116 Mr. J.Miers on the Bignoniaceae. 



rollse. Stigma 2-lainellatum, lamellis oblongis, obtusis, mem- 

 branaceis, glabris. Capsula magna, late cylindrica, botuli- 

 formis, 2-locularis, 2-valvis; valva lignosge, medio longitudi- 

 naliter fissiles; dissepimentum (e lamellis 2 confluentibus) 

 chartaceum, valvis parallelum., aut marginibus placentiferis ad 

 parietem internum valvarum utrinque inflexis, ibi primurri 

 agglutinatis et demum solubilibus, vel marginibus semini- 

 geris ad parietem valvarum permanenter conglutinatis et 

 rima utrinque a dissepimento erumpentibus. Semina tunc e 

 diversa evolutione placentarum, in uno casu ad dissepimentum, 

 in altero ad valvarum margines affixa, utrinque 2-3-serialia, 

 imbricata, magna, irregulariter sinuato-rotundata valde com- 

 pressa, subplana, vel convexa, hinc ad latus hiliferum incras- 

 sata illinc gradatim tenuiora; hilum aut lineare et I'ectum, 

 aut oblongum valde convexum et curvatum ; testa dura, cori- 

 acea, brunnea, intus ab hilo usque ad centrum semisepto an- 

 gusto donata, hinc 2-marsupiata ; integumentum internum em- 

 bryonem arete vestiens, tenuissimum, pellucidum, in sinu 

 superiori chalaza parva donatum ; embryo exalbuminosus, 2- 

 cotyledoneus, cotyledonibus orbicularibus, utrinque fere ad 

 centrum 2-fissis, hinc fere 2-lobis, lobis plano-convexis, per 

 paria adpressis, et imo in locellis testse nidulatis, radicula 

 centrali, brevissima, minuscula, horizontal iter centrifuga. 

 Frutices scandentes, Antillani, Guianenses et Brasilienses, glahri : 

 folia trifoliolata, vel cirrhoso-conjugata ; foliola oblonga, petio- 

 lulata, integerrima : paniculse terminates, paudflora : corolla 

 alba. 



1. Tanaecium albiflorum, DC. Prodr. ix. 245 ; Seem. Kew Journ. 

 ix. 83 ; Linn. Trans, xxiii. 15 ; — Tanaecium Jaroba, Sw. FL 

 Ind. Occid. ii.l050. tab. 20. f. 1 ; — Cucurbitifera, Sloane, Jam. 

 ii. 175; Browne, Jam. 267; — glabrum, foliis 3-foliolatis, vel 

 cirrhoso-conjugatis, foliolis late ovatis, breviter et abrupte 

 apiculatis, imo rotundatis, supra nitidis, utrinque concolori- 

 bus, basi 3-nerviis, subtus nervis rufulis venisque transversis 

 reticulatis prominentibus, petiolo longiusculo, petiolulis sub- 

 brevibus, striatis; paniculis terminalibus, trichotomis, pauci- 

 floris; calyce tubuloso, denticulis 5 e nervis excurrentibus ; 

 corolla alba, extus (in sicco) ochraceo-pruinosa, intus glabra ; 

 capsula magna, late cylindrica, botuliformi, seminibus crasso- 

 coriaceis, exalatis, compressis. — Jamaica, v. s. in herb. Mns. 

 Brit. (Robins). 



Alte scandens ; ramuli teretes, ad nodos compressi, striatuli, 

 lenticellis parvis albidis crebris rugulosi ; internodia 5 poll. dist. ; 

 foliola 3^-4^ poll. long, (acumine 6 lin. long.), 2|-2| poll, 

 lat. (sec. Swartz. inferiora 6 poll, long.); petiolus 1| poll, long.. 



