294 DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 
Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, exhibited an early Seedling White N we raised 
from Victoria Peach, of promising character, but it was not pacer ripe. He also 
had an Early Orange № seas а ym earlier than Pitmaston Orange in the same 
house; but this x^ t quite The Royal Hautbois exhibited by Mr. 
Rivers i isa yn нт бан on the Prolific Hautbois, being very much larger and a 
st-rate bea; 
Mr. Laxton, ` Stamford, sent specimens of his dg Proliüe Pea, which proved to 
be Dickson's ан, 
LIL—DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS 
COLLECTED BY MR. WEIR IN SOUTH BRAZIL. 
Ву Joun Miers, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S, 
Part I, 
- Consisting of those new species already provisionally named in the identification of 
We ir's Plants included in his Journal published last month. 
Copioatossa, gen. nov.—Sepala 5 longe linearia, acutissima. Co- 
rolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis, tubo campanulato, imo constricto, 
limbo patente, lobis 5 rotundis fere exqualibus, Pene. $ didy- 
nama, cum quinto rudimentario inter breviora, incl nstric- 
tione tubi orta, 2 longiora medium attingentia : flamenta pun 
seorsum per paria approximata (longior et brevior), imo in lamellam 
subquadratam connata: anthere lineares, introrse, 2-lo- 
cellate, basi сенен |ui eonico-oblongum, compressum, 
' pulvinato impositum, 1 loculare, intus lineis 2 prominentibus 
(placentas oppositas parietales mentientibus), et hine pseudo-9- 
looulare : ovula 4, ё basi linearum erecta. Stylus filiformis, apice 
tubularis, Stigma er lingueforme, membranaceum.— 
Planta humilis Brasilien 
CoPIOGLOSSA PILOSA, diss adscendentibus, sub-4-gonis, molliter 
pilosis ; foliis oppositis, inferioribus spathulato-oblongis, superioribus 
utrinque obtusis et brevissime petiolatis, integris, utrinque pube- 
rulis, subtus pallidioribus; floribus in axillis solitariis, sessilibus, 
corolla speciosa, alba, Bignonim facie.—Prov. San Paulo Brasiliæ 
(Weir No. 857). 
It is proposed to give more ample details of this interesting plant, accom 
panied by drawings and analyses, at a future time, when the question of its 
positiou among the Cyrtandracee will be erected With some of the cha- 
raeters of the tribe Jacarandez in Bignoniacea, it differs from that family 
in the small number of its ovules, and their d. attachment to the foot of 
the placenta-like parietal lines, in which respect I will refer to the obser- 
vations by which I proposed to establish the limits between ins order, and 
groups conterminous with it (Ann. Nat. Hist., 3rd ser. v 
‚ gen. joi lege 4, oblonga, acuta, wstivatione valvata. 
_ ога, m lis alterna et SERM, insertione hypogyna: Jilamenta 
