1887. ] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 131 
Undescribed plants from Guatemala. I. 
JOHN DONNELL SMITH. 
VocnystA GUATEMALENSIS. (Series Lutescentes, Warm.., 
Fl. Brasil. xiii.2 59.)—Smooth and shining except the 
puberulous leaf-buds, stipules, rachises and calyx-lobes: 
purplish branchlets costate-angled by a decurrent line from 
each stipule, interpetiolar sides concave: stipules persistent, 
subulate, 14 lines long with an acute canescent tip; petioles 
an inch long; leaves 3-4-verticillate, opposite, or upper- 
Smith edite,943.!) Remarkable as the only species of a large 
genus, and with a single exception the only representative of 
its order, that has been found outside of South America. 
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'Sets of this series of plants are in course of preparation for distribution 'o Gray 
: Torre 
Herb. Harvard Universit Herb., Columbia College ; National Herb., Washing- 
kt Hops Herb., Londod; Mussa hist. nat. de Paris; Kénigl. botanisches Mu-eum, 
