12 REPORT ON TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FROM 
eorum 3, libera, anguste lanceolata, acuminata, carinata, glabra, ad medium ciliata ; 
petala 3, cuneato-obovata, prope apicem obtusum incurvum leviter connata, dorso 
pilis longis dense vestita. 
A small stemless annual? Leaves rosulate, very spreading, 3-4 lin. long, ~~ lin. 
broad, linear, acute, thinly cobwebby-tomentose above, becoming glabrous, glabrous 
beneath, woolly in the axils. Peduncles 3-4to a plant, 12-24 in. long, filiform, thinly 
villose or nearly glabrous. Heads simple, moncecious, 2-24 lin. diam., very pale straw- 
coloured in all parts. Involucral-bracts in 3—4 series, much shorter than the flowers, the 
innermost # lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, quite glabrous, thin, 
semi-transparent. Flowering-bracts none. Receptacle and pedicels very woolly. Male 
flowers much smaller than the female flowers, with rather longer pedicels, very oblique; 
sepals 3, two of them 3 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, obliquely semiovate, straight along one 
margin, very much curved along the other, acute, the third smaller, rhomboid-lanceolate, 
acute, all bearded with short hairs at about the middle, transparent ; petals connate into 
a very minute, stipitate, funnel-shaped cup, glabrous ; anthers white. Female flowers 
straight, projecting much beyond the males ; sepals 3, free, 1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, boat-shaped, keeled, glabrous, ciliate at the middle only, trans- 
parent; petals arising a little above the sepals, scarcely 4 lin. long, about i lin. broad, 
cuneate-obovate, obtuse and inflexed at the apex, and apparently slightly eeng there, 
densely clothed with long hairs on the back; ovary trigonous, glabrous, with a glabrous 
style, divided at the apex into 3 simple stigmas and 3 slender clavate appendages. Capsule 
scarcely t lin. diam. Seeds ellipsoidal, faintly ribbed, glabrous, brown. 
Kotinga Valley, near Mount Roraima, McConnell & Quelch, 126. 
This species much resembles Pepalanthus simplex, Miq., but is readily distinguished 
by the very unequal size and dissimilar form of the male and female flowers, the 
females conspicuously projecting much beyond the males, so that the heads have a 
somewhat echinate appearance. 
P#PALANTHUS UMBELLATUs, Kunth, Enum. Pl. iii. p. 537. 
Kotinga Valley, McConnell & Quelch, 129. 
P#PALANTHUS SUBTILIS, Miq. Stirp Surin. Sel. p. 221. 
Savannahs generally, McConnell & Quelch, 312. 
PHPALANTHUS CAPILLACEUS, Klotzsch, in R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.-Guiana, i. p. 377, 
ii. p. 5, & iii. p. 1063; Koern. in Mart. Fl. Bras. iii. pt. 1. p. 415, t. 53. f. 2. 
Kukenaam River, McConnell & Quelch, 314. Roraima, Appun, 1217.—-Endemic to 
the region. 
CYPERACES. 
CYPERUS UNCINATUS, Poir. Encycl. vii. p. 247. 
Kotinga Valley near Roraima, McConnell § Quelch, 128. Savannahs generally, 
McConnell & Queich, 321. 
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