Vol. xiv. No. 2 -Botanical Gazette.-Feb., 1889. 



Undescribed plants from Guatemala. VI. 



JOHN DONNELL SMITH. 



(WITH PLATES VI and VII.) 



Guatteria grandiflora. — Arboreous : leaves shortly 

 petioled, coriaceous, glabrous except pilose midrib beneath, 

 obovate-oblong (6-8 inches), a third as broad, cuspidate: 

 peduncle terminal, lf-2 inches long, articulated midway, 

 lanceolate bract an inch long : petals thrice exceeding ovate 

 sepals, oblong (14-16 lines), obtuse, nearly equal, fleshy, 

 fuscous-velvetv, the 3 interior glutinose-papillate toward 

 base within: berries few (10-12), glabrous, ellipsoid, each 

 end obtuse, 10 lines long, half as broad, 4-times exceeding 

 incrassate stipe ; seed corrugate.— Pansamala forest, Depart. 

 Alta Verapaz, alt. 3,800 feet, May, 1887 (Ex PI. Guat. 

 Tuerckh., qu. edid. J. D. S., 1.235).— The few other species 

 with shortly stipitate carpels, of which G. gumduensts 1 r. et 

 Planch., seems the most nearly related, differ respectively, 

 as described, by axillary inflorescence, or smaller flowers, 

 or less elongate fruit. 



Clidemia cymifera (I Sagrma Cogn.).— Branchlets, 

 petioles, leaf-veins and calyxes stell ate-fur fur aceous , rubes- 

 cent : leaves a little or twice exceeding petioles, ovate-acum- 

 inate, 3-5 inches long, somewhat unequal in the pair 5-7- 

 nerved from cordate base, glabrate above, margins scabro- 

 ciliate: cymes from axillary bracteolate nodes pseudo-fasci- 

 cled at length 1-3 and pedunculate, trichotomous. if-2 

 inches lono- ; axes divaricate, filiform, exceeding flowers, 



glabrous, red: calyx urceolate, teeth shortly subulate-appen- 

 daged: petals obovate-oblong (4-5 lines), twice exceeding 

 calyx, roseate: anthers incurved, shorter than filaments, in- 

 appendiculate connective not produced : ovary one-third 

 free, conical apex glaucous: berry oval.— Rocks ot a water- 

 fall, Pans; mala, alt. 3,800 feet, June, 1885 (Ex PI. cit. 709). 



Blakea Guatemalensis (§ Eublakea Triand).— Fur- 



