pellucid pedicle terminating on the edge of the fligma. Stigma a 
circular depreflion, juft below the anther. Flowers {weet- 
{cented, greenifh yellow. 7 | 
This curious plant has never, we believe, been before 
defcribed. We are indebted to our friend, Rozert Brown, 
Efq. for generic chara€ter and name, given to it in honour of 
Bernarpinus Antonius Gomes, Phyfician to the Portu- 
guefe fleet, and author of Botamico-Medical Ob/ervations on the 
Plants of Brazil, a very refpeélable work, written in the Latin 
and Portuguefe languages. ; 
Native of the Brazils. Communicated by Mr. Witt1am 
ANDERSON, curator of the Botanic Garden belonging to the 
et of Apothecaries, at Chelfea, the latter-end of May 
