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lobes 10-12 lin. long, 5-6 lin. broad, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous on 
both sides, ciliate along the outer margin, but in the younger stage, when contorted 
into the lanceolate acuminate bud, the outside towards the base is more or less pubescent 
or tomentose. Anthers sessile at the mouth of the corolla-tube, partly exserted, 4 lin. 
long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Ovary 2-celled; style as long as the corolla-tube, 
slender, glabrous; stigma of 2 oblong obtuse lobes, about 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. 
Fruit globose, about 2 in. diam., thinly pubescent or subglabrous. 
British Guiana: Maimatta on the Rupununi River, Jenman, 5525, 5742; Kotinga 
Valley, McConnell & Quelch, 163; Roraima, Sehomburgk, 478; Suruma River, Schom- 
burgk, 772 B. 
Allied to Tocoyena fetida, Poepp. & Endl., but differs in its much shorter petioles and 
corolla-tube. From T. velutina, Spruce (which is a very distinct species, wrongly 
referred to T. fwtida by K. Schumann), it differs in the less elliptic form of the leaves, in 
the indumentum, and very different calyx-limb. Schomburgk’s specimens are quoted 
by K. Schumann in the ‘ Flora Brasiliensis, vi. pt. vI. p. 348, under T. formosa, K. Schum., 
which is a quite different species, with orbicular leaves and short, ellipsoidal, obtuse 
buds. 
RETINIPHYLLUM LAXIFLORUM, N. E. Brown. (Plate 6.) Folia petiolata, elliptica vel 
elliptico-oblonga, obtusa basi subcuneata, glabra. Racemus terminalis, 3-9-florus, 
floribus longe pedicellatis. Bracteoli sub ovario in cupulam disciformem minute 
denticulatam connati. Calyx non costatus, truncatus, minutissime 5-dentatus. 
Corolla utrinque sericeo-puberula, lobis reflexis tubo brevioribus.—Patima laxiflora, 
Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. (1841) p. 220; R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.-Guian. iii. 
p. 1142. Synisoon Schomburgkianum, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris (1879), p. 208; 
Baill. Hist. Pl. vii. p. 433; K. Schum. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. vr. p. 398. 
A shrub or tree, glabrous in all parts excepting the flowers, and exuding a varnish-like 
resin on various parts of the young branches and inflorescence. Branches moderately 
slender, with a brown bark. Leaves opposite, petiolate, thinly coriaceous ; petiole 2-8 
lin. long; blade 13-43 in. long, 1-2} in. broad, shining above, paler beneath with 
distinctly reticulated veins. Stipules subtruncate, minutely apiculate. Raceme erect, 
terminal, very lax, 2-22 in. long, consisting of 1-4 pairs of opposite flowers and one 
terminal one. Bracts reduced to a minutely denticulate raised line. Pedicels 6-8 lin. 
long, ascending, slender. Bracteoles beneath the ovary connate into a very small, disk- 
like, minutely-denticulate involucel. Calyx 33-4 lin. long, with the limb produced for 
2-23 lin. above the ovary, tubular, truncate, with 5 very minute distant teeth, glabrous, 
but more or less coated with the varnish-like secretion. Corolla erect, 5-lobed, minutely 
adpressed-pubescent outside and inside, with a dense ring of white hairs near the base 
of the tube inside, below which it is glabrous; tube 8-9 lin. long, 11-13 lin. diam., 
cylindric; lobes pendulous, reflexed from their base, 7 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, nearly straight along one margin eurved along the other, strietly con- 
torted in the bud. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the tube, reflexed with the corolla. 
lobes; filaments 5 lin. long, pubescent; anthers 2 lin. long, dorsifixed, lanceolate, 
produced beyond the cells into a subulate point at the apex and into an oblong, 
