Mr. J. Miers on the genus Saracha. 447 



angulato-5-loba, lobis acutis, staminibus erectis, elongatis, imo 

 piiis mollibus patentibus dense liirsutis : bacca pisiformi, calyce 

 rotate suffulta. — Peruvia, v. in herb. Hook. (Cviesto de Purru- 

 chucbo, Mathews, no. 77 4^, S. procumbens nominata.) 



This plant is certainly very distinct from the S. procumbens of 

 the ' Plora Peruviana/ and does not appear to correspond with 

 any recorded species. The leaves are 2 inches long and 1 inch 

 wide, with its broadest part towards the base, which is suddenly 

 attenuated into a somewhat fine petiole 4 lines in length. The 

 slender peduncle almost glabrous, striated and shining, is about 

 an inch long, bearing on its summit the very delicate pedicels, 

 umbellately spreading, and f inch in length : the calyx measures 

 very nearly half an inch across, and the rotate corolla is 1 inch 

 in diameter, the stamens being | inch long, very slender, smooth 

 at the summit, while the lower moiety is densely pilose with very 

 spreading articulated dark-coloured hairs : the round berries are 

 about 4 lines in diameter, supported on their spreading, scarcely 

 enlarged calyx*. 



14. Saracha diffusa (n. sp.) ; — herbacea, caule angulato, glabro, 

 dichotome ramoso ; foliis ovatis vel ellipticis, versus apicem 

 attenuatis, et saltim obtusiusculis, grosse sinuato-serratis, laci- 

 nulis obtusis, margine eroso-denticulatis et ciliatis, basi sub- 

 iusequalibus, in petiolum gracilem angustissime decurrentibus, 

 submembranaceis, reticulato-venosis, vix glabris, vel utrinque 

 preesertim in venis glanduloso-pilosis ; floribus in dichotomiis 

 nmbellatis, 4-6 floris, pedunculo elongato gracillimo, pedicel- 

 lisque filiformibus glabris ; calyce rotato, angulato, 5-dentato ; 

 corolla rotata, 15-nervia, extus lanuginosa, margine 5-angu- 

 lata, longe ciliata, staminibus erectis, corollse dimidio brevio- 

 ribus, glabris. — Peruvia, v. in herb. Hook. (Cuesta de Purru- 

 chucho, Mathews, no. 775, S. contorta noncupata.) 



This species clearly does not correspond with the Saracha con- 

 torta of the ' Flora Peruviana,^ agreeing neither with its figm-e nor 

 its description. The leaves, which are remarkable not only for 

 their sinuose serrate border, but for their distinctly eroso-ciliate 

 margins, are 2| inches long, ] ^ inch broad, with a petiole half 

 an inch in length : the peduncle of the umbel is from f to 1 inch 

 or sometimes 2^ inches, and the pedicels f inch long : the very 

 expanded flower measures 8 lines in diameter. The whole plant 

 appears herbaceous and almost glabrous, and is said to flower in 

 April. 



15. Saracha laxa (n. sp.) ; — caule angulato-striato, subglabro vel 



* A drawing of this species with generic details will be given in the ' Il- 

 lustrations of South Amer. Plants,' plate OS. 



