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rowed into a short petiole (2 lines long), 3 or 4 inches long or more : 

 peduncle terminal, nearly an inch long: berries numerous, 6 lines 

 long, about equalling the stipe. — Apparently undescribed ; locality 

 uncertain. 



9. Anona palustris, Linn. A low straggling tree, on the sea- 

 shore near Livingston. 



10. Xylopia frutescens, Aubl., var. glabra. Glabrous, or the 

 younger leaves sparingly appressed-villous beneath. — A shrub, on the 

 shores of Lake Yzabal ; in fruit. Similar to specimens collected at 

 Panama by Hayes (n. 121) and Seemann, and in Venezuela by Fend- 

 ler (n. 1306). 



11. CissAMPELOS TROP^OLiFOLiA, DC? According closely with 

 the descriptions and Delessert's figure, except that the fruit has a 

 double ridge on each side, formed (in the skeleton) of flattened radi- 

 ating processes, and the hairs upon the leaves are longer and looser. 

 The fruit is red at maturity. Near Yzabal, along the Camino Real. 



12. CissAMPELOS Pareira, Lam.? Staminate specimens only: 

 leaves round-reniform, not peltate, lighter-colored beneath with very 

 fine appressed pubescence; flowers mostly umbellate upon the ulti- 

 mate branches of the inflorescence. Banks of the Rio Dulce, below 

 the Gulfetta. 



13. Nymph^a ampla, DC. In the Polichic River, above Lake 

 Yzabal. 



14. Cleome polygama, Linn. About Fort San Felipe. 



15. Alsodeia Guatemalensis. A shrub, puberulent upon the 

 branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence : leaves opposite, glabrous or the 

 veins slightly pubescent, oblong-oblanceolate, more or less acuminate, 

 attenuate at base, slightly crenate or entire, 2 to 4 inches long, the 

 slender petiole 3 lines long : racemes terminal, usually shorter than 

 the leaves ; pedicels slender, spreading, jointed near the base, 1 or 2 

 (in fruit 3) lines long : sepals broad-lanceolate, h line long : ovary 

 obovate, pubescent, obtuse, the slender style over a line long ; ovules 

 solitary ; fruit 6 lines long, the valves acute, the placenta and seeds 

 glabrous. — On the banks of the Chocon River. Resembling A. jla- 

 vescens, Spreng., as figured by Aublet and described by Eichler, differ- 

 ing especially in its pubescence, obtuse pubescent capsule, and solitary 

 seeds ; flowers not seen. 



16. Sauvagesia erecta, Linn. On the Camino Real pass over 

 the Sierra Mico. 



17. Oncoba LAURiNA, Oliver. (Mayna laurina, Benth.) The 

 seed has a broad basal hilum, and a thick fleshy reddish aril covering 



