198 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Pionandra. 



wise an elongated fusiform hollow style, with its small stigmatic 

 glands wholly included. The latter genus_, on the contrary, is 

 remarkable for its thicker and shorter anthers greatly curved 

 upon a fleshy gibbous connective, and for its peculiar style, 

 which is generally short, thick, in the form of an inverted cone, 

 with large distinct stigmatic glands in its mouth : these peculiar 

 features are shown in plate 8 of the ' Illust. South Amer. Plants,' 

 in plates 15, 16 and 17 of Dr. Sendtner in ' Flor. Brasil.' fasc. vi., 

 and in plate 227 of Martins, ' Nov. Gen. et Spec. Bras.' The 

 generic character of the genus Cyphomandra with a few omissions 

 will therefore remain as formerly designated by me under Pio- 

 nandra (Illust. South Amer. Plants, i. 34), while that of the latter 

 genus, as now restored and modified, and of which I will add 

 another species with pinnatifid leaves (as in C. fraxinella, Sendt.) 

 collected by me in the Organ Mountains, may be summed up as 

 follows : — 



Pionandra, nob. (gen. reformatum). Calyx 5-partitus, per- 



sistens. Corolla hypogyna, tubo brevi, limbo amplo 5-partito, 



j/-Jaciniis 5 lanceolatis, subtenuibus, sestivatione introflexo-val- 



vatis. Stamina 5 sequalia, erecta, stylo circumdantia ; fila- 



menta brevissima, complanata, in annulum brevem tubo corollse 



Jill adnatum imo connata ; antherce magnse, rectse, superne ros- 



omjtratse, 2-loculares, loculis elongatis ad connectivum parallele 



-luiadnatis, rima longitudinali ssepe dehiscentibus, summo glo- 



-0:1 boso-capitatis, hinc antice poris 2 transversim et oblique val- 



^giafatis, valvibus bilabiatis latissime hiantibus. Ovarium ob- 



,anflongum, 2-loculare, placentis carnosis utrinque dissepimento 



•3jjpadnatis, multiovulatis. Stylus longiusculus, teres, subtenuis, 



apice longe incrassatus et hinc cavus. Stigma in cavo omnino 



immersum, glandulosum. ^acca pulposa, 2-locularis. Semina 



^lyjuumerosa : csetera ignota. — Sufi'rutices in America intertropica 



^'•. indigence, ramosissimce ; folia petiolata, subgemina, elliptica, 



integra vel profunde lohata aut pinnatifida; racemi extra-axil- 



lareSy flores secundi, pedicellis articulatis scepe deciduis. 



^^*^ § 1. Folia integra, 



'X% Pionandra capsicoides, nob. 111. South Amer. PI. i. 41. tab. 9. 



'^Cyphomandra capsicoides, Dun. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 396. Sola- 



^^^num capsicoides. Mart. Bot. Zeit. i. 78. 



p,^j-,:P. divaricata, nob. loc. cit. i. 41. Witheringia divaricata, 

 Mart. Nov. Gen. Bras. iii. 75. tab. 228. Cyphomandra diva- 

 ricata, Sendt. Flor. Bras. vi. 118; Dun. I. c. 397. 

 3. P. laxiflora, nob. Cyphomandra laxiflora, Di/ri. /.c. 397. Sola- 

 - num laxiflorum, Dun. in h. Banks. 



^4V P. oxyphythj nob. Cyphomandra oxyphylla. Dun. I. c. 396. 



