1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 299 
one, to the stamen. The other tissues of pistil and stamen 
are arranged correspondingly, so that, e. o., the epidermis 
of the filament and of the short pedicel of the pistil area 
continuous layer of cells 
There is no reason why, under these circumstances, we 
should separate these two organs and call them two different 
flowers, when, in fact, they could not be any more closely 
connected than they really are. 
Hoboken, N. F. 
Undescribed plants from Guatemala. V. 
JOHN DONNELL SMITH. 
(WITH PLATES XXIII and XXIV.) 
Vocuysta GUATEMALENSIS, Bot. Gazette, xu, 131, Explanation of e 
Plate xt: F ig. 1. Flowering branch—natural size. 2. Immature 
capsule. Fig. 3. Flower. Fig. 4. Same with pistil exposed. Fig. 5.  . 
Staminode. Fig. 6. Stamen. Fig. 7. Anterior petal. Fig. 8. One ofthe 
lateral petals. Fig. 9, Vertical section of ovary. Fig. 10. Ovule. Fig. a 
U1. Diagram of flower. (Figs. 83—11 are variously enlarged.) y 
ae 1888. (Ex Pl. Guat. Tuerckh., qu. edid. J. Wea. | 
306. ) . 
fusco-tomentose : 
date, triplinerved, — 
e beneath: © : 
half an re 
Calea trichotoma.— Branches divaricate, 
leaves petiolate, 12-18 lines Jong, subcor 3 
remotely serrulate, scabrid above, cano-tomen eo 
- Pedicels of simple or compound terminal corymbs 3, 
