. 26 MR. J. MIERS ON THE AUXEMME X: 
about 6 in. long, 14-15 lines broad, on petioles 4-5 lines long; the flowing panicle issues 
at a point 1 or 2 lines above the axil, is 21 in. long; thecalyx is 1 line long, the corolla 
very little longer; the fructiferous calyx is membranaceous, reticulated, of a straw- 
colour, about 1 inch long, 7 lines broad, encloses a drupe 3 lines long, of a blackish brown 
colour, and polished. 
3. HYMENESTHES. 
This genus is proposed for a plant collected in Cuba by Wright, and named “ Bour- 
гена succulenta, Jacq." by Dr. Grisebach, who regarded it as the flowering specimen of 
another plant to which he gave the same name, both having been distributed, with tickets 
thus denominated, under Wright's number 3119, as they appear in the herbaria of the 
British Museum and that of Kew. Тһе latter plant is certainly named in error, and has 
been described by me as Bourreria clariuscula *; the former plant does not even belong 
to that genus t, nor to the same family, thus adding another to the many misnomers 
already specified in Dr. Grisebach's enumeration of Wright's Cuban plants. "The struc- 
ture of the flower in the plant in question differs extremely from that of Bourreria, and 
approaches that of Patagonula. Тһе flowers are small; the calyx and corolla are of 
extremely thin texture and transparent; the tube of the latter is as long as the calyx, 
its border, of the same length, is divided into 5 linear-oblong segments, which are deeply 
introflexed and connivent over the stamens; the exserted anthers stand upon equal 
subulate filaments, pilose below, and inserted near the base of the tube; the ovary, style, 
and stigma as in the preceding genera. As all the flowers are in a young state, we have 
no indieation of the growth of the calyx or the strueture of the fruit. The genus 
differs from Patagonula in the longer tube of the corolla, in the variable number of its 
parts, and other particulars. Its name is derived from оит», membrana, £a0nc, vestis. 
HYMENESTHES, nob. 
Calyx campanulatus, textura tenui, ore 3- vel 4-dentatus, dentibus rotundatis. Corolla tubulosa, tenuis- 
sime membranacea, tubo turbinato, calyci zequilonga, limbi lobis 4-5-6, oblongo-acuminatis, margi- 
nibus crenulato-sinuatis, valde reflexis, in :estivatione profunde introflexis et centro conniventibus. 
Stamina numero loborum, iis alterna, exserta ; filamenta subulato-filiformia, imo compressa, patentim 
hirsuta, superne glabra, infra medium tubi inserta; anthere ovate, 2-lobe, utrinque rima laterali 
dehiscentes. Ovarium conicum, disco magno cylindrico continuum, 4-loculare ; ovula in loculis 
solitaria, e basi erecta, atropa. Stylus subbrevis, fere ad basin bifidus, ramis paullo divergentibus, 
iterum fissis; stigmata 4, parva, compressa. Cet. ignota. 
Suffrutex Cubensis, glaberrimus : folia alterna, obovata, nitida, petiolata: panicula terminalis, dichotome 
divisa; flores parvi. 
1. HYMENESTHES NITIDA, nob.: Воштгегіа succulenta in parte, Griseb. (non Jacq.), 
. Cat. Pl. Cub. 209: ramulis teretibus, subrugulosis; foliis obovatis, imo ad medium 
sensim attenuatis, apice rotundatis aut emarginatis, crassiusculis, utrinque glaber- 
rimis, supra nitidis, lete viridibus, valde reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis 
venisque prominulis ; petiolo subtenui, limbo 6plo breviore: paniculis terminalibus 
222% Contrib. Bot. ii. 285. | | t Ibid. р. 233. 
