200 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cliocarpus. 



is 8 lines broad and 4 inches long, exclusive of its petiole of half 

 an inch. The raceme issues from the stem upon the same 

 side as the leaf, but at a distance of 2 inches above the axil ; it 

 is quite glabrous, about 5 inches long, the lower portion for a 

 length of 3 inches being bare of flowers, but from this point eleven 

 pedicels, each bearing a single flower, spring alternately ; they 

 are suddenly thickened below the calyx, are about 8 lines long, 

 and are articulated at their base, the lower ones generally falling 

 away, and leaving cicatrices at the points of their insertion. The 

 calyx is short, with five triangular teeth ; the corolla is about 

 5 lines long, has a short tube scarcely exceeding a line in length, 

 the border being divided into five equal, oblong segments, which 

 are quite smooth, with woolly margins : the stamens are the 

 length of the corolla, the filaments are extremely short, and arise 

 from an adnate 5- toothed ring fixed to the tube; the ovary is 

 short, smooth, not longer than the calyx; the style is slender, 

 somewhat thickened above, and hollow for half its length*. 



Cliocarpus. 



It is now more than five years since I proposed this genus 

 for a Brazilian plant collected in the province of Minas Geraes 

 by my friend the late Mr. Gardner. The generic outline given 

 (huj. op. iv. 141) was incomplete, as I had then only seen it in 

 fruit, but I am at length able to add its floral character. The 

 appearance of its saccate ventricose calyx and berried fruit led 

 me to suppose it offered most analogy with Nicandra, but this 

 I find is not the case, as it belongs to the true Solanacece, and to 

 the tribe Solanece, taking its place between Pionandra and Tri- 

 guera. In the structure of its stamens and style there is much 

 resemblance to the former genus : the anthers are erect ; the 

 lobes are long, parallel, and contiguously adnate upon a dorsal 

 furrowed connective ; they are thin in texture, each being 

 2-locellate, owing to the existence of a somewhat oblique, 

 slender, complete partition that divides each lobe, which is 2-val- 

 vular, and its dehiscence takes place by a longitudinal slit near 

 the outside of the anterior face, caused by the separation of the 

 margins of the valves from the edge of the contracting partition, 

 so that after bursting, each lobe thus appears to be unilocular : 

 this separation is more constant at the summit, where the line 

 of dehiscence crosses the face diagonally towards the middle of 

 the anther, when the broad upper valve is thrown back in an 

 auricular form and into an erect position, while the narrower 

 lower lip is reflected downward, thus showing a broad oblong 

 gap divided by the line of the septum, and forming a continu- 



* A di-awing of this plant with its floral analysis will be given in plate 74 

 of ' lUustr. South Amer. Plants.' i Ji3l^fi . 



