Tas. 4747. 
METTERNICHIA Parrnoipis. 
Princely Metternichia. 
Nat. Ord. SoLANACEA.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, inzequaliter 4—5-6-fidus, persistens, laciniis 
subzequalibus vy. ineequalibus, 2-3 seepe duplo majoribus foliiformibus. Corolla 
infundibuliformis ; ¢uéo imo contracto et intus pubeseente, superne amplo ; Zimbo 
expanso, estivatione profunde plicato ; Jaciniis 5, brevibus, eequalibus, crenulato- 
undulatis. Stamina 5, corolle contractione inserta, inclusa, 2 breviora ; jilamenta 
filiformia, basi dilatato-incrassata, imo pubescentia, superne glabra; anthere 
ovales, 2-loculares, basifixee, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pistil/um staminibus 
paulo brevius. Ovarium sessile, biloculare; ovulis in loculis utrinque 8, in 
septi facie juxta basin ad nervos 2 parallelos 2—3-seriatim dispositis, ascenden- 
tibus, imbricatis, inferioribus exterioribus. Stylus simplex. Stigma bilamella- 
tum, lamellis crassiusculis, margine revolutis. . Capsula coriacea, lignosa, ovato- 
cylindracea, 2-locularis, apice septifrago-2-valvis, dissepimento libero, valvis de- 
mum semibifidis. Semina plurima (2-4, Miers) in quoque loculo, e dissepimenti 
basi adscendentia, longe linearia, utrinque acuminato-attenuata, margine ala 
membranacea cincta, ventre convexa, dorso carinata; filo prope basin introrsum 
laterali ; ¢es¢a chartacea, ad endopleuram spongiosam adnata, Hmbryo in axi albu- 
minis carnosi, tenuis, rectus ; cotyledonibus linearibus, carnosis, radiculam inferam 
wquantibus.—Arbores Brasilienses, frondose ; folia alterna, breviter petiolata, co- 
riacea aut subcoriacea, elliptica, penninervia, reticulata, integerrima, nitida 3 flores 
terminales, subsolitarii v. plurimt, subracemosi, fasciculati, ebracteati, speciost, albi. 
Dunal, in DC. 
METTERNIcHIA Principis ; caule arboreo, foliis lanceolato-ellipticis subtus palli- 
dioribus, pedunculis brevibus petiolorum longitudine terminalibus subrace- 
mosis, calycis laciniis ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis uninervils reticulatis. Dun. 
Merrernicuta Principis. Mikan, Delect. Fl. et Faun. Bras. (no No. or page) 
cum Ie. Mart. Fl. Brasil. Fasc. v. 6. p. 227. Dunal, in De Cand. Prodr. 
v. 13. p. 594. 
Merrernicuta Princeps. Miers, in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 5. p. 145. 
Listantuvs ophiorrhiza. Vell. Fl. Flum. v. 2. t. 78. 
A Brazilian genus, named in compliment to the distinguished 
Austrian Prince Metternich-Winneburg, of Ochsenhausen, etc. Its 
author and discoverer, Mikan, describes the flowers as inodorous, 
whereas with us they are powerfully and deliciously fragrant, 
NOVEMBER lst, 1853. 
