FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA, 633 
acuta v. obtusa. basi rotundata v. truncata, supra sparse et 
appresse pilosa, subtus pube subsericea pallentia v. candi- 
cantia. Pedunculi terminales, a folio terminali 2-6 lin. longi, 
Canescenti-tomentosi, graciles, apice capitulum ferunt 3-6 
florum, bractea parva subulata subtensum. Flores sessiles, 
albi. Perigonii tubus semipollicaris, leviter incurvas, tenuis, 
Canescenti-tomentosus, 10-striatus, intus glaber; limbi lobi 
lanceolati, 3 lin. longi, extus dense intus tenuius cano-tomen- 
tosi. Squamule hypogynæ minute, longe barbato-hispide. 
Ovarium in fundo perigonii 1 lin. longum. Stylus ovario 
brevior. 
862. Goodallia guianensis, gen. n.—On the brook Curassa- 
Waka, a tributary of the Rupunoony, Schomburgk, 1st Coll. 
n. 142, in part. 
Char. gen. Goopanura. Flores dioici. Masculi: Perigo- 
gonium late tubulosum 5-fidum, tubo intus villoso, limbo 
erecto, Stamina 10, ad faucem inserta, perigonio breviora, 
5 lobis alterna paullo breviora. Squame perigyne prope 
basin tubi 10, lineares, glabræ. Ovarii rudimentum nullum 
Y. minimum. Fœminei: Perigonium et squame perigynæ 
marium. Stamina nulla. Squamule hypogynæ minutissimæ 
longe hispide. Ovarium hirsutissimum. Stylus filiformis, 
revis , apice dilatatus, in stigma crassum capitatum undique 
papillosum. Ovulum unicum, ex apice cavitatis pendulum. 
Fructus vix carnosus, perigonio parum aucto inclusus, 
©voideus, apice attenuatus, hispidus. Semen pendulum, 
u conforme; testa crustacea; albumen nullum; radicula 
Supera ; cotyledones crassæ convexæ.—G. guianensis. Frutex 
elatus, ramis divaricatis ramosissimis, ramulis ultimis tenuibus, 
novellis sericeo-pilosulis, mox glabris puncticulatis. Folia ia 
petiolo vix unquam lineam longo pollicaria v. paullo minora, 
1-9 lin. lata, basi cuneata v. rotundata, margine integerrima, 
Consistentia et colore illa Maprouneæ referentia, glaberrima, - 
pennivenia, venis utrinque prominulis sæpe purpurascentibus. | 
Spice capituleformes ad apices ramulorum sessiles, fœmineæ 
. 3-5-floræ, masculæ interdum 6-7-flore. Perigonium mascu- 
lum 2} lin. longum, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis tubum æquan- 
|. VOL. Iv, : : AAA 
