628 FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
1-1i poll. lata, rigidula sed tenuiora quam in C. obovata, © 
acumine longiore v. breviore acuto v. obtusiusculo, basi 
rotundata v. cuneata; venatio C. obovate sed folia utriuque 
nitidiora. Racemi 11-2. pollicares, floribus numerosis parvis. 
Bracteæ non scariose, parvæ, uti rhachis tenuissime tomen- - 
telle.  Perigonii lacinie patentissime, tubo cum disco 
staminifero leviter carnoso. Styli breves apice capitato-stig- 
matosi.— British Guiana, Schomburgk, 2nd. Coll. n. Me 
(1262). 
855. Triplaris Vahliana, Fisch. Mey. ex C. A. Mey. pe. 
Polyg. p. 14.—British Guiana, Schomburgk, 2nd Coll. n. 880 
(1522). 5 
856. T. surinamensis, Cham. — C. A. Mey. l. c., var. cras- 
sifolia.—On the Creek Longjohn, on the upper Essequibo. 
Schomburgk, 1st Coll. n. 223. 
'The tufts of hairs in the axils of the veins on the un 
side of the leaves are often very small, and in many leaves 
disappear altogether, and the inner lobes of the perigon 
in the female flowers and fruit are but shortly adherent to th 
tube ; yet I can perceive no essential difference between 
these specimens and Hostmann’s n. 439 and 1188 from 
Surinam, and Martin's Cayenne specimens, which I consid 
to belong to the true T. surinamensis. The inner segments 
of the perigon in the flower are lanceolate-subulate, as 
the fruit advances they wither up a little laterally, so as 
to become linear-subulate. i 
857. T. Schomburgkiana, sp. n., foliis amplis E uec u 
que villosis, paniculæ masculæ ramis longis floribundis, 
floribus parvis subrotatis, perigonii fceminei laciniis inte- 
rioribus ovatis obtusis petaloideis ovarium æquantibus.- 
Species distinctissima. Folia que vidi maxima 10 
longa, 6 poll. lata, utrinque acutiuscula, more generis : 
et longitudinaliter plicata, pube ferruginea appressa i 
gina superiore scabriuscula, in inferiore molliore co p 
pedales ad pedales, a basi dense floridi. irse ix li 
