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VOLUME XL 
BOTANICAL (GAZETTE 
JULY, 1905 
UNDESCRIBED PLANTS FROM GUATEMALA AND OTHER 
CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS. XXVII." 
JoHN DONNELL SMITH. 
Porceiia stenopetala Donn. Sm.—Folia maxima obovato-oblonga 
vel oblonga subcaudato-acuminata basi obtusiuscula vel rotundata 
supra glabra subtus pubescentia, nervis crebris parallelis subrectis. 
Pedunculi ex ligno vetere prorumpentes fasciculati vel approximati. 
Petala linearia multoties longiora quam latiora. 
Arbor, ramulis petiolis gemmis pedunculis floribus fusco-velutinis. Folia 
papyracea, juniora obovato-oblonga, provectiora oblonga 26-31°" longa 8-9°™ 
lata basi saepius rotundata, nervis lateralibus utrinque 15-17, petiolis vix 5™™ 
longis. Inflorescentia tantum in trunco (de Tuerckheim in schedula) vel in ramis 
crassis defoliatis obvia, pedunculis 8-15-subaggregatis 1.5-2°™ longis. Sepala 
deltoidea vix 3™™ longa patentia intus glabra. Petala imbricata aequalia utrinque 
pubescentia atropurpurea 6-6.5°™ longa 4-5™™ lata acuta. Stamina numerosis- 
sima cuneato-quadrata. 1™™ longa compressa. Torus hemisphericus. Ovaria 
9-12 oblonga 3-4™™ longa inflata sericea, stigmate sessili aia ovulis biseriatis 
8-12. Bacca ignota——Ad P. Nicaraguensem Benth. et Hook. staminibus ova- 
riisque arcte accedens inflorescentia petalisque longe aK 
Cubilquitz, Depart. Alta Verapaz, Guat., alt. 350™, Mart. 1904, von Tuerck- 
heim, n. 8496 ex PI. Guat. etc., quas ed. Donn. Sm. 
Ionidium Thiemei Donn. Sm.—Fruticosum nanum pubescens. 
Stipulae minutae. Folia alterna ovalia: apice rotunda in petiolum 
angustata crenulata. Pedunculi singuli foliis breviores uniflori. 
Petalum inferum sepalis subaequalibus integris altero tanto longius, 
~ lamina suborbiculari. 
Caulis e rhizomate prostrato ascendens 3-6 altus Necaed parce ramosus 
-/ cum petiolis pedunculisque ferrugineo-pubescens. Folia approximata 23-27"™ 
oe 17-19™™ lata supra pilis conspersa subtus nervatione is petiolis 
1 Continued from Bort. GAZ. 37: 423. 1904. 
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