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Savanna at Buenos Ayres, Comarca de Puntarenas, Costa Rica, alt. 800 
ft., Febr. 1891, Zouduz, no. 4033 herb. nat. C. R 
Calyptranthes Tonduzii Donnell Smith.—Ramuli teretes et 
cymulae pubescentes. Folia oblongo-elliptica e medio utrinque 
acuminata, raro oblongo-obovata, glabra opaca crebre nervia 
supra lucida et pallescentia subtus obscura. Pedunculi axillares 
solitarii 3-flori foliis multo breviores, pedicellis brevissimis. 
Baccae maximae operculo conico saepe appendiculatae 1-18- 
spermae, seminibus nonnullis saepe imperfectis, testa ossea, coty- 
ledonibus planis minimis. 
Small tree with a spreading head (Tonduz), densely branched, fruiting 
profusely. Leaves twice or thrice exceeding internodes, 15-21 X 6-9 L., cori- 
aceous, limbinerved, upper surface variegated with white and green, the 
lower impellucid-punctate, midrib pubescent above, nerves distinct on both 
sides, margin revolute ; petioles very short, dark. Peduncles from nearly all 
nodes, 4—5 |. long; lateral pedicels defiexed, 1 1. long, the intermediate obso- 
lete. Berries globose, yellow, glandular-punctate, 4-5 |. in diam., crowned 
with short tube of calyx ; operculum persisting laterally, 1 1. high and broad, 
obtuse, glabrous; epicarp coriaceous; cells 1-3; seeds globose or variously 
mpressed, occasionally superposed ; radicle terete, strongly incurved ; coty- 
ledons oblong, ¥% 1. long, nearly free. No flowers present in the specimens. 
—Abnormal as to seed and approaching Myrtus; otherwise nearest to C. 
rigida Sw. 
Banks of the river Virilla, Prov. S. José, Costa Rica, alt. 3400 ft., Dec. 
1895, Tonduz, no. 9822 herb. nat. C. R. 
Eugenia Guatemalensis Donnell Smith. (§ Racemosar Berg 
in Mart. Fl. Bras.)—Folia discoloria supra glabra subtus incana 
lanceolato-elliptica utrinque acuminata. Pseudo-racemi axillares 
I-2-ni, terminales 4-ni, foliis breviores pauciflori. Calycis usque 
ad discum partiti segmenta glanduli-tuberculosa, interiora con- 
cava exterioribus 3-plo majora petalis paulo minora. Ovarium 
obpyramidale biloculare multiovulatum. 
Branches smooth, at tips cano-pubescent. Leaves 23(-3% XI-1% in., 
densely pubescent beneath, pellucid-punctate, limbinerved, lateral nerves of 
both surfaces distinct; petioles glabrous, 3 1. long. Racemes pubescent, at 
first shortly corymbose, rhachis at length elongate and 10-16 1. long, 5—9- 
_ flowered, pedicels opposite and 2~3 |. long, terminal flower subsessile in the 
fork, bracts minutely subulate. Flowers rubescent. Sepals rubri-punctate, 
Strigillose-pubescent on both sides, the a orbicular and 14-4 3 1. long, 
