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petioles 14 line broad; cymes terminal, with about 10 closely approximated flowers; 
peduncle many times longer than the calyx ; pedicels a little longer than the calyx ; bracts 
small, lanceolate ; sepals lanceolate, subpatent, half the length of the tube of the corolla, 
which is swollen below the middle, with a pilose ring near its base, from which the 
stamens originate; it is pubescent in the throat. 
19. PESCHIERA GRAcILLIMA, nob.: Tabernemontana gracilis, Müll. (non Bth.) l. c. p. 82. In prov. Rio 
de Janeiro, Sierra d’Estrella: non vidi. 
The specific name is changed, that it may not be confounded with T. gracilis, Bth. 
It resembles the preceding in the small size of its linear lanceolate leaves, which are 
13-2 in. long, 3 in. broad, on short petioles; cyme subterminal, 2-3 times shorter than 
the leaf; peduncle as short as the petiole; pedicels twice the length of the calyx; 
peduncle depauperated, bearing 2-3 bracteoles, often by abortion 1-flowered; sepals 
2 lines long ; tube of corolla slender, 5 lines long, narrow above, broader below, pubes- 
cent within, segments obliquely ovate, puberulous within,—all being the characters of 
Peschiera. Tt is a small tree, 12-15 feet high. 
20. Pescurera Hitariana, nob.: Tabernemontana Hilariana, Müll. l. c. p. 85. In prov. S. Paulo: 
non vidi. 
The leaves sublanceolate, suddenly acuminated at the apex, membranaceous, 344. 
in. long (including the petiole), 83-11} lines broad. The inflorescence is a terminal 
corymb, with about 20 crowded flowers; peduncle length of calyx; pedicels bracteolated, 
of the same length; sepals lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube of the corolla, which is 
narrow aboye, pubescent within; stamens inserted below the middle of the tube; ovaries 
ovate, length of style. 
21. PESCHIERA | CATHERINENSIS, nob.: Tabernemontana Catherinensis, Müll. l. c. p. 85: A. DC. 
Prodr. viii. 365. In prov. S. Paulo: non vidi. 
It has slender, spreading, dichotomous branches: leaves oblong elliptic, obtusely 
acuminated at both ends, 2-22 in. long, including the puberulous petiole (2-22 lines 
long), 1-14 in. broad; corymb as in P. fuchsiefolia, but more densely flowered. 
22. PESCHIERA FLORIDA, nob.: Tabernemontana leta, var. puberiflora, Müll. l. c. p. 79. In Brasilia: 
v. $. in hb. meo prov. Minas Geraés (Gardn. 5011). 
A species very proximate to P. multiflora, and with little resemblance to P. læta. It 
has stoutish, subdichotomous, pallid, rugously striated branches, the younger ones dark 
and very compressed; the leaves are elliptic oblong, subacute at the base, little con- 
stricted towards the shortish obtuse acumen, thinly chartaceous, with undulated or 
interruptedly revolute margins, darkish green and opake above, with suleated midrib 
and semi-immersed fine nerves, yellowish opake below, subpruinose, with prominulent 
midrib and reddish fine nerves, 4-5 in. long, 12-13 in. broad, on stoutish channelled 
petioles 5-6 lines long, fossulated at the base, and conjoined across the node by an 
arching, raised ridge; cymes 2 or 4, fasciculated at the end of the young branchlets ; 
peduncles 9-12 lines long, their branches 2 lines long, minutely bracteolated ; pedicels 
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