198 Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiee. 
mits ; ovary, style, and stigma 1} line long, glabrous ; style four 
-times the length of the ovary, turbinate at its summit, with a 
fringed margin, supporting a pilose ovate stigma one-tenth of 
its length. 
11. Messerschmidtia valga, nob. ;—ramis teretibus, lignosis, 
lenticellatis, ramulis striatellis ; ; foliis ovato-oblongis, imo 
obtusis aut in petiolum acutiuscule decurrentibus, apice sub- 
acuminatis, submembranaceis, utrinque pilis brevibus e 
tuberculis sparsim adpresse strigosis, supra nervis tenuibus 
nigris immersis, subtus paulo prominulis, livide glaucis ; 
petiolo superne sulcato, pilosulo, limbo 5-6-plo breviore : 
paniculis axillaribus, foltum equantibus, parce pilosis, 
pedunculo petiolo equilongo; rachi brevi, flexuosa, divari- 
catim Brenna aut tristachya ; ramis ‘rigidulis, spicati- 
floris ; floribus 1-serialibus, remotiusculis ; ; sepalis corollee- 
que lobis longissime subulatis, valde pilosis.—In Brasilia : 
v. 8. in herb. Mus. Brit., Maceio (Gardn. 1363). 
lis axils are ? inch Saat the leaves are 21-23 inches long, 
-14 inch broad, on a petiole 5 lines long: peduncle of 
eae 9 lines long, its two branches 4 lines long, the 
spicate branches, slightly curved, 1? inch long; the flowers 
13 line apart; pedicels 4 line long; sepals 14 line long; tube 
of corolla 13 ‘line, the segments 14 line long; anthers very 
short, cohering by their apices in the mouth of the tube ; pistil 
13 line long; style six times as long as the stigma. 
12. Messerschnidtia minuta ;—Tournefortia minuta, Bert. in 
DC. Prodr, ix. 527 ;—scandens?, ramis virgatis, junioribus 
minute puberulis ; foliis anguste lanceolatis, obtusis, sca- 
bridis, petiolatis : paniculis axillaribus, conjugatim ramosis, 
ramis spicatifloris; floribus remotis; sepalis lanceolatis, 
acutis ; corolle tubo medio coarctato, limbi lobis lanceolato- 
acuminatissimis ; drupis 4-gastris.—In Jamaica (non vide). 
Leaves 1} inch long, 3 lines broad. 
** Panicule in ramis aut in ramulis terminales, 
13. Messerschmidtia microphylla, nob. ;—Tournefortia micro- 
phylla, Desv. in Ham. Prodr. p. 24 (non Bert.) ; DC. Prodr. 
ix. 528 ;—Tournefortia lucida, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. p- 897 
(non Desv.) ;—subscandens?, undique glaberrima, ramulis 
tenuissimis, teretibus, lenticellatis; foliis parvis, obovatis, 
imo rotundatis, a medio gradatim angustior ibus, apice valde 
obtusis, submucronulatis, crassiusculis, obscuris, utrinque 
rugulosis ; petiolo tenui, limbo 6- -plo breviore : paniculis in 
ramulis terminalibus, suboppositifoliis, breviter puberulis, 
