216 SCHOMBURGK'S GUIANA PLANTS. 
candidiora et majora sepe 8-pollicaria. Pedicelli breves, 
inferiores cymosi 3-7-flori. Stamina 6-8 lin. longa. Flores 
albi .—British Guiana. Schomburgk, n. 112.— Probably 
near to C. Paraensis. 
Among the described species, the section Hemicouepia 
would include Moquilea Kunthiana, Zucc. ( Hirtella polyandra, 
Humb. et Kunth); Moguilea Paraensis, Mart. et Zucc.j 
Chrysobalanus ovatifolius, Schott, in Spr. Syst., and perhaps 
also Chrysobalanus macrophyllus, Schott.— Blanchet's n. 2775 
from Utinga appears to be a new species of the same set. ~ 
288. Hirtella Americana, Aubl. Pl. Guian. I. p. 247. t. 98.— 
H. racemosa, Lam., DC. Prod. II. p. 599.— Banks of the 
Essequibo, Schomburgk, n. 23, and in a few sets also n. 7+ 
French Guiana. Leprieur, Herb. Par. n. 81. | Panama 
Cuming, n. 1114.— This species varies much in the presence. 
or absence of long hairs on the young branches, in the degree 
of pubescence of the spikes, and in the form of the small bracts, 
which are sometimes ovate at the base with a short subulate 
point, sometimes subulate almost to the very base. I should 
therefore suspect that the H. oblongifolia, DC. Prod. ll. P 
529, and Zucc. Lc. p. 82, is the same thing.—H. filiformis, 2 
Presl, Symb. Bot. II. p. 93. t. 69, seems to be also the same m. 
as this. 2 
289. H. herandra, Willd.— DC. Prod. II. p. 529. — Race. 
Lc. p. 83.— British Guiana. Schomburgk, n. 80. : 
Gardner's n. 993 from Pernambuco, and 1591 from Ceará ` 
appear to be H. coriacea, Zucc. l.c. p. 83. No. 370 of Gard- — 
ner’s Organ Mountain collection is a new species, nearly allied = 
to H. hebeclada, Moricand in DC. Prod. ll. p. 529, and may 2 i 
be thus characterized : —H. Gardneri; “ foliis subpetiolatis a 
amplis ovatis brevissime acuminatis basi subcordatis “Te fe 
pilosis subtus ramisque dense rufo-velutinis, racemis sim : 
cibus, calycis rufo-villosi tubo turbinato, staminibus fertilibus 
septem." The true hebeclada (if I am right in my determin- : 
ation) has the leaves less hairy, especially above, and they m 
narrowed or at most rounded at the base. — 
290. H. bullata (sp. n. ds foliis Bp allighicies vix scaminats 
