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SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 17 



2-floro, pedicellis apice incrassatis, pilosis ; calyce majusculo, 

 5-partito, fere glabro, in nervis pilose, laciniis acatis j corolla 

 ampla, pallide lutea^ rotata^ angulato-5-loba, lobis acutis, 

 glabra, sed in nervis 15 extus pilosa, staminibus coroUse di- 

 midio brevioribuSj glabris. — Peruvia, v. s. in herb. Hook, (in 

 valle Limse^ Mathews, n. 834). 



This plant in its habit much resembles S. diffusa, but it is dif- 

 ferent in the form of its leaves, and in its much larger pale yel- 

 low flowers, with comparatively short, glabrous stamens and large 

 anthers. Its leaves are If inch long, ^ inch broad, on a petiole 

 \ inch long : the peduncle is 4 lines long, and its much thicker 

 pedicels are of equal length : its broadly spread campanular calyx 

 is half an inch long, cleft nearly half way into five equal acute 

 segments : the corolla is probably the largest of the genus, mea- 

 suring in diameter nearly 2 inches, with five deep acute lobes, 

 the stamens being quite glabrous, erect, and 4 or 5 lines long. 



13. Saracha propinqua (n. sp.) ; — ^herbacea, caule dichotome 

 ramoso, glabro ; foliis lanceolato-ellipticis, margine eroso-den- 

 ticulatis, utrinque sparse glanduloso-asperis, petiolo gracili, 



2-6 



vix 



filiformibus ; calyce rotato, lobis acutis ; corolla cserulea, rotata, 

 angulato^5-loba, lobis acutis, staminibus erectis, elongatis, imo 

 pilis mollibus patentibus dense hirsutis : bacca pisiformi, calyce 

 rotato suffulta. — Peruvia, v, in herb. Hook. (Cuesto de Purru^ 

 chucho, Mathews, no. 774, S, procumbens nominata.) 



This plant is certainly very distinct from the 5. procumbens oi 

 the ' Flora Peruviana,' and does not appear to correspond mth 

 any recorded species. The leaves are 2 inches long and 1 inch 

 wide, with its broadest part towards the base, which is suddenly 

 attenuated into a somewhat fine petiole 4 hues in length. The 

 slender peduncle almost glabrous, striated and shining, is about 

 an inch long, bearing on its summit the very delicate pedicels, 

 nmbellately spreading, and finch in length: the calyx measures 

 very nearly half an inch across, and the rotate corolla is 1 mch 

 in diameter, the stamens being f inch long, very slender, smooth 

 at the summit, while the lower moiety is densely pilose with \evy 

 spreading articulated dark-coloured hairs : the round berries arc 

 about 4 lines in diameter, supported on their spreading, scarcely 

 enlarged calyx*. 



dim 



gulato 



dichotome ramoso ; foliis ovatis vel ellipticis, versus apicem 



« A drawing of this species with generic details is given in plate 38 B of 



this work. 

 VOL. II. 



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