

72 MR. J. MIKKS 02* THE SCHOEBFIE-K. 



free, sub-3-alate, bearing at its apex 3 suspended ovules ; fruit 

 and seed as in the following species. 



2. Schoepfia ilexuosa, R. 4' Sch. v. p. 160 ; DC. Prodr. i\\ 

 p. 319.— Hamkea flexuosa, B. Sf -P. Flor. Per. in. p. 8, tab. 231. 

 In Andibus PeruviaB : v. s. in herb. Hook. Chacbapoyas (Mathews 

 3005, in flore et fructu). 



A branching shrub 6 feet high, with spreading, flexuous, sub- 

 angular branchlets 6 in. long, having axils ^-1 in. apart ; leaves 

 alternate, ovate-lanceolate, broader towards the subacute base, 

 acuminate, margins subundulate, coriaceous, with immersed 

 nerves, 2^-3^ in. long, 1— 1£ in. broad, on sulcate petioles 2 

 lines long ; racemes 1 or 2 in each axil, on a peduncle 4 lines 

 long bearing above 5 to 7 flowers on alternate pedicels 1 line long, 

 supported by a minute deciduous acute bract ; calycle and calyx 

 unequally 5-toothed, ciliate, -| line long and broad, persistent, 

 free ; corolla urceolate, yellowish ; tube adhering for half its 

 length to the ovary, broadly cylindrical above, where it is half- 

 cleft into 5 subacute reflexed segments which are subimbricate, or 

 rather narrowly introflexed in aestivation ; stamens 5, opposite to 

 the segments and shorter than them ; filaments slender, com- 

 pressed, inserted in a pilose ring on the margin of the disk ; 

 anthers subglobose, the 2 distinct cells sublateral, dehiscing lon- 

 gitudinally on one side ; disk epigynous, raised in the middle 

 into a large, pulvinate, fungous gland, hollow inside ; style 

 shortish, bearing 3 small roundish stigmata ; ovary ovate, 1^ liue 

 long, superior with respect to the free calyx, inferior in regard to 

 the free portion of the corolla, surmounted by the disk, trilocular 

 below for half its length, unilocular above, with a narrowly 3- 

 winged, stoutish, free central placenta, bearing at its obtuse 

 summit 3 oblong pendulous ovules ; drupe oval, 4 lines long, 3 

 lines broad, of a fuscous-grey colour, its summit marked by the 

 flattened dried disk ; pericarp thin, dry ; nut thinly testaceous, 1- 

 locular, lined with the adpressed placenta and dissepiments ; seeds 

 3 or solitary, scarcely filling the nut, ovate, with a membrana- 

 ceous integument ; embryo (in albumen) not seen. 



Ruiz and Pavon's description of the fruit and seed nearly ac- 

 cords with my own analysis, except that in their drawing the nut 

 and its dissepiments are much too thick. According to Romer 



and Schultz, the fruit and seed bear seme resemblance to that of 

 Hhysospermum nervosum, Gaertn. tab. 224. 



