STERCULIACEAE. 



MELOCHIA Dill. 



IVlelochia Benthami K. Schum. Flora Bras. XII. 3 p. 40. 

 Melochia nlmifolia Bth. (non St. Hil. et Naud.). 



Marowyne River, near Albina : Versteeg 544 (fl. July) 



Gonini River : Versteeg 96 (fl. Aug.) 



Surinam River, near Blauwe Berg: Splitgerbbr 890 H. L. B. 905, 



237 — 70 (fl. May); near Bergendal: Focke 929 named Melochia ra- 



muliflora Miq. Linnaea XIX p. 132. 

 Surinam : Kegel 247 ; Hostmann 226, 1047 ; Wullschlagel 795 ex 



Schumann 1. c. 

 Amazon district, Guyana. 



Melochia lanceolata Bth. in Journ. of Botan. IV. 128. 



Para district: Splitgerber igoi H. L. B. 905, 237—67 (fl. May). 

 Surinam: Hostmann 657; Hostmann H. L. B. 903, 322 — 216; Wull- 

 schlagel 894 ex Schum. I.e. 41. 

 British Guyana. 



Melochia melissifolia Bth. in Journ. of Botan. IV. 129. 



Upper Tapanahoni River, near Mount Teeboe : Versteeg 787 (fl. Aug.) 

 Paramaribo, near Poelepantje : Kegel 305 named by Garcke Linnaea 



XXII p. 55; Melochia sparsiflora Klotzsch Mss. 

 Para district : Splitgerber i 158 H. L. B. 905, 237—69 (fl. March) named : 



Riedleia nodtjiora D. C. de Vriese Ned. Kruidk. Arch. I. p. 244 ; near 



Post Republiek: Tulleken 242 H.L B. 903, 322—1422. 

 Lower Saramacca River, near plant. Vierhendrikken : Went 218 (fl. Aug.) 

 Upper Coppename River: Boon 1115 (fl. Sept.). 

 Surinam: Kappler 1575, named Melochia concinna iJ//^. Linnaea XXII 



p. 467; Hostmann H. L. B. 903, 322—28; Focke 1251. 

 Amazon district, Guyana, Western-Africa. 



Melochia cinerea St. Hil. et Naud. Ann. Scienc nat. Ser. II. t. XVIIIp. 35. 

 Surinam : Wullschlagel ex Schumann 1. c. 44. 

 Tropical Brazil, British Guyana. 



