215 I.:ESE: 3RYAITTKEI.,'Ij1- . 



Gerd. Ghron. HI. 83: gi5. 1928. 

 (Continued from page 195.) 



PUNCTITXARIA, N. S. Br. 



6. "^ , Delcennhi, N. E, Br, — leaves 1-2 pairs to e. grov/th, 

 f'scerriing'-. spreadin<^, or e.t spreading, lt-3 inches long, 8-13 

 lines hrord at the ni'dle, 4-5 lines thick st the base and curved 

 to one side, so thrt the flet or slightly concrve upper side is 

 ino:^e or less falCFtely suhl-nceol? te (or less cormonly straight and 

 lanceolate) in outline, acute or obtuse, round d on the hack at the 

 bpse, strongly keeled snd compressed, and vjith slightly concr.ve 

 sides at the aricl part, v;'nere, in side viev/, one leaf is laore ob- 

 tuse or rounded into the a^;^ex than the other of etch pair; sciooth 

 glabrous, reyish-green, slightlj?- tinged x'dth rose on the angles on 

 the imr50:-ted plant, and thickly dotted vith dark sreen, the dots not 

 being proninent. J'la/.'ers solitary, not seen. Pedicels of capsules 

 5-6 lines long, vrith a pair of brrcts at the base, which ere probab- 

 ly '^prtly included bet'/:een the bpses of the leasres v.-hen in flov.er. 

 ^ansule, v-hen closed, 5-5 lines in di??nieter, heriispherically obcon- 

 ic, nnrtly superior, slightly depressed on the flattened top, i^lth 

 the sutrues of its 10-12 "halves slightly raised, dull brov;n; v/hen 

 expanded ebout en inch in diaraeter, ^.-ith the valves slightly recur- 

 ved, and the vrhole interior dull blpckish-brovm; expending-rkeels 

 stfndin"' apart end slightly d-'.verging, or subp^rellel, scerce].y 

 half as lon<3- as the valves, stout, with rounded edges, acute (but 

 not pvnied) et the p.vey:, not winged; cells acutely roofed v;ith very 

 stiff cell-wings thet are turned beck et the opening like the mouth 

 of a trumpet, end the opening r^PTtlj or nearly closed by a^blackish- 

 brown, compressed tubercle. Seeds few in a cell, ebout %--t line 

 in diameter, compressed, roundish in outline, ^"ith e s.mall point, 

 microscopically tuberculrte, blackish-brovm, 



^raserburff ^^ivisionJ ^ear Fraserburg, ^ekene'.: in tierb. ^'luir 

 4102. 



^escribed from a living Plrnt sent to me in I'^ovember last by 

 T^r. ^. ^'uir. I have not yet seen its flo^^ers, but thej?- v/ill be 

 described later. This new discovery, however, is ersily 

 215 distinguished from its allies b^" its fplcfteiy curled leaves. 



In the 2eitschr5jft fur Sukloilentenlcunde, 19^:7, p. 23, Schv/antes 

 h'^s united the genus ^unctillarir- with ^leiospilos, beceuse he states 

 that the capsules of these two genera do not differ, and thst in 

 t^ose of Fleiospilos Bolusii pnd P. simulans there is a smal"" tuber- 

 cle present et the opening to the cells, but thpt it is hidden by 

 the cell vine's, end that I am mistaken in supposing it to be ab- 

 sent. But here, as in so many other cases, I find he is far more 

 eager tr^ claim aut' orship thfn to make crreful investigations, and 

 so ha s created much useless synonymy, for besides the fruit I pre- 

 viously examined, I have before me as I write betv/een twent3'" and 

 thirty capsule of P. -^olusli end several of P. simulpns that I 

 m.yself picked from living imported plents, not one of which possess- 

 es pny tubercle, smell or large, such as is found in the capsules of 

 Punc tillari p (ontpte, mrgnipunctata , P'oodiee, -i^ekenc-ihi ) that I have 

 exemined. ^rom this, I can ol^?- suppose thpt the capsules exsmaned 

 by Schvrentes were either from hybrid Cultivated plants or froic some 

 th^t '"e^e v-rongTy named, they certe'nl^'" coul' not heve been from r-ny 

 true "^1 '^ -i o^^ni] OS , if hi? statement is correct. Besides the character 



