48 EEPOKT ON TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FROM 



densely bearded with deflexed white hairs at the insertion of the stamens within ; 

 lobes about f in. long, hatchet-shaped, one side being dilated into a large square 

 membranous obtuse lobe. Stamens inserted at the top of the narrow part of the tube 

 included ; filaments about 1 lin. long and nearly as broad, flat, oblong, slightly bearded 

 near the apex on the inner face ; anthers 3f lin. long, linear-oblong, acute, shortly 

 cordate at the base, connate, adnate to the stigma. Disk shortly lobed. Ovary glabrous ; 

 style about 14 lin. long, slender, glabrous ; stigma conical, 5- winged. 

 Upper slopes of Mount Roraima, McConnell S,' Queleh, 10. 



Manlevilla linearis, N. E. Brown, sp. n. Caules volubiles, gracilcs, puberuli. Eolia 

 breviter petiolata, linearia, acuta, supra glabra, subtus tomentosa, marginibus fere 

 vel usque ad costam revolutis. Racemi breves, pauciflori, minute puberuli. 

 Bi'actese parvae, acuminata?. Pedicelli brevissimi. Sepala parva, deltoidea, acuminata. 

 Corolla infundibularis, 2j poll, longa, recta, extra glabra, intra ad mediam dense 

 barbata. Stamina inclusa, filamentis ellipticis glabris, antheris subacutis basi 

 breviter cordatis vel emarginatis. 

 Stem twining, slender, puberulous. Leaves opposite, £— 2^ in. distant, petiolate, 

 thinly coriaceous; petiole l-l 1 lin. long, rather slender, puberulous; blade 1^-2| in. 

 long, linear, acute, obtuse at the base, with the margins revolute nearly or quite to the 

 midrib, glabrous and shining, with an impressed midrib above, tomentose, with a 

 prominent midrib beneath, the tomentum usually hidden by the revolute margins. 

 Bacemes short, |-f in. long, more than half of which is peduncle, 3-1-flowered, very 

 minutely puberulous. Bracts about f lin. long, ovate, acuminate. Pedicels alternate, 

 about 1 lin. long, rather stout. Calyx-lobes about 1^ lin. long, deltoid, acuminate, sub- 

 glabrous or very minutely puberulous, each with a small ovate scale at the base inside. 

 Corolla about 2^ in. long, funnel-shaped, straight, 5-lobed, glabrous outside, the middle 

 part of the tube inside densely covered with deflexed Avhite hairs ; tube cylindric and 

 about 1^ lin. diam. for f of its length, upper part much enlarged, subcampanulate ; 

 lobes about 5 lin. long, hatchet-shaped, with an incurved apiculus, one side being 

 dilated into a subrectangular, obtuse, membranous lobe. Stamens 5, included, inserted 

 at the top of the narrow part of the tube ; filaments about | lin. long, elliptic, glabrous ; 

 anthers 2 lin. long, linear-oblong, subacute, slightly narrowed at the emarginate or 

 shortly cordate base. Disk of 5 oblong lobes. Ovary glabrous ; style about l£ in. 

 long, filiform, glabrous; stigma subquadrate when viewed sideways, obtuse, 5-winged. 

 Kotinga Valley, 3000 ft., McConnell fy Queleh, 132, 101, 



Mandevilla scaberula, N. E. Brown, sp. n. Caules volubiles, pubemli. Folia 

 distantia, petiolata, oblonga, obtusa, apiculata, basi cordata, supra scaberula, subtus 

 tomentosa, reticulato-venosa. Racemi axillares, multiflori, puberuli. Bractea? 

 oblonga? vel oblongo-lanceolata?, Pedicelli brevi. Calyeis Lobi ovati, acuti, intra 

 squama ovata instructi. Corolla 2 poll, longa, infundibularis, extra pubesceus, 

 intra ad insertionem staminum pilis detlexis dense barbata, tubo curvato inferne 

 angusto basi leviter inflato, superne ampliato subcampanulatOj lobis dolabriformibus. 

 Stamina inclusa, filamentis linearibus dense barbatis. antheris acutis basi cordatis 

 obtusis. 



