56 BOTANICAL GAZETTE ? [yuLy 
nullis. Racemi tetragoni sulcati 17-25 cm. longi supra medium floriferi, 
pedunculis crassis 1.5mm. longis demum 3mm. Jon is in thachin 4 mm. 
longam incurvam excurrentibus, pedicellis 6-10-fasciculatis vel subfasciculatis 
3-5 mm. longis, bracteis caducissimis, bracteolis sub flore binis lineari-oblongis 
3mm. longis. Calycis obliqui tubus 8 mm. longus, lobi 2.5 mm. longi, 3 
inferiores subulato-triangulares, superiores in unum integrum connati. Calyx 
anthesi peracta accrescens usque ad 2cm. longus 5-dentatus, dente infimo 
maximo, ceteris subaequalibus. Petala absque eis carinae rubris alba ex scheda 
Tuerckheimiana, vexillo obovato 15 mm. longo glabro, alis uti carinae petala 
eis conformia falcata ungue 9mm. longa addita 18-19 mm. longis. Vagina 
staminalis latere superiore fissa, stamine vexillari ab initio soluto prope basin 
geniculato. Ovarium breviter stipitatum lineare fusco-velutinum. Legumen 
deficit—Palo Zope incolarum.—Species calyce manifestius dentato anormalis. 
In declivibus ad Cerro Gordo, Depart. Santa Rosa, Guatemala, alt. 
- ‘Ttoom., Aug. 1892, Heyde et Lux, n. 3709 ex Pl. Guat. etc. quas ed. Donn. 
Sm.—Santa Rosa, Depart. Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, alt. 1600 m., Jul. 1908, 
H. von Tuerckheim (n. IT. 2323). 
Diplotropis macroprophyllata Donn. Sm.—Foliola lateralia 
8 subopposita ovalia utrinque rotundata basi retusa cum terminali 
obovato supra bullata glabra subtus venis elevatis pilosiuscula. 
Bracteae lanceolato-ovatae pedicello longiores. Bracteolae binae 
cordato-ovatae calycem totum involucrantes. Calycis lobus 
infimus elongatus. 
Arbor excelsa, coma sphaerica, ramulis serotinis sulcatis sicut folia nascentia 
pani calyces fusco-tomentosis. Folia annotina petiolo 10-11 cm. longo 
computato 37-45 cm. longa, foliolis cujusque paris 5~10 mm. remotis, infimis 
7 cm. longis 4~5 cm. latis, Superioribus 12. 5~16 cm. longis 6-7. 5 cm. latis, 
nervis lateralibus usque ad marginem distinctis utrinque 15-17, venis trans- 
versis subparallelis, venulis reticulatis, petiolo et rhachi sulcatis fusco-velutinis, 
petiolulis lateralibus incra tis 5mm. longis fusco-velutinis, termina ' 
Paniculae pseudoterminales prope basin 
7-26 Cm, longae, ramis paucis suberectis 
Pproximatis 2-6 mm. longis, bractea basin 
tomm. longa 4~7 mm. lata obliqua decidua, bracteolis 
— » Pedicellis singulis a 
Pedicelli amplectante - 
9-12 mm. longis 
in sicco Purpurea dorso cano-se 
oblonga obliqua obtusa la 

