422 



French Guiana. Poiteau. 



Colombia. Lower Magdalena river: Xaranjo, fl. Dec. Ed. 



Andre. 



Bolivia, Dept. La Paz: Tumupasa; 540 in., R. S. Williams 



552; Coroico, R. Pearce. 



Peru. Dept. Loreto : Maynas and Yurimaguas, Poeppig (ex 



Xees I.e.). 



19. Mendoncia crenata, Lindau in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v., 

 p. 647 (1897). 



Planta scandens, eaulibus subteretibus subsulcatis pubeseenti- 

 bus, internodiis 10 cm. superantibus. Folia oblonga, 

 apice longe acuminata, basi angustata, usque ad 15 en*. 

 longa et 7 cm. lata, pagina superiore scabro-hirsuta, 

 inferiore molliter pubescentia, margine late planeque crenata; 

 ])etiolus eirciter 2 cm. longus. supra canaliculars, pubescens. 

 Flores in axillis complures ; pedicelli usque ad 4 cm. longi, pube- 

 scentes; bracteolae ovatae, basi rotundatae, apice acuminatae vel 

 rnrius rotundatae, eirciter 2 cm. longae et 1"3 cm. latae, ad 

 fructum parum ma j ores dense molliter pubeseentes, Calyx 

 annularis, brevis. Fructus glaber, drupaceus, 1*5 cm. longus, 

 8 mm. latus, subcompressus, apice truncatus, antice acuminatus 

 rudimento styli instructus, postice rotundatus. 



French Guiana. Melinon (ex Lindau). 



20. Mendoncia glabra, Nees in DC. Prod, ix., p. 52 (1847). 



Planta vol ubilis, eaulibus subquadraugularibus glabris. 

 Folia elliptico-ovata, acuminata, basi rotundata vel acuta, 

 5-8 cm. longa, 2-5-4 cm. lata, glabra vel fere glabra^ nervis 

 lateralibus utrinque eirciter 4, pagina superiore subprominenti- 

 bus, inferiore prominentibus, petiolo usque ad 3 cm. longo glabro. 

 Flores in foliorum axillis geminati; bracteolae ovatae, acutae, 

 vel leviter apiculatae 1*6 cm. longae, 1*4 cm, latae, glabrae; 

 pedicelli eirciter 25 cm. longi, glabri, Calyx annularis, brevis- 

 simus, glaber. Corolla (ex Nees) angusta, tubulosa, limbo lato. 

 Stamina quatuor, filamentis 1 mm. longis, antberis apice acu- 

 minatis 7 mm. longis, tliecis basi brevissime barbatis, antherarum 

 posticorum tliecis basi inaequalibus, anticorum fere aequalibus; 

 pollinis granula 40 fi diametro. Discus annularis, carnosus, 

 1 mm. Tongus, glaber. Ovarium, obovoideum, 2 mm. longum, 

 1-5 mm. diametro, glabrum ; stylus glaber, apice bifidum. 

 Mendozia glabra, Poepp. et Endl., Nov. Gen. et Spec. 111., p. 10 



(1845). 



Peru. " Lima," Ruiz $ Pavon; ad missionem Tocache, 

 Poeppig (ex Poepp. et Endl. I.e.). 



21. Mendoncia Schwackeana, Lindau in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 iii., p. 361 (1895). 



Planta scandens, eaulibus hirsutis, dein glabrescentibus. 

 Folia ovata, apice acuminata acutiuscula, basi subrotundata, 

 6-10 cm. longa, 3-5 cm. lata, sparse pilosa, ad costas et ad 



mar<rmem 



10-13 mm. long 



Flores axillares, solitarii, albi, pedicellis 10-15 mm. longis 

 birsutis; bracteolae excavatae, 15 mm. longae, in medio 14 mm. 



