RAPATEACEAE. 



RAPATEA Aubl. 



Rapatea paludosa Aubl. Plant. Guyan. I, 305 t. 118. 



Upper Para district near Sabakoekreek: Van Hall 17. (fl. Jan.) 

 Para district near plant. Rerlijn : Splitgerber 734. H. L. B. 905, 



88 -96 and 97. (fl. March). 

 Upper Surinam River, near Blauwe Berg: Splitgerber H. L. B 905, 



88-95- 

 Lower Saramacca River near Maripaston: Kegel 1136 (fl. May). 

 Surinam: Hostmann 2; Kappler 1432; Wullschagel 842 ex Kornicke 



Monogr. p. 464. 

 Tropical Brazil, Guyana. 



SAXOFRIDERICIA Rob. Schomb. 



Saxofridericia aculeata (L. C Rich.) Korn. Monogr. p. 457. 



Rapatea aculeata L. C. Rich. mss. in Herb. Franqueville cum des- 

 criptione. 



Upper Gonini River : Versteeg 52 (fl. Aug.) in swamps. 



Upper Tapanahoni River: Versteeg 630 (fl. July) in swamps. 



Venacular name: „Phoboe". 



Guyana. 



Of this species fruits or seeds are unknown until now. The fruit is 

 unilocular and opens with three valves. The two other compart- 

 ments of the gynaeceum are not developed, no more than the 

 ovules in them. The fruit in only one-seeded. The seeds are co- 

 loured black, have the shape of elongated kidneys and are about 

 2 mm. long. The have transverse wrinkles. 



SPATHANTHUS Desv. 



Spathanthus unilateralis Desv. in Ann. Scienc. nat. XIII 45 t. 4. f. i. 

 Paramaribo, near Oude Ryweg: Kegel 814 (fl. March). 

 Upper Surinam River near Station Victoria: Kappler (fl. Dec). 

 Para district near plant. Berlijn: Wullschlagel 861 ex Kornicke 



Monogr. p. 489. 

 Guyana. 



