Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiee. 201 
que flavido-tomentosis; petiolo tomentoso, limbo 5-—6-plo 
breviore: paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, flavo-tomen- 
tosis, bis dichotome geniculatim ee ramis ultimis spi- 
eatifloris ; floribus 1-seriatis, crebre essilibus ; sepalis la- 
ciniisque corolle valde subulatis, tubo seste inflato ; ; drupis 
4-castris, glabris.—In Brasilia: 2. v. in prov. Rio de 
Janeiro, ad Botofogo; v.s. in herb. variis, ex eodem loco 
(Gardn. 82). 
Prof. Fresenius makes this plant identical with Kunth’s 
Tournefortia floribunda, which does not belong to Messer- 
schmidtia; it differs in its compressed flexuous subfistulose 
branches, its acute (not acuminated) leaves, covered with short 
rigid hairs (not slenderly pubescent nor cano-tomentose be- 
neath) ; it differs also in its longer style and stigma. In Kunth’s 
plant the drupe is globular, containing four globose nucules. 
In this ues the flattened branches are 13 line broad, with 
axils 1-23 inches apart; the leaves are 24 inches long, ae: 13 
inch broad, on a petiole 4—6 lines long: the panicle, widely 
expanded, is 4 inches long, on a peduncle 6 lines long; primary 
and secondary branches 9 lines long, tertiary spicated, 3-6 
lines apart, each 9-18 lines long; sepals 4 line long; tube of 
corolla less than 1 line long, the rest all conformable to the 
generic character ; drupes glabrous * 
18. Messerschmidtia Salzmanni, nob. ;—Tournefortia Salz- 
manni, DC. Prodr. ix. 524; Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xix. 
p- 51 ;—scandens, ramis teretibus, fistulosis, subflexuosis, 
simplicibus aut breviter ramulosis, flavide aut ferrugineo- 
tomentosis, axillis subnodosis ; foliis oblongo- -lanceolatis vel 
lanceolatis, sensim acuminatis, imo rotundatis, supra pilis 
brevibus velutino-tomentosis, subtus pallidioribus, ferrugi meo- 
tomentosis ; petiolo superne " canaliculato, dense ferrugineo- 
pubescente, limbo 9-10-plo breviore : paniculis in ramulis 
alaribus terminalibus, flavo vel ferrugineo-tomentosis, bis 
dichotome divaricato-divisis, ramis conjugatis velsimplicibus, 
ultimis spicatifloris ; floribus remotiusculis, brevissime pe- 
dicellatis ; sepalis laciniisque corollee longe subulatis.—In 
Brasilia, ‘prov. Bahia (Blanchet, 3787 3789, et Claussen, 
412-419) ; v.s. in herb, meo, Ceard (Gardner, 1785) ; ; in herb. 
Mus. Brit., Bahia (Luschnatt). 
A plant with long tortuous scandent branches, with axils 
3-2 inches apart; leaves 21-34 inches long, 1-1} inch broad, 
on a petiole 3-4 lines long; peduncle of inflorescence 5 lines, 
* A drawing of this plant, with sectional details to show the generic 
structure, will be given in the second volume of my ‘ Contributions,’ 
Plate 533. 
