188 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Juanulloa. 



libus incrassatis dissepimento utrinque adnatis. Stylus inclu- 

 sus, apice crassescens. Stigma oblongum, sub-bilabiatum^ lobis 

 carnosis, adpressis, intus glandulosis. Bacca ovata_, sepaiis 

 sejunctis cincta, 2-lociilaris. Semina plurima in pulpam nidu- 

 lantia, oblonga, vix reniformia, compressa, hilo infra medium 

 laterali. Embryo intra albumen carnosum, fere rectus, radi- 

 cula infera, tereti, paulo incurvata, cotyledonibus oblongis, 

 crassis, compressis, accumbentibus, rectis, duplo longiore. — 

 Suffrutices Peruviani et Mexicani dependentes ; folia altema, 

 oblonga, Integra, coriacea, pube tomentosa stellata plus minusve 

 induta ; racemi terminates penduli ; flores aurantiaci, vel punicei. 



1. Juanulloa parasitica, E. & P. Fl. Peruv. ii. 47. tab. 185. Ul- 

 loa parasitica, Pers. Ench. i. 218; — suffrutex epiphytica, ra- 

 mYilis junioribus angulatis, glabris, epidermide tenui rimosa ; 

 foliis oblongis, acuminatis, coriaceis, nitidis, ruguloso-punctu- 

 latis, subtus albido vel flavido-furfuraceis, petiolo canaliculato, 

 tenui, limbo 4-6-plo breviore; racemis terminalibus, pendulis, 

 dichotome ramosis; calyce magno, ovato, carnoso, colorato, 

 inflate, 5-angulato, laciniis demum sejunctis ; corolla punicea, 

 cylindrica, calyce paulo longiore, medio subinflata, fauce 

 coarctata, lobis brevibus rotundatis, patentibus ; bacca cerasi 

 magnitudine punicea, sepaiis erectis vestita. — In Andibus 

 Peruvianis excelsis, Pozuzo, Prov. Tarmse, v, s. in hei'b. Mus. 

 Brit. (Pavon). 



The leaves in this species are 5|^ inches long, 2^ inches broad, 

 with a thick channeled petiole of J inch in length ; the raceme 

 is paniculate, 4-5 inches long, the pedicels J inch ; the calyx, 

 almost glabrous, is 1|^ inch long, and f inch diameter ; the corolla 

 is 1| inch long, 4 lines in diameter in the middle, 3 lines at both 

 extremities, the lobes of the border being scarcely 2 lines in size ; 

 the filaments are 5 lines long, the anthers of equal length, the 

 berry being 1 inch long and J inch in diameter. 



2. Juanulloa Mexicana. Laureria Mexicana, >S'c/i/ecA^. Z/Zwn. viii. 

 513. Brugmansia floribunda?, Paxton, Mag. Bot. ix. 241. 

 cum icone ; — frutex orgyalis, ramis glabris, epidermide rimosa, 

 junioribus fulvido-tomentosis ; foliis ovatis, v. lato-lanceolatis, 

 utrinque breviter acutis, supra Isevibus, subtus prsesertim in 

 nervis tomento molli stellato tectis, breviter petiolatis ; calyce 

 magno, e sepaiis 5, lato-ovatis, imo anguste attenuatis, tertia 

 parte infimo in tubum 5-gonum 5~alatum margine cohseren- 

 tibus, demum sejunctis; corolla calyce paulo longiore, tubu- 

 losa, sub-5-gona, extus stellato-tomentosa, intus glabra, car- 

 nosa, limbi laciniis brevibus, obtusis : staminibus imo tomen- 

 tosis, inclusis. — Mexico, La Laguna [Schiede) ; ik s. in herb. 

 Hook. (Tenampa, Prov. Vera Cruz, Linden, no. 50). 



