296 DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS COLLECTED BY MR. WEIR. 
ANTIPHYTUM CONFERTUM, n. sp.—Herbaceum, erectum, pilis adpressis 
brevissimis parce donatum, foliis oppositis, subsessilibus, elliptico- 
oblongis, gradatim sub-acutis, mucronulatis, imo obtusis, integerri- 
mis, superne in junioribus pilis brevissimis substrigosis, inferne 
glabris, vel in nervis subpilosis, petiolis brevissimis fere connatis ; 
floribus in axillis solitariis, vel in ramulis novellis ex axillis ap- 
PETUNIA THYMIFLORA, Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. 175.—Fabiana 
thymiflora, St. Hil. Mem. Mus. хи. 317, tab. 9: Pl. rem. 220, 
BEL AU. 
: : D.C. Prodr. xiii. 592.—Prov. San Paulo Brasilie 
(Weir, 293). 
to . „® m pretty low-growing shrubs, producing copious flowers; 
it 13 surprising they have not been introduced into England. 
PETUNIA OVALIFOLIA, nob.—Ill. So. Am. Pl. i, 113, pl. 24; D.C. 
Prodr, xiii. 575.—Proy. San Paulo Brasiliæ (Weir, 339). 
: : . Mr. Weir's plant quite agrees 
bana ME specific character above quoted, but the figure of it, in pl. 24 
scarcely does it justice, as it was taken from a depauperated specimen : if 
i$ handsomer than Р. elegans nob., figured on the same plate, and would be 
an ornamental addition to our gardens, 
