266 ON THE GENUS VILLARESIA. 
acutis, acumine obtusiusculo, marginibus serrato-dentatis et undulatis, 
dentibus subglanduliferis interdum obsoletis, utrinque glaberrimis, fir- 
miusculis, utrinque viridibus, subreticulatis, nervis plurimis teneribus 
venisque paulo prominulis; petiolo tenui, canalieulato, limbo ter bre- 
viore ; paniculis binis, axillaribus, glaberrimis, petiolo paulo longiori- 
bus, latissime, laxe, et breviter divaricato-divisis, sinibus bracteolatis ; 
floribus terminalibus, pedicellatis, parvulis, polygamis ; ovario compresso, 
2-loculari ; stylo revissimo ; stigmate 2-lobo.—In Prov. San Paulo 
Brasiliæ ; v. s. in Herb. Soc. Hort. Reg. (prope Iti, Weir, 116). 
. This is a shrub or small tree, found scattered over the hills a few 
leagues to the S.W. of Iti. The internodes are about 2 inch long, the 
leaves 25—3 inches long, 13-2} inches broad, on a petiole 2 inch long ; 
the peculiar annular glands are inconspicuous and smaller than in the 
other species, being more upon the veins than in the axils of the nervures. 
The racemes are about 1 inch long, expanding to a breadth of 14 inch, 
the main peduncle 3 lines long, is 4 or 5 times bifurcated, with very 
minute bracts in each sinus ; the branches each 14 line long; the flowers 
on short pedicels, form the ultimate branches ; each flower expanded is 
about 1 line in diameter; the 5 petals are oblong, rotate, with ciliated 
margins, and imbricated in estivation; the 5 alternate spreading sta- 
mens are inserted beneath the margin of the pateriform 5-lobed disk ; 
the fertile ovary is much compressed, 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each 
cell, nearly collateral, and suspended from a point about a quarter below 
the summit of the dissepiment; in some of the flowers the ovary is 
completely sterile, when it is very depressed and umbonated, wanting 
the stigma 
DESCRIPTION or Prate XXI, zepreamling oe delon (astani) size). 
—Fig. 1 is a flower expanded, seen from above. the calyx viewed side- 
ways. Fig.3 is a fertile ovary seated with within the disk ‘and dri. Fig. 4i sa m: 
tal :— . 6. 
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