132 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ June, 
3,800 feet, June, 1885. l, , 
edit., 454.—De Tiirckh. Fl. Guat. Edit. Keck 454+) 
ARDISIA PECTINATA. — Arboreous: branchlets knotted, 
warty, pitted with large scars of fallen petioles : leaves 
crowded at end of br anchlets, pergameneous, pellucid, nitid- 
reticulately veined, with free veinlets, the 20-22 stronger 
lateral costa joining in two series of conspicuous arches 
and a less distinct marginal one : panicle terminal, 
€, 1 line long, 4-nerved, ocellate and at 
length glandular-thickened beneath, margins scariose; ©0- 
rolla-segments rose-colored, broadly ovate-lanceolate, obtuse: 
apiculate anthers thrice longer than filament, connective not 
dilated above, cells dehiscing by elliptical apical pores one- 
tourth their length ; style straight, flat tapering, a little ex 
ceeding the stamens; Ovary ovoid, rubro-punctate, 15-20" 
ovulate.—Related to A, pellucida CErst. as described withvut 
