40 EEPOET ON TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FROM 



infundifuliformi, lobis 5 linearibus acutis patentibus. Florum fcemininorum corolla 

 angustissime tubulosa, truncata, vel oblique truncata, niinntissime denticulata, stylo 

 multo brevior. 

 A dwarf dioecious perennial with erect woody stems, apparently about 3-5 in. high, 

 rooting at the base, sparingly branched in the upper part, densely leafy to tbe top, quite 

 glabrous in all parts. Leaves densely crowded, spreading, £-f in. long (including the 

 petiole), 1-2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or obtuse, tapering at the base into a linear 

 petiole, entire, coriaceous, shining above, wrinkled from shrinkage in drying, veinless. 

 Heads subunisexual, solitary or 2-4 together, sessile at the apex of the branches, and 

 surrounded, but not overtopped by the leaves, about 2| lin. diam., discoid, many-flowered. 

 Involucre campanulate, a little shorter than the florets, its scales in 2-3 series, subequal, 

 about lh lin. long, § lin. broad, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, ciliate. Receptacle 

 naked in the sterile heads, but with several linear or linear-lanceolate acute scales in the 

 female heads, scattered among, and about as long as, the florets. Florets of the sterile 

 heads structurally hermaphrodite, but with barren ovaries ; corolla with a tube 1 lin. 

 long, gradually widening at the mouth,' and 5 linear, acute, spreading lobes A lin. long, 

 o-labrous. Florets of the female heads with a very slender tubular corolla, truncate or 

 oblique and very minutely 5-toothed at the apex, much shorter than the shortly bifid 

 style, glabrous. Ovary glabrous. Pappus-bristles numerous and alike in both kinds of 

 flowers, equalling the style in the female florets, slightly scabrid, whitish. 

 Summit of Mount lloraima, 8600 ft., McConnell §r Quelch, G31. 



Pteeocaulok virgattjm, DC. Prod. v. p. 454, var. 



Kotinga Valley, McConmell fy Quelch, 159. Savannahs generally, McConnell 8f 

 Quelch, 306. 



Stifftia condensata, Baker, in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. in. p. 351 ; im Thurn & Oliver, 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. ii. (1887), pp. 254, 278. 

 Summit of Mount Rorairna, McConnell 8f Quelch, 87, 651. — Endemic. 



Stifftia Connellii, N. E. Brown, sp. n. (Plate 8.) Rami 2-3 lin. crassi, tomento 



compacto cinereo dense obtecti. Folia petiolata, coriacea, oblonga vel oblongo- 



obovata, obtusa, basi cuneato-rotundata, supra glabra, subtus tomento deciduo 



vestita. Capitula solitaria, magna. Involucri subinfundibuliformis bractese 



rnultiseriatae; interiores ligulatre obtusa?; exteriores gradatim minores, ovatae, obtusae, 



subtomentosse. Receptaculum bracteis linearibus minute dentato-ciliatis paucis 



onustum. Corolla infra medium 5-loba, glabra, lobis linearibus acutis spiraliter 



revolutis. Stylus longe exsertns, apice minute bifidus. 



Branches woody, 2-3 lin. thick, covered with a dense, felt-like, greyish tomentum. 



Leaves alternate, petiolate, coriaceous; petiole |-f in. long, tomentose; blade 3^-5^ in. 



long, H-2^ in. broad, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, somewdiat cuneately rounded at 



the base, entire, glabrous above, clothed with a deciduous tomentum beneath, which 



falls away in patches ; midrib and veins about equally prominent on both sides. Heads 



solitary, terminal, about 2\ in. long and 2 in. diam. Involucre somewhat funnel-shaped, 



