248 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Brunsfelsia. 
these sutures: in most cases, the capsule (which is 2-locular) 
splits at its apex by four vertical lines: it presents few seeds 
(about ten) without any intervening pulp. In Brunsfelsia, on 
the contrary, the fruit is a globular deep orange-coloured drupe 
many times larger than the calyx, about the size of a small apple, 
with a soft pulpy envelope inclosing a coriaceous putamen, con- 
taining many seeds immersed in a fleshy pulp. Franciscea grows 
only to the size of low bushes or small shrubs, while Brunsfelsia 
attains the dimensions of large trees, B. undulata being 20 feet 
high, and B. americana growing to the size of an apple-tree with 
a trunk as thick as the human body. 
Brounsretsta, Sw. (char. reform.).—Calyx brevissimus, urceo- 
latus, profunde 5-dentatus. Corolla hypocraterimorpka, car- 
nosa, tubo gracili, cylindrico, calyce 4—12-ies longiore, fauce 
paulo infundibuliformi, limbo valde expanso, obliquo, ad 
medium 5-fido, lobis mzequalibus, carnosis, rotundatis, undu- 
lato-crispatis, subreflexis, inferiore majori, 2 superioribus mi- 
noribus, zestivatione valde imbricatis, maximo exteriori. Sta- 
mina 4, didynama, inclusa; jfilamenta sursum incrassata et 
icurva, 2 breviora inferiora et lobo majore opposita: anthere 
oblongze, sub-bilobze, sub-biloculares, lobis transversim latiori- 
bus et confluentibus, rma marginali 2-valvatim hiantes, hine 
pseudo-1-loculares. Ovarium conicum, sessile, glandula basali 
fere obsoleta, aut nulla, 2-loculare, placentis carnosis, valde 
prominulis, dissepimento utrinque adnatis, multi- ovulatis. 
Stylus gracilis, filiformis, longitudine tubi corollz, apice in- 
crassatus, interdum subincurvus. Stigma clavatum, 2-labia- 
tum, lobis rotundatis, semi-globosis, glandula magna viscosa 
prominula interposita. Drupa magna globosa, calyce parva 
patente suffulta, epicarpio carnoso; putamen cartilagineum, 
indehiscens, rarius in valvulis 2 separabile. Semzna plurima, 
ovata, compressa, subreniformia, ¢esta tenui fragili, minute 
scrobiculata, integumento membranaceo, angulo basali chalaza 
fusca notato. Embryo in albumime carnoso arcuatus, hetero- 
tropus, cotyledonibus ovatis, compressis, accumbentibus, radi- 
cula tereti 2-plo latioribus et 3-plo brevioribus.—Arbores An- 
tillani, folus alternis, integris, oblongis, sepius nitidis ; floribus 
speciosis, solitariis, vel paucis, subcymosis, terminalibus, corolla 
flava vel pallide ochroleuca. 
1. Brunsfelsia americana, Sw., DC. Prodr. x. 200. 
2, ————- undulata, Sw., DC. Prodr. x. 200. 
3. ————- nitida, Benth., DC. Prodr. x. 201. 
4, —————- violacea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.792.—Subglabra, foliis 
lanceolato-ellipticis, utrinque acuminatis, subundulatis, supra 
glabris, minute punctato-rugosis, subtus pallide glaucis et pube 
