Hosimanniane. N. O. Ochnacee. 
TAB. DCCIX. 
HostMANNIA ELVASIOIDES. Planch, 
simplex (non gynobasicum!) biloculare! Ovulum in loculo — 
quoque unicum, anatropum, resupinato-suspensum (ut Rec 
Euonymis quibusdam). Stylus terminalis, simplex, apice — 
brevissime bidentatus. Fructus .... —Frutex? glaberrimus; — 
foliis alternis, petiolatis, ellipticis, acuminatis, margine revoluto, iE 
integerrimis, chartaceis, nitidis, venulis tranversis pulchre 
striatis ; stipulis in unicam intra axillarem bidentatam coalitis; : 
paniculis ramos foliatos terminantibus ; floribus pedicellatis, 
aureis; bracteolis scariosis acutissimis panicule ramos é 
pedicellos stipantibus. 
ostmannia elvasioides, Planch. se 
Has. Prope Surinam leg. Dr. Hostmann, cui genus merito : 
dicatum. Be 
The genus I have now described is remarkable for combining — 
in itself alone all the characters which appertain in detail to the — 
: Ne Aras 
mee ee Bors 
among the Ochnacee, the 2-celled ovary, in which the ovules 
appear to be suspended, though they are in fact normally wit 3 
cending ovules, which, finding no space for development except " 
fig. 1. Flower. 7.2. Stamen, 7.3. Pistil. f.4. Vertical se 
” of the ovary. #.5. Transverse section of ditto :—magny 
