COLLECTED BY MR. WEIR. 187 
8. CnEMAsrUS (?) GRALLATORIUS, п. sp.—Foliis glabris, 3-foliolatis, 
longissime et graciliter petiolatis, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis, 
utrinque acutis, apice . aciculato-mucronatis, supra nitidis et 
reticulatis, subtus pallidis, costa nervisque tenuissimis fuscis, 
. vix prominulis, sub lente sparsim lepidotis, petiolulo terminali 
quam lateralibus 3-plo longiore, cunctis graciliter tenuibus, 
utrinque extremo tumidis, supra canaliculatis ; cetera ignota, 
— Зап Paólo Brasilie (Weir). 
Mr. Weir has only sent the leaves of this plant, which are well 
recognised as those of a species closely allied to a glabrous narrow-leaved 
form of the Bignonia glutinosa, D.C. Its very slender petiole is at 
inches long, the lateral petiolules are 4 lines, and the terminal one is 
11 lines € all being articulated, striated, and slightly lepidote; the 
leaflets are 33 to 4 inches long, 1 inch broad, with about 6 simple 
nerves di each side. 
The genus Cremastus was suggested by me for a group of plants, 
which may be divided into two sections, in both of which the calyx is at 
first tubular and coriaceous, with a contracted 5-toothed mouth, but in 
one section it becomes cleft on one side by the growth of the corolla; 
in the other, the calyx, with the growth of the corolla, becomes dilated, 
ventricose, membranaceous, and almost petaloid, as in Callichlamys. 
They are nearly all erect, low-growing shrubs, with trailing branches, 
in which the leaves are generally 3-foliolate, often very thick and coria- . 
ceous, the lateral leaflets having very short petioles. In all, the tubular 
portion of the large corolla is not contracted beyond the calyx; thence 
it expands upwards, is scarcely ventricose, and its wide mouth termi- 
nates in a somewhat regular broad 5-lobed border. The didynamous 
stamens stand erect in pairs, the longer of which scarcely extend be- | 
yond the mouth of the corolla, the anther-cells being either quite pen- 
dulous and parallel, or only slightly divaricated, and this wea an 
excellent character for recagpising. this pretty genus. 
granulated, or velutinous, and seated upon a ра pulvinous disk. “The 
capsule is siliquiform, linear, with a thin dissepiment parallel to its flat 
valves, and many imbricated seeds, fixed 1-serially on each margin of 
the dissepiment. This genus is therefore closely allied to Fridericia 
and Pyrostegia. All the species I have seen are Brazilian, except one 
from Columbia, but others exist in herbaria. 
1, CREMASTUS CRASSUS, í . v. в. Gardner, 2468  Ociras. 
2. CREMASTUS eraut ант п. sp. Я К Mw . Gardner, 2680 Parnagud. 
3. CREMASTUS CORIACEUS , D. Sp. . в. Gardner, 2682  Parnaguà. 
4. CnEMASTUS BALB cde Bignonia idem. is у. в. Funk, 5 . Martha. 
5; Virgi LURIDUS, n . в. Gardner, 3900 Natividade. 
6. CREMASTUS GLUTINOSUS : Dips idem. Ле, 182 v. 8, Gardner, 42 
3346 > Goyaz. 
4287 
7. CREMASTUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS: ргсес, var. peus 162. 
ЫА, 3398 $ Goyaz. 
8. CREMASTUS LONGIPES, n. sp. . : . v.s. Gardner, 4285 Goyaz. 
OL. Ш. $ 
