

UNDESCRIBED PLANTS FROM GUATEMALA AND 

 OTHER CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS. XXXV l 



i John Donnell Smith 



Rigiostachys quassiaefolia Donn. Sm. — Folia maxima 3-5- 

 foliolata, rhachi petioloque alatis. Racemi axillares petiolo pluries 

 breviores. Sepala minuta deltoidea. Discus vix ullus. Ovaria 

 obovoidea, stylis lateralibus, ovulis geminis. 



Omnino glabra, Foliola plerumque 5 sessilia integra lanceolato-elliptica 

 utrinque acuminata, terminali ceteris paulo majore 12-14 cm. longo 4. 5-5 cm. 

 lato, rhachi oblanceolata 3.5-4 cm. longa 8-10 mm. lata, petiolo 3.5-5.5 

 longo anguste alato. Racemi e basi floriferi circiter 10-flori rhachis 4-5 mm. 

 longa crassa paleaceo-bracteosa, pedicelli 1 . 5-2 . 5 mm. longi. Sepala aegre 

 1 mm. longa. Petala oblongo-elliptica 3.5 mm. longa. Gynophorum leviter 

 compressum 1 mm. altum atque latum. Ovaria leviter compressa 2 mm. 

 longa mox libera, stylis praeter stigmata diu connexa discretis, ovulis paulo 

 supra basin loculi affixis. Cetera desunt. — Specimina incompleta speciem 

 quamvis abnormem tamen satis certam Rigiostachydis sistere videntur. 



v Panzal, Depart. Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, alt. 1000 m., Apr. 1907, H. von 

 Tuerckheim n. II. 17 14. 



vZ l Eugenia (Sect. Auteugenia Niedenzu; \Bijlorae Berg.) 



fiscalensis Donn. Sm. — Glabra. Folia coriacea ex orbiculari- 

 ovato ovata gradatim obtuseque acuminata basi rotundata. 

 Pedunculi axillares singuli vel bini, pseudo-terminales 6-8-ni, 

 petiolo bis terve floribus paulo longiores basi et sub flore bibracteo- 

 lati. Petala oblongo-elliptica. 



Arbusculus 6-metralis, ramulis dichotomis, novellis compressis purpuras- 

 centibus punctulatis, internodiis folio brevioribus. Folia nitida concoloria 

 supra pellucido-subtus-fusco-punctulata 30-37 mm. longa 17-25 mm. lata, 

 margine cartilagineo revoluto, nervis praeter medium supra impressum subtus 

 prominentem parum manifestis, petiolo canaliculato 2-3 mm. longo. Pedun- 

 culi 5-7 mm. longi basi et sub flore articulati punctulati, bracteolis eciliolatis, 

 basalibus lineari-lanceolatis 1 . 5 mm. longis, apicularibus subulatis vix 1 mm. 

 longis, floribus praeter discum pubescentem glabris. Calycis tubus hemi- 

 sphaericus 1.5 mm. altus, lobi semiorbiculares concavi trinervii inaequales 



longi in alabastro erubescentes. Petala punctulata 4.5 mm. longa 



mm 



1 Continued from Box. Gaz. 52:53. 1911. 



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[Botanical Gazette, vol. 54 



