ON A NEW SPECIES OF BOLIVARIA. 191 



Frustula adsunt vix 3-pollicaria, corymboso-ramosissima, 

 undique glaberrima. Ramuli oppositi, crassi, rigidi, teretes v. 

 superiores obscure compresso-tetragoni, ultimi conici. Folia 

 stricte opposita, linea transversali juncta, 1-2 lin. longa, ses- 

 silia, basi erecta, apice recurvo-patentia, obtusa, integerrima, 

 crassa. Inflorescentia cymoso-corymbosa, terminalis, centri- 

 fuga. Calyces intra foliorum paria terminalia sessiles, soli- 

 tarii, ebracteati nisi foliorum par ultimum pro bracteis haberes, 

 2 lin. longi, campanulati, obscure costati, crassiusculi, glabri, 

 dentibus brevissimis distantibus recurvo-patentibus. Co- 

 rolla 9 lin. longa, glabra ; tubus basi tenuis, breviter exsertus, 

 niox in faucem campanulatam expansus ; limbi laciniae 5 v. 6, 

 ovatae, patentes, per eestivationem imbricatse, una exteriore, 

 una interiore, v. rarius 2 exterioribus. Stamina 2 prope 

 basin tubi sive ulla cum lobis ratione inserta, sed cum ovarii 

 lobis alternare videntur, corollae lobis paullo breviora ; fila- 

 naenta glabra v. ima basi pilis paucis barbato -, antheree ob- 

 longee, loculis adnatis parallelis rima longitudinali dehiscen- 

 tibus. Ovarium sessile, depresso-globosum, breviter et crasse 

 Mobum, axi carnosa, loculis 2. Ovula in quoque loculo 

 2> loculum implentia, ex axi central! horizontalia, potius su- 

 Praposita quam collateralia. Fructus junior didymus, potius 

 oolivaria quam Menodores, dehiscentia tamen ignota. 



This curious species formed part of a collection of about 

 400, made in Patagonia by Captain Middleton towards the 

 c We of the last century, and presented by him to the late 

 Mr. William Forsyth, whose herbarium came into my 

 Possession. The exact stations are not given, but they were 

 generally stated to be either from Port Desire, or other ports 

 to the southward. 



I take this opportunity of observing, that according to the 

 Citations of the genera Menodora and Bolivaria, now fixed 

 b y De Candolle, (Prodr. v. 8, p. 315), the Menodora Africana, 

 "°ok. Ic. PI. t. 586, should be transferred to Bolivaria. 



