﻿VOLUME XXXV 



I 



NUMBER I 



Botanical Gazette 



JANUARY, I go J 



UNDESCRIBED PLANTS FROM GUATEMALA AND 

 OTHER CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS. XXIV.' 



John Donnell Smith. 



(with plate I 

 Clusia Salvinii Donn. Sm. (§ Anandrogyne Planch, et Tri- 



Folia crassa oblongo-obovata apice rotunda in petiolum 

 marginatum attenuata, nervis lateralibus late patentibus remoti- 

 usculis. Inflorescentia subspicata decussata quinqueflora, pedi- 

 cellis brevissimis basi bracteatis, floribus ipsis ebracteatis. 

 Sepala 4 decussata. Petala 5 obovata sepalis parum majora. 

 Antherae filamentis 3-plo longiores. Staminodia 5 libera e basi 

 semiorbiculari dentiformia. Capsula globosa 5-locularis, semi- 

 nibus in loculo quovis numerosis leviter ascendentibus. 



Ramuli subteretes di-trichotomi. Folia 11-17^™ longa 5.5-9 "^"^ lata mar- 

 gine revoluta, costa subtus tantum prominente infra apicem folii desinente, 

 nervis angulo 60° a costa abeuntibus 3-4"^"" inter se distantibus, nerve collec- 

 livo submarginali, venulis supra tantum manifestis, petiolis 1-1.5^"* longis. 

 Pedunculus cum axe quadrangularis, pedicellis vlx 2 "^"^ longis, bracteis 

 ovatis 5 ^^ longis. Sepala late suborbicularia y-g^^ longa. Stamina 45-50 

 circiter 7*^"^ longa pistilli rudimentum includentia, receptaculo convexo 4'""' 

 diam. raetiente, Capsula 15-18""^ crassa basi sepalis paullo auctis et peta- 

 lorum vestigiis cincta staminodiis 1.5'""' altis instructa, stylis 3-4 """^ longis 

 subconnatis, stigmatibus obovatis 2-3 """ longis in conum conniventibus, 

 seminibus imbricatis circiter 20 plerumque abortivis. Flores feminini defi- 



ciunt. 



Volcin 



Guat., alt. 2600 "", Oct. 1873, 



Osbert Salvin, — Volcan de Fuego, Guat., alt. 2300]™, Mart. 1892, Do?tn. 

 Sm,, n. 2530 ex Pi. Guat. &c., quas ed. Donn. Sm. 



' Continued from Box, Gaz. 33 : 262. 1902. 



Mo. Bot Garriei. 



