OF THE MATTO GROSSO EXPEDITION, 1891-92. 437 
margine ciliata, penninervia vel palmatim 7-nervia. Pedunculi 2:5—4*0 cm. long., 
caule circa duplo tenuiores. Capitula vix 1:5 cm. diam. Bractex extime 1:1 cm., 
interiores circa 0°6 cm. long. et lat., utrinque piloso-pubescentes, plurinerves, 
margine ciliate. Flores punicei, faucibus luteis. Calycis, 0:15 em. long., lobi 
quadrangulari-ovati, 2-nerves, intus leves. Corolle tubus superne extus utrinque 
pubescens, 0:9 cm. long. medio vix 0:1 cm. diam.; limbi 1:0 cm. diam.; lobus 
anticus circa 0:6 cm. lat. Stamina circa 0'3 em. supra basin corolle inserta. 
Ovarium 0:06 cm. long., ovoideum, obsolete puberulum; stylus 0:22 cm. long., 
glaber; stigma ovario «equilongum,. 
Lippie Gardneriane, Schauer, proxima, et ab ed distans staturá humiliore, foliis 
villoso-tomentosis nec pubescenti-hirtis, bracteis minoribus pubescentibus, aliisque signis. 
Hujus speciei varietatem legit beat. Gardner prope Duero in provinciá Goyazensi, a 
typo discrepantem imprimis ob bracteas minores (0°65 cm. long. et lat.) et stylum cras- 
siusculum, ovarium modo duplo excedentem. Var. goyezensis, nob. (N. 3406 in Herbb. 
Brit. Mus. et Kew.) [Goyaz.] 
BAILLONIA AMABILIS, Bocq. in Adansonia, ii. p. 251 (ex icon. et descript.). 
Hab. Reperi ad Coimbra florentem mens. Feb. (N. 1067.) 
Hitherto the late Dr. Weddell has been the only collector of this interesting plant in 
its wild state. Although Bocquillon unfortunately omits measurements, I presume that 
my specimens are referable to the same species as Weddell's, seeing that not only do 
they closely agree with Bocquillon’s figure and description, but they were collected in 
the same neighbourhood. 
In the * Genera Plantarum’ this genus has, unfortunately, been thoroughly misunder- 
stood. A few years after the publication of Bocquillon's paper, the late Mr. Miers 
established a genus Diostea (Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 102) to include, besides the South- 
American Verbenaces considered by Hooker and Gillies as species of Verbena 
(V. scoparia and Y. juncea, Hook. et Gill), a few others from the same part of the 
world, the chief point of difference from Verbena lying in their possession of a fruit 
consisting of two 1-seeded, somewhat fleshy pyrenes, instead of a couple of dry pyrenes, 
each with two seeds. This genus Diostea, at least so far as concerns D. juncea—the 
other species being relegated to Verbena—is merged with Baillonia in the ‘Genera 
Plantarum’ (ii. p. 1143), which latter genus is considered to be “perhaps too near 
Lippia.” Had specimens been available when the ‘Genera Plantarum’ was written, 
the most cursory inspection would have sufficed to show that Baillonia of Bocquillon is 
quite different both from Diostea on the one hand, and from Lippia on the other. More- 
over the remark, concerning B. amabilis, Bocq., “ex icone et descr. quoad folia et 
inflorescentiam simillima est Lippie citriodore," would certainly never have been 
penned; for, beyond the fact that both plants belong to the same tribe of Verbenaceze, 
they have absolutely nothing in common. 
To show how different Baillonia is from Diostea, I have constructed the following 
table, from my own observations with the exception of the fruit, details concerning 
which are taken from the figures and descriptions of Bocquillon and Miers :— 
