310 CEEDINOS of tiii: AMEBIOAN ACADEMY. 



which emerges from the j 1 1( cap-shaped calyx, is oblong, 1 to 



1.5 cm. in length, 6 to 7 nun. thick, pale green and i 

 lepidote gbtly corrugated Burface. 



Stemmadenia macrophylla. Stems covered with a grayish bark 

 and dotted with lenticels: leaves oblong-obovate to oblong-lanceol 

 including the petiole 1 to 2.5 dm. long, I to 7.5 cm. broad, acuminate, 

 entire, narrowed below into a short (5 to 15 nun. long) petiole, glabrous 

 upon each Burface, dark green above, Blightly paler beneath: iuflo 

 cence Bubracemose at the bifurcation of the branches, few-flowered; 

 peduncles 3 cm. long: calyx deeply 5-parted, segments unequal, the two 

 outer .shorter. 1 to 5 mm. long, somewhat narrowed toward the aj 

 the inner oblong or slightly obovate-oblong, about 7 nun. long, rounded 

 at the apex : corolla tubular-funnelform, about 6 cm. long, tube nar- 

 rowed below, ampliated above, lobes spreading: fruil nol -<-<-n. — I 

 lected by II. von Tuerckheim at Pansamala, Depart. Alta Verapaz, 

 altitude 1,100 in.. January, 1886, uo. 981. 



This number (no. 981) of Mr. John Donnell Smith's collection was ori- 

 ginally distributed as " Odontadenia ? " * and subsequently corrected to 

 Stemmadenia bignoniaejlora, Miers, and under this nam'- Donnell 

 Smith's no. 1800 was also distributed. The latter species is character- 

 ized as having a calyx 1.3 to 1.5 cm. long. Stemmadenia macrophylla 

 on the oilier hand has the calyx less than half this length ; thus by the 

 character of the calyx alone the two - may be readily distinguished. 



Stemmadenia tomentosa. Shrub, '■'> to 5 m. high: some- 



what dichotomously branched above, covered with a grayish hark and 

 dotted here and there with minute lenticels : leaves opposite, ovate- 

 oblong, or Blightly obovate, short-acuminate, entire, narrowed at the 

 base into a short slender petiole, glabrous above, densely Boft-tomentose 

 beneatb ; petioles Blightly connate below and forming with the persistent 

 leaf scar a narrow ridge about the stem in the axil of which is a continu- 

 ous row of minute glands similar to those of the calyx: rather close 

 dual clusters terminating the branches: flowers large: calyx deeply 5- 

 parted, lobes broadly ovate, acute, about 5 mm. long: corolla yellow, 

 tubular-funnelform, greatly ampliated above, narrowed below, usually 

 more or less twisted in the throat, and with large Bubrotund spreading 

 lobes: mature fruil not seen. — Collected by C. G. Pringle in lava beds 

 near Zapotlan, State of Jalisco. 19 May. 1893, no. 1370, and distributed 

 as ■• v mollis, Booth.?" The oearesl ally of >>'. tomentosa is apparently 



* See Donnell Smith, Enum. PI. Gnat. i. 26. 





