148 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MARCH " 
exterior ones minute and orbicular, the interior elliptical; the innermost 
largest, 12xX8™™, obtuse. Pedicels 3-4, scarcely 1™™ long. Bracteoles g™* ; 
long, obtuse. Calyx 4™™ high, base intruded; limb equaling tube, minutely 
denticulate. Corolla roseate, narrower and paler above, 12™ long, apicv- 
lated with dentiform red glands. Genitals equaling corolla. Stamens of 
equal length; filaments slightly cohering in a tube 2™™ high, their free part 
alternately equaling the tube or almost none; anthers subequal, 2™ long, 
their tubes alternately 5 or 7™™ long. Matured berry not seen.— Nearest to 
C. strobilifera Benth. et Hook. sou 
La Palma, Costa Rica, alt. 1500", Nov. 1897, Werck/é, no. 11565 her — 
nat. C. R. : 
PERNETTYA CILIARIS D. Don, var. alpina Donn. Sm.— Ramuli _ 
dense setosi. Folia e basi obtusiuscula oblongo-lanceolata sub- 
tus setifera. Pedunculi folia aequantes per totam longitudinem 
bracteosi. 
Cerro de La Muerte, C. R., alt. 3100", Jan. 1897, Péttier, no. 10543 herb, : 
nat. C. R, 
Ardisia pleurobotrya Donn. Sm.— Folia obverse lanceolate: | 
elliptica superne contracto-acuminata deorsum attenuata integl@ — 
coriacea immaculata subtus lepidota. Paniculae axillares long? : 
pedunculatae folia subaequantes lepidotae, pedicellis ad apice? 
ramorum primariorum alternorum umbellatim racemosis. Cord a 
lae usque ad duas partes fissae segmenta ovata acuta aly 
vix bis longiora. Antherae subsessiles breves lanceolatae long — 
tudinaliter dehiscentes. 
Younger branchlets rufescent, lepidote, internodes very short. Lam 
glabrous above, beneath rufescent and densely covered with scales OF 
spicuous under a lens, 8-10X2. 5-3, apex obtuse; lateral nerves 5° ae 
remote, prominent only on lower surface; petioles 6-10™ long. ss 
from upper axils, peduncles 4~7™ long, rhachis 2.5-4™ long, primal 
branches 1-2 long; pedicels chiefly four or five, about 1™ long; 
bracteoles oblanceolate, 8™ long, the upper subulate and minute. »*o" 
of calyx ovate, 2.5mm long, in center lepidote and maculate, margi? casa | 
and ciliolate. Tube of corolla maculate-punctate, 2™™ long, ogee 
long. Anthers inserted at middle of tube, 2.5™" long. Ovary eae 
maculate-punctate, prolonged into style 3-4™" long, pluriovulate- 
oval-globose, 5™™ long. : 
Potrero del Alto, Volcén Poas, C. R. alt. 2450, July 1888, Pulte” 
& 759 herb. nat. C. R.— Laguna del Volcdn Barba, C. R» alt. 27. 
lower 
