Mr. J. Miers on the genus Duboisia. 441 



and said to be tubercular rugosities, are in fact deep hollows. 

 The mode of its inflorescence is very peculiar, and similar to that 

 of Cyphanthera. 



The following designation of its generic features will be found 

 to be more in accordance with the facts just enumerated : — 



Duboisia, R. Br. Prodr. 448; Endl. Gen. n. 3906; DC. Prodr. 

 X. 191. — Char, emendat. — Calyx parvus, campanulatus, sequa- 

 liter et breviter 5-dentatus, mox corollse incremento ssepe 

 fissus, et tunc sub-bilabiatus, persistens. Coi'olla late tubu- 

 losa, tubo superne vix ampliore, imo supra basin demum cir- 

 cumscisso, limbi laciniis 5, oblongis, obtusiusculis, tubo 4to 

 brevioribus, patentibus, nervosis. Stamina 4, inclusa, didy- 

 nama, cum rudimento quinti inter 2 longiora ; filamenta paullo 

 supra basin tubi inserta, hinc geniculata et dilatata, superne 

 linearia, 2 majora tubo dimidio, 2 minora tubo 4to breviora, 

 apice recurva; antherm extrorsse (lis Anthotrochidis similes). 

 Ovarium ovatum, corollse tubi reliquo imo indutum, 2-loculare ; 

 ovula pauca, dissepimento utrinque placentifero adnata, ad- 

 scendentia. Stylus filiformis, brevis, apice declinatus. Stigma 

 clavatum, 2-lobum. Bacca parva, globosa, vel ovata, calyce 

 immutato fisso suff"ulta, 2-locularis. Semina pauca perfecta 

 (6-8), adscendentia, oblongo-cylindrica, incurva, ad dissepi- 

 raentum subtenue superne incompletum uti'inque adnata ; 

 testa Crustacea, foveis magnis scrobiculata, hilo paullo infra 

 medium in sinu ventrali ; embryo in albumine teres, subin- 

 curvus, cotyledonibus brevissimis, radicula infera basi spectante 

 et ut in Anthocercide hilo evitante. — Arbuscula Novae Hol- 

 landicB ; folia alterna, lanceolato-oblonga, glaberrima, integra ; 

 paniculse ex axillis ramulorum novorum iterumque conjugatim 

 brachiatce, brachiis {uno scepe abortivo) utrinque e nodis gemi- 

 natis cupularihus bracteatis ortis, bracteis cito caducis, pedicello 

 terminali semper inter cupulas ultimas surrecto ; flores parvi, 

 pedicellati, carulescentes ; baccse parva, nigra. 



1. Duboisia myoporoides, R. Br. loc. cit. ; Endl. Iconogr. tab. 77 ; 

 DC. Prodr. loc. cit. — Notelsea ligustrina, Sieb. Fl. Nov. Holl. 

 Exs.2b9. nan Vent.; — omnino glabra, foliis lanceolato-oblongis, 

 obtusiusculis, e medio in petiolum elongatum gracilem sul- 

 catum gradatim angustatis, utrinque concoloribus, crassius- 

 culis, nervis plurimis parallelo-divergentibus intra marginem 

 csesim arcuatis immersis ; ramulis floriferis, brevibus, erectius- 

 culis ; fructiferis demum valde elongatis, et tunc quam folio 

 magis deflexis, horizontaliter patentibus : pedicellis solitariis, 

 in dichotomiis paniculse terminalibus, brevibus : baccis piso 

 minoribus, nigris, calyce fisso suffultis. — Novae HoUandise ora 



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