Mr. J. Miers on the genus Witheringia. 145 
Wirnertnera, L’Her., Mart. Athenea, Sendt.—Calyx sub- 
~ eampanulatus, profunde 5-partitus, persistens. Corodla rotata, 
~ tubo brevi, limbo 5-partito, laciniis oblongis, acuminatis, esti- 
vatione valvata. Stamina 5, erecta ; filamenta filiformia, brevia, 
“paulo supra basin corollz inserta, imo repente triangulariter 
dilatata, et hinc im annulum fere coalita; anthere oblonge, 
2-loculares, basi emarginato-cordatz, loculis connectivo an- 
gusto dorsali parallele connatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 
~Ovarium ovatum, 2-loculare, ovulis plurimis, utrinque disse- 
 pimento adnatis. Stylus simplex, longitudine staminum, apice 
‘incrassatus, fistulosus. Stigma subintegrum, glandula gluti- 
nosa 2-loba semi-immersa. Bacca ovata, calyce aucto tecta. 
‘Semina compressa, rhomboideo-reniformia, in pulpam tenuem 
nidulantia, testa scrobiculata, subscabra, hilo perforato in sinu 
marginali. Embryo in albumen carnosum, subspiralis: coty- 
ledonibus semiteretibus, radicula 3-4-plo brevioribus.—Fru- 
tices Brasilienses, dichotome ramose ; folia alterna, vel gemina 
altero minori (in turionibus subfasciculata), integra; flores pe- 
- dunculati, axillares, vel in dichotomiis solitarit, bini, vel plures 
__ fasciculati, et tune alterna vice singulatim tardius enati, pedun- 
, culo fructifero demum erecto, elongato et incrassato. 
1. Witheringia picta, Mart., Nov. Gen. et Spec. 1. 74. tab. 227. 
Witheringia hirsuta, Gardn. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 541. Athena 
picta, Sendin. Flor. Bras. fasc. vi. p. 184; Walp. Repert. vi. 580. 
—Brasilia, Prov. Rio de Janeiro et Minas Geraés. 
_ To the long and excellent description of Von Martius above 
referred to, it is quite unnecessary to offer the smallest additional 
remark, except that Gardner’s plant which I collected at the same 
time does not appear to me to offer any difference from that 
figured by Martius, and that it is a little more hairy*: if 
therefore it does not belong to this species, it most probably is 
referable to W. pogogena. Of the following seven species I have 
no knowledge whatever, beyond the short notice extracted by 
Dr. Walpers from Dr. Sendtner’s description, to which I refer 
the reader. 
_ %, Witheringia pogogena. Athena pogogena, Sendin. loc. cit. 
p- 135; Walp. Repert. vi. 580. Solanum pogogenum, Moricand, 
Pl. Now. d Amér. iii. 24. tab. 17.—Brasilia, Prov. Bahia. 
3. Witheringia micrantha. Athenza micrantha, Sendin. loc. 
cit.; Walp. Rep. vi. 580.—Brasilia, Villa Vicosa. 
* As Dr. von Martius’s admirable work is within the reach of few per- 
sons, and as it may be desirable to compare the above with its analogous 
genera, I have given a figure with full details of the structure of this species, 
which I first collected at Tejuca in 1833, and afterwards with Mr. Gardner 
in 1837 (Gardn. no. 237) ; it will be shown in the ‘ Illust. S. Amer, Plants,’ 
pl. 35. 
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