48 SCHOMBURGK’S GUIANA PLANTS. 
embryone crassiusculo recto; radicula ad hilum spectante. 
Herbze Americe tropice, paludose, glabra.  Werpestidibus. 
pluribus sectionis Bramize similes. Folia opposita. Pedun- 
culi azillares, solitarii vel fasciculati, uniflori, bracteis 2 setaceis 
aucti. Corolle cerulescentes vel alba. ; 
1. B. aquatica, ( Aubl.) ; foliis lanceolatis, bracteis a calyce 
remotis, sepalis exterioribus in pedunculum subdecurrentibus, 
corollæ calycem subdimidio superantis laciniis ovali-oblongis. 
2. B. grandiflora (Mart.); foliis lanceolatis, bracteis calyci 
approximatis, sepalo postico basi cordato, corollæ calycem 
duplo superantis laciniis late obovatis.— Near Alegre in the — 
province of Lower Piauhy. Martius. 
69. Herpestes chamedrifolia, Humb. and Kunth, Nov. Gen. 
II. p. 869.—Barcellos on the Rio Negro. Schomburgk. 
10. H. gratioloides, Benth. Comp. Bot. Mag. M. p. 57. 
—Caconapea gratioloides, Cham. et Schl. Linnea, VIII. p. 29. 
Skirts of the Pacaraima mountains. Schomburgk, n. 1033. 
41. H. sessiliflora, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. IL 
p. 58. — French Guiana. 
(Mecardonia pusilla, Mart. Nov. Gen.et Sp. III. p. 16. t. 208. s 
has all the characters of the first section of Herpestes, and be- — 
longs to H. serpylloides, (Cham. et Sch.) —Gardner's n. 1799, — 
from Ceará, is a new species. of the section Caconapea ; his - 
. No. 1089, from Pernambuco, is Herpestes stricta (Schrad.); to 
which is to be referred my H. polyantha; his n. 214, from 
Rio Janeiro, is the H. lanigera, (Cham. et Schi.), and 181, is — 
H. Monniera. ‘The same collector’s numbers 1090, and 1091, : 
from Pernambuco, and 1797, from Ceara, appear to € so L3 
many new species of the section Bramia.) E 
12. Beyrichia ocymoides, Linnea, III. p. 21. —Sands of dio 2 
Essequibo and Rupunoony. : Schomburgk, n. 528. Lr 
73. Conobea diwalien ae Guian. p. 639. t. 958. —Deme- 4 
rara and French Guiana. ^ 
74. Vandellia crustacea, Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 35. —French z 
Guiana. 
MBN; diffusa, ino aian of the Sanus. d : 
Rupunoony. Schomburgk, n. 516.—** Flowers white, with - 
