32 MR. J. MIERS ON THE АОХЕММЕЖ. 
The axils of this plant are about 2 т. apart; the leaves are 21-4 in. long, 14-1 in. 
broad, on petioles 5-8 lines long, with about 10 pairs of slender patently divaricate 
nerves; the panicle is 2 in. long; the calyx in flower 5 lines long, 3 lines broad; the 
tube of the corolla is 14 in. long, 11 line broad at the base for a length of 5 lines, thence 
gradually widening to a breadth of 9 lines at the mouth; the lobes are 6 lines long; the 
anthers 3 lines long, 1 line broad; the conical ovary is 2 lines long, $ line hibáik the 
subulate style 3 lines long, its branches 2 lines; the stigmata 2 lines long; the enlarged 
calyx concealing the fruit is 9 lines long, 7 lines broad ; the oval drupe, attenuated at 
its summit, is 9 lines long, 6 lines broad; nut deeply furrowed, has a deep hollow 
along its axis, and has 4 basal cavities at its base filled with pithy matter, as in 
Auzsemma. 
6. PLETHOSTEPHIA. 
This genus is proposed for another of Richard’s Cuba plants, his Cordia angiosperma, 
which differs from that genus in its large salver-shaped corolla, with a rotate border of 
15 lobes, with their margins overlapping one another dextrorsely, in its 10 included 
stamens in 2 unequal series, its 10-lobed hypogynous disk supporting a 4-celled ovary. 
The calyx is tubular, and 5-toothed, becoming thicker and enveloping the fruit as in the 
preceding genus. Ав I have not seen any specimen, the generic character is founded 
wholly on Richard’s description and figures. Its name is derived from zA56oc, multitudo, 
зтефе corono, because of the many-lobed border which crowns the corolla. 
PLETHOSTEPHIA, nob., Со’ а sp., Rich. 
Calyx tubulosus, margine 5-dentatus, persistens et augescens, Corolla subhypocrateriformis, tubo calyce 
3—4plo longiore, imo cylindrico, sursum anguste infundibuliformi, fauce nuda, limbo patentissimo, 
tubo 5рю breviore, in lacinias 15 diviso, /aciniis recte oblongis, acutis, marginibus (sec. icon.) dextror- 
sum imbricantibus. Stamina 10, inzqualia, alternatim biseriata, inclusa; filamenta subbrevia, 
teretia, erecta, supra medium tubi inserta; anthere ovate, filamento ter breviores, 2-lobz, lobis 
adnatis introrsum dehiscentibus. Discus hypogynus, pulvinatus, crenatim 10-lobus: ovarium 
superum, oblongum, disco insitum, 4-loculare ; ovu/a in quoque loculo solitaria, erecta, atropa; 
stylus filiformis, corollz tubo zquilongus, apice 4-fidus, laciniis recurvis ; stigmata 4, parva, capitata. 
Drupa conice ovata, carnosa, imo stipitata, stylo immutato recurvo apiculata, calyce aucto incrassato 
occulta, monopyrena; ругеп osseus, acute ovatus, imo disco stipitatus, summo apiculatus, extus 
sulcis profundis exsculptus, abortu 2-locularis; semen in quoque loculo unicum, basi stipitato-affixum, 
erectum. 
Arbor Antillana, ramosa : folia coriacea, late ovata, undulato-crenata, petiolata: paniculæ terminales, 
dichotome divise ; flores pedicellati, speciosi. 
l. PLETHOSTEPHIA ANGIOCARPA, nob.: Cordia angiocarpa,, A. Rich. in Fl. Cub. Баст. 
119, tab. 60; Walp. Ann. v. 540: ramulis validiusculis hirsutissimis: foliis in 
apice ramorum subconfertis, late ovalibus aut suborbicularibus, imo obtusis et in 
petiolum breviter acutatis, apice rotundatis, integris, vel ad margines subundulato- 
sinuatis, nervis utrinque 6 divergentibus, venis parallele transversis, utrinque 
hirto-scaberrimis; petiolo late suleato, limbo 7plo breviore: panicula terminali, 
brevissime peduneulata, quater dichotome divisa, ferrugineo-hirta; floribus spe- 
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