44 Mr. J. Miers on the Winteracese. 



riaceis, opacis, margimbus nitidis revolutis, superne lucidis, 

 fusco-viridibus, inferne granuloso-incanis, granulis creberrimis 

 porosis, nervis pluribus tenuibus sese arcuatis vix distin- 

 guendis, costa media rubella paullo prominenti, petiolo lon- 

 giusculo semitereti, angusto, canaliculato ; floribus axillaribus, 

 e pedunculo ssepissime folii fere longitudine, ancipiti, pedi- 

 cellis 3-5 longissimis, umbellatis ; petalis 10-12 ; staminibus 

 30-40; ovariis 10-12. — In Nova Grenada, Columbia et 

 Mexico. — v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Santa Fe di Bogota (Mu- 

 tis), (Dombey); in hb. Hook. Bogota (Turner et aliis), Co- 

 lumbia, Mexico (Hartweg, 444). 



Folia 3-4J poll, longa, 9-21 lin. lata; petiolus 5-9 lin. 

 longus ; pedunculus ssepius 2-3 poll, longus ; umbella rarius 

 foliifera; pedicelli ssepius 3, graciliores, compresso-trigoni, 

 1-1 \ poll, longi. Calyx in alabastro globosus, ruptiliter 2- 

 partitus; petala ssepius 12, biseriata; stamina crebra, bre- 

 vissima, 3-serialia, gynophoro inserta; ovaria sa3pius 12*. 



A specimen in the British Museum, collected by Dombey in 

 Santa Fe (de Bogota ?), though only fragmentary, exhibits a 

 more than ordinary amount of development : it consists of two 

 loose leaves and one loose umbel; the leaves are 5-5 J inches 

 long, 2 inches broad, on a petiole 8-9 lines long ; the peduncle 

 is compressed, a line broad, and 3 J inches long, bearing on its 

 summit two leaflets and five pedicels ; the leaflets are obtusely 

 obovate, cuneate, If inch long, including a petiole of 1 line, and 

 the pedicels are l|-2 inches long; the flowers expanded are 

 nearly \\ inch in diameter, the petals being 6 lines long, 4 lines 

 broad, and rounded at their summit. The total inflorescence is 

 nearly 7 inches in length, or 1 inch longer than its unusually 

 large leaves. 



3. Drimys montana, D. Granatensis var. montana, St. Hit. PL 

 Us. 3. tab. 28 ; — ramis teretibus, foliis congestis, cuneato- 

 oblongis, apice obtusis et ssepe subemarginatis ; marginibus 

 crassis valde revolutis, coriaceis, supra lucidis, nervis paral- 

 lelis omnino immersis, subtus pruinoso-albidis, nervis vix 

 distinguendis, costa media rubella valde prominenti, petiolo 

 Jongiusculo canaliculato; inflorescentia axillari et terminali ; 

 pedunculis subtenuibus, compressis, folii fere longitudine, 

 simplicibus vel interdum 2-3-fidis, et tunc pedicellis illis 

 brevioribus. — Brasilia; Serra Negra in Prov. San Paolo (St. 

 Hilaire). — v. s. in hb. Hook. (Claussen) ex Minas Geraes. 

 Folia 1^—2^ poll, longa, 6-9 lin. lata, petiolus 4 lin. longus ; 



* A drawing of this species is given in the ' Contributions to Botany/ 

 pi. 27 a. 



