22 REPORT OX TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FROM 



OCHNACEJE. 



P(EC1Landka RETUSA, Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. III. viii. (1847), p. 342. 



Kotinga Valley, McConnell & Quelch, 145, 107. Ireng Valley, McConnell Sf Quelch, 

 325. 



[LICACE/E. 

 Ilex apicidens, N. E. Brown, sp. n. (Plato 1, tigs. 1-6). Fratex glaber. Folia parva, 

 coriacea, elliptica, obtusa vel emarginata, basi obtusa, apice denticulata. Cyma? 

 axillares vel ad apices ramulorum aggregate, 2-3-florye, vel flores solitarii, glabra?. 

 Calyx 4-lobns, lobis brevissimis rotundatis. Petala 1, elliptica vel suborbiculata, 

 obtusissima. Stamina 4. 



A glabrous sbrub ; brandies tuberculated with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves 

 moderately crowded, coriaceous ; petiole J- 2 lin. long; blade 5-11 lin. loug, 1-7 lin. 

 broad, elliptic or somewhat obovate. obtusely rounded or emarginate and with 5-9 small 

 teeth at the apex, obtusely rounded or somewhat cuneate at the base, entire along tin- 

 sides, with slightly revolute margins, not punctate-dotted beneath; primary lateral 

 veins about 4 on each side, uniting in broad loops, impressed above, prominent beueath ; 

 stipules minute, about J lin. long, subulate. Flowers either solitary or in 2-3-flowered 

 pedunculate cymes in the axils of the leaves, or crowded into a small, terminal, hemi- 

 spherical corymb |-f in. diam. Peduncles H-3 lin. long, glabrous. Pedicels of tin- 

 solitary flowers 2-3| lin. long, of those in cymes 1-2| lin. long, glabrous. Calyx about 

 J- lin. long, cupular, shortly l-lobed, lobes broadly rounded, obtuse, glabrous. Petals 4, 

 li-li lin. long, Pj-lij lin. broad, elliptic or suborbiculate, very obtuse, concave, glabrous. 

 Stamens 4, a little shorter than the petals. Pistillode globose, glabrous. Female 

 flowers not seen. 



Summit of Mount Roraima. 8600 ft.. McConnell & Quelch, 634. 



Allied to 1. obcordata, Sw., but differing in the apically toothed leaves, with the midrib 

 and veins much more prominent beneath. 



Ilex retusa, lvlotzsch, in R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.-Guiana, iii. p. 1097 ; Oliver, in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. ii. (1887), p. 273. 

 Summit of Mount Roraima, Mr Council & Quelch, 655. Collected by Sohomburgk on 

 the bank of a mountain-stream in the vicinity of Roraima. — Endemic. 



cyrillacej:. 



Cyrilla antillana, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. p. 158. 



Stachyanthemum Schomburgkii, Klotzsch, in R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.-Guiana, iii. p. 1097, ex 

 Loesener, in Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. pt. 5, p. 459. 



Kotinga Valley, 3000 ft., McConnell & Quelch, 193. Ireng Valley, McConnell fy 

 Quelch, 203. 



Cyrilla brevifolia, N. E. Brown, sp. n. (PI. 1, tigs. 7-16.) Folia lanceolato-elliptiea 

 vel obovato-elliptica vel lanceolata, obtusa vel acuta, glabra, rigide coriacea, costa 

 infra vix prominente. Racemi 1-2 poll, longi, dense nmltiflori. Sepala lanceolata, 

 acuminata, glabra. Petala lanceolata, involuto-acuminata, glabra. — C. antillana, 

 Michx., var. brevifolia, Oliver, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. ii. (1887) p. 273. 



