•14 EEPOET ON TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FROM 



Bracteolae ovatse, glanduloso-dentieulatae. Calyx glaber, lobis ovatis acutis minute 

 ciliatis. Corolla 3^ lin. longa, urceolata, breviter 5-loba, lobis recurvis. Stamina 

 inclusa, filameutis basi dilatis ciliatis, antheris apicibus 4-aristatis. Eacca globosa, 

 | poll. diam. — P. sp. off. parvifolice, Benth., Oliver, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. 

 Bot. ii. p. 278. 

 A shrub with very leafy slender branches, which are more or less covered with 

 scattered spreading hairs, but are scarcely hispid, and occasionally nearly glabrous. 

 Leaves small, rather crowded, petiolate, rigidly coriaceous ; petiole about 1 lin. long ; 

 blade 5-8 lin. long, 3|-4| lin. broad, ovate or elliptic, acute or subacute, rounded at the 

 base, thickened and slightly recurved along the denticulate margins beneath, the teeth 

 tipped with a minute bristle, usually with a few scattered bristle-like hairs beneath, 

 otherwise glabrous, shining and rugose from depressions (caused by shrinkage in drying?) 

 between the veins above. Flowers axillary, solitary. Pedicels 2-5 lin. long, more or 

 less pubescent, bracteolate. Bracteoles 5 or 6, about 1 lin. long, ovate, acute, gland- 

 toothed, the lowermost crowded. Calyx 5-lobcd nearly to the base, not enlarging in the 

 fruiting stage; lobes H lin. long, f-1 lin. broad, ovate, acute, minutely ciliate, otherwise 

 glabrous. Corolla 3h lin. long, urceolate, glabrous, with 5 ovate obtuse recurved lobes 

 f-1 lin. long. Stamens shorter than the corolla, 2 lin. long; filaments ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, ciliate with rather long hairs ; anthers tipped with f bristles about g- as long 

 as the cells. Ovary subglobose, glabrous ; style li lin. long, glabrous ; stigma dilated, 

 discoid. Berry globose, about | in. in diam. 



Summit of Mount Roraima, 8600 ft., McGonnell & Quelch, 037 : im Thurn, 333 a. 

 Allied to Perttettya rigida, DO, but among other characters the more thickened margin 

 of the leaves and more numerous bracteoles serve readily to distinguish it. 



Gaflthejua setulosa, N. E. Brown, sp. n. Frutex setulis glanduliferis ubique vestitus. 



Folia brevissime petiolata, late cordato-ovata vel suborbicularia, coriacea, integra, 



utiinque setuloso-scabrida, ciliata. Racemi solitarii vel 2-3-ni ad apices ramorum, 



bract eati. Calycis lobi deltoideo-ovati, acuminati. Corolla urceolata, breviter 5- 



loba, intra glabra. Stamina inclusa, tilamentis linearibus ciliatis, antheris obtusis 



muticis. Ovarium dejn-essurn, 5-lobum, pubescens. — Gaultheria aff. G. vestitcr, 



Benth., Oliver in Trans. Liun. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. ii. (1887) p. 278. 



A shrub, more or less clothed with long setre or gland-tipped hairs on the branches, 



leaves, and inflorescence. Leaves very shortly petiolate, f— If in. long, f-li in. broad, 



ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or subacute, cordate at the base, entire, rigidly coriaceous, 



more or less setose or scabrid on both sides, ciliate, with the veins much reticulated and 



prominent beneath. Racemes solitary or 2-3 together at the apex of the branches, erect, 



bracteate, 1-4 in. long, 7-15-flowered, rather lax, puberulous and more or less densely 



covered with gland-tipped bristles on the axis, bracts, pedicels, calyx, and corolla. 



Bracts ^— J in. long, 2-3J lin. broad, elliptic subacute, concave, spreading, persistent. 



Pedicels 3-8 lin. long, ascending or spreading. Calyx 2-2^ lin. loug, 5-lobed to | the 



way down, the lobes l-J-2 lin. long, deltoid-ovate, acuminate. Corolla 3^-4 lin. long, 



2^ lin. diam., urceolate, with 5 recurved, ovate, obtuse lobes f lin. long, glabrous inside. 



Stamens 10, included, § as long as the corolla ; filaments linear, ciliate ; anthers | lin. 



