NEW SPECIES OF PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 123 



stylus brevis, stiginate fusiformi acuto pilosi. Fl. fcem. : Calyx et co- 

 rolla . . . Ovariuia pluriloculare ? stylus . . . ; ovula numerosissima, hori- 

 zontalia, placentis bilamellatis axi ovarii adnatis affixa, lamellis revolutis 

 margine exteriore ovuliferis. Bacca breviter pedicellata, globosa, calycis 

 limbo coronata, pedicello involucello (hiplici utroque cupulari basi cincto, 

 4 y-locularis, polysperma. Semiiia horizontalin, majuscula, plana, testa 

 tenui subtibroso-cellulosa . . . — Arbores parvse, Amazonicse, glaberrinise, 

 ramulis lignosis teretibus. Folia opposita, gracile petiolata, oblonga v. 

 lineari-oblonga, obtusa, rigide coriacea, siccitate rufo-brunuea, supra sub 

 lente granulata, nervis divaricatis tenuibiis. Stipulae intrapetiolares, 

 breves, in cupulain connatse. Flores (^ in spicas strictas terminales 

 erectas rigidas di-positi, subfasciculati, parvi, albi v. flavidi, ebracteolati. 

 Bacca diametro Cerasi. 



S. SPICATA; foliis obovatis oblongisve apice obtusis v. rotunclatis, 

 basi in petiolura angustatis, spicis densitioris foliis diinidio brevioribus. 

 — Schradera spicata, Spruce, Herb. 3322. — Hab. Araazor.s' river, near 

 Saiitarein, and on the Casiquiari, at Vasiva and Pacinioni, Spruce. Fl. 

 iimmx-s.—Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1068. 



Stelis ExuREsir, Ruichb. f. {Orcliidere) ; fequiflora, dense caespitosa 

 majuscula, caulibus secundariis elongatis, foliis cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis 

 obuisis apice emarginatis cum apiculo crassis, racerao disticho, ovariis 

 pedicellatis medio genutlexis, bracteis vaginatis acuminatis ovariis pedicel- 

 latis bene brevioribus, sepalis inia basi coalitis omnibus intus papulis 

 filiforraibus barbellatis, sepalo dorsali ovali acuto trinervi, sepalis lateral!- i.^ 

 bus ovatis apiculatis paulo minoribus, petalis transverse oblongis apice 

 inflexo cucullatis cum apiculo, limbo erecto ciliatulo triiierviis, labello 

 carnoso transverso subrlionibeo excavato, columna gracili, androcliuio pos- 

 tice cucuUato, rostello ligulato erecto, limbo sub fovea bicruri, cruribus 

 ovatis cum apiculo. — Near 8tdis leacopoc/on, but with 3-uerved sepals. 

 Hab. Discovered in Costa Rica by M. Endres, and flowered in the Ham- 

 burg Botanic Garden in December, 1869, and July, 1870. — Gard. Chron. 

 1870, p. 1373. 



S. GLOSSULA, Reichh.f. ; bilabiata, dense cpespitosa, caulibus secundariis 



brevissimis, foliis cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis apice minute bilobis cum den- 



ticulo, racemo lonare distiche florido, bracteis trianijulis ovaria lons-a non 



. . . . V 



aeqnantibus, sepalo dorsali oblongo obtuse acuto quinquenervi elongato, 



sepalis lateralibus oblongo-ovatis apiculatis apicem versus connatis sub- 



trinerviis multo minoribus, petalis obtuse rhombeis uninerviis, labello 



carnoso papuliformi supra dorsum bil-uuellato, columna suba'quali. — 



Hab. This little species was imported by Messrs. Veitch from Costa 



l^ica.— &V,;y/. Chron. 1870, p. 1373. 



8TR0PHANTI1US BuLLENiANUS, Mrint. {Jpon/tiacere) ; rauiis petiolis 



pedunculis sepalisque hispidis, foliis elliptico-oblongis, basi rotundatis 



nonnunquam inaequilateris longiuscule acuminatis supra glabriusculis 



subtus villosis, petiolis 3-4 lin. longis, spinulas axillares minimas per 



paria dispositis obtegentibus, cymis ramosis laxis plurifloris bracteatis, 



bracteis lincaribus deciduis, calyce eglanduloso carapanulato vix semi- 



pollicari profunda 5-partito, laciniis lineari-oblongis, corollse hypocratcri- 



morphse lubo basi dilatato crubesccnte, limbo patente 5-partito, segmentis 



flavidis pnrpnreo-maculatis ovatis patentibus superne concavis longiuscule 



acuminatis, fpstivatione contorte inibricatis, staniinodiis 10 oblongis sub- 



carnosis per paria e i\uice tubi inter pctala emergentibus, stamiuibus 



