30 EEPOET OX TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FEOM 



Miconia tinifolia, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. III. xvi. (1851), p. 225. 



Kotinga Valley, McConnell 8f Quelch, 191. Summit of Mount Roraima, McConnell 

 §• Quelch, 633.— Also in Venezuela. 



LYTHBACE^l. 



Cuphea gracilis, II. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. vi. p. 199, var. media, Koehne, in Mart. 

 PI. Bras. xiii. pt. II. p. 284. 

 Ireng Valley, McConnell 8f Quelch, 225. 



ONAGEACE^E. 



Jesseea longifolia, DC. in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. ii. pt. n. (1824), p. 141. 

 Ireng Valley, McConnell 8f Quelch, 20S, 214, 227. 



TURNERACEiE. 



Tukkera uemifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1. p. 271. 



Kotinga Valley, McConnell fy Quelch, 174. Ireng Valley. McConnell 8f Quelch, 250, 

 260. 



Tuknera velutina, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. (1812). p. 116. 

 Ireng Valley, McConnell 8f Quelch, 240. 



PnuQUETA guianensis, N. E. Brown, sp. n. Perennis, caulibus simplicibus, pilis stellatis 

 cum setulis intermixtis tomentosa. Folia petiolata, anguste vel oblongo-lanceolata, 

 obtusa, obtuse dentata, dense tomentosa. Plores axillares, solitarii. Pedicelli 

 4-10 lin. longi, supra medium articulati. Petala purpurea ?, glabra. Fructus 

 globosus, dense appresse pubescens. Semina oblonga, reticulato-foveolata. 

 A perennial herb growing to about 1 ft. high. Stems several from the same root- 

 stock, rather slender, usually simple, tomentose with a short down of stellate hairs 

 intermingled with longer spreading bairs. Leaves petiolate ; petiole 1-2 lin. long, blade 

 i-1 in. long, 1^-4 lin. broad, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, obtusely 

 3-6-toothed on each side, densely stellate tomentose on both sides. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary. Pedicels 1-10 iin. long, jointed above the middle, stellate-tomentose. Calyx 

 3-4^ lin. long, stellate-tomentose outside; tube about 1 lin. lonn', shortly obconical, 

 lobes 2-3J lin. long, 1-1^ lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute. Petals much 

 longer than the calyx, o'hovatc, glabrous, with a fringed scale at their base, apparently 

 purple. Stamens about 2} lin. long, with glabrous filaments. Ovary ovoid, densely 

 adpressed-pubescent, not tubercled ; styles 2 lin. long, with a few scattered hairs or 

 almost glabrous; stigmas dilated. Capsule globose, about 2 lin. diam., 3-valved, densely 

 covered with adpressed, rather silky hairs. Seeds 1 lin. long, oblong, rather coarsely 

 pitted, pale reddish brown. 



British Guiana ; without precise locality, Appun, 1858. Ireng Valley, McConnell § 

 Quelch, 264. 

 Allied to P. Duarteana, Urb. 



