34 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEX. 
a blunted acumen, thinly chartaceous, the subundulated margins somewhat revolute, 
pale opake green above, suleated on the midrib, with rather distant fine nerves, below 
pallid and yellowish, opake, spotted by many small elevated dots; they are 3—4$ in. long, 
13-2 in. broad, on slender petioles broadly fossulated at the base, where they are con- 
joined by a transverse elevated ring, and vary in length from 3 to 5 lines. The axillary 
peduncles are 4-6 lines long, forked, the branches 3 lines long, each 4-flowered, with 
slender pedicels 5 lines long: sepals acute, erect, ë line long; tube of corolla 4 lines long, 
swollen below the middle, narrow above, its dolabriform segments 24 lines long; stamens 
enclosed in the swollen part of the tube, and inserted a little above the base: no visible 
disk. The 2 follicles (which Y have not seen) are widely divaricated, 2 in. long, 1 in. 
rod, reniform band adensely covered with subadpressed very acute spines. In Velloz's 
drawing they appear by mistake dehiscent on the dorsal side. They contain many ovate. 
seeds, half immersed in scarlet fleshy funicles. 
It is a small tree, lactescent, with a soft white wood, often carved into spoons and 
other utensils for domestic use, and is called ** páo de culher” (spoonwood). 
The characters given by Müller of T. Salzmanni accord with this species, as he ex- 
pressly indicates, and differ in few particulars. 
3. PESCHIERA MURICATA, A. DC. l. c. p. 361: Tabernemontana muricata, R. & Sch. (non A. DC.) Syst. 
iv. 431, 797. In Brasilia (non vidi). 
Its branches are glabrous and striated ; its leaves are ovate-oblong, acuminated, repand 
on the margins, with elevated granular dots above, which are impressed beneath, more 
than 7 in. long, on very short petioles; the peduncle of the inflorescence is ¿-1 in. 
long; pedicels less than 1 line long; sepals 13 line long; tube of corolla nearly 1 in. 
long; fruit muricated. It is a species near the following. Müller has confounded it 
with P. ochracea, a very different plant, as shown in the deseription of the latter 
(page 42). ` 
4. PESCHIERA FUCHSLEFOLIA, nob. : Tabernemontana fuchsiefolia, A. DC. l. c. 365 et 676 ; Müll. /. c. p. 88: 
Tabernemontana collina, Gardn. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 178. In prov. Rio de Janeiro: v. v. ef sice. 
in herb. meo (n. 8013), in fl. et fr. ad Morro Flamengo; v. s. in flore in hb. Mus. Brit. ex eodem 
loco (Gardn. 74, sub T. collina). 
Prof. De Candolle recognized the identity of Gardner's plant with his 7. fuchsiefolia. 
The species is noted for its rubescent nerves and leaves. I was fortunate in finding its 
fruit in a living state, which enabled me to ascertain the funicular nature of the pulpy 
covering which half involves the seeds throughout the whole tribe of the Zuberne- 
montanee. This species is a small tree, from 6 to 20 feet high, much branched, the 
branches pale brown, rugosely striated, the branchlets rather slender and dichotomously 
divided; the leaves are heterophyllous in each node, elliptie, acute at the base, and 
terminated by a short obtuse acumen, margins subrevolute, chartaceously flaccid, pale 
green and opake above, granulo-punctulate on both sides, with immersed nerves, below 
somewhat paler, opake, yellowish, with prominulent reddish nerves; they are 2}and 34 in. - 
long at each node, 13 and 1$ in. broad, on slender petioles 23 and 4 lines long, the upper | 
pairs somewhat smaller; the petioles are conjoined across the nodes by a prominent 
