Tab. 7001. 



palicourea nicotian^lfolia. 



Native of Brazil. 



Nat. Ord. Kcbiace^:. — Tribe Psychotbie^. 

 Genus Palicoueea, Aublet ; {Benth. et Hooh.f. Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 125.) 



Palicoueea discolor; tota foliis supra esceptis subtiliter tomentellis, ramis 

 teretibus, foliis oppositis elliptico-lanceolatis utrinque acumiuatis basi in 

 petiolum breviusculum angustatis, costa subtus nervisque 12-15-jugis validis, 

 stipulis utrinque geminis subulatis, thyrso erecto contracto multifloro, racbi 

 purpureo, bracteis minutis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, pedicello apice incras- 

 sato, calj-cis puberuli dentibus brevibus minutis, corolla cylindracea puberula 

 flaya lobis brevibus triangularibus rubro marginatis, tubo recto intus infra 

 basin fllamentorum villoso, staminibus medio tubo insertis, filamentis brevibus, 

 antheris linearibus inclusis, ovario 2-loculari, ovulis loculis solitariis erectis, 

 disco hemispherico, bacca immatura parva suborbiculari compressa sulcata 

 purpurea puberula 2-sperma. 



P. nicotiansefolia, Cham. Sf Schlecht. in Linnaa, vol. iv. (1829), p. 18; DC. 

 Proilr. vol. iv. p. 529. 



P. discolor, Sort, 



The genus Palicourea embraces a host of tropical 

 American plants, of which the Brazilian species only are 

 well named. Unfortunately the fascicle of the grand work 

 of Martius, in which these last are described, is at the book- 

 binder's, and will, I fear, not be returned to the Library 

 before this page must go to press. I have no hesitation, 

 however, in referring this plant to P. mcotiancefolia, a 

 species first sent to Europe by the Brazilian traveller, 

 Sellow, and very carefully described by Ohamisso in the 

 Linnasa. There are specimens of it in the Kew Herbarium, 

 collected by Burchell in several places, at Rio by Miers 

 and Glaziou, and it is the No. 2603 of the catalogue of the 

 latter collector. It resembles many other species of Brazil, 

 Guiana, the West Indies and Central America, but is dis- 

 tinguished, besides the form and nervation of the leaves, 

 by the stipules, the very fine tomentum of all parts but the 

 leaves, the narrow thyrsus, the minute calyx, straight 

 tubular corolla with a ring of villi obscurely disposed in 

 pencils below the middle of the corolla-tube. In some 



juke 1st, 1888. 



