Badula, Weigeltia. 283 



I I. B. barthesia (Lam.) A. DC! (non Boj.) in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. (1834) 1 13 

 et in DC. Prodi*. VIII. (1844) 109. — Anguillaria barthesia Lam.! Illustr. II. (1793) 109; 

 Poir. Encycl. meth. VII. (1 806) 686. — Myrsine barthesia Roem. et Schult. Syst. IV. (1819) 

 507. — Ardisia barthesia Steud. Nom. ed. 1. (1821) 64. — Tinus barthesia 0. Ktze. Rev. 

 gen. IL (1891) 974. — Badula Juss .! Gen. (1789) 240. — Barthesia Commers.! ap. Juss. 

 1. c. — Ramuli crassi, glabri, apicem versus ferruginei. Folia petiolis ± 1 5 mm longis, 

 latiusculis, insensim in laminam transeuntibus stipitata, oblonga, basin versus cuneatim 

 acuta, apice obtusiuscula, zh 160 mm longa, 50 mm lata, membranacea, glabra, opaca, 

 punctulis multis minutis prominulis praedita. Inflorescentiae multi- vel submultiflorae, 

 pendulae, non nisi minutissime puberulae, folia subaequantes, pedicellis gracilibus, ± 4 mm 

 longis; flores 3 — 3,5 mm longi, glabri; sepala vix ad i / i connata lobis haud manifestius 

 punctatis; petala late elliptica, apice rotundata manifesteque oblique emarginata, punc- 

 tulis paucis parvis brunneis praedita; antherae sessiles, petalis bene breviores, apice 

 acutiusculae , dorso haud punctulatae; ovarium glabrum, ovoideum, stylo brevissimo, 

 stigmate capitulato-pulvinato. 



Mauritius: Commerson. — (Herb. DC, Deless., Kopenhag., Paris, Willd. n. 4494.) 



Einh. Name: Bois Pintade, Bois mou. 



Species omnino dubia. 

 Badula micrantha Boj. Hort, maurit. (1837) 196. — Anne Embeliae spec. ? 



26. Weigeltia a. dc.*). 



Weigeltia A. DC. (non Beichb.) in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. (183 4) 102 et in Ann. 

 sc. nat. 2. ser. II. (1834) 291 et in DC. Prodr. VIII. (1844) 114; Endl. Gen. (1836 — 40) 

 n. 4219 p. 736; Lindl. Veg; Kingd. (1847) 648; Mez in Urb. Symb. antill. II. (1901) 

 422. — Comomyrsine Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. II. (1876) 643; Baill. Hist. pl. 

 XI. (1892) 335. 



Flores reductione sexus alterius optime dioici, 4- vel rarissime 3- vel 5-meri. Se- 

 pala imbricata vel rarius dextrorsum tegentia, basi breviter nunc brevissime vel raro 

 medium usque connata, pai'va, saepissime subrotundata vel insuper ± emarginata raro 

 triangularia acuta, punctulata vel punctis destituta, margine sueto nuda rarius breviter 

 nunc brevissime ciliolata. Petala imbricata vel raro dextrorsum tegentia basi breviter 

 vel rarissime fere medium usque connata, lobis rotundatis vel rarius longe acutis, 

 sueto punctatis. Stamina petalis breviora vel rarissime longiora iis altiuscule vel rarius 

 paullo super basin inserta; filamentis semper optime evolutis antheras longitudine 

 duplo vel ultra superantibus, basi raro callis arcuatis conjunctis, crassiuscule filiformibus ; 

 antheris abbreviatis vix vel haud longioribus ac latis, introrsum rimis 2 tota longitudine 

 apertis dehiscentibus , ovatis vel suborbicularibus, apice rotundatis emarginatisque vel 

 rarius acutiusculis , haud recurvis, dorso medio vel infra medium filamentis affixis. 

 Ovarium ovoideum, glabrum vel rarius lepidotum, in stylum crassum cylindricum bre- 

 viorem vel subaequilongum attenuatum; stigmate discoideo saepius loboso; placenta 

 prope apicem uniseriatim pauciovulata. Fructus globosus, 1-spermus, endocarpio crusta- 

 ceo. Semen globosum, immaturum placenta spongioso-floccosa indutum maturum mihi 

 nondum visum. — Frutices vel arbores subglabrae vel lepidibus parvis brunneis munitae. 

 Folia saepissime sparsa raro comatim pseudoverticillata, peliolata, integerrima vel serrala. 

 Flores sueto minuti raro magis conspicui in panniculas axillares sueto nutantes vel pen- 

 dulas dispositi, albi vel virentes vel raro purpurascentes, breviter pedicellati, pedicellis 

 basi bracteis parvis suffultis. 



Genus austro-americanum, ab Antillis per Guyanam Columbiamque usque ad Bra- 

 siliam australem extensum, Guyanae crebrum, Americae centrali deficiens. 



Dicata botanophilo Weigelt, qui specicm primam cognitam e Guyana attulit. 



