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pollinis granulis circiter 35 /<. diametro. Discus annularis, 

 carnosulus, 1 mm. altus, glaber. Ovarium lentieulari-conipres- 

 sum, ovatuni, glabrum vel minute lepidotuni ; stylus glaber, apice 

 breviter bifidus. Fructus lentieulari-compressus, ovatus, circiter 

 1'6 cm. longus et 1 cm. diametro, glaber. Mendozia pubetula, 

 Mart. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. p. 24, tab. 211 (1829) ; Eees in Mart. 



Fl. Bras, ix., p. 10 (1847). Mendozia pubescent, Poepp. et 

 Endl. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. p. 11 (1845). Mendoncia Sellowiana, 

 Nees in DC. Prod. xi. p. 53 (1847); Miquel, Stirp. Surinam. 

 Select., p. 128 (1850). Mendoncia Splitgerberiana, De Vriese in 

 NederL Eruidk. Arch. 1. (1848) p. 353. Mendozia Selloviana, 

 Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. ix. p. 10 (1847); Pulle, Vase. PI. Suri- 

 nam, p. 431 (1906). 



Guiana. Surinam, Paramaribo, near plant. Merveille, Split- 

 gerber 546 (ex Pulle, I.e.), Foche 198 (ex Pulle, I.e.), Para 

 district, near plant, la Rencontre, Foche 794 (ex Pulle, I.e.). 



Brazil. Rio de Janeiro : Organ Mts. ; about tlie bead of tbe 



River Pacaque, Burchell 2080; at San Jose da Laranjerra, 



Burchdl 9904; Organ Mts., Gardner 59T; J. Miers 4009; There- 



f sopolis, Glazidu 4020 ; (without exact locality, probably near Rio 



de Janeiro) Sello. Minas Geraes; frequent in small woods and 

 on hedges at Lagoa Santa, fl, Dec. -Feb., Warming. 



Colombia. Dept. Santander: Salazar, W. Kalbreyer 830. 



Ecuador. Salango, Hind; without precise locality, Sinclair. 



The specimens from Colombia and Ecuador are somewhat 

 doubtfully placed in this species. The bracteoles and pedicels 

 have much shorter hairs than in the typical plants from Brazil. 



18. Mendoncia hirsuta, Nees in DC. Prod, xi., p. 52 (1847). 



Frutex voubilis, ramis quadrangularibus pilis fulvis patentibus 

 fere 4 mm. longis rigidis instructis. Folia elliptico-oblonga, 

 interdum inaequalia, apice in acumine 1*5 cm. longo gradatim 

 angustata, basi angustata, usque ad 14*5 cm. longa et 4*8 cm. 

 lata, saepissime minora, nervis lateralibus utrinque 4-5, costa 

 nervisque pagina superiore subprominentibus, inferiore promin- 

 entibus, utraque fulvo-hirsutis ; petiolus 1-5-3 cm. longus. 



Flo res 1-2 



axillis; ped 



. 



longi, patente f ulvo-hirsuti ; bracteolae oblongo-ellipticae, apice 

 subobtusae mucrone setiforme 2 mm. longo terrain a tae, basi 

 rotundatae, 2*4-2'8 cm. longae, 1-5-1*6 cm. latae, acriter carina- 

 tae, venosissimae, intus glabrae, extra pilis fulvis usque ad 3 mm. 

 longis instructae. Calyx cupulaiis, vix 1 mm. longus, glaber. 



cm. longa. Discus 0*75 mm. 



| longus, glaber. Ovarium lenticulari-compressum, ambitu 



f oblique oblongum, glabrum; stylus 1-4 cm. longus, apicem versus 



pilis nigris patentibus instructus, alioqui glaber. Fructus com- 



presso-cylindricus, apice oblique dilatatus, 1*6 cm. longus, 6 mm. 

 j diametro, glaber. M. an (jus ti folia, Poepp. ex Nees in DC. Prod. 



xi. p. 52. Mendozia hirsuta, Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et 



Spec. iii. p. 10 (1847). 



British Guiana. Shore of the River Pomeroon, Sept. 1843,. 



/?. Scliomburgk. 



Butch Guiana. Miquel. 



