M. COllBEA DE MELLO ON SOME BBAZILIAN PLANTS. 261 



racters, such as the absence of any trigonous axis in the fruit, 

 the existence of a wing surrounding the seed, the apparently 

 1-eelled anthers, the leaves entire, as in some species of Za- 

 nonia &c., harmonize well with those of the plants comprised in 

 the tribe Zanoniese, Benth. et RooJc,, and in some measure in- 

 duces the including the genus in that tribe; but, considering 

 that the fruits of Zanoniese are dehiscent, with a trigonous 

 terminal aperture, and, on the other hand, that in the fruits of 

 Ilypanthera Guapeva, Manso, which belongs undoubtedly to the 

 genus Fevillea, there is also no trigonous axis, the seeds being 

 mserted on the margins of the placentas, that its seeds are winged 

 and the anthers constructed as in Anisosperma, it appears to me 

 that the place of the latter genus must be in the tribe FevillesB, 

 -Benth. et ITeok, During the time that illness obliged me to 

 break off this letter, I received the fruits of this plant, which 

 nave served me for the present description ; and as, after ana- 

 lyzing several of them, I never found eight or nine seeds in one 

 cell and only a single one in the two others, it woiild appear that 

 Manso's name Anisosperma is founded on a character absolutely 

 £alse, and may have to be changed for some other name. 



-Besides the above-mentioned Curcubitaceas we have a Me- 

 lancitim^ probably the only species of the genus, which is very 

 common in the campos about this town, the Sicana odorifera^ 

 -Naud. {Cucurbita odorifera^ Veil,), which is cultivated on account 

 of the aroma of its fruits, &c. 



The Order Menispermacese consists here of three species of 

 Cissarrvpelos^ and one other plant, which grows in moist places, 

 in ravines, beds of rivers, &c., of which I have some male speci- 

 mens, and which I believe to be Odontocarya, Miers, Benth. efc 

 Hook, Gen. PL i. 960 & 31, 34, under Chondrodrendon. Enclosed 

 is a small specimen. 



EuphorbiacesB are here represented by a large number of 

 genera, but for the greater part monoecious : the dioecious ones 

 are very few ; those that I have met with are : — one or two speeies 

 of Fera^ Mut. ; a Tetrorchidium, Poepp. et Endl., probably the 

 T, ruhrivenium, and trigynum^ Miill. Arg. ; an Alchomea, of 

 which I have only seen the female flowers, but which is doubtless 

 -4, latifolia^ Sw. 



The Myrtaceae with baccate fruits occur in great numbers ; 

 of those with capsular fruits, I have only seen two or three 



species of Curatari, of which one, the C. legalis, Mart., known 



