RAPATEACEAE. 



RAPATEA Aubl. 



Bapatea paludosa Aubl. Plant. Guyan. I. 305 t. 118. 



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

 Para district near plant. Berlijn: 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. 1. 

 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. 



