^^94] U^idescribed Plajitsfrom Guatemala, 5 



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by M. Marchal, of O. Xalapense Dcne et Planch. The only 

 other species described with digitate leaflets, 0. Thibautii 

 Hook. f, , is reduced by M. Marchal to a form of 0. Xalapense 

 (cf. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 30: 282).— A tree 30--40'* 

 high with branchlets half-encircled by the scars of fallen leaves, 

 known to the natives as Mata-gente, — Barranca de Corona, 

 Depart. Guatemala, alt. 4, 700'^ Febr. 1890 and 1892, J. D. 

 S., nos. 1,905 and 2,664; S. Rosa, alt. 4,000^*, March 1892, 

 Heyde & Lux, no. 3,096; Chiapas, Depart. S. Rosa,alt. 3,500^^ 

 Sept. 1892, Heyde & Lux, no. 3,967. 



Ardisia paschalis. — Glabrous: leaves obovate or elliptical 



(6-7.5x3-3.5^"), obtuse, narrowing to short canah'culate mar- 

 ginate petiole, entire, coriaceous, nitid, rubro-punctate and 

 -striolate: panicle terminal, exceedingleaves; flowers racemose 

 on primary branches, single, 5-merous, rubro-maculate, pedi- 

 cels longer and in fruit nodding: divisionsof calyx convolute, 

 round-ovate (i.^O- coroUa in praefloration dextroisely con- 

 torted, yellowish-white, the conspicous stellate centre thick- 

 ened by dark-yellow pigment-cells, tube mlnute (half a line) 

 and equalling explanate throat, obtuse segments oblong (4') 

 and revolute: stamens slightly monadelphous at apex of tube; 

 anthers ovoid-oblong (2'),twice exceeding filaments, apiculate, 

 before anthesis cohering in a cone by longitudinal sutures of 

 of dehiscence: ovary ovoid, stylefiliform: fruit pisiform (3~40» 

 endocarp crustaceous. — A shrub 6-9^' high, with fragrant and 

 showy flowers that are singularly large for the genus, called 

 by the natives Chilil, and used during Easter week for decor- 

 ating the altars of the churches. — Cuyotenango, Depart. Su- 

 chitepequez, alt. 1,100'*, April 1892,). D. S., no. 2,465; S, 

 Rosa, alt. 3>ooo^ May 1892, Heyde & Lux, no. 3*023; Cerro 

 Gordo, Depart. S. Rosa, alt. 3,5^0^ Sept. 1892, Heyde & 

 Lux, no. 3,988; Casillas, Depart. S. Rosa, alt. 4.000% May 

 1893, Heyde & Lux, no. 4.537- Collected also along Rio 

 Permejo, S. Pedro Sula, Honduras, July 1887, by Dr. C, 

 Thieme. 



ExpLANATioN OF Plate I.— Fig. I, braQch with flowers. Fig. 2, branch with 

 fruit. Fig. 3. portioa of leaf. Fig. 4. flower-bud. Fig. 5. open flower. Fig. 

 6. stamens. Fig. 7. pistil. Fig. 8, half of a corolla with stamens. Fig. 9, 

 vertical section of fruit. (Figs. i and 2 are natural size; in the others the ob- 

 jects are variously enlarged.) 



Piper Lnxii C. DC. f§ III. Steffensia C. DC.)— Foliis 



modice petiolatis eliiptico-lanceolatis basi insequali acutis 

 supra praesertim ad nervos subtusque densius breviter hirsutis, 



