42 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
et lateribus ovarii adnata, persistentia, filamentis filiformibus ; ; — dorso 
affixee, parve, oblonge. iscus inconspicuus. , vertice 
hemispherico, 2-locularis ; stylus gracilis, ramis 2 parvis ribo ip divaribatis 
is 
with it It widel ly differs from the prevalent Stnaote ers Sof Rubiacee in the 
completely 4+partite corolla, the lobes of which are scarcely perceptibly 
connate, and firmly adnate by a — base ee the ovary and are both per- 
sistent and marcescent. The nts also are so fir ris adherent 
both to the ovary and to the very ‘a of the petals, that they are equally 
persistent, and it is difficult to pronounce them to be either epigynous or 
The specimens from Drummond and from Howitt’s Pie are very 
small, evidently first year’s, with a slender aa and spreading herbaceous 
bran ranchlets, smaller broader leaves, oth sepals and petals a and a broader 
capsule ; they may be sere - a differe cng ‘nui species, but I suspect 
that they are seedling sta' J.D. Hoo 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same laid open. 3. Fruit. 4. Verti i ito. 5. 
Seed :—all magnified. pen ertical section of ditto. 
PuaTe 1147. 
STILPNOPHYLLUM LINEATUM, Hook. f. 
Rustace2, Tribe C1IncHones? Ns 
‘ oo Stilpnophyllum, Hook, f. in. Benth. and Hook. f. Ga Pl. |@ 
ii. 83. 
S. lineatum, Hook, 7 J. c. Eleagia lineata, Spruce, n, 4568. 
sre, ako on the summit of the Cerro Pelado, near Tarapoto, 
la ramosa, 10-pedalis (Spruce), glaberrima, 3-chotome ramosa ; : 
dani, lignosis teretiusculis, cortice siccitate atro obtectis, ultimis obscure 
