40 ME. H. N. EIDLET OK THE 



The flower opens widely only at about 10 o'clock at night, at 

 which time it is very sweetly scented. It is erect, of a pale 

 cream colour within, and not yellow as described in the ' Chal- 

 lenger ' Report. The sepals, however, are reddish green, and 

 the calyx-tube and ovary bright green. The flower closes 

 again before dawn, and apparently does not reopen during the 

 following night. The stamens are very numerous, white, 

 with yellow anthers, and erect, scattered over the corolla-tube, 

 the inner ones much shorter than the outer ; all are a little 

 shorter than the petals. The styles lie outside the staminal 

 ring, even when the flower is erect. The stigmas are short 

 and thick, variable in number, green or greenish yellow, some- 

 times, but rarely, branched. They never appeared hooked as 

 figured in the ' Challenger ' Report. The fruit is large when 

 fully developed, of a dark rose-pink, with a bloom on the out- 

 side. The placentae are white and sweetish in taste. The seeds 

 numerous and black. 



The plant seems to be quite irregular in its periods of fruiting 

 and flowering, as it was possible to obtain flowers, fruit, and 

 young buds all at once on the same spot. The common name for 

 it is " Chique chique." 



GAMOPETAL^. 

 EUBIACE^. 



Spekmacoce paeviploea, Kemsl., Bioloq. Centr.-Amer., Bo- 

 tany, ii. p. 59. — Borreria parviflora, W. Mey. Fl. Essequih. p. 81, 

 t. i. 



Common on the Peak and in the open spaces at Tangle Rock 

 and elsewhere, covering large tracts with a tangled mass of 

 stems, often knee-deep. The flowers are white. 



Distribution. All Tropical America. 



GrTJETTAEDA LeAI, U. Sp. 



Frutex humilis, ramis brevibus, undique foliosus. Folia ovalia 

 elliptica obtusa, pagina superiore glabra, inferiore glauco pu- 

 bescens, costis prominulis, lamina ferme 4 uncias longa, 2| lata, 

 petiolus puberulus Ig uncias longus. Pedunculi folia vix suj^er- 

 antes, puberuli. Flores circa 10 parvi albi pubescentes. Bracteae 

 lanceolata) acuminatse, calyces vix sequantes. Calyx pubescens, 

 truncatus, unidentatus, | unciam longus. Corolla brevis, | unciam 



