264 The Botanical Gazette. [July,. 
aciculo multo altiorem dilatatis. Petala 13" longa,ex BA gay 
lineari in laminam angustam, sublanceolatam, peracute in 
spinulam terminalem transeuntem dilatata, 2™" a basi ligulis 
binis profunde fimbriato-incisis aucta. Stamina petalis paullo 
breviora, filamentis anguste linearibus, tenuibus, ser. 1 liberis, 
ser. II'cum petalis peralte (ultra lamine basin) intime con- 
natis; antheris luteis, fere 3™ longis, lanceolatis, utrinque 
sed praesertim apice acutis, prope medium dorsifixis. Ovar- 
ium subglobosum, longitudinaliter sulcatum, ad 7™ longum; 
tubo epigyno subnullo: stylo antheras exacte aequante, grac- 
ili; stigmatibus longe divisis, perangustis, laxe spiraliter ee 
tortis. Bacca ceerulea!, globosa, Pis¢ magnitudine, sepalls 
Persistentibus tenuiter conice conniventibus coronata; seminl- 
bus allutaceis, vix 2™™ longis. ee 
Isla de Catina, Rio San Juan, Nicaragua, ' 1839, Friedrichs- 
thal, no. 609, (herb. Vindob.). Rio Jiménez, Llane ; 
Santa Clara, Comarca de Limén, Costa Rica, alt. 650, Apt. 
1894, J. D. S., no. 4,962. 
Piteairnia puberula Mez et Donnell Smith; foliis is 
oribus ignotis, interioribus haud petiolatis, anguste ees 
tis, integerrimis, subtus junioribus lepidibus albis P ecriebnd 
nos simulantibus furfuraceis; inflorescentia simplicissim® 
; in the Kew 
1Mr. Hemsley has remarked, that all of F riedrichsthal s plants hes wer ite 
herbarium are ticketed as from Guatemala; and this is the — in 
Vienna specimen above cited. In fact, the collections were made! 
and Costa Rica. , 
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