1894.] Undescribed Plants from Guatemala. 5 
by M. Marchal, of O. Xalapense Dene et Planch. The only 
other species described with digitate leaflets, O. Thibautiz 
Hook. f., is reduced by M. Marchal to a form of O. Xalapense 
(cf. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 30: 282).—A tree 30-40° 
high with branchlets half-encircled by the scars of fallen leaves, 
known to the natives as Mata-gente.—Barranca de Corona, 
Depart. Guatemala, alt. 4,700", Febr. 1890 and 1892, J. D. 
S., nos. 1,905 and 2,664; S. Rosa, alt. 4,000%, March 18g92,. 
Heyde & Lux, no. 3,096; Chiapas, riled S. Rosa, alt. 3,500", 
Sept. 1892, Heyde & Lux, no. 3,967. 
Ardisia paschalis.—Glabrous: leaves obovate or elliptical 
(6-7.5 X 3-3.5"), obtuse, narrowing to short canaliculate mar- 
ginate petiole, entire, coriaceous, nitid, rubro-punctate and 
-striolate: panicle terminal, exceeding leaves; flowers racemose 
on primary branches, single, 5-merous, rubro-maculate, pedi- 
cels longer and in fruit nodding: divisions of calyx convolute, 
round-ovate (1.5'): corolla in prefloration dextrorsely con- 
torted, yellowish-white, the conspicous stellate centre thick- 
ened by dark-yellow pigment-cells, tube minute (half a line) 
and equalling explanate throat, obtuse segments oblong (4') 
and revolute: stamens slightly monadelphous at apex of tube; 
anthers ovoid-oblong (2'), twice exceeding filaments, apiculate, 
before anthesis cohering in a cone by longitudinal sutures of 
of dehiscence: ovary ovoid, style filiform: fruit pisiform (3—4'), 
endocarp crustaceous. —A shrub 6-9" high, with fragrant and 
showy flowers that are singularly large for the genus, called 
by the natives CAz/i/, and used during Easter week for decor- 
ating the altars of the churches. —Cuyotenango, Depart. Su- 
chitepequez, alt. 1,100", April 1892, J. D. S., no. 2,465; S 
Rosa, alt. 3,000", May 1892, Heyde & Lux, no. 3,023; Cerro 
Gordo, Depart. S. Rosa, alt. 3,500%, Sept. 1892, Heyde & 
Lux, no. 3,988; Casillas, Depart. S. Rosa, alt. 4,000°, May 
1893, Heyde & Lux, no. 4,537. Collected also along Rio 
ine i S. Pedro Sula, Honduras, July 1887, by Dr. C. 
Thiem 
EXPLANATION OF PLate I.—Fig. 1, branch with flowers. Fig. 2, branch with 
fruit. Fig. 3. portion of leaf. Fig. 4, flower-bud. Fig. 5, open flower. 
6, stamens. Fig. 7, pistil. =e 8, half of a corolla with stamens. Fig. 9, 
vertical section of fruit. (Figs. and 2 are natural size; in the others the ob- 
jects are variously enlarged.) 
Piper Luxii C. DC. (§ III. Srerrensta C. DC.)—Foliis 
modice petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis basi inzquali acutis 
supra presertim ad nervos subtusque densius breviter hirsutis, 
