190 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Sarcophysa. 



ginated rounded lobes ; the style is erect, smooth, thickened and 

 hollow towards the summit ; the stigma consists of two oblong, 

 adpressed, semiterete fleshy lobes, lined inside with green viscous 

 glands. 



4. Juanulloa Panamensis (n. sp.) ; — frutex subscandens, ramis 

 glabris, anguloso-compressis, epidermide rimosa ; foliis ellip- 

 tico-oblongis, utrinque attenuatis, coriaceis, supra Isevibus, 

 subtus alutaceo-pulverulentis, pilis stellatis flavidis tomentosis, 

 petiolo glabro, subtenui, canaliculato ; racemis brevissimis, 

 3-4, terminalibus, aggregatis, floribus sub-umbellatim con- 

 fertis : pedicellis calyce fere sequilongis, demum in fructu apice 

 incrassatis duplo longioribus ; calyce breviore pseudo-angulato, 

 sepalis demum liberis, lanceolatis, acutis, basi latis, carnosis, 

 aurantiaco-pulverulentis ; corolla cylindracea, imo oreque co- 

 arctata, supra medium inflata, calyce fere 3-plo longiore, ner- 

 vis 5 prominentibus, limbi laciniis brevissimis, obtusiusculis, 

 staminibus inclusis ; bacca oblonga, stylo persistente apiculata, 

 sepalis coriaceis sejunctis cincta. — Panama, v.s. in herb. Hook. 

 Veraguas {Seemann, no. 1200). 



This species bears much resemblance in the form and size of 

 its leaves to /. Hookeriana, but its inflorescence is very different, 

 its calyx not half the size, the sepals less acuminate, the corolla 

 longer and more contracted in its lower half. The leaves are 

 5 inches long, 21 inches broad, on a petiole |^ to | inch in length ; 

 they have a silvery lustre beneath, although covered somewhat 

 more sparsely with yellow stellate or rather brachiate tomentum. 

 The racemes, almost fasciculate at the apex of the branch, are 

 scarcely more than f of an inch in length ; the pedicels are ~ inch 

 long in flower, 1 inch long in fruit ; the sepals are little more 

 than 1^ inch long and f inch broad at base, and do not increase in 

 size, but remain erect, separated, coriaceous, and embracing the 

 ovate berry, f inch long, |- inch diameter, crowned by the long, 

 slender, persistent style ; the seeds are 2 lines long, nearly a line 

 in breadth, and they have afforded the structural features given 

 in the generic character*. 



Sarcophysa. 



Among the plants collected by Goudot and Purdie in New 

 Granada, is one that nearly approaches Solaiidra, Juanulloa and 

 Marckea, not only in its scandent habit, with large coriaceous 

 leaves, but in the form of its corolla. It differs however from 

 those genera in having a large, ovate, fleshy, tubular calyx, which 



* A representation of this species with sectional details, and an analysis 

 of the flower of J. Hookeriana, will be shown in plate 46 of the * Illustr. 

 South Amer. Plants.' 



