Botanical Gazette 



VOL. XVI— CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., JANUARY, 1891. — NO.l. 



Undescrihed plants from Guatemala. VIII. 



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JOHN DOXNELL SMITH. 



(WITH PLATES I AND II.) 



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Prof. Alfred Cogniaux, Dr. M. T. Masters and Dr. W. O. 

 Focke, distinguished monographers of orders, have contribu- 

 ted to this paper descriptions of new species detected by them 

 among the plants submitted to them respectively for deter- 

 mination. 



Boeconia yulcanica. — Branchlets, foliage and panicle 



smooth and shining; leaves glaucous beneath, obovate-ellipti- 

 cal (5-6x2^ in.), acute apex long-mucronate, tapering below 

 to broadly sessile base, margin evenly glandulo-mucronate 

 with rounded indentations: bracts foliaceous T bractlets scarious: 

 sepals oval (6x3^ lines), exceeding pedicels, recurved-cuspi- 

 date: 10-15 stamens a third shorter, filaments half as long as 

 linear anthers: stout style prolonged from ovary, a half shorter 

 than stigmas: capsule (immature) elliptic-oblong, twice ex- 

 ceeding stipe. — B. integrifolia Humb. et BonpL, likewise 

 arborescent and with lobeless leaves crowded about base of 

 large drooping panicle, is distinct by indument, Iong-petiolate 

 leaves entire or nearly so, stamens equaling calyx, subsessile 

 anthers. — Slopes of Volcan de Agua, Dept. Zacatepequez, 

 alt. 10,000 feet, April, 1890, J. D. S. (Ex PI. Guat. qu. 

 edid. J. D. S. 2172.) 



Chorisia soluta. — Calyx shortly pedunculate, 3-bracteo- 

 late, ligneous, cupulate-campanulate (20 lines long), aureo- 

 lanate within, irregularly 5-lobed: petals distinct, linear-spa- 

 tulate (5-6 in. x 10 lines), apex e margin ate, sericeo-tomentose 

 and fuscous without, glabrate and red within: stamens three- 

 fourths as long; column short (10 lines), annulate at apex; 



