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12 T/ie Botaiiical Gazette, [January, 



5. Dcppci G. Don (Cogn. 1. c. 876) proxima. — Antigua, Dept. 



J. D. S. (Ex Pl. 



cit. 2202.) 



Cephaelis glomerulata (§ Cephaelide^ Muell. Arg. in FI. 



Brasil.) — Dichotomous, glabrous: stipules solitary, triangu- 

 lar-truncate, apex fimbriate: Icaves oval-lanceolate (4-5 x I3-2 

 in.), acuminatc, basc acute, patent secondary nerves about 

 14 uniting in marginal arches: heads of bracteose glomerules 

 subsessile, semi-globose (9 lines high, 1 in. broad); bracts 

 coriaceous, pallid, margin virescent or violaceous, the 6-8 

 exterior oblate-roundish, of glomerules obovate passing into 

 shortcr spatulate membranaceous conduplicate bractlets: calyx 

 scarious (li line), two-thirds free, unequally subulate-toothed: 

 corolla white, half-exsert from bractlet, slender (6 lines), one- 

 fourth-Iobcd, upper half cano-pubescent within: anthers (2 

 lines) exceeding filaments: bi-Iobed disk equalling ovary ; drupe 

 ovoid (3 lines), sulcate, bluc— Shrub 3-4 ft. high with habit 

 and leaves of C. dichotoma Rudge and Psychotria Martiana 

 Muell. Arg., but differing from both by developed bractlets 

 of glomerules and of flowers. — Swampy woods on Rio Dulce, 



sea-level, Mch. 1889, J. D. S. (Ex PI. cit. 1637). 



ExPLANATioN OF Plate I.— Fig. I, flowering branch. Fig. 2, head with all 

 but oneof the bracts removed. Fig. 3, glomerule. Fig. 4, exterior bract. Fig. 

 5, e.xtenor bractlet Fig. 6, interior bractlet. Fig. 7, stipule. Fig. 8, flower. 

 Fig. 9, corolla of long-styled flower laid open. Fig. 10. vertical section of 

 short-styled flower wuh corolla removed. Fig 11, drupe. (Figs, i and 2 are 

 natural size; the others are variously magnified.) 



LobelialaxifloraH. B. K., var. insiguis. — Glabrousin 



every part: stem simple, stout, 3-4 ft. high: leaves denscly 

 confert, linear-lanceolate (7x1 in.), sessile, glandular teeth 



appressed: peduncles bractless, nearly equalling leaves: 



flowers 2 in. long: calyx-segments one-fifth as long, linear,' 



twtce exceeding tube: corolla carinately nerved; tube half as 



broad as long, yellow varied with red; divisions of upper lip 



red on both sides; lower lip plicate, half as broad as long 



yellow margined with red.— Mr. Hemsley refers to the type 



a plant collected by Salvin in similar locality. The congested 



large leaves and flowers impart a distinct habit.— Slopes of 

 Volcan de Ag '' ^" '^'^" ..... 



PI. cit. 2173.) 



J. D. S. (Ex 



Macleania cordata Lemaire, var. linearifolia 



Leaves obscurely penninerved, above conspicuously reticula- 

 ted, linear-lanceolate (4-5 X 1 -I in.), regularly tapering from 



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