706 LXXXV. GENTIANBE. [Sebeew 
quite ripe foveolate. Parasitic on the rhizomes of low Cyperacee, in 
damp shortly grassy pastures along the Humpata river (Quipumpun- 
hime), plentiful ; fl. and fr. 24 April 1860. No. 1522. 
3. §. affinis Welw. ms. in Herb. 
An annual, slender, erect, glabrous, sub-glaucescent herb, 
8 to 12 in. high, branched from the base; radical leaves 
rosulate, broadly elliptical, obtuse; stem quadrangular, with 
the angles sub-acute and membranous-winged, several times 
dichotomously divided, gradually finishing in a corymbose flower- 
ing panicle; stem-leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate 
at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, sessile, the upper- 
most ones the smallest ; flowers + to 2 in. long, on short unequal 
pedicels or subsessile ; calyx pentagonal, } to } in. long, 5-partite ; | 
the segments acutely keeled, obtusely acuminate at the apex, 
with broad white membranous margins; corolla salver-shaped, 
yellow, the tube somewhat inflated, narrowed below the 5-cleft 
limb; the lobes ovate-acuminate, spreading at the time of the 
flower, in old age spirally twisted above the ovary ; stamens 5, 
exserted ; filaments very short, equal, inserted in the sinuses 
between the corolla-lobes; anthers attached at the middle of the 
back, longitudinally dehiscing, obtusely sagittate at the base, 
subspiral at the apex in old age, surmounted at the apex with 
a small sub-orbicular rather thick waxy-yellow gland, scarcely 
curved at the apex; ovary elliptical, bi-ovulate ; the margins 
introflected ; ovules very numerous, horizontal ; style terminal, 
short, straight; stigma longer than the style, simple, rather 
thick, subprismatic-clavate, level with the anthers, obtuse, thinly 
papillose-pubescent ; unripe capsule ellipsoidal-inflated, bilocular ; 
placentation at length free ; seeds minute, very numerous. 
MossAMEDES.—In a moist sandy spot, usually flooded, among low 
bushes at the left bank of the river Bero (Rio das Mortes) near 
Cavalheiros; only one specimen seen; fl. and fr. 21 Sept. 1859. 
No. 1519. 
This differs from S. brachyphylla by the stem-leaves being ovate- 
acuminate and not obtuse, by the much laxer inflorescence, by the 
alate calyx, by the corolla-lobes being gradually more acuminate, and 
by the larger glands on the anthers. 
2. PARASIA Rafin. Fl. Tellur. iii. p. 78 (1836). 
Belmontia Ei. Mey. (1837); Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 804. 
1. P. platyptera. 
Belmontia platyptera Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 25. 
Punco ANpoNGO.—An annual, erect, little herb; stem winged- 
quadrangular, as well as the rather fleshy leaves herbaceous-green ; 
branches opposite ; flowers yellow, rather small, with a circle of small 
glands between the bottom of the calyx and the funnel-shaped corolla; 
corolla-lobes ovate, rather obtuse; stamens included; ovary very 
shortly stipitate, beset around the base with very small crowded 
glands sessile at the bottom of the calyx, that is, at the base of the 
corolla ; style sparingly pubescent, reaching the middle of the anthers ; 
stigma somewhat bifid, papillose ; placentation central, 4-parted, quite 
