7l Mil. J. MIEBS OJN' THE SCHOJSPME2E. 



de Jacobina, Bahia {Moricand 2593): v. s. in lierb. Hook, (sub S. 

 confer lijlor a, var., rianchon). 



Branches stoutisb, very pallid, smooth ; branchlets slender, 

 terete, substriate ; leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic, acute at both 

 ends, subinequilateral, entire, glabrous, with about six pairs of 

 blender divergent nerves, 2|— 2\ in. long, 1-lf in. broad, on sili- 

 cate petioles 2 lines long, all blackish in drying ; peduncles lateral, 

 compressed, puberulous, 2 lines long, bearing above 3-5 sessile 

 flowers 2| lines long ; calyx \ line long and broad, subpuberu- 

 lous, 5 -toothed ; corolla rubidulous, tube adnate at the base to 

 the ovary for half its length; segments 5, subacute, subrevolute ; 

 stamens 5, opposite to the segments, seated on the margin of tho 

 disk, on a fasciculated pilose ring. 



G. SCIIOEPFIA QUINTUPLINERYIS, TllTCZ. ill Bull. SoC. Hist. Nat. 



Moscou, torn. xxxi. p. 248 (185S). In Brasilia, Bahia in sabulosis : 

 v.s. in lierb. Hook. Bahia (Salz?n., sub S. confertiflora Planch. MS.). 



Branches geniculately dichotomous, terete, glabrous, with axils 

 in. apart ; leaves broadly ovate, rounded at the base, obtusely 

 acute at the apex, entire, glabrous, many-nerved, the 5 lower 

 pairs springing from the petioles, the more lateral 5 pairs alter- 

 nately divergent, slender and subimmersed, 1^-l^f in. long, g-lg 

 in. broad, on channelled petioles 2 lines long ; inflorescence axil- 

 lary, solitary or geminate, formed of very numerous flowers con- 

 gested in an oval head, consisting of many close clusters of 3—1 

 small, oval, sessile buds ; calycle and calyx free, very short, 5-cleft ; 

 corolla red ; tube adnate at its base to the ovary, above urceolate, 

 free, divided into 5 subspreading segments ; stamens 5, shorter 

 than the segments and opposite to them ; filaments seated on tho 

 margin of the disk ; ovary and epigynous disk as in S. mcxicana. 



7. S. grandifolia, JBaillon, AJans. iii. p. 117. In Bahia 

 (BlancJict 20SS) : non vidi. 



Prof. Baillon placed this in a separate section, Chorisligma, 

 hardly tenable, its difference consisting in a further abbreviation 

 of the style, which is always short; this only amounts to a specific 

 variation. Its alternate leaves are broadly ovate and rounded at 

 the base, narrowed at the summit into a sublanceolate acumen, 

 entire, glabrous, submembranaccous, penninerved, midrib and 

 nerves prominulent beneath, the dimensions not given ; racemes 

 axillary, shorter than the petioles; calyx 5-cleft, lobes alternating 



