Tas. 4548. 
ALMBIDEA aedea: 
Red-flowered Almeidea. 
Nat. Ord. Rutrace®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx minimus, 5-partitus, deciduus. Petala 5, calyce multoties 
longiora, unguiculata, spathulata, sequalia, erecta. Stamina 5, petalis alterna; 
jilamentis complanatis supra medium barbatis, antheris linearibus basi bifidis. 
Nectarium cupuleforme, ovarium cingens. Stylus 1. Stigma obtuse 5-lobum. 
Carpella 5, biovulata (ovulo superiore adscendente, inferiore suspenso), axi 
centrali adfixa, demum abortu pauciora, libera, 1-sperma, ad umbilicum mem- 
branacea, parte membranacea ruptili, umbilico seminis adhzrente, arilleformi.— 
Semen reniforme. Embryo curvatus. Cotyledones magne, biauriculate, corru- 
gate. Mucilago vix ulla inter cotyledonum plicas.—Arbuscule Brasilienses, foliis 
simplicibus sparsis petiolatis nitidis glanduloso-punctatis, floribus racemosis. De 
Cand. 
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ALMEIDEA rubra ; foliis lato-lanceolatis basi acutis, racemis compositis, pedun- 
culis glabris, petalis obtusissimis. 
Atmerpea rubra. St. Hil. Hist. Pl. Remarg. Brés. v. 1. p.144. De Cand. Prodr. 
v.1. p.729. St. Hil. Fl. Braz. Merid. v.1. p.86. ¢. 18. Spreng. Syst. 
Veget. v. 1. p. 789. 
This handsome plant, with flowers of the size and colour of 
Lemonia spectabilis, but arranged in a compound raceme or 
thyrsus, is one of six species of a shrubby new genus, detected 
in Brazil by M. Auguste de St. Hilaire. He dedicated it to his 
friend and patron Don Rodriguez Pereira de Almeida, and re- 
ferred it to the “ Rutacées proprement dites”’ (Tribe Diosmee,DC.); 
but remarks that it is of all others of that group the most allied 
to Cuspariee. “It possesses the calyx and nectary of Cuspa- 
rie@ ; its stamens are those of Galipea ; its ovules, two in num- 
ber, are attached as in Cuspariee ; its false arillus is the same — 
as in Monniera ; and, in fine, its embryo, destitute of perisperm, 
with the radicle curved and the corrugated cotyledons, the one 
enveloping the other, resembles that of Galipea Fontainesiana.” 
Our plant was received from Mr. Makoy of Liége, and its 
flowering-season with us is the autumn. a 
Drscr. A ramous shrub, three to five feet high, with /eaves— 
which are alternate, broadly lanceolate, acute at the base, acu- 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1850. 
