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37. HiR^A RECLiNATA, Jacq. ? Closelj resembling Trinidad Spe- 

 cimens of this species, except that the peduncles and pedicels are less 

 villous and the calyx very conspicuously glandular. Banks of the Rio 

 Dulce. 



38. OxALis DENDROiDES, HBK. On the pass over the Sierra 

 Mico, at 1500 feet altitude. 



39. Odratea (Gomphia) Guatemalensis, Engler, var. ? Differ- 

 ing from the description in the narrower leaves (4 to 7 inches long and 

 1 J or 2 broad), and shorter stipules : the subpaniculate raceme is 2 or 



3 inches long : fruit obovate (3 lines long), solitary upon the smaller 

 globose gynophore, the pedicel 4 lines long. A small shrub in the 

 forests at the Chocon plantation. 



40. Melia Azedarach, Linn. Naturalized about Yzabal. 



41. Guarea bijuga, C. DC? Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs, oblong-ellip- 

 tical, abruptly narrowly acuminate, acute at base, 4 to 8 inches long 

 and 2'^ broad, the petiole and rhachis 2 to 4 inches long : panicle sessile, 

 very short and few-flowered : flowers glabrous or nearly so, tetrame- 

 rous ; calyx-lobes very short, acute : fruit obovate, reddish, coriaceous, 

 8 lines long, the pedicel very short. A small tree on the banks of the 

 Chocon. 



42. XiMENiA Americana, Linn. On the river-bank at Livingston. 



43. WiMMERiA discolor, Schlecht. Banks of the Rio Dulce. 



44. HiPPOCRATEA OVATA, Lam. A form with thin oblong obscurely 

 crenate leaves, mostly narrowed from above the middle to the obtuse 

 base. A shrub, on the banks of the Rio Dulce. 



45. GouANiA TOMENTOSA, Jacq. ? Leaves oblong-ovate, mostly 

 broadest above the middle, acuminate, broadly cordate at base, acutely 

 serrate, rufous-toraentose beneath, slightly pubescent and darker above, 

 2 or 3 inches long: fruiting racemes elongated, paniculate. A shrub, 

 on the banks of the Chocon. 



46. ViTis (Cissus) LANCEOLATA. Stem rough with scattered 

 tubercles : leaves simple, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, 

 rounded or cuneate at base, or the broader somewhat truncate, with 

 about 6 pairs of nerves excurrent into short acute teeth, 3 to 5 inches 

 long, the slender petioles 1^ to 2^ inches long: panicles about equal- 

 ling the petioles, thrice dichotomous : fruit obovate, acute or acutish, 



4 to 7 lines long ; seed solitary, large, the albumen sharply angled, 

 rugose and more or less deeply ruminate. — On the banks of the 

 Rio Dulce and of the Chocon. Distinguished from all forms of 

 V. sicyoides by its long petioles and by the size and shape of the 



fruit. 



