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 filiformes vel fere capillaceas pinnatim divisa, evaginata. 



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



androeceo completo. Stamina 10— 1 3 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. 



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



terminans 15 cM. longum. Involucrum 5— i5tnM. longum, Pedicelli 1 — 9 cM. 



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



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



Species Oenone Glaziovii Warm, affinis. 



PI. VI and VII. 



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

 Vernacular name: „Thoeri". 



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



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



457 (fi. 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. n p. 96; Monogr. 

 Podost. p. 89 T. VI. 

 Upper Tapanahoni River: Versteeg (fi. Aug.) 

 Guyana. 



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