472 MR. SPENCER. LE M. MOORE—PHANEROGAMIC BOTANY 
Ficus ($ Urostiema) ELLIOTIANA (sp. nov.) ; ramulis mox fere omnino glabris, foliis longi- 
uscule petiolatis, ovato-cordatis, obtusissimis, coriaceis, glabratis, basi 6-9-nerviis, 
utrinque 9-12-costatis ; stipulis firmis, conico-erectis, sericeo-tomentosis ; receptaculis 
axillaribus vel extra-axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, sessilibus nascentibus, involucro 
firmo, calyptriformi, sericeo-tomentoso inclusis, subglobosis, minutissime tomentosis, 
basi involucro trilobo instructis, apice bracteis parvis occlusis. 
Hab. Colitur ad Corumbá, ubi floret mens. Jan. (n. 1040 a); etiam in Paraguaria ad 
Asuncion detexit cl. Balansa (n. 1985). 
Arbor foliosa, circa 10-metralis. Ramuli cortice laxo, rimoso cinereo, transversim direpto 
cincti. Foliorum lamina 11:0-14+0 cm. long., 8:5-12:0 em. lat., margine passim 
plus minus undulato, pag. sup. punctis minutis albis inspersee ; costee secundarize 
plerzque fere rectee, juxta marginem arcuato-connexe; costa media crassa, subtus 
eminens, supra impressa, venul: arcte reticulatee ; petioli 3:5-6:0 cm. long., crassius- 
culi. Stipulee 0:S-1:0 em. long., apice paullo incurve vel recurve. Receptacula 
07 cm. long., vix totidem diam. Flores masculi superiores, pauci, breviter pedicel- 
lati; perianthium bipartitum, segmentis obovatis, obtusis; staminis unici conneetivus 
crassiusculus, apice breviter apiculatus; anthers late ellipticee. Flores feminei nunc 
sessiles juxta apicem receptaculi, nunc pedicellati, bracteolis linearibus vel lineari- 
lanceolatis, acutis, pedicellum 0:1 em. long. subeequantibus, intermixti ; perianthium 
3-partitum, segmentis oblongis vel ovatis, subzequalibus, 0-1 cm. long. Ovarium 
subglobosum ; stylus lateralis, caudatus, ovarium vix superans. 
Species sine dubio ad F. calyptroceratem, Miq., spectans, abhorrens vero, preter 
indumentum tomentellum foliorum ae ramulorum, signis multis momenti gravioris ac 
levioris. 
I refer Balansa’s plant here, although it differs from mine in its broader, somewhat 
more fleshy and stouter-petioled leaves.  Paucity of material has caused me to refrain 
from dissecting the receptacle of Balansa's plant, which, naturally, is exactly like that of 
mine, except for its somewhat more tomentose indumentum. 
I much regret that my specimen of this fine tree, a row of which, yielding most 
grateful shade, has been planted in front of the Custom-House at Corumbá, should be à 
single specimen, and that in no very satisfactory condition. 
Mr. Scott Elliot examined this plant for me, and indicated its affinity. [Paraguaria. | 
BROSIMUM GAUDICHAUDII, Tréc. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Bot. 3"* sér. viii. p. 140. 
Hab. Crescit in locis apertis ad Santa Cruz passim, ubi nuncupatur Algodao do 
Campo. (N. 656.) 
The fruit when ripe is yellow and the size of a small gooseberry. It is eaten by the 
people at Santa Cruz, but is not very palatable. [Bras. Or.] 
