Tas. 7467. 
POSOQUERIA macropus. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Rusracez#.—Tribe GARDENIEX. 
Genus Posoqueria, Aubl, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 83. 
PosoqueRIA macropus; ramulis petiolis foliis subtus panicule ramis calyci- 
basque pubescentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis acutis v. acumi- 
natis supra lete viridibus inter nervos profunde impressos tumidis, subtus 
pallidis nervis prominulis, stipulis triangularibus acutis v. longe 
acuminatis, panicula breviter pedunculata multiflora, bracteis minutis, 
calycis lobis brevibus obtusis, corollee tubo 5-pollicari, ore villoso, limbi 
alabastro-erecti ovoidei lobis pollicaribus lineari-oblongis apice rotun- 
datis sinistrorsum contortis, antheris lineari-oblongis connectivo crasso, 
eae margine pilosulis, stigmate bicruri cruribus recurvis glandulosis 
pllosis. : 
P. macropus, Vart. in Flora, xxiv. (1841) Beibl. II. p. 79. Mart. Fl. Bras. 
vol. vi. pt. vi. p. 336, t. 140, f. 1. 
P. multiflora, Lemaire Illustr. Hortic. vol. xvi. (1869) t. 597. 
Posoqueria is a tropical American genus, which is 
described as having the limb of the corolla when in 
inclined and gibbous; but this is not the case in P. 
macropus, nor in several other species which I have 
examined. All are shrubs or small trees, most of them 
with large glossy very coriaceous leaves. P. macropus is 
one of the only two described species in which the leaves 
are pubescent beneath. The other is P. palustris, Mart., 
with narrowly oblong leaves, and subcoriaceous calyx- 
lobes. 
P. macropus was described by Martius in 1841, with 
the habitat and collector’s name of ‘* Minas?, Schick.” | 
In his great “Flora Brasiliensis,” cited above, the 
additional habitats are given of S. Brazil, and Campos of 
Rio de Janeiro, Glazivu. More recently it has been 
found in the Province of Sta. Catharina, by M. Gautier, 
who sent plants of it to Messrs. Verschaffelt of Ghent, 
when it was published as P. multiflora, by Lemaire. It 
is fairly well figured in the “Flora Brasiliensis,” but 
evidently from a poor dried specimen; the corolla lobes 
are represented as too narrow, and the hairs at the mouth 
are omitted, otherwise the figure is very characteristic. 
APRIL Ist, 1896, 
