184 XLII. ANACARDIACE^. [RhuS 



HuiLLA. — An undershrub, 3 ft. high ; at Catumba ; fl. and fr. 

 Dec. 1859. No. 4421. 



MossAMEDES. — A bush, 5 to 8 ft. high ; the numerous branches and 

 the branchlets erect-patent ; leaves trifoliolate. In sandy-rocky 

 stations at the banks of the river Bero, with foliage, but without 

 either fl. or fr. July 1859. No. 4423. 



Welwitsch's specimens differ from the type of the species by rather 

 narrower leaflets with the midrib beneath somewhat pubescent. 



11. R. Anchietse Ficalho & Hiern ms. in Herb. Olyssip. 



A small shrub, 2| to 4 in. high, with numerous stems; branch- 

 lets rather slender, subterete, purplish in the dry state, minutely 

 lenticellate, leafy, with short internodes, glabrescent, towards the 

 apex sparingly puberulous ; leaves glabrous or glabrescent, 1 1 to 

 5 1 in. long (including the glabrescent or hispidulous not winged 

 petiole of 5 to 1 1 in.), trifoliolate; leaflets obovate or somewhat 

 elliptic-oblong, thinly coriaceous, entire, dark-green and glabrous 

 above, paler green and glabrous except the midrib (which is 

 occasionally somewhat hairy towards the base) beneath, rather 

 glossy, obtuse or rounded and usually apiculate at the apex, the 

 lateral ones 2 to 3| in. long by | to Ig in. broad and obliquely 

 narrowed at the sessile base, the intermediate one 2g to 4 in. long 

 by I to 2 in. broad and more or less wedge-shaped at the subsessile 

 or very shortly petiolulate base; lateral veins about 14 to 20 on 

 each side of the midrib, rather slender ; panicles pyramidal, 

 hispidulous-pubescent, terminal and in the u]3per axils repeatedly 

 branched, the terminal ones exceeding the young leaves, the 

 axillary ones shorter than the leaves from the axils of which they 

 spring ; bracteoles lanceolate or subulate, pubescent ; flowers 

 numerous, sessile subsessile or shortly pedicellate, hemispherical, 

 about "2^ ill- ill diam., greenish ; calyx-segments ovate, somewhat 

 pilose ; petals oval, glabrous, twice as long as the calyx-segments ; 

 stamens glabrous, with short anthers ; fruit subglobose or some- 

 what compressed, glabrous, glossy, smooth, J^- to g in. in diam. ; 

 mesocarp rather thick, apparently not vittate. 



HuiLLA. — In the wooded parts of Monino, among tall bushes ; fl. and 

 fr. beginning of April 1860. No. 4424. 



This species was also collected at Caconda, February 1878, both 

 in flower and fruit, by Sign. Anchieta, n. 149 ; it is nearly related to 

 M. longipes Engl. 



12. R. virgatus Hiern, sp. n. 



Shrubby, with elongate virgate leafy closely pubescent and 

 hirsute branches, 3 ft. long or more ; leaves pubescent especially 

 on the principal veins and revolute entire margins, trifoliolate ; 

 petiole mostly very short, but ranging up to | in. in length ; 

 leaflets coriaceous, elliptical or somewhat obovate, shortly apiculate 

 at the subacute or obtuse apex, more or less narrowed at the base, 

 dark green above, somewhat tawny-green beneath, the lateral 

 ones 1 to Ij in. long by | to | in. broad and sessile, the inter- 

 mediate one 1| to 1| in. long by | to | in. broad and sessile or 

 subsessile ; lateral veins numerous, not conspicuous ; inflorescence 



