132 schomburgk's guiana plants. 



in ramulis superioribus orti, solitarii bini v, terni, pollicares, 

 rigidi, superne incrassati et lepidoti. — Flores minores et 

 teuuiores quam in M, speciosa, albi. Sepala 5, pollicaria, 

 anguste linearia, acuta, extus lepidota, intus pilis adpressis 

 cano-villosa. Petala 5, oblongo-linearia, sepalis aequilonga 

 V. paullo longiora, 3 lin. lata, in unguem angustata, intus 

 longitudinaliter pilosula. Staminum adelpbia 5 exteriora 

 sepalis opposita et iis {Equiionga, brevitei* fissa, decanthera, 

 5 interiora dimidio fere breviora, ad medium fissa in fila- 

 menta 40 — 50 tenuia, pleraque antherifera, nonnulia tamen 

 sterilia. Ovarium, uti friictus junior, sessile, compressum, 

 lepidotum, apice angustatum nee ut in M. speciosa emargi- 

 tum, biloculare, ovulis in quoque loculo pluvimis biseriatim 



affixis. — IVaikai Arrai, of the Carribbees On the Rio Qui- 



taro ; Schomburgk, n. 566, in the earlier sets. 



679. Apeiba Tibourbou, Aiibl. — DC. Prodr. v. i. p. 514. — 

 In tufts of wood on dry savannahs, Pirara; Schomburgk, ii' 

 734. French Guiana; Herb. Par. n. 93. Ceara; Gardner, 

 n. 1476*, and in other Brazilian collections. 



680. Sloanea Massoniy Sw. — DC Prodr. v. i. p. 515.— 



British Guiana; Schomburgk, n. 1021 The style is not 



quite entire, being very shortly quadrifid at the point, though 

 not near so much so as in Dasynema. The ovules are nume- 

 rous in each cell. These species, and the allied Aderwhasiutn 

 ohtusifolium, figured by Moricand in his Plantes Nouvelles 

 d'Amerigue, tend to show that the latter genus and Dasynetna, 

 are scarcely distinct from Sloanea. 



681. Dasynema (Adenobasium) laurifolium (sp. n.) ; foliis 

 ovali-oblongis sublanceolatisve acuminatis coriaceis utrinque 

 pedunculisque trichotomis glaberrimis, sepalis 4 rarius 5 

 ovatis obtusiusculis, fructu glabro setis destituto. — Arbor 50- 

 pedalis. Folia alterna v. subopposita, 4— 6-poUicaria, peii- 

 olo semipollicari basi et apice incrassato, venis parum pro- 

 minentibus. Pedunculi semel bisve trichotomi, infra rami- 

 ficationem petiolo sequilongi. Bracteae minutae. Sepala vix 

 2 lin. longa, alba. Stamina numerosissima, disco lato fove- 

 olato persistente imposita, sepalis breviora. Ovarium tenu- 



