OF THE MATTO GROSSO EXPEDITION, 1891-92. 313 
Planta eum Wissadulá gymnanthemd, K. Schum., comparanda, specie quee ovario 
trimero ssepe gaudet, ab illà vero optime abhorret habitu et foliis omnino disparibus, 
calyce minore, ovario nunquam tetramero, etc. 
This is a very elegant little plant, which, in the absence of capsules, I regret my 
inability to assist in introducing into cultivation. 
Schumann (Mart. Fl. Bras. xii. pars iii. p. 488) correctly states that the ovules of this 
genus are all pendulous, and not, as say the authors of the ‘Genera Plantarum,’ some pen- 
dulous and some ascending. With respect to the constant trimerous symmetry of the 
carpel, which is abnormal for the genus, I may here add that the carpellary symmetry of 
W. periplocifolia, Presl, said by Schumann to be pentamerous, is by no means so always, 
as on several occasions I have had before me 3- and 4-lobed carpels respectively with 
three or four styles. [ Argentina. ] 
ABUTILON CRISPUM, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. I. p. 53. 
Hab. Crescit ad Santa Cruz, mens. Sept. florens. (N. 296.) 
Mine is à monospermous form, the ovules being always solitary in the cells, and the 
seeds of course solitary. Moreover, the stems, petioles, and fruits are pubescent merely, 
never hirsute, as is almost always the case with 4. crispum. The plant is certainly not a 
good Abutilon, and perhaps it would be better to keep up the genus Belere, Shuttlew., 
for the reception of monospermous Malvaces with Adutilon-like unappendaged seeds. 
That genus would then comprise, besides the present plant, one from Brazil recently 
described by Schumann under the name of A. monospermum, and several others with 
carpels constantly 1-seeded. The attachment of the ovule, too, to the septum, instead of 
to the bottom or top of the cell, is a fact full of suggestion. "This is a question, however, 
on which I am not disposed to give a definite opinion. [Amer. Trop. et Subtrop., 
Ind. Or. ] 
SPHARALCEA MINIATA, Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. iii. p. 352. 
, Var. LEIOCARPA, S. Moore ; foliis ovato-oblongis, crenatis vel breviter lobulatis, supra 
minute pubescentibus, subtus molliter tomentosis ; inflorescentiis sessilibus vel 
breviter pedunculatis, floribus aggregatis; carpidiis intus basi levibus vel apice 
obscure reticulatis, sepe 3-spermis. : 
Hab. Matto Grosso (Leeson, in Herb. Mus. Brit.). [Argentina.] 
Pavonta speciosa, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. p. 231. 
, var. POLYMORPHA, Garcke. 
Hab. Reperi ad Jangada, mens. Sept. florentem. (N. 281.) [Amer. Trop., Ind. Occ.] 
Pavonta Moronett, S. Moore ex Morong & Britton in Ann. N. York Acad. Nat. Se. vii. 
p. 58; caule erecto, ramulis subpatulis, ramoso, piloso-tomentoso ; foliis parvis, petio- 
latis, ovatis, obtusis, basi rotundatis necnon aliquanto cordatis, margine impariter 
grosse crenato-serratis, 7-nerviis, tenuiter tomentosis, subtus albidis ; stipulis fugaceis, 
subulato-setaceis, petiolo brevioribus; floribus in axillis fol. superiorum vel ad apicem 
ramulorum solitariis, longius pedunculatis; involucri phyllis 6-9, tomentosi-pilosis, 
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