1893.] Undescribed plants from Guatemala. 21I 
rooting at nodes, pubescent on one side: sheathes 4—5! long, 
margins villose; leaves ovate-acuminate or ovate-lanceolate 
(13-3 Xx 1-17), acute, equal at rounded or narrowed base, sub- 
petiolate, both surfaces glabrous or pilose: bracts foliaceous 
in form and size, unequal in the pair; pedicels of terminal 
umbels elongate (16—20^, numerous, sparsely villose: sepals 
oblong (3X 1), obtuse apex barbate: petals marked with un- 
dulate black lines: filaments pilose below, anther-cells adja- 
cent and oblique, minute connective cuneate: capsule globose 
(2), puberulous, seeds to the cell two and subquadrate or one 
and longer, strongly rugose. (J. D. S.)— Santa Rosa, alt. 
3,000", April 1892, Heyde & Lux, (ex Pl. cit. 3,515); Vol- 
can Pacaya, Depart. Amatitlan, alt. 9,000*, July 1892, Dr. 
W. C. Shannon, U. S. A., (ex Pl. cit. 3,665); Lake Ayarza, 
Sept. 1892, Heyde & Lux, (ex Pl. cit. 3,886). 
Tinantia leiocalyx C. B. Clarke.—Sepalis extus omnino 
(aut fere) glabris, sine glandulis; pistillo 12-ovulato; cetera 
T. fugaci Scheidw. similis.—Erect (4"), branching, pubes- 
cence of stems scattered: leaves ovate (21—3lx 14-2"), 
acuminate, base rounded or sub-cordate, cuneately produced 
into petiole, pubescent above: peduncles and pedicels naked, 
smooth; bracts lanceolate (4, bractlets none: sepals large, 
oblong (6—7x2^, in flowera half longer than pedicels: longer 
filaments spiral, 2 broadly scariose-alate and albo-arachnoid 
below middle, the third exbarbate, anthers elliptical (15); 
shorter filaments half as long, aureo-barbate at middle, 
anthers little smaller and circular. (J. D. S.)—Banks of the 
Rio Samalá, Depart. Retalhuleu, alt. 1,100", Oct. 1891, 
Dr. W. C. Shannon, U. S. A., (ex Pl. cit. 695). 
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