NEW SPECIES OF PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 123
stylus brevis, stiginate fusiformi acuto pilosi. Fl. fcem. : Calyx et co- rolla . . . Ovariuia pluriloculare ? stylus . . . ; ovula numerosissima, hori- zontalia, placentis bilamellatis axi ovarii adnatis affixa, lamellis revolutis margine exteriore ovuliferis. Bacca breviter pedicellata, globosa, calycis limbo coronata, pedicello involucello (hiplici utroque cupulari basi cincto, 4 y-locularis, polysperma. Semiiia horizontalin, majuscula, plana, testa tenui subtibroso-cellulosa . . . — Arbores parvse, Amazonicse, glaberrinise, ramulis lignosis teretibus. Folia opposita, gracile petiolata, oblonga v. lineari-oblonga, obtusa, rigide coriacea, siccitate rufo-brunuea, supra sub lente granulata, nervis divaricatis tenuibiis. Stipulae intrapetiolares, breves, in cupulain connatse. Flores (^ in spicas strictas terminales erectas rigidas di-positi, subfasciculati, parvi, albi v. flavidi, ebracteolati. Bacca diametro Cerasi.
S. SPICATA; foliis obovatis oblongisve apice obtusis v. rotunclatis, basi in petiolura angustatis, spicis densitioris foliis diinidio brevioribus. — Schradera spicata, Spruce, Herb. 3322. — Hab. Araazor.s' river, near Saiitarein, and on the Casiquiari, at Vasiva and Pacinioni, Spruce. Fl. iimmx-s.—Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1068.
Stelis ExuREsir, Ruichb. f. {Orcliidere) ; fequiflora, dense caespitosa majuscula, caulibus secundariis elongatis, foliis cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis obuisis apice emarginatis cum apiculo crassis, racerao disticho, ovariis pedicellatis medio genutlexis, bracteis vaginatis acuminatis ovariis pedicel- latis bene brevioribus, sepalis inia basi coalitis omnibus intus papulis filiforraibus barbellatis, sepalo dorsali ovali acuto trinervi, sepalis lateral!- i.^ bus ovatis apiculatis paulo minoribus, petalis transverse oblongis apice inflexo cucullatis cum apiculo, limbo erecto ciliatulo triiierviis, labello carnoso transverso subrlionibeo excavato, columna gracili, androcliuio pos- tice cucuUato, rostello ligulato erecto, limbo sub fovea bicruri, cruribus ovatis cum apiculo. — Near 8tdis leacopoc/on, but with 3-uerved sepals. Hab. Discovered in Costa Rica by M. Endres, and flowered in the Ham- burg Botanic Garden in December, 1869, and July, 1870. — Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 1373.
S. GLOSSULA, Reichh.f. ; bilabiata, dense cpespitosa, caulibus secundariis
brevissimis, foliis cuneato-oblongo-ligulatis apice minute bilobis cum den-
ticulo, racemo lonare distiche florido, bracteis trianijulis ovaria lons-a non
. . . . V
aeqnantibus, sepalo dorsali oblongo obtuse acuto quinquenervi elongato,
sepalis lateralibus oblongo-ovatis apiculatis apicem versus connatis sub-
trinerviis multo minoribus, petalis obtuse rhombeis uninerviis, labello
carnoso papuliformi supra dorsum bil-uuellato, columna suba'quali. —
Hab. This little species was imported by Messrs. Veitch from Costa
l^ica.— &V,;y/. Chron. 1870, p. 1373.
8TR0PHANTI1US BuLLENiANUS, Mrint. {Jpon/tiacere) ; rauiis petiolis
pedunculis sepalisque hispidis, foliis elliptico-oblongis, basi rotundatis
nonnunquam inaequilateris longiuscule acuminatis supra glabriusculis
subtus villosis, petiolis 3-4 lin. longis, spinulas axillares minimas per
paria dispositis obtegentibus, cymis ramosis laxis plurifloris bracteatis,
bracteis lincaribus deciduis, calyce eglanduloso carapanulato vix semi-
pollicari profunda 5-partito, laciniis lineari-oblongis, corollse hypocratcri-
morphse lubo basi dilatato crubesccnte, limbo patente 5-partito, segmentis
flavidis pnrpnreo-maculatis ovatis patentibus superne concavis longiuscule
acuminatis, fpstivatione contorte inibricatis, staniinodiis 10 oblongis sub-
carnosis per paria e i\uice tubi inter pctala emergentibus, stamiuibus
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