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80 MR. J. MIERS ON THE CERYAXTESlEiE. 



the much-enlarged thick divisions of the calyx, which are acute 

 and separate at the apex, rounded at the base, and somewhat 

 shorter than the fruit ; they are detachable, smooth inside, where 

 they are furnished with an erect scale below the middle, some- 

 what similar to that I have shown in 0. Kunthiana ; it may be 

 noticed, however, that in fig. 4 in tab. 211 of the ' Flora Peru- 

 viana,' these scales are seen only upon the calycine divisions, but 

 in fig. 10 they are shown there as well as upon the fruit, most 

 probably an error. The nature of these scales will be discussed 

 further on. 



2. Ceryaxtesia btcolor ? Cav. Icon. pi. v. p. 49, tab. 475 

 (1799). — Oervantesia tomentosa, A. DO. (non B. Sf P.), Prodr. 

 xiv. p. 692. In Peruvia prope Obrajillo et Buenaventura {Louis 



Nee) : non vidi. 



A plant collected in 1791 by Nee, who accompanied Malaspina 



in his voyage round the world. He found it at Obrajillo in the 

 valley of Canta, 21 leagues from Lima, and halfway between it and 

 Pasco, and 3 leagues from Haurimayo. It is a species very dis- 

 tinct from the preceding, though confounded with it by all authors : 

 it differs in its more lax and more slender habit, in its more mem- 

 branaceous leaves covered beneath with rusty white (not deep red) 

 tomentum, in its longer petioles, and in its very different inflo- 

 rescence, and in its fruit. It is a tree more than 12 feet high, 

 with numerous slender, alternate, tomentose branchlets ; leaves 

 alternate, spreading, ovate-oblong, with arching sides, subobtuse 

 at the base, obtusely narrower towards the summit, submembra- 

 naceous, with entire subrevolute margins, covered w r ith a whitish 

 ferruginous tomentum, but when old denuded of hairs above, 2| 

 in. long, 11 lines broad, on stoutish tomentose petioles 3 lines 

 long, the midrib and many slender nerves being scarcely visible 

 under the hairs ; racemes axillary, abbreviated, on a short pe- 

 duncle squamously bracteate at its base, branching above, bear- 

 ing about 8 distant small flowers on very short stout pedicels, all 

 deeply tomentose ; calycle very small, acutely 5-fid nearly to its 

 base; calyx inserted within the former, many times its length, 5- 

 angular, deeply 5-cleft, the lobes obtusely oblong, fleshy, with val- 

 vate aestivation ; corolla with a very short tube, adnate at its base 

 to the ovary, with 5 fleshy white segments shorter than the caly- 

 cine divisions ; stamens, disk, ovary, and style as in the preceding 

 species ; fruit globose, oval, 4 lines long, 3^ lines broad, invested 

 by the 5 much-enlarged, very thick divisions of the calyx, whose 



