Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiex. 193 
stamina attingens, glaber, apice incrassatus et turbinatus ; 
stigma obtuse conicum, 4-sulcatum, pilosum. Fructus bac- 
catus, parce carnosus, globose 4-gaster, depressus, in medio 
umbilicatus et styli vestigio notatus; pyrene 4, demum se- 
parabiles, dorso convexe, intus angulatz, hippocrepice pli- 
cate, carunculate, et hinc primum coherentes, ossez, inde- 
hiscentes, 1-loculares, 1-spermze: semen hippocrepice cur- 
vatum ; ¢ntegumentum tenue; albumen parcum, carnosum ; 
embryo conformis, cotyledonibus ovato-oblongis, foliaceis, 
incumbenter arcuatis, radicula supera ad stylum spectante 
6-plo longioribus. 
Suffrutices Americant, plerumque Brasilienses, seepius sub- 
scandentes; ramis tenuibus, sepe fistulosis ; folia alterna, 
petiolata, oblonga, integra, glabra, aut adpresse pilosa: in- 
florescentia axillaris et terminalis, divaricatim vel dichotome 
ramosa, ramis ultimis spicatifloris, apice recurvatis ; flores 
part, 1-laterales, crebri, sessiles aut brevissime pedunculati, 
ebracteatt. 
* Panicule axillares et subterminales, 
1. Messerschmidtia subulata, Gardn. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1.532 ;— 
Tournefortia Gardneri, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 526; Fresen. in 
Mart. Fl. Bras, xix. p. 54;—Tournefortia lanceolata, Pres. 
/. c. p. 55 ;—scandens, ramulis teneribus, fistulosis, pilosius- 
culis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, imo rotundatis, 
submembranaceis, utrinque rugulosis et sparse adpresso- 
villosulis ; petiolo pilosulo, limbo 12-plo breviore: paniculis 
axillaribus et terminalibus, pubescentibus, brevibus, crebre 
alternatim ramosis et spicatifloris ; sepalis lobisque corolle 
longe subulatis; baccis 4-gastris.—In Brasilia: v. v. prov. 
Rio de Janeiro (Jurujuba, Botafogo, et Rio Cumprido) ; 
v. s. Tejuco (Gardner, 175). 
A slender climbing plant, frequent in the neighbourhood of 
Rio de Janeiro: its long slender branches are 3 line thick, 
with axils about 2 inches apart; leaves 2-34 inches long, 
9-14 lines broad, on a slender petiole 2-3 lines long ; panicle 
4 inch long, branching from the base with three or four alter- 
nate curving branches 3 line apart, each 6 lines long, with 
about twelve sessile flowers closely uniserial on the upperside; 
sepals 2 lines long, + line broad at base, setiform, ciliate on 
margins ; tube of corolla 2 lines long, pilose outside, a little 
swollen below the mouth ; segments patent, very narrow, with 
inflected margins 3} lines long ; stamens cohering in the mouth 
by their barbated summits ; style long, slender, swollen above, 
with an annular ring terminated by a conical pilose apex ; 
