126 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 
axillares, 6-8 lin. longæ. Folia 21-4 poll. longa, 1-21 poll. lata, 
obtusissima, majora basi plus minus cordato-truncata, minora basi 
rotundato-cuneata, ommia crassa, coriacea, marginata, nervis pri- 
maris tenuibus crebris reteque venularum utrinque conspicuis, 
supra glabra at non lucida, subtus ad costam mediam pilis paucis 
rufis onusta, ceterum glabra sed stratu quasi calcareo niveo ob- 
ducta. Racemus terminalis, cum pedunculo 44 poll. longus, basi 
stipulis 2 semipollicaribus connatis vaginatus. Umbelle 4-fioræ 
secus axin breviter pedunculate. Pedicelli 3-4 lin. longi, in 
umbella sessiles. Bracteæ breves, setacez. Calyx 5-fidus, per 
anthesin 2 lin. longus, extus rufo-villosus ; laciniæ ovato-triangu- 
gulares inzequales, margine tenues, basi crasse, glandulis parvis 
immersis sub villis fere occultis v. omnino evanidis; post anthesin 
calyx increscit sed fructifer haud suppetit. Petala breviter ungui- 
culata, inæqualia, obovato-concava, margine eroso-denticulata, glabra 
v. dorso ad unguem breviter pilosa, majora 3 lin. longa. Recep- 
taculum dense et longe rufo-pilosum. Filamenta vix basi brevis- 
sime connata, uti antheræ pilis densis longissimis hirsuta; con- 
nectivum crasso-clavatum, glabrum v. pilis raris hirtum, loculos 
breviter superans. Ovaria glaberrima, in uno flore alte connata 
vidi, in altero fere distincta, intus sub apice stylifera. Styli longi- 
usculi, graciles, acutiusculi. Fructus haud suppetit. 
This has not precisely the inflorescence of the two last, and the 
fruit is unknown, but the calyx appears to be that of Coleostachys, 
as well as the bracts and stipules. 
+ Lophanthera Kunthiana, A. Juss., Malp. p. 62.—On the Rio 
Negro, Schomb. lst Col. n. 905. 
20. Pterandra latifolia, A. Juss., Malp. p. 64.—British Guiana, 
Schomb., à single specimen. 
21. Spachea elegans, A. Juss., Malp. p. 72. (Demerara, Rodsch.) 
—Shady woods, Surinam, Hostm., n. 57 and 1043. These speci- 
mens differ slightly from the figure in Delessert’s Icones, by the 
leaves, which are oblong, or even obovate, and rounded at the — 
extremity with a very short point, and not narrowed into along  — 
point. In other respects they agree with Jussieu's character and — — 
figure, and some of Hostmann’s specimens, numbered 57, are spe- _ 
