44 REPORT ON TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FROM 
Bracteolee ovate, glanduloso-denticulatee. Calyx glaber, lobis ovatis acutis minute 
ciliatis. Corolla 34 lin. longa, urceolata, breviter 5-loba, lobis recurvis. Stamina 
inclusa, filamentis basi dilatis ciliatis, antheris apicibus 4-aristatis. Bacca globosa, 
1 poll. diam.—P. sp. aff. parvifolie, Benth., Oliver, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. IT. 
Bot. ii. p. 278. 
A shrub with very leafy slender branches, which are more or less covered with 
scattered spreading hairs, but are scarcely hispid, and occasionally nearly glabrous. 
Leaves small, rather crowded, petiolate, rigidly coriaceous; petiole about 1 lin. long; 
blade 5-8 lin. long, 31—4 lin. broad, ovate or elliptic, acute or subacute, rounded at the 
base, thickened and slightly recurved along the denticulate margins beneath, the teeth 
tipped with a minute bristle, usually with a few scattered bristle-like hairs beneath, 
otherwise glabrous, shining and rugose from depressions (caused by shrinkage in drying?) 
between the veins above. Flowers axillary, solitary. Pedicels 2-5 lin. long, more or 
less pubescent, bracteolate. Bracteoles 5 or 6, about 1 lin. long, ovate, acute, gland- 
toothed, the lowermost crowded. Calyx 5-lobed nearly to the base, not enlarging in the 
fruiting stage; lobes 14 lin. long, 2-1 lin. broad, ovate, acute, minutely ciliate, otherwise 
glabrous. Corolla 33 lin. long, urceolate, glabrous, with 5 ovate obtuse recurved lobes 
2-1 lin. long. Stamens shorter than the corolla, 2 lin. long; filaments ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, ciliate with rather long hairs; anthers tipped with 4 bristles about 4 as long 
as the cells. Ovary subglobose, glabrous; style 14 lin. long, glabrous; stigma dilated, 
discoid. Berry globose, about 4 in. in diam. 
Summit of Mount Roraima, 8600 ft., McConnell & Quelch, 637; im Thurn, 333 a. 
Allied to Pernetiya rigida, DC., but among other characters the more thickened margin 
of the leaves and more numerous bracteoles serve readily to distinguish it. 
GAULTHERIA SETULOSA, N. E. Brown, sp. n. Frutex setulis glanduliferis ubique vestitus. 
Folia brevissime petiolata, late cordato-ovata vel suborbicularia, coriacea, integra, 
utrinque setuloso-scabrida, ciliata. Racemi solitarii vel 2-3-ni ad apices ramorum, 
bracteati. Calycis lobi deltoideo-ovati, acuminati. Corolla urceolata, breviter 5- 
loba, intra glabra. Stamina inclusa, filamentis linearibus ciliatis, antheris obtusis 
mutieis. Ovarium depressum, 5-lobum, pubescens.— Gaultheria aff. G. vestite, 
Benth., Oliver in Trans. Liun. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. ii. (1887) p. 278. 
A shrub, more or less clothed with long setæ or gland-tipped hairs on the branches, 
leaves, and inflorescence. Leaves very shortly petiolate, 2—12 in. long, 3-14 in. broad, 
ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or subacute, cordate at the base, entire, rigidly coriaceous, 
more or less setose or scabrid on both sides, ciliate, with the veins much reticulated and 
prominent beneath. Racemes solitary or 2-3 together at the apex of the branches, erect, 
bracteate, 1-4 in. long, 7-15-flowered, rather lax, puberulous and more or less densely 
covered with gland-tipped bristles on the axis, bracts, pedicels, calyx, and corolla. 
Bracts j—3 in. long, 2-33 lin. broad, elliptic subacute, concave, spreading, persistent. 
Pedicels 3-8 lin. long, ascending or spreading. Calyx 2-23 lin. long, 5-lobed to 3 the 
way down, the lobes 15-2 lin. long, deltoid-ovate, acuminate. Corolla 31-4 lin. long, 
25 lin. diam., urceolate, with 5 recurved, ovate, obtuse lobes 3 lin. long, glabrous inside. 
Stamens 10, included, $ as long as the corolla; filaments linear, ciliate; anthers 3 lin. 
