Mr. J. Miers on the genus Juanulloa. 189 



The leaves of this plant are described by Schlechtendal as being 

 from 4 to 6 inches long and from 2 to 3 inches broad, upon a 

 very short petiole of only 3 or 6 lines in length ; the calyx is 

 1:^ inch long, increasing to 1 J inch ; the corolla is 1|^ inch long, 

 the filaments being 9 lines and the anthers 5 lines in length. 



Linden's plant above quoted, I have presumed to be the same 

 species : here the leaves are thick and coriaceous, quite smooth 

 above, clothed below with yellowish stellate downj they are broadly 

 ovate, shortly and suddenly attenuated at the obtuse emarginated 

 apex, 5J inches long, 3^ inches broad, on a thick channeled pe- 

 tiole of I to I inch in length ; the inflorescence is much longer 

 than in any other species, each dichotomous branch forming a 

 distinct raceme of 4^ inches in length, bearing the articulations 

 of several flowers towards their apex, which have all fallen off. 



3. Juanulloa Hookeriana. Juanulloa parasitica. Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 tab. 4118 ; — frutex subscandens, ramis glabris, incano-glaucis 

 epidermide rimosa, junioribus argenteo-tomentosis : foliis el- 

 liptico-oblongis, utrinque subattenuatis, subcoriaceis, supra 

 Isevibus, subtus alutaceo-pulverulentis, pilis stellatis subto- 

 mentosis, petiolo glabro, subtenui, canaliculato ; racemo brevi, 

 subpaniculato, terminali, pedicellis brevissimis, crassis ; calyce 

 magno, inflato, 5-angulato, breviter 5-dentato, angulis mox 

 alatis et undulatis, e sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, 3-nerviis, crasso- 

 coriaceis, aurantiaco-pulverulentis, margine cohserentibus, de- 

 mum liberis et persistentibus ; corolla cylindracea, imo breviter 

 coarctata, calyce tertio longiore, limbi laciniis ovatis, obtusis, 

 patentibus ; antheris infra faucem arete conniventibus. — Patria 

 ignota ; v. v. cult, in hort. Kew. 



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

 on a petiole of ^ to f inch in length ; the terminal inflorescence 

 branches into two or three very short few-flowered racemes, the 

 pedicels being 2 lines in length; the thick fleshy sepals are of an 

 orange colour, 1^ to If inch long, f inch broad, forming by their 

 connivent edges a long and somewhat ventricose pentangular tube, 

 the angles appearing in some degree winged and undulating ; 

 the tube of the corolla is 1| inch long, 4 lines in diameter, very 

 thick and fleshy, of a deep orange colour, externally clothed with 

 fine floccose down, and smooth within, the segments of the bor- 

 der being rounded, barely 3 lines long, and 2^ lines broad ; the 

 stamens are fixed in the contracted portion of the tube, 3 lines 

 above the base, and are pilose at their origin, quite smooth and 

 terete above, erect, 11 lines long; the anthers, with somewhat 

 mucronate apex, are 4 lines long, 1 line broad, adnate to a linear 

 dorsal connective continuous with the filament ; the ovarium is 

 conical, seated upon a thick fleshy five-lobed gland, with emar- 



