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Yery like V. eremnnthifolia O. Hoffm. in £oliap;e, though the 

 leaves are somewhat broader. But the narrower heads have fewer 

 florets and narrower mvolucral leaves, while the achenes are differently 

 shaped and rather prominently ribbed and the pappus is longer. The 

 corollas of V. eremanthifolia are unknown. 



3. JaTROPH^ species nova BEASILIENSIS. 



Jatropha (§ Polymorphs) Robertii, sp. nov. Verisimiliter 

 herbacea ; rani/'s compressis foliosis glabris ; foliis longipetiolatis 

 3-5-palmatim lobatis basi cordatis lateve truncatis membranaeeis 

 ■utrinque glabris lobis ovatis acutis vel breviter acuminatis margine 

 undulatis basalibus dum adsint imminutis ; stipidis verisimiliter cito 

 dehiscentibus ; Jlorihns in paniculam laxam cyraosam pluritioram 

 longipedunculatam dispositis ; bracteis exiguis subulatis ; pedicellis 

 maseulis calyce longioribus ; calycis masc. usque medium divisi 

 glabri lobis triangularibus acutis ; petalis inter se liberis oblongo- 

 obovatis obtusissimis conspicuis ; staminihus 8 tilamentis in colum- 

 nam satis longam connatis ; disco 5-glanduloso ; fetalis fll. fem. 

 axin terminantium breviter pedunculatorum absentibus ; wrffj'/o sub- 

 globoso 3-loculari ; stylo abbreviato basi incrassato ramis 3 integris 

 coronato. 



Matto Grosso, Corumba ; Rolert. 



roliorvmi limbus usque ad 10 cm. long., circiter totidera lat., in 

 sicco Isete virens subtus paullo pallidior ; pars indivisa l'5-2 cm. 

 long. ; lobus centralis 8-5-9 x 4'0-5 cm. ; lobi intermedii plerumque 

 6-7 X 3*5-4 cm., basales 1-3 em. long. ; petioli crassiusculi 5 5-ij cm. 

 long., 2 mm. lat. Pedimculus 10 cm. long., vel paullulum ultra bractese 

 1-2 mm. long. ; pedicelli masc. +4 mm. long.; fem. validi, 3 mm. 

 long. Calyx masc. in toto 4 mm. long. ; lobi 2 mm. Petala jjunicea, 

 breviter uuguiculata, 12 mm. long. Columna staminea 4 mm. long., 

 filamenta libera 2-3 mm. Calyx fem. quani masc. paullo major. 

 Ovarium 2 mm. long., mox usque ad 9x9 mm. auctum. Stylus 

 •7 mm., rami "5 mm. long. 



Foliage except for the lobing much like that _of J. Citrcas L. 

 which belongs to another part of the genus. The chief points are 

 the long peduncles and the conspicuous pink petals of the octandrous 

 flowers. 



(To be continued.) 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



LXXII. MOBANDl's ' HiSTOEICA BOTANICA PeACTICA.' 



Among the MSS. in the Department of Botany is a volume which 

 is thus described in the Catalogue of the Library of the Natural 

 History Museum : — " Mobandi (G.) [A volume of autograph MSS. 

 formerly in the library of Count Donato Silva, including portions of a 

 proiected ' Ei'udimenta Botanica ' in Latin and Italian, with 122 sheets 

 of original pen-and-ink drawings of Plants, that formed the basis for 

 those in his ' Historia,' and 11 sheets of similar drawings of Medicinal 

 Plants, arranged in alphabetical order according to their names]." 



