mt. j. miebs ox the schoepfibj:. 75 



with tlie segments of the corolla ; corolla tubular ; tube aclnatc at 

 its base to the ovary, cleft above into 5 segments ; stamens nearly 

 as long as the latter, filaments inserted on the margin of the disk ; 

 stigmata 4, small, on the summit of the ovary. 



Nat 



4 



i. p. 349: — S. Marchii, Griseb. I. c. p. 310. — Diplocalyx chryso- 

 phylloides, A. Rich, in La Sagra Nat. Hist. Cuba, ii. p. 81, tab. 54 ; 

 Walp. Ann. v. p. 47 G. In Antillis : Cuba {La Sagra), Jamaica 

 {March): non vidi. 



Apparently a shrub or small tree, with terete, spreading, gla- 

 brous branches, with axils 3-6 lines apart : leaves alternate, 

 elliptic, very acute from below the middle,"subacuteat the apex, 

 with about 5 pairs of divergent nerves, l|-2 in. long, 9-10 lines 

 broad, on channelled petioles 2 lines long; very short axillary 

 racemes, bearing 3 alternate subremote flowers, which are small, 

 subsessile, pubescent ; calycle cup-shaped, shortly stipitate, un- 

 equally 5-toothed, pubescent, \ line long and broad; calyx en- 

 closed, of similar shape and size, free upon both its faces, unequally 

 5-lacinulate, with ciliate margins ; corolla small, three times 

 as long as the calyx, shortly agglutinated at its base to the ovary, 

 tubular above, and 4-partite ; segments acutely oblong, erect ; 

 stamens 4, opposite to the segments ; filaments inserted on the 

 margin of the disk, glabrous; anthers ovate, 2-celled, cells late- 

 rally attached upon a narrow connective ; disk cpigynous, enlarged 

 into a tall rounded pulvinate form ; style short ; stigma capitate, 

 3-lobcd ; ovary subglobose, crowned by the disk, sub-4-locular at 

 the base, unilocular at the summit ; placenta free, central, trun- 

 cated at its free apex, from which 4 ovules are suspended over 



the 4 pseudo-cells. Fruit unknown. 



ScnoEpriorsis. 

 This genus (indicated at p. 68) may be thus defined ; 



Sciioepfiopsis, nob. — Schoepfia, in parte, and. — Schoepfiaee<T, 



Blume, ordo nov. 1 



Calyculus et calyx ut in Schoepfia parvi, liberi, cupulati, inaequaliter 3- 

 5-lacinulati. Corolla his multo longior, tubulosa; tubus sublongius- 

 cnlus, cylindrieus, vel superne subampliatus, imo ad ovarium connatus; 

 segmenta 5, lanceolato-oblonga, acuta, apice subreflexa, caruosa, tubo 

 multo brcviora, sestivatione valvata, iino macula furfurosa siguata, 



1 Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. p. 175. 



