106 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Liriosma. 



bosis, plurifloris, folio dimidio brevioribus, calyce petalisque 



lineari-lanceolatis, glabris, istis extus virenti-cinereis. — Prov. 



Rio Negro Brazilise, circa fluv. Teffe, confluentem Amazo- 



nicum. 



The leaves are described as being 5 inches long, 2 inches broad, 

 the flowers supported by two bracts, the calyx obsoletely denti- 

 culate, the petals thickened at their summit, 3-nerved, and cori- 

 aceous. 



2. Liriosma pauciflora, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 673; Deless. Icon. 

 Sel. v. 18. tab. 41. Olax pauciflora, Bth. Linn. Trans, xviii. 

 678; Lond. Journ.Bot. ii. 375. Hypocarpus pauciflorus,^.DC. 

 Prodr. viii. 246 ; — foliis ovatis, obtusis, junioribus cum ramulis 

 pedicellisque pubescentibus; pedunculo axillari brevi, 1-3-floro, 

 et pedicellis calycibusque molliter puberulis. — Prov. Bahia ad 

 Serra d'Acuruk; v. s. in herb. Hook. (Blanchet, n. 2795). 



The above characters are wholly taken from the description of 

 Mr. Bentham, who also states that the ovarium is adnate to the 

 calyx ; the lower half is without doubt subsequently so, by the 

 intervention of the cupular disk, but I suspect that at an earlier 

 stage it is entirely free from the disk, as occurs in L. Gardne- 

 riana : the upper uncovered moiety, as in that species, is covered 

 with short erect hairs. The only specimens known were collected 

 by Blanchet in the Serra d'Acuruk or Acu^,, — the rich diamond 

 district discovered a few years ago in the province of Bahia. 



3. Liriosma Gardneriana, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 679. Olax Gard- 

 nerianus, Bth. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 375. Hypocarpus Gard- 

 nerianus, A. DC. loc. cit. viii. 216; — foliis lanceolato-oblongis 

 vel ovato-oblongis, acuminatis, apice obtusiusculo, imo subro- 

 tundatis, textura teneris, ramulisque glabris; racemulo brevi 

 4-12-floro, pedicello pedicellisque pulverulentis, calyce petalis- 

 que extus glabris, ovario pubescente. — Prov. Ceark, Serra de 

 Araripe, prope Bomjardim (Gardn. n. 1957). 



This is a small tree about 12 feet high, with odoriferous 

 flowers, and with leaves mostly 3 inches long, 1^ in. broad, on a 

 petiole of 2 or 3 lines ; the petals are of a sulphur-yellow colour, 

 linear, 3 lines long, thick, fleshy, and quite glabrous. The six 

 sterile stamens are two-thirds the length of the petals, and are 

 always placed opposite to them ; the three fertile stamens are 

 shorter, and situated at points between each second petal, and 

 are therefore alternate with them; all the filaments are free 

 above, but adhere at their base to the petals for the length of a 

 quarter of a line, by which agglutination these are formed into 

 three distinct bifid petals, cleft nearly to the ba^e ; but the fila- 



