POF ARICAL GAZETTE 
FANUARY, 1893. 
Undescribed plants from Guatemala. X. 
JOHN DONNELL SMITH. 
WITH PLATE I. 
-Sloanea pentagona (series AXILLIFLOR&Z BRACHYSTACHY 
Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 62).—Ovary excepted glab- 
rous: leaves coriaceous, nitid, entire, oblong (7-9 x 24-3"), 
acuminate, base obtusish, midrib and six to seven pairs of long- 
ascending nerves salient on both surfaces with distinct transverse 
veinlets, petioles short (3'): racemes subsessile, suppressed, 
few-flowered; pedicels incrassate, angular, (6-8'), exceeding 
ovoid alabastra: perianth 4~5-merous: sepals thick, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, colored within: petals shorter, lanceolate: stamens 
bi-seriate, lightly cohering at base, linear anthers thrice ex- 
ceeding filament, connective mucronate: ovary velvety, pyra- 
midate, concavely 5-angled, prolonged into short simple style, 
ovules in superposed pairs: developed flowers and fruit not 
seen.—A large tree with the habit of Myrodia, discovered by 
Baron von Tiirckheim on his estate at Pansamald, Dept. Alta 
Verapaz, alt. 4,000%, Jan. 1889, (ex Pl. Guatemal. qu. edid. 
F223: 1,411). 
Xanthoxylum foliolosum (§$PTEROTA Endl.).—Scandent, 
armed with short recurved prickles, blotched with exudations, 
glabrous throughout: leaves 10-15-jugate, rachis narrowly 
margined and aculeate; leaflets opposite, subsessile, shortly 
oblong (6x 4'), apex round, base truncate and biglandular, 
coriaceous, veins obsolete above, crenatures glandular, the 
odd leaflet ovate-oblong and longer, the lower pairs roundish 
and smaller: panicles axillary and terminal, a third as long as 
leaves, axes divaricate: sepals triangular, petals thrice longer, 
gynophore very short, carpids one to twoand punctate: coccules 
one to two, nearly distinct, sessile, globose (2}'), subequalling 
pedicels, glandular-tuberculate, endocarp adnate, epidermis of 
globose seed fleshy.—X. Pterota HBK., nearest in habit and 
technical characters, is distinct by obovate and less numerous 
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