'^^951 Undescribed Plants from Guatemala. .7 



Thyrsus broad, 8-io'° long; peduncle 1^-3'" long; axes puber- 

 ulous, minutely lepidote, the secondary i-i^^° long. Calyx 

 as broad as long, 2>\ occasionally with a few large glands. 

 Corolla 2^-2|^^ long; tube nearly cylindrical, at middle 6-/ 

 broad, smooth within except paleaceous-barbate insertion of 

 stamens at contracted base; lobes puberulous within, asbroad 

 as long, y-g\ contracted below. Stamens didynamous; fila- 

 ments arcuate, 8-10^ long; anther-cells divaricate, 2^ long, 

 connective round-apiculate. Ovary linear; lobes of stigma 

 elliptical, iMong; ovules uniseriate at each placenta, 25-30 

 pairs to the cell. . Capsules not seen. — According to the 

 synoptical arrangement of species by Schumann in Engl & 

 Prantl Nat. Pflafizenfam. the above is tp be grouped with 

 A. Chica Bur. The leaves and inflorescence resemble more 

 nearly those of Distictis elongata Bun The whole plant be- 

 comes blackened as an exsiccata. 



Sandy grounds near San Pedro Sula, Honduras, alt. 600* 



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Arrabid^a Chica Bun, var, yiscida Donnell Smith. 



Folia trifoliolata, foliolis' supra strigillosis subtus velutinis 

 cuspidato-acuminatis, lateralibus quidem e basi oblique cor- 

 data 5-nervia orbiculari-ovatis, medio maximo e basi rotund- 

 ata 3-nervia orbiculari-obovato interdum in cirrhum immu- 

 tato lateralibus tunc ovato-lanceolatis. Paniculse et terminales 

 et axillares cum calycibus glandulo-viscidce. ^ 



Casillas, Depart. S. Rosa, Guat, alt. 4,000^ May 1893, 

 Heyde & Lux, no. 4,550. 



Distictis Eovirosana Donnell Smith. — Folia recentiora 

 stellato-canescentia, adulta praeter petiolos longos et nervos 

 glabrata, foliolis oblongo-obovatis ad formam ovalem vel 

 oblongo-ovatam ludentibus caudato-acuminatis, basi 3-5" 

 nervia plerumque retusa. Thyrsi incani angusti foliis re- 

 centioribus bracteati in paniculam terminalem amplam dis- 

 positi, cymulis 3-chotomis. Calyx anguste campanulatus, 

 dentibus mucronatis. Corolla recta campanulato-infundibuli- 

 formis. Discus latior quam altior. Ovula in utraque placenta 

 4-seriata, Capsula ecarinata glandulis magnis maculata 

 ceterum glabra, seminibus in utroque loculo 15-18. 



Trunk very stout, procumbent; branches scandent, striate, 

 glandular-pubescent. Petioles 2-4'° long; leaves 3-foIiate, or 

 conjugate with a simple tendril, 4-6 X 2|-3'"; terminal 

 petiolule J-ii*" long, 2-3 times exceeding the lateral. Thyrsi 



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