I9 2 ' The Botanical Gazette. [J ul y- 



in acumen acutum sensim attenuata eademque in petiolulum 

 conspicuum attenuata, lateralia in petiolulos breves contracta 

 vel subsessilia, omnia integerrima, penninervia, nervis later- 

 alibus utrinque 7-9 curvato-adscendentibus supra subtusque 

 prominulis, infimis eorum reliquis vix longioribus, utrinque 

 glaberrima, nee nisi glandulis microscopicis adspersa, nitidula, 

 submembranacea, e viridi pallide fuscescentia, punctis lineolis- 

 que pellucidis subfuscis notata, epidermide mucigera; petioli 

 omnes nudi; thyrsi in ramulis lateralibus paniculatim con- 

 gests glabri; cincinni subsessiles; Bores mediocres; sepala 

 pulverulento-puberula; fructus .... 



Rami thyrsigeri diametro ?> mm. Folia 18-30 cm longa; foliola terminalia 

 petiolulo 6 mm longo adjecto 10.5 cm longa, 3 cm lata, lateralia decrescentim 

 ■ minora; petiolus communis 4 cm longus; stipulae minuta?. Cincinni contracti, 

 circ. (?-flori; pedicelli 2-2.5 mm longi, supra basin articulati; alabastra obo- 

 voidea, 2 mm longa. Flares hermaphrodite : sepala interiora '.I mm longa. Pf 

 tala ex oblongo attenuata, <'.\. 5 mm longa, intus laxe glanduligera; squamze (cris- 

 tis exclusis) petala dimidia eequantes, margine villosiusculse, superiores crista 

 usque ad basin bifida (laciniis subacutis erectis) appendiceque deflexa brevi ob- 

 tusa dense villoso-barbata, inferiores crista corniformi erecta instructae. Tori 

 glandulse ovatae. Stamina: filamenta villosiuscula; anthera? glabrae. Germen 

 pynforme, tngonum, minutim canescenti-puberulum; stylus brevis; stigmata 

 stylum aequantia.— 06s. Affinis Serj . acuta Tr. et Planch (Sect, xi; cf. Radlk. 

 Serjaniae Monogr. p. 274. Suppl. p. 142). 



Rocks at Coban, Dept. Alta Verapaz, alt. 4,300 ft.. March. 

 1887, v. Tiirckheim, (Ex PI. cit. 11 53). 



Serjania rachiptera Radlk. — Scandens, fruticosa, glabri- 

 uscula; rami 6-costati, striato-sulcati, glabri, juniores tantum 

 crispato-pubtruli, cortice viridi ad costas pallide subfusco; 

 corpus lignosum simplex, sulcatum, medulla ampliore reple- 

 tum; folia ambitu triangularia, bipinnata vel pinnarum infima- 

 rumpinnulis infimis in foliolorum triades dissociatis transeuntia 

 insupra decomposita, 6-8-juga, pinnis inferioribus 4-J u ^ is ' 

 supenoribus decrescentibus, summis foliola simplicia exhibent- 

 lbus; foliola (pinnuke) parva lateralia _"; .!„ . _: . ' ' " r "" 

 laria, terminalia subrhombea cum lateralibus proxi 

 dum confluentia, omnia sessilia, paucidentata, subchartacea, 

 utrinque glabra nee nisi glandulis microscopicis adspersa, vir- 

 ldia, subtus pallidiora, punctis lineolisque pellucidis obsoletius 

 notata. epidermide mucigera; petiolus communis perbrevis, 

 nudus, margine hirtellus, rhachium omnium segmenta omnia 

 alata, supra ad lineam medianum puberula; thyrsi solitarii vel 

 in ramuhs lateralibus paniculatim congesti graciles; cincinni 

 stipitati. abbreviati, puberuli; flores mediocres, albidi; sepala 

 extenora laxius, interiora basidensius puberula; fructus . • • 



elliptica vel suborbicu- 

 ^ralibus proximis inter- 



