PODOSTEMACEAE. 



OENONE Tul 



Oenone guyanensis Pulle nova spec. 



Caules crassiusculi, repetito-dichotomi, ramis ultimis latis, planiusculis. 



Folia, rachi valida e basi crassiore sensim attenuata instructa, in 



lacinias longas filifonnes vel fere capillaceas pinnatim divisa, evaginata. 



Stipulae latae, obtusae, ad rachidem connatae. Flores longe pedicellati, 



androeceo completo. Stamina 10—13 cum squamulis perigonialibus acutis 



10 — 13 indistincte alternantia. Involucrum breve, irregulariter 5-dentatum. 



Ovarium ellipsoideum, laevum, stigmatibus basi connatis, teretibus, apice 



obtusis. Fructus maturus igotus. 



Species permagna, caulis ad. 2 cM. crassus, laevis. Folia usque ad 70 cM. 



longa, pars basalis haud ramosa 9 cM. longa, ad basin 13 mM. crassa. 



"Foliola" opposita vel alternantia utrinque 15, 8 cM. longa ; foliolum rachidem 



terminans 15 cM. longum. Involucrum 5 — i5mM. longum, Pedicelli i — g cM. 



longi. Squamulae perigonales vix J mM. longae. Stamina 4 m. longa, ovarium 



3 mM. longum ; stigmata J circiter partem ovarii metientia, persistentia. 



Species Oenone Glaziovii Warm, affinis. 



PI. VI and VII. 



Upper Tapanahoni River (Grandafoetoe-falls) : Versteeg 808 (fl. Aug.) 

 Vernacular name: „Thoeri". 



Oenone longifoiia Tul. Ann. Scienc. nat. ser. III. 11 p. 96. 



Marowyne River : Kappler ed. Hohenacker 2072 ; Arminafalls : Went 



457 (fl. Sept.-Octob.) 

 Upper Tapanahoni River (Grandafoetoe-falls) : Versteeg 809 (fl Aug.) 

 British Guyana. 



Oenone Richardiana (Tul.) Warm. Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. III. 2a. p. 18. 

 Ligea Richardiana Tul. Ann. Scienc. nat. Ser. III. 11 p. 96; Monogr. 

 Podost. p. 89 T. VI. 

 Upper Tapanahoni River: Versteeg (fl. Aug.) 

 Guyana. 



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