366 FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
fasciculati, sesquipollicares, furfuracei, basi bracteis minutis 
squamiformibus, supra medium squamis 3 inter se distantibus 
bracteolati. Calycis tubus extus furfuraceus late cupu- 
latus, 2 lin. longus, limbus reflexus, laciniis 2 lato-ovatis 
membranaceis concavis 4-5 lin. longis; estivatio leviter 
imbricata videtur at alabastrum inapertum non vidi. Petala 
sub apice tubi calycis inserta, eo longiora, oblonga, valde 
imbricata, glabra, per anthesin reflexa, post anthesin cum 
calycis tubi parte superiore circumscissa decidua. Stamina 
calyci infra petala inserta, numerosissima, petalis breviora, 
glabra. Ovarium tenuiter tomentosum, subcarnosum. Sty- 
lus glaber, staminibus longior.—In the structure of the 
calyx, this plant differs from other Ternstroemiacec. The 
ovules are erect as in Kielmeyera, Archytea and Bonnetia, 
but appear to be always limited to two, The fruit is un- 
known, but from the appearance of the ovarium, I should 
suppose it to be capsular. 
751. Ochthocosmus Roraime, gen. nov. Ternstreemiaceis 
affine ?—Banks of rivers, near Mount Roraima, Schomburgk, 
n. 1037. 
Char. gen. OcutHocosmus. Calyx persistens, 5-partitus 
laciniis estivatione imbricatis. Petala 5, persistentia, esti- 
vatione imbricata, leviter perigyna. Stamina 5, petalis al- 
terna, disco tenui intra petala inserta. Anthere....Ovarium 
sessile, liberum, ovato-conicum, 5-loculare et dissepimentis 
incompletis inter ovula semi-10-loculare. Ovula in quoque 
loculo 2, ex angulo centrali pendula, Stylus filiformis. Stigma 
capitatum, obsoletissime 5-lobum. Fructus capsularis ?—O. 
Roraime. Frutex 12-16-pedalis, glaberrimus, ramis erectis 
subpyramidatis angulatis. Stipule parve, erecte, coriacec. 
Folia approximata, brevissime petiolata, late ovalia v. obo- 
vata, obtusissima v. emarginata, basi parum angustata, mar- 
gine remote et breviter crenato-dentata, crenarum sinubus 
is as glanduliferis, coriacea, supra nitidissima, penninervia et 
reticulato-venosa, subtus opaca et pallida, 2-4 poll. longa 13-2. 
poll. lata. Pedunculi in axillis superioribus fasciculati, foliis 
paullo longiores v. rarius breviores, angulati, fasciculatim 
