1893. | Undescribed Plants from Guatemala. 7 
thick-coriaceous, smooth and shining, margins revolute, nerves 
few and robust: peduncles axillary, short (3-6'), pilose; 
pedicels 3—7-fasciculate, half or two-thirds as long as flowers: 
tube of calyx obpyramidate, pentagonal, lobes twice longer 
(4-5') and subulate by conduplicately cohering margins: corolla 
evenly cylindrical (15-17x23'), throat scarcely ampliate, 
lobes subequal (2'): stamens included, twice exceeding stami- 
node, insertion barbate, anthers reniform by diverging oval 
cells: disk none: berry depressed-globose (4x 5'), fleshy; seeds 
ten to twelve, scariose-alate, enveloped in fibrose pulp.— A 
pseudo-parasitic shrub, not repent.—San Miguel Uspantan, 
alt. 8,000, Apr. 1892, Heyde & Lux, (ex Pl. cit. 3,044). 
Egyphila faleata.—Branchlets tetragonal, thickened at 
nodes, smooth: petioles brachiate, canaliculate, short (6-9'); 
leaves chartaceous, nitid, faintly punctate, oval (7-9x 4-5”), 
the younger ovate-oblong, each end broadly rounded and 
abruptly short-acuminate, falcate, base conduplicate, midrib 
salient beneath, costal nerves robust: axillary cymes half- 
equalling leaves and long-pedunculate, the terminal thyrsoid 
and brachiate, nodes complanate, foliaceous bracts lanceolate, 
axes fastigiate, bractlets subulate: flowers 4-merous, sub- 
diclinous, dimorphous, puberulent, shortly pedicellate: calyx 
obpyramidate, mouth nearly truncate: corolla reddish-yellow, 
hypocraterimorphous, narrow tube one to four times as long 
as calyx, limb ampliate (2}'), stamens all more or less pollen- 
iferous, the semi-abortive included in short corolla, the others 
twice exceeding elongate corolla.— A symmetrical tree 30-40" 
high, with ahabit other than that of Z. e/ata Swz. by its foli- 
age and abundantly axillary inflorescence, and with the dimor- 
phous flowers of &. arborescens Vahl.— Escuintla, alt. 1,100", 
Apr. 1890, J. D. S. (ex Pl. cit. 2,111), distributed as &. elata 
Swz.: San Felipe, Depart. Retalhuleu, alt 2,000%, Apr. 1892, 
J. D.iS,, (ex Pl. cit. 3,479). 
Baltimore, Md. 
