Mr. J. Miers on the genus Saracha. — 47 
angulato-5-loba, lobis acutis, staminibus erectis, elongatis, imo 
pilis mollibus patentibus dense hirsutis : bacca pisiformi, calyce 
rotato suffulta.—Peruvia, v. in herb. Hook. (Cuesto de Purru- 
chucho, Mathews, no. 774, 8. procumbens nominata.) 
This plant is certainly very distinct from the S. procumbens of 
the ‘ Flora Peruviana,’ and does not appear to correspond with 
any recorded species. The leaves are 2 inches long and 1 inch 
wide, with its broadest part towards the base, which is suddenly 
attenuated into a somewhat fine petiole 4 lines in length. The 
slender peduncle almost glabrous, striated and shining, is about 
an inch long, bearing on its summit the very delicate pedicels, 
umbellately spreading, and 3 inch in length: the calyx measures 
very nearly half an inch across, and the rotate corolla is 1 inch 
in diameter, the stamens being 3 inch long, very slender, smooth 
at the summit, while the lower moiety is densely pilose with very 
spreading articulated dark-coloured hairs: the round berries are 
about 4 lines in diameter, supported on their spreading, scarcely 
enlarged calyx*. 
14. Saracha diffusa (n. sp.) ;—herbacea, caule angulato, glabro, 
~  dichotome ramoso ; foliis oyatis vel ellipticis, versus apicem 
attenuatis, et saltim obtusiusculis, grosse sinuato-serratis, laci- 
nulis obtusis, margine eroso-denticulatis et ciliatis, basi sub- 
inzequalibus, in petiolum gracilem angustissime decurrentibus, 
submembranaceis, reticulato-venosis, vix glabris, vel utrinque 
presertim in venis glanduloso-pildsis ; floribus in dichotomiis 
umbellatis, 4—6 floris, pedunculo elongato gracillimo, pedicel- 
lisque filiformibus glabris ; calyce rotato, angulato, 5-dentato ; 
corolla rotata, 15-nervia, extus lanuginosa, margine 5-angu- 
lata, longe ciliata, staminibus erectis, corolle dimidio brevio- 
ribus, glabris.—Peruvia, v. in herb. Hook. (Cuesta de Purru- 
chucho, Mathews, no. 775, S. contorta noncupata.) 
This species clearly does not correspond with the Saracha con- 
torta of the ‘ Flora Peruviana,’ agreeing neither with its figure nor 
its description. The leaves, which are remarkable not only for 
their sinuose serrate border, but for their distinctly eroso-ciliate 
margins, are 23 inches long, 13 inch broad, with a petiole half 
an inch in length: the peduncle of the umbel is from 3 to 1 inch 
or sometimes 24 inches, and the pedicels 3 inch long: the ve 
expanded flower measures 8 lines in diameter. The whole plant 
appears herbaceous and almost glabrous, and is said to flower in 
April. 
15. Saracha laxa (n. sp.) ;—caule angulato-striato, subglabro vel 
* A drawing of this species with generic details will be given in the < II- 
lustrations of South Amer. Plants,’ plate 38. 
