Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cliocarpus. 141 
size, having slender dissepiments, and being filled with an aqueous 
juice and numerous seeds attached to a large central placentation ; 
the berry when fully ripe becomes dry with its pericarp of thin 
and brittle texture, being easily ruptured by an irregular lace- 
ration. The seeds are flattened, reniform and rounded, about 
1 line in diameter. 
CLIOCARPUS. 
Among Gardner’s Brazilian plants I have noticed one, which 
in the shape of its calyx, m the structure of its fruit, and espe- 
cially in the form of its embryo, comes near Nicandra, but it dis- 
agrees in having a woody stem and a wholly different habit ; its 
calyx does not, as in Nicandra, become thin, membranaceous and 
reticular, but is thick, somewhat fleshy, and densely covered 
with stellate tomentum, approaching in its form more to that of 
Juanulloa, although the shape of its embryo is that of the former 
genus. Its flower is yet unknown, as the only specimens col- 
lected were in fruit. On account of the structure of its seed I 
have placed it for the present next Nicandra, but its exact posi- 
tion cannot be known until we are acquainted with its floral cha- 
racters. I have called the genus Cliocarpus from «delw, claudo, 
Kap7ros, fructus, on account of its fruit being wholly concealed 
within the enlarged enveloping calyx. The followmg may be 
taken for its generic character until more ample details can be 
obtained :— 
Criocarrts (gen. nov.). Flos ignotus.— Calyz fructifer auctus, 
5-partitus, laciniis lanceolatis, acutis, longitudinaliter subrepli- 
catis, marginibus valvatim conniventibus, hine tubum ventri- 
cosum sinuoso-5-angulatum, ore 5-dentato fere clausum, simu- 
lantibus, angulis imo saccatis. Bacca omnino inclusa, globosa, 
2-locularis. Semina plurima, placentis dissepimento adnatis 
affixa, reniformia, compressa ; festa scrobiculata, hilo in sinu 
lateral. Embryo teres, in a/bumen carnosum spiraliter arcuatus, 
cotyledonibus semiteretibus, radicula angulo basali spectante, 
hilo evitante, sub-3-plo brevioribus.—Frutex Brasiliensis, dense 
stellato-tomentosus ; folus alternis, oblongis, integris, breviter 
petiolatis ; floribus eatra-axillaribus, binis vel solitariis, pedun- 
culo fructifero cernuo. 
1. Chocarpus Gardneri (n. sp.) ;—folius obovatis, acuminatis, basi 
obtuse rotundatis, crassiusculis, supra pubescentibus, subtus 
dense cano-tomentosis, pilis stipitato-stellatis.—Brasilia, ad 
Arraial das Mercés, Prov. Minas Geraés, v. s. in herb. Hook. 
(Gardner, 5042). 
This is described as a shrub 6 to 10 feet high; its branches 
are woody and covered with yellowish tomentum ; the leaves are 
