202 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cliocarpus. 



prominulo. Stamina 5, sequalia, coroUse fere longitudine ; 

 filamenta brevissima, glabra, ex annulo carnoso imo tubi ad- 

 nato 5-simiato orta, valde sigmoidea, complanata, sulcata, 

 apice acuta : anthercE maguae, erectse, circa stylum conniveutes, 

 oblougre, 2-lob^, 4-locellatse, basi breviter bifidse, ad imum 

 sulci dorsali affixae, lobis sine connective conspicuo parallele 

 adnatis, sulco longitudinali et summo prsecipue utrinque rima 

 antica obliqua valvatim late hiantibus, valvula superiori hinc 

 erecta auriculaeformi, inferiori fere obsoleta. Ovarium gla- 

 brum, subrotundum, 2-sulcatum, 2-loculare, ovulis plurimis 

 dissepimento placentifero carnoso utrinque adnatis. Stylus 

 simplex, filiformis, staminibus dimidio longior. Stigma mi- 

 nutum, brevissime bifidum, dentibus acutis, divaricatis vel ad- 

 pi'essis. Bacca calyce aucto inclusa, subglobosa, 2-locularis : 

 semina pauca, reniformia, compressa, testa scrobiculata, hilo in 

 sinu laterali ; embryo teres, in albumen carnosum sjnraliter 

 arcuatus, cotyledonibus semi-teretibus, radicula angulo basali 

 spectante, hiJoque evitante sub-3-plo brevioribus. — Frutices 

 Brasilienses, pilis simpUcibus [plerumque cum stellatis inter- 

 micctis), dense tomentosi : folia alterna, vel scepe gemina, altero 

 minori, integra, oblonga, acuta, imo obtusa, interdum cordata, 

 breviter petiolata: flores extra -axillares, solitarii aut bint, vel 

 in racemo sub-umbellaformi plures aggrcgati, pedicellis longis, 

 Jiliformibus, fructiferis cernuis. 



1. Cliocarpus Gardneri, nob. huj. op. iv. 141 ; 111. South Amer. 

 PI. ii. 35 ; DC. Prodr. xiii. 675 ; — fruticosus, subdichotome 

 ramosus, ramis tomentosis; foliis obovatis, e medio acuminatis, 

 basi subrotundatis, ssepe geminis, altero dmiidio vel paullo 

 adhuc minori, crassiusculis, supra l?etc viridibus et pubescen- 

 tibus, subtus densissime cano- vel llavido-tomentosis, pilis sim- 

 pUcibus cum alteris stipitato-stellatis interniixtis, nervis ve- 

 nisque supra impressis, subtus prominulis et flocculosis, pe- 

 tiolo brevi, crassiusculo : floribus extra-axillaribus, solitariis vel 

 2— 4-fasciculatis, pedunculo obsoleto, pedicellis filiformibus, 

 quam congeneribus longioribus, in fructu deflexis et magis 

 elougatis; bacca pisi majoris magnitudine, nigra, calyce aucto 

 subvesiculari flavo-membranaceo reticulato clausa. — Brasilia, 

 Prov. Minas Geraes. — v. s. in herb. Hook. (Arraial das Merces, 

 Gardner, no. 5042). 



This plant in fruit has been already described, as above 

 quoted, but I have since found flower-buds, which, though very 

 young, are quite sufficient to identify the same structure as in 

 the two following species ; the only difference being, that here 

 the corolla seems to be more deeply cleft than in the others. 



