450 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Saracha. 
extus margineque pubescente ; staminibus pilosis ; bacca pisi- 
formi, calyce subaucto rotato suffulta—Columbia, v. in herb. 
Hook. (Hartweg, no. 1292.) 
Judging from the specimen above referred to, this plant would 
appear to be almost erect, and different from the usually strag- 
gling dichotomous growth of this genus, but in the structure of 
the flower and of the seed it accords entirely with Saracha. The 
leaves are 1} inch long, % inch broad, upon a very short petiole 
of 4 or 5 lines ; the very sericeous peduncle with its two pedicels 
are scarcely longer than half an inch; the calyx m flower mea- 
sures $ inch in diameter, increasing in fructification to a dia- 
meter of 3 inch; the corolla barely measures 3 inch across, and 
three parallel nervures extend from the apex of each segment to 
the base ; the fruit is from 3 to 4 lines in diameter. 
21. Saracha glandulosa (n. sp.) ;—glanduloso-pubescens ; foliis 
alternis, floralibus subgeminis, oblongis, acuminatis, in petio- 
lum longiusculum attenuatis, meequaliter grosse serratis et 
eroso-denticulatis, crassis, utrinque tomentosis, nervis patentim 
pilosis, margine glanduloso-ciliatis, superioribus subimtegris ; 
pedunculo brevi, axillari, 2-floro, pedicellis equilongo ; calyce 
5-fido ; corolla parva, rotata, flava, utrinque subpubescente, 
angulato-5-loba, lobis acutis; stamiibus inclusis, filamentis 
brevibus, imo dilatatis, pilosis, antheris ovalibus, conniventibus. 
—Nova Granada, v. in herb. Hook. (La Peiia, Bogota, Goudot.) 
This is the plant elsewhere mentioned as appearing to me to © 
bear so close an analogy with the figure and character of Withe- 
ringia solanacea (L’Herit.). Its leaves are 24 inches long, 1 inch 
broad, on a somewhat slender petiole 9 lines to an inch in length : 
the peduncle and pedicels together scarcely measure more than 
3 lines, the flower being no more than 4 lines in diameter; the 
stamens, scarcely a line long, are shorter than the somewhat cam- 
panular base of the corolla, the filaments are suddenly dilated into 
triangular processes at base, and united into a short adnate ring ; 
above they are flat and narrow, the margins being clothed with 
diverging ciliate hairs; the anthers are oval, adnate to a small 
oblong dorsal connective, and they burst on the edges by longi- 
tudinal fissures *. 
22. Saracha solanacea. Witheringia solanacea, L’Herit. Stirp. 
Nov. Angl. 1. 33. tab. 1; Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1. 149; Lam. 
Tllustr. 1. 326. tab. 82; Dict. 8. 800 ;—radice tuberoso fusi- 
formi; caule inferne lignoso, perenni; ramulis subherbaceis, 
annuis, erectis, pedalibus, pilosis, angulatis; foliis ovato-ob- 
* This plant will be shown in plate 39 A. of the ‘Illustr. South Amer. 
Plants.’ 
