Mr. J. Miers on the genus Saracha. 451 
_longis, v. ovato-lanceolatis, pilosulis, margine ciliatis, acutis, 
basi obtusis, petiolatis, superioribus floriferis geminis ; flori- 
bus tetrameris, umbellatis, umbellis fere sessilibus, pedicellis 
divaricatis, petiolo unciali equilongis, calyceque brevi 4-den- 
tato glabris, corolla calyce 2-plo majore, tubo urceolato imo 
coarctato, tuberculis 4 instructo, limbo 4-lobo, rotato, lobis 
lanceolatis, staminibus 4, tuberculis alternis, filamentis brevi- 
bus, imo dilatatis, pilosis, antheris ovalibus, conniventibus.— 
America meridionalis. 
This plant, known only as having been cultivated in the Bo- 
tanic Garden of Kew, is described by L’Heritier and Aiton as 
above-quoted, but the dried specimens preserved by these bota- 
nists do not appear in the Banksian herbarium. The stem is said. 
to be a foot high, covered with dark red pubescence ; the leaves 
are 3 inches long, upon a petiole nearly an inch in length, and 
almost glabrous ; the umbels are nearly as long as the petioles, 
the pedicels being scarcely half an inch long; the calyx is short 
and glabrous ; the corolla of a pale yellow colour ; the tube is 
1; line in diameter, and the lobes 3 lines long. The fruit is a 2- 
locular berry, with numerous seeds attached to an adnate placenta 
projecting from each side of the dissepiment. The characters of 
this plant will thus be seen to be all strictly in accordance with 
the genus Saracha, as has been noticed on a previous occasion 
when treating of the genus Witheringia (ante, p. 143), and the 
reasoning upon which this conclusion is based will be found 
strengthened by a comparison of L’Heritier’s figure of his Withe- 
ringia solanacea with that of the preceding species S. glandulosa, 
to which I have just made reference. 
23. Saracha diffusa (n. sp.) ;—caule angulato-striato, dichotome 
diffuso, subglabro vel parce puberulo ; foliis late ovatis, acutis, 
basi obtusiusculis, repente in petiolum attenuatis, superioribus 
geminatis, utrinque pilis articulatis pubescentibus ; floribus 
umbellatis, pedicellis 2-6, pedunculo elongato folio equilongo 
tertio brevioribus, omnibus pilosis; calyce acutilobo, hirsuto ; 
corolla rotata, angulato-5-loba, utrinque glabra, staminibus 
corollz dimidio brevioribus; bacca pisiformi, calyce rotato 
aucto suffulta.—Mexico, v. in herb. Hook. (Oaxaca, Galeotti, 
no. 1169.) 
In this plant the internodes are very distant, and the leaves, 
shorter than the peduncle, are 12 inch long by 1 inch broad, 
upon a petiole of 5 lines in length ; the peduncle is 2 to 24 inches 
long, the pedicels 3 inch in length. 
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