202 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cliocarpus. 



prominulo. Stamina 5, sequalia, corollse fere longitudine; 

 filamenta brevissima^ glabra, ex annulo carnoso imo tubi ad- 

 nato 5-sinuato orta, valde sigmoidea, complanata, sulcata, 

 apice acuta : antherce maguse, erectse, circa stylum conniveutes, 

 oblongse, 2-lobse, 4-locellat8e, basi breviter bifidse, ad imum 

 sulci dorsali affixse, lobis sine connective conspicuo parallele 

 adnatis, sulco longitudinali et summo prsecipue utrinque rima 

 antica obliqua valvatim late hiantibus, valvula superiori hinc 

 erecta auriculaeformi, inferiori fere obsoleta. Ovarium gla- 

 brum, subrotundum, 2-sulcatum, 2-loculare, ovulis plurimis 

 dissepimento placentifero carnoso utrinque adnatis. Stylus 

 simplex, filiformis, staminibus dimidio longior. Stigma mi- 

 nutum, brevissime bifidum, dentibus acutis, divaricatis vel ad- 

 pressis. Bacca calyce aucto inclusa, subglobosa, 2-locularis : 

 semina pauca, reniformia, compressa, testa scrobiculata, hilo in 

 sinu laterali; embryo teres, in albumen carnosum spiraliter 

 arcuatus, cotyledonibus semi-teretibus, radicula angulo basali 

 spectante, hiioque evitante sub-3-plo brevioribus. — Frutices 

 Brasilienses, pilis simplicibus [plerumque cum stellatis inter- 

 misctis), dense tomentosi : folia alterna, vel scepe geminay altero 

 minorij integra, oblonga, acuta, imo obtusa, interdum cordata, 

 breviter petiolata: flores extra- axillares, solitarii aut bini, vel 

 in racemo sub-umbellceformi plures aggregati, pedicellis longis, 

 JiliformibuSj fructiferis cernuis, 



1. Cliocarpus Gardneri, nob. huj. op. iv. 141; 111. South Amer. 



. PI. ii. 35; DC. Prodr. xiii. 675; — fruticosus, subdichotome 



P ramosus, ramis tomentosis ; foliis obovatis, e medio acuminatis, 



. basi subrotundatis, ssepe geminis, altero dimidio vel paullo 



. adhuc minori, crassiusculis, supra Isete viridibus et pubescen- 



. tibus, subtus densissime cano- vel flavido-tomentosis, pilis sim- 



; plicibus cum alteris stipitato-stellatis inter mixtis, nervis ve- 



, nisque supra impressis, subtus prominulis et flocculosis, pe- 



1 tiolo brevi, crassiusculo ; floribus extra-axillaribus, solitariis vel 



<,• 2-4-fasciculatis, pedunculo obsoleto, pedicellis filiformibus, 



quam congeneribus longioribus, in fructu deflexis et magis 



elongatis ; bacca pisi majoris maguitudine, nigra, calyce aucto 



subvesiculari flavo-membranaceo reticulato clausa. — Brasilia, 



! Prov. Minas Geraes. — v. s. in herb. Hook. (i\.rraial das Merces^ 



Gardner, no. 5042), 



This plant in fruit has been already described, as above 

 quoted, but I hav6 since found flower-buds, which, though very 

 young, are quite sufficient to identify the same structure as in 

 the two following species ; the only difference being, that here 

 the corolla seems to be more deeply cleft than in the others. 



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