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centibus, teretibus. Folia alterna, subcoriacea, obovata, 
integerrima, brevi-acuminata, basi in petiolum longum 
gracilem attenuata, pennivenia (venis arétis, parallelis, hori- 
Zontali-patentibus), supra viridia, subtus aureo-nitentia. 
Flores axillares, fasciculati, subnutantes, pedunculati. Pe- 
dunculi perbreves, uniflori. Calyx subovato-campanulatus, 
profunde 6-fidus, lobis biserialibus ovatis, obtusis, sub- 
aureo-nitentibus. ^ Corolla subrotata ; tubo brevi vix 
calicem superante; limbo 6-partito, lobis ovatis seu 
ellipticis, obtusis, patentibus. Stamina 12 ad faucem 
corollz inserta, uniserialia. Filamenta æqualia, filiformia, 
lobis corollæ longiora. Antheræ ovate, acute, extrorsæ. 
Ovarium globosum, subpubescens, 6-loculare, loculis om- 
nibus uniovulatis (): stylus longitudine staminum fili- 
formis. Stigma obtusum. Fructus calyce persistente suf- 
fultus ; bacca dura, ovato-subglobosa, 6-locularis, loculis 4 
abortientibus obsoletis, 2 fertilibus monospermis. . Semina, 
vix matura, ad angulum interiorem loculi inserta. 
Fig. 1. Flower, scarcely expanded; f. 2. ditto, with the 
corolla expanded ; f. 3. pistil; f. 4. transverse, f. 5. ver- 
tical section of the ovary ; f. 6. anther; f. 7. scarcely mature 
fruit, nat. size ; f. 8. transverse section of ditto,—all but f. 7. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
lllustrations of Souru American Puants; by 
_ Joux Miers, Eso. F.L.S., &c. 4to. Baillière. 
Many pages of this Journal (Vols. 4 and 5) are occupied 
th the valuable “ Contributions to South American Botany" 
M Mr. Miers, chiefly relating to the Natural Order Solanee ; 
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x they have been followed up by the same author in ara 
Publication, under the above title, in illustration of several of 
the new or little understood plants already noticed in the - 
