ON A NEW SPECIES OF OREOPANAX. 351 
I only noticed on rivulets one species, which goes there by the names 
of * Manu de Leon” and “ Pata de Danta,” in allusion to the shape 
of the leaves, which are sufficiently large to be useful for wrapping up 
cheese, soap, etc. It is about 30 feet high, and has palmate leaves, 
tomentose-pubescent on both sides, and with pinnatifid lobes. The 
flowers are whitish. It may possibly be O. Guatemalense, of which I 
have not yet had an opportunity of seeing an authentic specimen, and 
I will therefore leave it in abeyance. But a second species is very 
plentiful about the Javali Mine, in Chontales. It is so much like O. 
capitata, that at first I mistook it for that widely diffused species, until 
I remembered that O. capitata is au erect tree, whilst this species is an 
epiphyte, which, like some of the Ficus of the country, closely embraces 
a tree by its stout roots, and gradually kills its host both by its weight 
and by stifling it. It was from a tree that had thus been killed I 
obtained fresh specimens of this species, which I named :— 
O. destructor (sp. n.), Seem.; epiphytum ; sadi elongatis (3-6 
uuc. long.), foliis oblongis v. obovato-oblongis acuminatis, basi cuneatis, 
apice abrupte acuminatis, integerrimis, venis primariis 3, 2 lateralibus 
angulum acutum formantibus, utrinque glabris, supra lucidis; floribus 
racemoso-paniculatis ; pedunculis pedicellisque pubonduie Aomcitagai 
drupis obovatis obtusis (nigris). — Nomen vernaculum Chonialense 
* 'Tempisque montafero" (v. v. sp.). 
Branches stoutish, terete. Leaves alternate, the two lateral veins 
extending beyond the middle of the blade. Leaves perfectly glabrous 
in fruiting specimen, and on upper surface shining like those of Ivy. 
Inflorescence terminal, the fruiting heads composed of 3-5 drupes, 
the latter crowned by several styles. Perfect flowering specimens I 
have not seen, 
The natives informed me that about Leon (Nicaragua) there is a 
Tempisque, which however is a tree, used in processions on Palm Sun- 
day, the fruit of which is eaten. It may possibly be O. capitata, which 
if memory serve me right, I have noticed about that city. 
Oreopanax. Xalapense, Dene. et Planch., has lately been named Mo- 
nopanaz Ghiesbreghti, Regel, Gartenflora, 1869, p. 35, t. 606 ; the 
author having mistaken an abortive ovary of a male flower, with its 
consolidated styles, for a fertile ovary of a hermaphrodite flower, thus 
as failed to recognize the genus Oreopanax. 
