SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 13 



(Cerro de Lantana^ Guayaquil^ Jameson, et in horto Kewensi 

 cultus.) • 



This pretty species is remarkable for the abundance and bril- 

 liancy of its small yellow flowers. Its leaves are 2| inches long, 

 1^ inch broad^ with a somewhat winged petiole | inch long ; the 

 peduncle measures 7 lines, the calyx 1 line, with remote setaceous 

 teeth ^ a line in length ; the corolla is 5 lines in diameter. 



13. Brachisius diver sifolius. Witheringia diversifolia, Klotsch 

 MSS.} Walp. Rep. iii. 29; — suffruticosus, ramis teretibus, sub- 

 glabris, ramulis pubescentibus; foliis ovatis, acutis, basi abrupte 

 attenuatis, utrinque sparsim pubescentibus, plerumque gemi- 

 nis, altero obtusissimo duplo niinori ; pedunculis axillaribus, 

 solitariis, calyce 5-dentato, corolla lutea^ 5-fida. — Mexico. 



This plant was cultivated in the Botanic Garden of Berlin, 

 from whence the particulars of the above description are proba- 

 bly derived. 



14. Brachisius Neesianus. Physalis arborescens, Linn, Sp, PI. 

 261 ; Nees ab Esenb. Linn. vi. p. 456 ; — suffruticosus, ramulis 

 angulatis, tomentosis ; foliis altcrnis, superioribus geminis, 

 ovato-oblongis, acumine obtusiusculo, attenuatis^ inaequahtcr 

 repando-dentatis, crassiusculis, supra subtiliter, subtus densius 

 tomentosis, pilis canis, stellatis ; floribus paucis (2-3), extra- 

 axillaribus, pendulis ; calyce urceolato, pubescente, 5-fido, den- 

 tibus ovatis, obtusiusculis, canescentibus j corolla rotata, ultra 

 medium 5-fida, laciniis lanceolatis, extus tomentcllis ; fructu 

 ignoto. — Mexico (Yucatan). 



This plant has always been referred to Phjsalis, but doubtfully 

 by Nees, who hardly considered it to belong to that genus, on 

 account of its manifestly fruticose habit, and the different struc- 

 ture of its flowers : with Brachistus it appears to correspond suf- 

 ficiently, although nothing is yet known of its fruit. Willdenow 

 considers this plant the same as that figured in Miller^s Diet, 

 tab. 206. Tab. 20*^ but Nees holds a contrary opinion (Liun. he. 

 cit. p. 441), principally on account of its leaves being opposite; 

 it is however most hkely that its geminate leaves may have been 

 mistaken by Miller as opposite. 



The leaves are said to be 2 inches long, 1 inch broad, on a 

 petiole |-| inch in length ; the peduncles are 2-2^ lines long, 

 the calyx scarcely 2^ lines ; the corolla, including the lobes, is 

 3| lines in length. 



15. Brachisius ?Linn(Eanus. Physalis arborescens, Linn. Sp. PL 



* <'Physahs foliis ovato-lanceolatis, integerrimis, oppositis, caule fruli- 

 coso." 





