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[From the Botanical Gazette, Vol. XX.] 



JOHN DONNELL SMITH. 



WITH PLATES I-IIL 



Porcelia microcarpa Donnell Smith: — Pubens. Folia 



membranacea, adulta praeter margines nervosque jjlabres- 

 centia^ obovato-elliptica abrupte acuminata, basi acuta, 

 Pedunculi solitarii uniflon» bracteola mediana. Petala exter- 

 iora lineari-lanceolata pollicaria, interiora parum longiora 

 angustiora. Stamina obpyramidalia. Ovula pauca subuni- 

 seriata. Baccae stipitatae parvae breviter cylindricse leviter con- 

 strictae apiculatse, seminibus 1-5 globosis compressis. 



Shrub 6-9^' high. Leaves distichous with very short inter- 

 nodes, 3-4 x l^-i^^ paler beneath, petioles i^^ long. Pe- 

 duncles opposite to leaves, 5-7^ long, in fruit twice longer; 

 bracteole ovate-lanceolate, 4^ long. Perianth pubescent, 

 fuscous, membranaceous, 3-5-nerved; sepals ovate-lanceo- 

 late; exterior petals 3' broad, the interior 14-15 x 2\ Sta- 

 mens subsessile, |^ long, the dilated incurved apex of con- 

 nective nearly as broad. Carpels 8-1 1, oblong, ^ long, 

 pilose, sessile on truncate apex of hemispherical torus, ovules 

 4-7? the middle ones occasionally biseriate. Berries 3-4, 

 9-1 1 X 5\ the interior ones often globose and i-seeued, stipe 

 I-2' long, seeds 4* in diameter, longitudinally encircled by a 

 groove. — Porcelia Nicaraguensis Benth. (represented in the 

 series of exsiccat(B by nos. 474, 4,508, 4,519, 5,041), remark- 

 able by petals 4-5''' long, presents a similar structure of flow- 

 ers, but the seeds are biseriate and numerous. — Shores of Rio 



Ocosito, Depart. Q 

 J. D. S., no. 1,484. 



300% Apr. 1892, 



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