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lobes 10-12 lin. long, 5-6 lin. broad, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous on 

 botb sides, ciliate along the outer margin, but in the younger stage, when contorted 

 into the lanceolate acuminate bud, the outside towards the base is more or less pubescent 

 or tomentose. Anthers sessile at the mouth of the corolla-tube, partly exserted, 1 lin. 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Ovary 2-celled ; style as long as the corolla-tube, 

 slender, glabrous ; stigma of 2 oblong obtuse lobes, about 2 lin. lon»\ 1 lin. broad. 

 Fruit globose, about f in. diam., thinly pubescent or subglabrous. 



British Guiana : Maimatta on the Rupununi River, Jewman, 5525, 5742 ; Kotinga 

 Valley, McConnell &f Quelch, 163; Roraima, Schomburgk, 178; Suruma River, Schom- 

 burgh, 772 b. 



Allied to Tocoyena feet Ida, Poepp. & Endl., but differs in its much shorter petioles and 

 corolla-tube. From T. velutina, Spruce (which is a very distinct species, wrongly 

 referred to T.fuetida by K. Schumann), it differs in the less elliptic form of the leaves, in 

 the indumentum, and very different calyx-limb. Schomburgk's specimens are quoted 

 by K. Schumann in the ' Flora Brasiliensis,' vi. pt. vi. p. 318, under T.formosa, K. Schum., 

 which is a quite different species, with orbicular leaves and short, ellipsoidal, obtuse 

 buds. 



Retiniphyllum laxiflorum, N. E. Brown. (Plate 6.) Folia petiolata, elliptica vel 

 elliptico-oblonga, obtusa basi subcuneata, glabra. Racemus terminalis, 3-9-florus, 

 floribus longe pedicellatis. Bracteoli sub ovario in cupulam disciformem minute 

 denticulatam connati. Calyx non costatus, truncatus, minutissime 5-dentatus. 

 Corolla utrinque sericeo-puberula, lobis reflexis tubo brevioribus. — Pali ma laxiflora, 

 Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. (1811) p. 220; R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.-Guian. iii. 

 p. 1142. Synisoon Schomburgkianmn, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris (187!)), p. 208 ; 

 Baill. Hist. PI. vii. p. 433 ; K. Schum. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. vi. p. :!'.)s. 

 A shrub or tree, glabrous in all parts excepting the flowers, and exuding a varnish-like 

 resin on various parts of the young branches and inflorescence. Branches moderately 

 slender, with a brown bark. Leaves opposite, petiolate, thinly coriaceous ; petiole 2-8 

 lin. long; blade 1|-4| in. long, 1-2| in. broad, shining above, paler beneath with 

 distinctly reticulated veins. Stipules subtruncate, minutely apiculate. Raceme erect, 

 terminal, very lax, 2-2^ in. long, consisting of 1-4 pairs of opposite flowers and one 

 terminal one. Bracts reduced to a minutely denticulate raised line. Pedicels 6-8 lin. 

 long, ascending, slender. Bracteoles beneath the ovary connate into a very small, disk- 

 like, minutely-denticulate involucel. Calyx 3^-4 lin. long, with the limb produced for 

 2-2^ lin. above the ovary, tubular, truncate, with 5 very minute distant teeth, glabrous, 

 but more or less coated with the varnish-like secretion. Corolla erect, 5-lobed, minutely 

 adpressed-pubescent outside and inside, with a dense ring of white hairs near the base 

 of the tube inside, below which it is glabrous; tube 8-9 lin. long, lj-lf lin. diam., 

 cyliudric; lobes pendulous, reflexed from their base, 7 lin. long, 1^ lin. broad, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, nearly straight along one margin curved along the other, strictly con- 

 torted in the bud. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the tube, reflexed with the corolla, 

 lobes; filaments 5 lin. long, pubescent; anthers 2 lin. long, dorsiflxed, lanceolate, 

 produced beyond the cells into a subulate point at the apex and into an oblong, 



