300 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Thinogeton. 
4 to 1 inch long; the calyx is 5 lines long, 2 lines diameter ; the 
corolla is 13 inch long, contracted for the length of 5 lines to a 
diameter of 1 line, and thence gradually swelling into a funnel 
shape, is 1 inch across the mouth ; three nearly parallel nervures 
extend along the middle of the lobes to the base of the tube ; the 
stamens arise in the contraction of the tube, and the anthers, 
which are double the length of those of the former species, are 
connivent around the style in the middle of the corolla; the 
flower on withering coils up in a spiral form, and the peduncle, 
subsequently deflexed, increases to a length of 1} to 1? inch, 
becomes thicker, and enlarges considerably at its apex ; the calyx 
swells to an oblong oval form, nearly an inch long, 7 lines broad, 
10-angular, with ten prominent costate ribs, vesiciform, with the 
mouth closed by five short connivent teeth: it encloses a berry 
7 lines long, 5 lines diameter ; the pericarp is almost a putamen, 
the upper moiety being thick and coriaceous, the lower half 
thinner and more fragile; the dissepiment, and especially the 
lunated placentz, become thickened, coriaceous and almost lig- 
neous; it is apparently void of pulp, enclosing several seeds scarcely 
a line in diameter and much compressed, which are described 
by Dr. Hooker as being large ; but that term is evidently used in 
comparison with those of Nicotianum, with which this genus was 
thought to hold a close relation ; they are on the contrary smaller 
than in many other genera of this tribe*. 
3. Thinogeton Lobbianum (n. sp.) ;—viscoso-pubescens, caule stri- 
ato, flexuoso ; foliis ovalibus, irregulariter sinuato-angulosis 
et dentatis, imo cordato-auriculatis, et in petiolum longius- 
culum breviter attenuatis, 3-5-nervis, tenuioribus, utrinque 
tomento brevi glanduloso subincano pubescentibus, petiolo 
tenui valde tomentoso ; floribus geminatis, calyce pubescente, 
corolla sub-violacea, extus puberula, staminibus meequalibus, 
corolla 2-3-plove brevioribus.—Columbia et Peruvia; v. s. in 
herb. Hook. (Columbia, Lobb. no. 299. Peru, Maclean.) 
This species is evidently intermediate between the two fore- 
going: the stem is much smaller, more striated, far more flexu- 
ose, with much shorter internodes, and altogether more pubescent 
than the last described; the leaves are 2 inches long, 13 inch 
broad, on a petiole of 24 inches, but probably the lower leaves are 
somewhat larger : the peduncles are 9 lines long, slender and erect, 
but become suddenly deflexed on the withering of the corolla ; 
the calyx is 4 lines long, 1} line diameter; the corolla 14 inch 
long, 2 inch broad in the mouth ; the fructiferous calyx becomes 
almost globular, 5 lines long and 4 lines in diameter, contracted 
* A figure of this species, with generic details, will be given in plate 59 
of the ‘ Illustr. South Amer. Piants.’ 
