Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cyphanthera. 381 



of equal length, which is pubescent within, as well as outside ;' 

 the campanular corolla, of which the tube is 1| line long, has 

 rather broad acute segments of the same length ; the stamens are 

 of the same proportional length as in the preceding species, with 

 a very short sterile filament between the longer pair; the disk, 

 adhering to the base of the ovary, has an undulating or lobed 

 margin : the capsule is globular, nearly 2 lines in diameter, and 

 half enclosed in the persistent calyx, has four thickly coriaceous 

 valves, containing six seeds and a ligneous crescent-shaped dis- 

 sepiment. 



8. Cyphanthera microphylla, n. sp. ; — fruticulosa, intricato-ramu- 

 losa, ramulis flexuosis vel dichotome brachiatis, striatulis, vi- 

 ridulis, glabris ; foliis minutis, sessilibus, ovalibus, carnosulis, 

 ramulisque junioribus viscoso-scabrellis ; floribus solitariis, ax- 

 illaribus, pedicello elongato, calyceque poculiformi breviter 5- 

 dentato glanduloso-scabrellis ; coroUae flavse laciniis oblongis, 

 obtusiusculis, tubo utrinque glabro sub-campanulato vix bre- 

 vioribus, intus glanduloso-pubescentibus ; staminibus tubo 

 paullo brevioribus, fere sequilongis, puncto rudimentario inter 

 longiora. — In Australiae austx'O-occidentalis interioribus. — v. s. 

 in herb. Hook. (Drummond, 177, anno 1849). 



This species is extremely different in its habit from any of the 

 former, approaching more in appearance to Anthocercis genis- 

 toides, but the structure of its flowers and of its capsule is com- 

 pletely that of Cyphanthera : the leaves are scarcely a line in 

 length and half a line in breadth, so that the plant appears 

 almost aphyllous : the pedicel is from 2 to 3 lines long, the calyx 

 is 1 line long, the tube of the corolla is 2 lines, the lobes li line 

 in length ; the longer stamens are nearly the length of the tube, 

 the other pair very little shorter, the anthers being all 1 -lobed, 

 roundly hippocrepiform and extrorse, and after dehiscence, of the 

 shape of a peltate disk with a globular prominence in the centre ; 

 the disk that surrounds the base of the ovary is entire and free 

 on the margin, and the ovary is surmounted by a prominent 

 4-grooved gland, into which the style is articulated, as occui's in 

 some other species. The capsule is small, globular, about a line 

 in diameter, its four valves being thin and testaceous, its free 

 lunate dissepiment membranaceous, and it contains 4 to 6 seeds, 

 which are almost the length of the valves*. 



* A sketch of each plant and analytical details of the structure of each 

 species of this genus, will be shown in supplementary plates, at the end of 

 the 2nd vol. of ' Illustrations of South Amer. Plants.' 



