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recurved, thickened and keeled in the upper half and along the margins below and there 

 densely puberulous, enclosing a narrowly triangular glabrous basal area. Stamens 5, 

 inserted at the mouth of the tube, glabrous ; filaments J lin. long, slender ; anthers 

 about 1 lin. long, partly exserted, linear, acute. Ovary shortly hairy ; style lf-lf lin. 

 long, pubescent; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule 4-0 lin. long, 2^-3 lin. diam.. ellipsoidal, 

 sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous, 2-valvcd. 



Kotinga Valley, McConnell §• Quelch, 161. Ireng Valley, McConnell §r Quelch, 331. 



Axtonia ovata, Pohl, PL Bras. ii. p. 13, t. 109 



Kotinga Valley, McConnell 8f Quelch, 164. Upper slopes of Mount Roraiina, 

 McConnell 8f Quelch. 324. — Only known from Brazil and Guiana. 



GENTIANACE/E. 



Schultesia brack yptkka, Cham, in Linmea, viii. (1833), p. s . 

 Kotinga Valley, McConnell §r Quelch, 148. 



Schultesia ueterophyuua, Miq. in Liansea, xix. (1847), p. 136. 

 Ireng Valley, McConnell 8f Quelch, 249. 



Schultesia Benthamiaxa, Klotzscb, ex Griseb. in Liungea, xxii. (1849), p. 31. 

 Ireng Valley, McConnell 8f Quelch, 247 (and 224, apparently a starved state). 



Coutoubea reflexa, Benth. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. (1839). p. 1 ,42. 

 Kotinga Valley, McConnell fy Quelch, 141. 



Coutoubea spicata, Aubl. PI. Guian. i. p. 72. 

 Ireng Valley, McConnell §r Quelch, 221, 259. 



Lisianthus Imthuknianus, Oliver, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. ii. (1887), p. 279. 

 Summit of Mount Roraima, McConnell 8f Quelch, 101, 682. — Endemic. 



Lisianthus uliginosus, Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. p. 181. 



Kotinga Valley, McConnell 8f Quelch, 172. Ireng Valley. 201, 252. Upper slopes of 

 Mount Roraima (a small-flowered form), JfcConuell §r Quelch, 15. — Widely dispersed in 

 Guiana and Brazil. 



Lisianthus Quelchii, N. E. Brown, sp. n. (Plate 9, tigs. 6-9.) Eruticulus glaber, ramis 

 tetragonis internodiis I5-6 lin. longis. Eolia opposita, petiolata, oblonga vel 

 elliptico-oblonga vel obovata, subacuta vel obtusa et apiculata, coriacea. Elores 

 1-3-ni ad apices ramorum, pedicellati. Calyx campanulatus, profunde 5-lobus, 

 lobis oblongis obtusis. Corolla 1-H poll, longa, subinfundibularis, curvata, lobis 

 rotundatis obtusis. Stamina inclusa, tilamentis apice recurvis, antheris erectis. 

 Ovarium ovoideum, glabrum, in styium elongatum angustatum, stigmate bilobo. 

 A dwarf shrub, glabrous in all parts. Branches 4-angled, 1-H lin. thick, with 



internodes 1J-6 lin. long, leafy at the summit only, minutely tuberculate-rugulose. 



