SOUTH amehican plants. ^1 



5-fido ; corolla parva^ rotata, flava, utrinque subpubescente, 

 angulato-5-lobaj lobis acutis; staminibus inclnsis^ filanientis 

 brevibus^ imo dilatatis^ pilosis^ antheris ovalibus^ conniventibus. 

 — Nova Granada^ v. in herb. Hook. (La Pena^ Bogota^ Goudot) 



This is the plant elsewhere mentioned as appearing to me to 

 bear so close an analogy with the figure and character of Withe- 

 ringia solanacea (L'Herit.). Its leaves are 2\ inches long^ 1 inch 

 broad, on a somewhat slender petiole 9 lines to an inch in length : 

 the peduncle and pedicels together scarcely measure more than 

 3 lines, the flower being no more than 4 lines in diameter; the 

 stamens, scarcely a line long, are shorter than the somewhat cam- 

 panular base of the corolla, the filaments are suddenly dilated into 

 triangular processes at base, and united into a short adnate ring; 

 above they are flat and narrow, the margins being clothed wath 

 diverging ciliate hairs ; the anthers are oval, adnate to a small 

 oblong dorsal connective, and they burst on the edges by longi- 

 tudinal fissures *. 



23. Saracha solanacea, Witheringia solanacea, VHerit. Stirp. 

 Nov. Angl 1. 33. tab. 1; Alton, Hort. Kew, 1. 149; Lam. 

 Illustr. 1. 326, tab. 82; Did. 8. 800;— radice tuberoso fusi- 

 formi ; caule inferne lignoso, perenni ; ramnlis subherbaceis, 

 annuis, erectis, pedalibus, pilosis, angulatis; foliis ovato-ob- 

 longis, v. ovato-lanceolatis, pilosulis, margine ciliatis, acutis, 

 basi obtusis, petiolatis, superioribus floriferis geminis; flori- 

 bus tetrameris, umbellatis, umbellis fere sessilibus, pedicellis 

 divaricatis, petiolo unciali sequilongis, calyceque brevi 4-den- 

 tato glabris, corolla calyce 2-plo majore, tubo urceolato imo 

 coarctato, tuberculis 4 instructo, limbo 4-lobo, rotato, lobis 

 lanceolatis, staminibus 4, tuberculis alternis, filamentis brevi- 

 bus, imo dilatatis, pilosis, antheris ovalibus, conniventibus.— 

 America meridionalis. 



This plant, known only as having been cultivated in the Bo- 

 tanic Garden of Kew, is described by L'Heritier and Aiton as 

 above-quoted, but the dried specimens preserved by these bota- 

 nists do not appear in the Banksian herbarium. The stem is said 

 to be a foot high, covered with dark red pubescence ; the leaves 

 are 3 inches long, upon a petiole nearly an inch in length, and 

 almost glabrous ; thfe umbels are nearly as long as the petioles, 

 the pedicels being scarcely half an inch long ; the calyx is short 

 and glabrous ; the corolla of a pale yellow colour ; the tube is 

 11 line in diameter, and the lobes 3 lines long. The fruit is a 2- 

 locular berry, with numerous seeds attached to an adnate placenta 

 projecting from each side of the dissepiment. The characters of 

 this plant will thus be seen to be all strictly in accordance wilh 



* This plant is shown in plate 39 A. 



