120 SCHOMBURGKS GUIANA PLANTS. 



638. Paritium tiliaceum, St Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. v. i. 

 p. 256, — British Guiana; Schomhiirgk, n. 212. 



639. Hibiscus bicornis, G. F. IV. Meyer DC Prodr. v. i. 



p. 449 — On the Essequibo ; Schomburgk. 



Gardner's n. 1243, from Alagoas, which is also in Salz- 

 raann's Bahia collection, and amongst Martin's plants from 

 French Guiana, appears to be H. fiircellatus, Desv. 



640. Fugosia campestris (sp. n.); foliis integris ovato-v. 

 lanceolato-oblongis juniorihus utrinque stellato-tomentosis, 

 adultis supra v. utrinque glabratis, calyce exteriore 8 — 10 

 phyllo, interiore longiore profunde 5-fido, ovario 3-loculari 

 loculis 4-ovulatis — Folia breviter petiolata, bipollicaria, acu- 

 ta V. obtusa, basi rotundata v. angustata, venis lateralibus 

 utrinque vix prorainentibus. Stipula? lineares, deciduae. 

 Pedunculi uniflori, folio breviores, bracteolis 2 prope basin 

 saepius aucti. Calycis exterioris foliola 3 — 5 lin. longa, line- 

 aria, ingequalia. Calyx interior 6 — 7 lin. longus, laciniis 

 anguste lanceolatis extus tomentosis nigro-punctatis. Petala 

 ampla, sesquipollicaria, extus tomentosa. Stigmata tria, 

 subdistincta. Ovarium villosissimum. Capsula (nondum ma- 

 tura) villosa, calyce brevior, trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis, 

 loculis 3 — 4-spermis, seminibus nudis. — Dry savannahs, Rio 

 Branco ; Schomhurgky n. 838. 



Gardner's n. 1459, from Ceara, is F. phlomidifoUa, St 

 Hil.; n. 2399, from Ceara, is F. heterophylla, St Hil., [Bedu- 

 tea, Vent.); Blanchet's n. 2702, from Serra Jacobina, appears 

 to be an undescribed species, allied to F. heterophylla, and 

 Drummond's n. 44, from his third Texan collection, another 

 undescribed species, not mentioned in the Flora of Torrey 

 and Gray, as it was probably wanting in their set of Drum- 

 mond's plants. 



641. Abutilon spicaiwn, Jffimb. et Kimth, Nov. Gen, et Sp- 

 V. V. p. 271. — Petala lutea. Capsulse stellato-patentes, obtu- 

 sissimse — Shady places, Rio Branco; Schomburgk, n. 845. 

 Bahia ; Salzmann. 



642. A. Liicianum, DC. Prodr. v. i, p. 468, siib Sida. — 

 Caulis herbaceus, tomento molli superne subfloccoso incanus. 

 Folia fere A, excehi. Panicula pedalis, anguste thyrsoidea 



