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Undescribed Pla?its from Guatemala. 



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subequalling petioles; heads small fin anthesis scarcely 2 lines 

 in diameter), much exceeded by peduncles, loosely 5-8-flow- 

 ered: of masculine flowers calyx obsolete, petals 4 and equal- 

 ling filaments, styles united; feminine flowers not seen: berries 

 3-4 to a head, globose-ovoid, sulcate, 6-7-seeded, crowned 



with persistent radiate styles. — 0. capitata Dene, et Planch., 

 a nearly related species, differs by stipulate leaves ovate to 

 obovate, large diffuse panicle of shortly pedunculate many- 

 flowered heads, petals 5, long-exsert stamens and free styles 

 of masculine flowers. — Pansamahi, Dept. Alta Verapaz, alt. 



3,800 ft., Apr. 



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Collected 



also by Sor. Juan Cooper near Cartago, Costa Rica, alt. 

 5,oooft., Mch. 1888, No. 322. 



Parathesis sessilifolia.— All parts except nitid upper sur- 

 face of leaves rufo-tomentose with long-stipitate stellate 

 hairs: leaves oblanceolate (6-8 XI £-2 in.), acuminately pro- 

 duced, tapering from above middle to acute sessile base, per- 

 gameneous, subcrenulate, both surfaces nigro-punctate and 

 finely reticulate: panicle terminal, exceeding leaves, pyram- 

 idate, lower branches leaf-bracted: flowers 6-10, corym- 

 bosely fasciculate toward apex of secondary branches, sube- 

 qualling pedicels, in all parts linear-maculate, filiform bracelets 

 a half shorter: sepals acutely lanceolate (£ 1.).: 

 corolla linear-lanceolate (2 1 1.), glabrous within, revolute: 

 anthers affixed near base, oblong (l| I.), thrice exceeding 

 filament: berry 4 1. in diameter. — Peculiar by indument and 

 sessile leaves.— Coban, alt. 4,300 ft., Aug. 1886, v. Tiirck- 



setrments of 



_ Fusco-t omen tu lose: leaves 



in.)" ends similarly acute, subentire, 



heim, (Ex PL cit. 1443). 



Pi rathesis pleurobotryosa. 



elliptical (4-6 x i.»-2 ,. 



glabrate above, epunctate, opaque, 14-18 costal nerves dis- 

 tinct: panicks axillary, equalling leaves, racemiform, short 

 branches terminated by 3-3 umbellately clustered minutely 

 bracteolate pedicels equalling scarcely maculate 

 corolla-segments ochraceo-furfuraceous on both sides: anther- 



flowers: 



short 



smooth: berry not 



seen. 



form and 



(| 1.), equalling filament: ovary 



Anthers excepted flower- are similar in 



Hmcnsions to those of preceding species. P. tnelanostuta 



Hemsl., (Ex PI. cit. 1706), with inflorescence also strictly 



axillary, differs by glabritv, nigro-punctate oblong-elliptical 



leaves acuminate at apex and long-tapering into 1 tiole with 



more numerous costal nerve- uniting in marginal arches, com- 



