BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
FULY, 1894. 
Undeseribed plants from Guatemala and other Central 
American Republies.: XIII. 
JOHN DONNELL SMITH. 
WITH PLATES XXIV—XXVI. 
Heisteria Costaricensis Donnell Smith. ($ LEIOCARP 
Engl.)—Folia disticha anguste lineari-lanceolata juxta basim 
acute angustata supra medium sensim in apicem mucruncula- 
tum attenuata, margine adpresse retroflexo, petiolo brevi de- 
currente. Calyx urceolatus post anthesim retroflexus pedicelli 
dimidium zquans, dentibus brevibus triangularibus in setam 
desinentibus. Petala libera obovata ad apicem emarginata 
calyce sublongiora. Ovarium perianthium paullo superans 
latior quam longior collo coronatum. Calyx fructiferens 
corlaceus patulus pentagono-orbicularis cum pedicello breviore 
Sanguineus subtus maculis albis notatus. Drupa ovata- 
globosa calycis radio brevior atro-cyanea. 
arge bush with slender, drooping, and closely leafy 
branches that are toward their tips flexuose and angulate. 
Leaves 6-9 3 Q-I1', membranaceous, pellucid-punctulate, 
glaucescent beneath. Petiole 3-4! long, decurrent in narrow 
wings. Flowers scarcely a line high, apparently solitary. 
Stamens not seen. In fruit, pedicel 34—43'long, calyx 10-12’ 
in diam. Drupe 5 4'.—The only other species described, 
with similarly narrow leaves, H. salicifolia Engl. from South 
piers is distinct by its calyx, which in fruit is cupuliform, 
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tic 1 D.S., (ex Plantis Guatemalensibus necnon Salvador- 
‘ vrhogs Hondurensibus Nicaraguensibus Costaricensibus, quas 
‘dit John Donnell Smith, 4,760). 
'The title of th ; eocctipanyinn eae 
tributi €se papers, as well as that of the tickets accompanying the 
i eld af Plants, has been changed to the form here employed, in order to” 
“Series some collections from other parts of Central America. 
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