434 Mr. J. Miers on the Genus Rhabdia. 
pariete oppositis divaricatim bifidis marginibus uniovuligeris, 
hine pseudo-4-loculare, ovulis appensis, micropyle supera : 
gynobasis seu columella centralis tubulosa, vacua, vasis ad 
ovula pertingentibus munita. Stylus filiformis, longitudine 
staminum. Stigma parvum, 2-lobum et subpeltatum. 
Drupa ovato- Blaboue, nitida, parce succosa, calyce per- 
sistente inclusa, 4-pyrena; pyrene oblongo-ovatex, dorso 
convexiores, per paria medio line placentaris fungose mar- 
gine semiadherentes, mox liber, subossee, uno margine 
rima longitudinali pro intrusione vasorum oblique fissz, 
1-sperme: semen loculum implens, /2/o punctiformi con- 
spicuo inter medium et summum appensum ; tntegumenta 
tenuissima, alba, opaca, raphe ab hilo ad chalazam parvam 
basalem percursa; embryo in albumine carnoso inclusus, 
cotyledonibus foliaceis, ovatis, faciebus diametro fructus pa- 
rallelis, radicula tereti ad summum spectante 2-3-plo lon- 
gioribus. 
Suffrutices Brastlienses et Asiatict: caules plurimi, congestt, 
erectt, virgatt, subramosi, ramis adscendentibus ; folia plu- 
rima, alterna, lineari- -oblonga, sessilia, aut br pune petio- 
lata, subpuberula ; racemi in ronuulis novellis terninales, 
pauciflord ; flores parvi, breviter pedicellati, pedicellis medio 
bracteatis. 
1. Rhabdia lycioides, Mart. Nov. Gen. 11. 136, tab. 195; 
DC. Prodr. ix. 512; Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xix. p. 58, 
tab. 9. fig. 9 -—caulibus plurimis, congestis, erectis, ramosis ; 
ramis adscendentibus, virgatis, elongatis, breviter ramulosis : : 
ramulis apice floriferis; foliis sparsis, sursum gradatim mi- 
noribus, lineari- -oblongis, apice obtusis aut breviter acutis, 
imum versus latioribus et rotundato- -truncatis, marginibus 
undulatis, sessilibus, erecto-patulis, utrinque pubescenti- 
hirtis, pilis preesertim subtus imo tuberculatis, subtus pal- 
lide viridibus, costa prominente viridi-rubescente pubes- 
centi-hirtula: racemis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, 
brevissimis, simplicibus vel 2-fidis, 2-3-floris, pedicellisque 
imo bracteatis et calycibus molliter pilosis; floribus imo 
bracteolatis; bacca globoso-ovata, nitida, coccinea. — In 
Brasilia prov. Bahia, Rio 8. Francisco, in inundatis prope 
Joazeiro. (Non vidi.) 
Martius describes this species as growing in numerous 
cespitose upright branches, 5 or 6 feet high; these throw out 
several erect branchlets, which are again ramified: the leaves 
are alternate, 4—6 or 8 lines apart, 1-14 inch long, 4—5 lines 
broad; the bracts are 13 line long; the sepals 14-2 lines long; 
the corolla 21 lines long, the tubular part being white, the 
