedunculate, the terminal thyrsoid 
and brachiate, nodes complanate, foliaceous bracts lanceolate, 
axes fastigiate, bractlets subulate: flowers 4-merous, sub- 
diclinous, dimorphous, puberulent, shortly pedicellate: calyx 
obpyramidate, mouth nearly truncate: corolla reddish-yellow, 
hypocraterimorphous, narrow tube one to four times as long 
as calyx, limb ampliate (21), stamens all more or less pollen- 
iferous, the semi-abortive included in short corolla, the others 
twice exceeding elongate corolla. — A symmetrical tree 30-40" 
high, with ahabit other than that of ZZ. e/aa Swz. by its foli- 
age and abundantly axillary inflorescence, and with the dimor- 
phous flowers of ZE. arboresceus Vahl. — Escuintla, alt. I, IO0O^, 
Apr. 1890, J. D. S. (ex Pl. cit. 2, 111), distributed as ZZ. e/ata 
Swz..SanF elipe, Depart. Retalhuleu, alt 2,000*, Apr. 1892, 
J. D. S., (ex Pl. cit. 1,479). 
Baltimore, Md. 
