BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
FANUARY, 1895. 
Undescribed plants from Guatemala and other Central 
American Republics. XIV. 
JOHN DONNELL SMITH. 
WITH PLATES I-III. 
Poreelia microcarpa Donnell Smith.—Pubens. Folia 
membranacea, adulta praeter margines nervosque glabres- 
centia, obovato-elliptica abrupte acuminata, basi acuta. 
Pedunculi solitarii uniflori, bracteola mediana. Petala exter- 
iora lineari-lanceolata pollicaria, interiora parum longiora 
angustiora. Stamina obpyramidalia. Ovula pauca subuni- 
Seriata. Bacce stipitate parve breviter cylindrice leviter con- 
stricte apiculate, seminibus 1-5 globosis compressis. 
Shrub 6-9" high. Leaves distichous with very short inter- 
nodes, 3-4 x 14-13", paler beneath, petioles 1}' long. Pe- 
duncles opposite to leaves, 5—7' long, in fruit twice longer; 
bracteole ovate-lanceolate, 4' long. Perianth pubescent, 
fuscous, membranaceous, 3—5-nerved; sepals ovate-lanceo- 
late; exterior petals 3' broad, the interior 14-15 x 2’. Sta- 
mens subsessile, $' long, the dilated incurved apex of con- 
nective nearly as broad. Carpels 8-11, oblong, }3' long, 
Pilose, sessile on truncate apex of hemispherical torus, ovules 
4-7, the middle ones occasionally biseriate. Berries 3-4, 
9-11 X5', the interior ones often globose and I-seeded, stipe 
1-2' long, seeds 4! in diameter, longitudinally encircled by a 
Stoove.—Porcelia Nicaraguensts Benth. (represented in the 
Series of exsiccate by nos. 474, 4,508, 4,519, 5,041), remark- 
able by petals 4-5" long, presents a similar structure of flow- 
ers, but the seeds are biseriate and numerous.“Shores of Rio 
Ocosito, Depart. Quezaltenango, Guat., alt. 300°, Apr. 1892, 
J. D.S., no. 1,484. 
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