FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA, 627 
laciniis ovatis, Stamina parva. Styli subulati, apice breviter 
incrassato-stigmatosi. Bacca junior tubo calycis adnato 
inclusa, lobis persistentibus apice coronata, maturam non 
vidi.— British Guiana, Schomburgk, 2nd Coll. n. 929 (1265). 
853. C. ovata, sp. n., glaberrima, foliis ovatis utrinque 
obtusis tenuiter coriaceis utrinque reticulato-venulosis, race- 
mis folio longioribus rigidulis, pedicellis perigonio bracteaque 
multo brevioribus, perigonii laciniis tubo suo longioribus, 
staminibus exsertis.—Frutex ramosissimus, ramorum cortice 
levi. Ramuli juniores sub foliis striatuli. Vaginæ membra- 
naceæ, truncate, 2-3 lin. longæ, hinc fisse. Folia latitudine 
valde variabilia, pleraque 2-3 poll. longa, 12-2 poll. lata, 
utrinque lucida, rigida, insigniter reticulata, siccitate fu- 
scescentia. Racemi 4-6-pollicares, fere a basi floriferi. 
Bracteæ subtendentes carinatæ, lineam longe, margine an- 
gustius scariose quam in speciebus affinibus. Perigonium 
patens, tubo brevi carnoso, laciniis fere lineam longis, orbi- 
culatis. Styli apice capitato-stigmatosi.—On the Essequibo 
and Rupunoony, and on the Rio Negro in North Brasil, 
Schomburgk, 1st Coll. n. 531 and 893. 
This species appears to have an extensive range, if specimens 
which I have from various parts of tropical Brasil and from the 
West Indies are, as they appear to be, referrible to it. It 
agrees in many respects with the characters given of C. obtu- 
-sifolia, Jacq., but the leaves, though variable in form, are 
never so narrow as those described by Jacquin ; nor does the 
inflorescence agree at all with that attributed to the C. micro- 
stachya, Willd., which is said to differ chiefly from C. obtusi- 
folia, by its TE leaves. ` 
854. C. lucidula, sp. n., ramulis ferrugineo-puberulis mox 
glabratis, foliis oblongis subobovatisve acuminatis tenuiter 
subcoriaceis ue reticulato-venosis glabris nitidulis, 
racemis folio plerisque brevioribus, perigonii subsessilis 
laciniis tubo suo longioribus, staminibus perigonium æquan- — 
tibus. — Ramuli tenues, teretes, cortice cinereo. Vagine 
puberulæ, oblique truncate, 3-4 lin. longe, anguste.  Petioli 
vaginis breviores, raro 2 lin. longi, Folia 23-33 poll. longa, 
