218 schomborgk's guiana plants. 



Ovarium carnosuluni biloculare, ovulis in quoque loculo 

 pluribus, placentae crassiusculae affixis. — Mount Roraima, 

 Schombtirgk. 



458. Sipanea pratensis, Aubl DC. Prod. iv. 414. — 



French Guiana. Leprieur, Herb. Par. n. 173. 



459. S. dicltotoma^ Humb. et Kunth. — DC, I. c — Moist 

 savannahs, British Guiana. Schombiirgk, n. 15 and 95. 



Tribe, HEDYOTiDEiE. 



460. Oldenlandia herbacea^ DC. Prod. iv. 425. — British 

 Guiana. Schomburgk^ n. 17. — Pernambuco, Gardner n. 928. 

 — This plant varies much in the length of the peduncle, 

 which is longer or shorter than the leaves, and though gene- 

 rally one-flowered, occasionally bears two or three flowers. 



Tribe, Hamelieje. 



461. Evosmia ? corymbosa (sp. n.); foliis petiolatis ovatis 

 acuminatis supra glabris subtus junioribus ramulisque puber- 

 ulis demum glabratis, pedunculis terminalibus corymbosis 

 pubescentibus. — Frutex elatus v. arbor parva. Folia bipol- 

 licaria, longiuscule petiolata, subtus secus venas saepe barbu- 

 lata, demum subcoriacea. Stipulae anguste lanceolatae, acu- 

 minatae, utrinque solitarise, citissime deciduse. Corymbi 

 trichotomi, ramulis compressis. Flores in ultimis ramis 

 sessiles. Bracteolse calyce breviores, membranaceae, deciduae. 

 Calycis tubus ovatus, limbus persistens 4 — 5-lobus, laciniis 

 ovali-oblongis membranaceis obtusis tubo sequilongis, sinu 

 obtuso separatis. Corolla breviter infundibuliformis, tubo 

 1 lin. longo, limbo patente 4 — 5-partito, laciniis oblongis 

 fere 2 lin. longis, basi intus dense barbatis. Stamina tubo 

 inserta, exserta. Antherje ovatae. Ovarium 4— 5-loculare, 

 loculis pluri-ovulatis. Stylus filiformis, apice in lacinias 4 — 5- 

 lineares stigmatiferas divisus. Fructus (in specimine non- 

 dum maturus) fere globosus, vix carnosus, 4 — 5-locularis, 

 loculis pleiospermis, seminibus angulatis, pulpo nullo — Bri- 

 tish Guiana (on the Berbice?) Schomburgk, n. 325, on the 

 Quitaro, n. 558, and on the Rio Branco, n. 794. Mr 



