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Suffrutex (?) Galapagseus erectus, glaberrimus, ramis teretibus, 

 superioribus foliosis. Folia integerrima. Flores in racemos 

 terminates lateralesve dwpositi, breviter pedicellati. 



1. Pleuropetalum Darwinii, Hook. fil. in Trans. Soc. 

 Linn. Lond. ined. — (Tab. Nostr. II.) 

 Hab. James Island, Galapagos j C. Darwin, Esq. 



Rami cylindracei, teretes, crassitie pennae cervinse, ramulis 

 foliiferis breviusculis. Folia alterna, petiolata, 2-3 unc. 

 longa, 1-1-J lata, anguste ovato-lanceolata, utrinque attenuata 

 longe acuminata, integerrima, costa venisque conspicuis, 

 petiolo i unc. longo. Racemi subunciales, 5-7 flori, pedi- 

 cello valido tereti superne florifero. Flores breviter pedicel- 

 lati, sub 3 lin. lati, pedicello crasso tereti. Calycisfoliola ovata, 

 acuta, concava, petalis £ breviora. Petala ovata, subacuta, 

 concava, siccitate coriacea, dorso prsecipue costis plurimis 

 parallelis percursa, erecto-patentia. Stamina infra medium 

 in cupulam membranaceam coalita, filamentis anguste subu- 

 latis. Ovarium globosum, subcarnosum. Stigmata paulo 

 divaricata, subobtusa. 



A very distinct genus, of which I have seen only the speci- 

 mens gathered by Mr. Darwin during the visit he paid to 

 these curious islands in H.M.S. Beagle. The habit of the 

 plant is somewhat like that of Rivina. 



Tab. II. — Fig. 1. Bud, pedicel and bractea; fig. 2. a 

 flower expanded j fig. 3. the same with the petals removed ; 

 fig. 4. ovarium : — all magnified. 



BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



Botanical Notes on a Journey into the interior of Southern 

 Africa, in company with Mr. Burke; by Charles L. 

 Zeyher. 



(The following journal may be considered an accompani- 

 ment to that of Mr. Burke, detailing the account of an ex- 



