348 MELASTOMATACEAE. 



Rhexia rectirva L. C. Rich, in Act. Soc. Hist. nat. Par. p. lo8. 



Paramaribo: Kappler 1581, named: Spennera appendicularioides Steud. 

 in Plantae Kapplerianac surinamenses No. 1581; Focke 459; Kegel 

 394; WuLLscHLAGEL 167 cx Cogn. 1. c. 2i8; TuLLEKEN 47 H. L. B. 

 903, 322- 1299 (fl. July); Splitgerber 198 H. L. B. 904, 280—6. 



Para district, near plant. Berlyn: Focke 624, named Rhynchanthera 

 adeiiophora Miq. Comm. Phytogr. 73 tab. 10 fig. C. and Microlicia 

 recurva D. C. Miq. in Linnaea XVIII p. 275 ; near Post Republiek : 

 TuLLEKEN 235 H. L. B. 903, 322—1434 and Tulleken 255 H. L. B. 

 903, 322—1448. 



Surinam: Hostmann 425, 984 named Uranthera Hostmanni Naud. h.nn. 

 So. nat. serie 3 XII. 284; Hostmann H. L. B. 903, 322—242. 



Guyana, Nort-Brazil, Trinidad, Panama. 



NEPSERA Naud. 



Nepsera aquatica (Aubl.) Naud. Ann. Sc nat. ser. 3. XII p. 28. 

 Melastoma aquatica Aubl. Plant. Guyan. I. 430 tab. 169. 



Marowyne River, near Albina: Versteeg 39 (fl. July); Went 427 (fl. 



Octob.) 

 Paramaribo: Versteeg 485 (fl. June); Splitgerber 189 H. L. B. 904, 



280-37; WuLLSCHLAGEL 1 70 ex Cogn. I.e. 231; near Poelepantje : 



Kegel 6o (fl. July); near plant. Quarta: Kegel i6i (fl. July). 

 Surinam River, near Station Victoria: Kappler 1323 ex Cogn I.e. 

 Para district, near Santigron : Went 203 (fl. Aug.) ; near Kompas : Went 



397 (fl- Sept.) 

 Surinam River, near Joden Savannah : Tulleken 169 H. L. B. 903, 



322-1385 (fl Aug.; 

 Saramacca River, near Maripaston; Pulle 13 (fl. Nov.). 

 Surinam: Menze ; Hostmann 197; Berthoud Coulon 277 ex Cogn. 1. c. ; 



Focke 164; Dr. Voltz without number; Hostmann H. L. B. 903, 



322 — 17. 

 Tropical Brazil, Guyana, Ecuador, Columbia, West-Indian Islands. 



DESMOSCELIS Naud. 



Desmoscelis villosa (Aubl.) Naud. Ann. Sc. nat. ser. 3. XII. tab. 14. 

 fig. 2. 

 Melastoma villosa Aubl. Pl. Guyan. I. 4-28 t. 168. 

 var. =>• hypericoides (D. C.) Cogn. Flora Bras. p. 233. 

 Chaetogastra hypericoides D. C. Prodr. III. p. 132. 

 Surinam: Berthoud Coulon 273. 

 Paramaribo: Wullschlagel 173 ex Cogn. I.e.; Focke ex Miq. Comm. 



Phyt. 77. 

 Amazon district, French Guyana. 



