JAN., 1907. THE GENUS CITHAREXYLUM GREENMAN. 187 



glabrous: fruit drupaceous, oblong-spherical, 6 to 7 mm. long, bluish 

 or purplish-black; pyrenae submeniscoidal, 5 to 6 mm. long, 3 to 3.5 

 mm. broad, smooth. C. caudatum, Donnell Smith, Prim. Fl. Costari- 

 censis ii. 209 (1898) in part, not L. C. villosum, Donnell Smith, Enum. 

 PI. Guat. ji. 60 (1891), not Jacq. GUATEMALA. Pecaya, Department 

 of Amatitlan, altitude 16/5 m., March, 1890, John Donnell Smith, no. 

 1879 (hb. Gray, and hb. John Donnell Smith) type. COSTA RICA. 

 Plantations of the Caf<3 near Aserri, August, 1889, Tonduz, no. 1274 

 (hb. John Donnell Smith) ; along the highway en route to San Pedro, 

 18 November, 1889, Tonduz, no. 1419 (hb. John Donnell Smith); 

 Volcano of Barba, altitude 2000 m., 10 January, 1890, Tonduz, no. 1741 

 (hb. John Donnell Smith); road to Santa Maria de Dota, altitude 

 1492 m., April, 1893, Tonduz, no. 7855 (hb. John Donnell Smith); 

 San Jose, altitude 1135 m., January, 1895, Tonduz, no. 9623 (hb. John 

 Donnell Smith); San Pedro del Mojon, altitude noo m., January, 

 1895, Pittier 6 Tonduz, no. 9624 (hb. John Donnell Smith); environs 

 of the Hacienda Belmira, near Santa Maria de Dota, altitude 1450 m., 

 Tonduz, no. 11,646 (hb. John Donnell Smith). 



Citharexylum Emrickianum, sp. nov. 



Branches sharply 4-angled, striate, glabrous, reddish-brown: 

 leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, 6 to 12 cm. long, 3.5 to 6 cm. broad, 

 obtuse or submucronate at the apex, entire, abruptly contracted at 

 the base and slightly decurrent on the petiole, bi-glandular at the 

 junction of petiole and blade, .glabrous on both surfaces, slightly paler 

 and minutely punctate beneath; petioles i to 3 cm. long: inflores- 

 cence in axillary pedunculate racemes, 8 to 16 cm. in length; bracts 

 minute, subulate: flowers numerous, 5 to 6 mm. long during anthesis: 

 calyx tubular-campanulate, 3 mm. long, 5-denticulate, 5 angled in 

 cross section, externally glabrous, pubescent within and ciliolate 

 about the orifice: corolla about twice as long as the calyx, pubescent 

 in the throat, otherwise glabrous; lobes subrotund : drupe oblong- 

 elliptic, 6 to 8 mm. long; pyrense deeply concave on the ventral side, 

 dorsally somewhat obliquely corrugated. MEXICO. State of Michoa- 

 can: Hacienda Coahuayula, February, 1901, Dr. G. M. Emrick, no. 

 179 (hb. Field Mus.). 



Citharexylum hexangrilare, sp. nov. 



Stem sharply 6-angled, striate, glabrous: leaves verticillate, 3 in 

 a whorl, petiolate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, including the 

 petiole 8 to 18 cm. long, 2. 5 to 5.5 cm. broad, obtuse or acuminate 

 and submucronate-acute, entire, narrowed at the base into a petiole, 

 pale green and glabrous on both surfaces, bearing i or 2 glands at the 

 junction of petiole and blade, rather strongly reticulate-veined ; mid- 

 rib and lateral veins rather prominent; petioles i to 1.5 cm. in length, 

 glabrous: inflorescence terminating the stem in flabellate panicles; 

 the individual spicate racemes of the inflorescence i to 2 dm. in 

 length, glabrous or inconspicuously puberulent; bracts minute, subu- 

 late, equaling or slightly exceeding the pedicels, persistent: flowers 

 on jointed pedicels, rather crowded, 5 to 6 mm. long in anthesis: 



