266 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Brachistus, 
8. Brachistus hebephyllus (n. sp.) ;—fruticosus, ramulis teretibus, 
elliptico-lanceolatis, attenuato-acuminatis, basi subcuneatis, 
integris, utrinque molliter incano-pubescentibus ; floribus plu- 
rimis, parvulis, 4~meris, axillaribus, fasciculatis, pedunculis fili- 
formibus, petiolo subzqualibus, pilosis; calyce piloso, urceolato, 
margine integro, ciliato; corolla rotata, laciniis 4, oblongis, 
acutis, margine ciliatis, tubo brevi, intus pilosulo, staminibus 
brevibus, erectis: ovario ovato, disco annulari imsito: stylo 
staminibus superante, subincurvo; stigmate clavato; bacca 
parva, calyce minimo suffulta.—Nova Granada, v. s. in herb. 
Hook. (Los Tapios, Quindiu, Goudot, sub nomine “ Witheringia 
mollis, H. B. K.’’) 
This species, although approaching the Witheringia mollis, 
H. B. K., is certainly distinct from it in the form and size of its 
leaves, and its much smaller flowers, which are 4-merous: it has 
also an entire calyx. The leaves are 3 to 33 inches long, and 
about 1 or 14 inch broad, upon a petiole from 5 to 9 lines mm 
length ; the flowers, from 6 to 10 or more, are crowded in each 
axil, the pedicels being 5 lines in flower and 7 lines in fruit, they 
are pubescent and erect ; the corolla has a short tube with a 4-fid 
expanded border ; the filaments are gradually dilated to the base, 
smooth and somewhat pilose at the point of their insertion in the 
middle of the short tube, which is there pubescent; the anthers 
are ovate, cordate, acute, adnate, and terminated by a sharp point ; 
the style is long, slender and exserted, somewhat incurved, with 
a small clavate stigma; the ovarium is ovate, and surrounded at 
the base by an annular fleshy ring; the berry is about the size ofa 
peppercorn, supported on its smaller persistent withered calyx ; 
the dissepiment and bifurcate placentz are membranaceous: the 
seeds were too immature to determine the form of the embryo*. 
9. Brachistus oblongifolius (n. sp.) ;—fruticosus, ramulis teneris, 
teretibus, glabris ; foliis oblongis, utrinque acuminatis, omnino 
glabris, breviter petiolatis, inferioribus subcoriaceis, rugoso- 
venosis, superioribus planiusculis, submembranaceis, geminis, 
altero tertio vel quarto minore, rhomboideo-ovato, breviter pe- 
tiolatis; floribus pentameris paucis, fasciculatis (2-4), pedun- 
culis subcernuis, petiolo seequilongis ; calyce urceolato, brevis- 
sime 5-dentato, glabro; corolla tubulosa, breviter infundibu- 
liformi, limbo 5-lobo expanso, laciniis acutis, stamimibus vix 
inclusis, filamentis filiformibus, medio tubi insertis, tubo hine 
pubescente, aliter intus glabro.—Nova Granada, v. s. in herb, 
Hook, (Pantano del Moral, Ibague, Goudot.) 
* A figure of this species with generic details will be given in Plate 36 of 
the ‘Illustr, South Amer. Plants.’ 
