7*2 NEOBOT. 



leaves opposite^ flowers solitary — a singular 

 little genus, of which I have 2 specimens and a 

 figure of the minute flowers, made bj Jalambic, 

 and yet am doubtful of some of the characters, 

 which must be verified upon the living plants. 

 Dedicated to the discoverer, a botanist who 

 gave many plants of Cuba and Florida to Col- 

 lins: if already employed Neurelmis meaning 

 worm like neraes may be substituted. 



918. Jalambica (or Neurelmis) pumila Raf. 

 smooth, stems creeping prostrate filiform dicho- 

 tome, leaves on Vong petiols opposite rounded 

 deltoid obtuse entire with vermiculate nerves ; 

 flowers few terminal peduncled. — A minute 

 plant only one or two inches long, found in Cuba 

 or Florida by Jalambic, deemed by him a N. G. 

 of yngen. frustanea or necessaria, leaves only 

 2 lines long and broad, sometimes decurrent on 

 the petiol, covered by very singular nerves in- 

 terrupted and quite vermicular. Flowers very 

 small yellowish, the 4 segments of perianthe 

 ovate acute, almost all destroyed for examina- 

 tion by Collins ; but this plant will be easily 

 known when met again by the perianthe and 

 leaves when the floral characters may be rec- 

 tified. 



919. Lomaxeta verrucosa Raf. Ilymeno- 

 pappus corymbosus Baldw.in Col. herb. Polyp- 

 teris integrifolia Nut. El. — I introduce this rare 

 plant to give the synonym of the real discoverer 

 Dr. Baldwin, and rectify the thrice erroneous 

 'name of Nuttal, formed of Pteris ! 2 already 

 employed by Lacepede for a fish, and 3 not well 

 applying, mine means the marginnte bristles 

 of the pappus. In Florida and Georgia between 

 the Rivers Alatamaha and Satilla B. — in a 

 note he savs the leaves resemble fhe back of 



