Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiex. - 195 
branches like the axillary panicles, but without leaves: the 
uniserial flowers are 14-2 lines apart, each on a pedicel 4 line 
long; the sepals are 1 line long, glabrous, with ciliated mar- 
gins; the tube of the corolla 2 lines long, its segments 1 line 
long ; the anthers cohere by their papillose summits ; the style 
is slender, enlarged at its summit, and terminated by an oval, 
obtuse, pilose stigma. 
4. Messerschmidtia Blanchett, nob. ; Tournefortia Blanchetii, 
A. DC. Prodr. ix. 524; Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Bras, xix. 52; 
—scandens, ramis teretibus, adpresse sericeis ; foliis ovatis, 
acutissime acuminatis, imo obtusis, membranaceis, utrinque 
pilosis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis parum distinctis, petiolo 
limbo 10-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, 
divaricato-dichotomis, subferrugineo-pubescentibus ; flori- 
bus in ramis ultimis spicatim sessilibus, remotiusculis; se- 
palis lanceolatis, 'acuminatis, tubo corolle sericeze dimidio 
brevioribus; limbi lobis anguste lnearibus——In Bahia 
(Blanchet, 1914) (non vidi). 
A species much resembling I. Salzmanni. Leaves 24-3 
inches long, 20-24 lines broad, on a petiole 4 lines long; 
flowers 3 lines long. 
5. Messerschmidtia salicifolia, Gardn. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1. 181 ; 
—Tournefortia salicifolia, DC. Prodr. ix. 531; Fresen. in 
Mart. Fl. Bras. xix. p. 55 ;—scandens, ramis_ fistulosis, 
angulato-compressis, subflexuosis, molliter patenter pilosis ; 
foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, lanceolatisve, imo obtusis, a medio 
sensim acuminatis, supra molliter pilosulis, subtus ferru- 
gineo-glaucis, tomentoso-villosulis, marginibus ciliatis ;_ pe- 
tiolo patenter ferrugineo-villoso, limbo 12-plo breviore : 
paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio longioribus et 
suboppositis, bis dichotome geniculatim divisis, ramis alter- 
natim ramosis et spicatifloris, villosis; floribus remotius- 
culis, sessilibus ; sepalis lobisque corolle acutissimis ; drupis 
4-castris, pilosis—In Brasilia ad Rio de Janeiro: v. v. et s. 
Morro de Flamengo (Gardner, n. 81). 
A climbing plant, not uncommon in the neighbourhood of 
Rio de Janeiro, with branches 1-14 line thick, geniculately 
flexuose at the axils, which are about 1 inch apart; the leaves 
are 2-4 inches long, 5-18 lines broad, on a petiole 2-3 lies 
long. The panicle, 2 inches long and broad, has a peduncle 
6 lines long, its primary very divaricated branches 4 lines 
long, the secondary branchlets 3 lines long, each bearing two 
or three spikes 6—9 lines long, with about ten to fifteen sessile 
flowers } line apart; sepals 1 line long, clothed with long 
