294 SCHOMBURGK’S GUIANA PLANTS. 
small axillary tetramerous flowers, a two-celléd capsule and 
dissimilar anthers. Finally, Appendicularia, another liule 
erect annual, passesses a very peculiar calyx and habit, and 
differs moreover from all other Rheviee, by the combination 
of a tetramerous flower with a three-celled capsule. 
326. Leiostegia vernicosa (Gen. Nov.) Dry savannah 
British Guiana. Schomburgk, n. 943. 
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Cuar. GEN, Calyx cylindraceus, ore truncato, dentibus 
4 parvis distantibus. Petala 4, obovata. Stamina 8, parum 
inzqualia; antheris lineari-falcatis rostratis uniporosis 
longiorum connectivo postice in appendicem. bifidum pro: 
ducto, breviorum bituberculato. Ovarium leve. Capsua — 
oblongo-ovata, 4-locularis. Semina cochleata.—S. vernicosa.. — 
Frutex glaber, superne vernicosus, siccitate nigricans. Rami | 
tetragoni. Folia brevissime petiolata, 1—2-pollicaria, oblongo: 
lanceolata, obtusa, integerrima, margine revoluta basi angustata, 
uninervia, supra glabra nitida, subtus albida. Flores wren? 
1—3-ni subsessiles. Calyces glabri vernicosi. 
Gardner’s n. 379 and 380, appear both to be referrible to 
Trembleya Heterostemon. 
. 827. Microlicia brevifolia, DC. Prod. III. p. 117,—French 
Guiana. Leprieur, Herb. Par. n. 74.—Microlicia, as ob — 
served by Martius, consists of two very natural aep but L- 
then the one, that which contains this species, should i P 
Noterophila, (Mart.), and the other would perhaps be E: 
improved if it were made to comprehend beni M ds 
and diosmoides, (neglecting here as in Chetogastra, the asp 
pehdages of the calyx), and the section Jacobia of Trembleya, — 
To this second group belong n. 2606, and 2781 of Blanchet — 
: 328. M. recurva, DC. Prod. IIL. p. 118,— British Guiana a 
‘Schomburgk, n. 106, in the earlier ifa Frene Gaiam 
| ur, Herb. Pari n, 80. > a 
tayrtniden ? Cham. Linnea, IX. p. 39.— Mou » 
omburgk.—This: agrees in all respects WI — 
serip "3 except that the. young branches : are 
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