a = 
Mr. J, Miers on Villaresia. 115 
. bus eequilongis; ovario dense albido-piloso, uniloculari; stylo 
-subexcentrico, breviusculo, glabro.—Prov. Rio de Janeiro, v, v, 
' circa Freichal, ad pedem montium Organensium. 
This and the following species are very dissimilar in appear- 
ance to any of the preceding, bearing somewhat a resemblance 
to the genus Leretia; but their floral structure is quite in accord- 
ance with Villaresia, and some have the same porous glands in 
the axils of the nervures that characterize the genus. The leaves 
are 74 inches long, 3} inches broad, on a petiole 10 lines long: 
the radiating divisions of the inflorescence, in my specimen, 
are 2 inches long; but as they are in a young state, they pro-. 
bably would be double that length when fully matured; the 
lateral branchlets are 1 line long, quite patent, and bear three or 
five sessile flowers at their apex; the flower expanded is 23 lines 
in diameter; the sepals are obovate, somewhat acute, imbricate, 
and pilose; the petals are lanceolate-oblong, nearly three times 
as long as the sepals, with a prominent internal keel; they are 
imbricated in estivation, with their apices inflected: the stamens 
are three-fourths the length of the petals, and longer than the 
pistil: the ovary is obovate and pilose, 1-celled, with two sus- 
pended ovules*, 
Var. acuminata ;—foliis longius acuminatis, panicule brachiis 
folio fere zequilongis, ramis remotioribus et paulo longioribus, 
floribus majoribus, ovario interdum 2-loculari cum stylis 2. 
—-v. v. in hort. bot. Kew. cult. 
The differences above mentioned may only be the result of 
eulture; but I think the plant must be referred to the species 
above described, which I found at Freichal. The leaves in this 
cultivated variety are 63-74 inches long, 23-8 inches broad, on 
a petiole of 5 or 6 lines; the radiating branches of the inflores- 
cence are 2-6 inches long, the main stems nearly glabrous; the 
lateral branchlets alternate, 1-4 inch apart, and quite patent, are 
2-3 lines long, and pubescent: the flowers expanded are 3 lines, 
in diameter, 
6. Villaresia virescens, n. sp.;—glaberrima, ramulis teretibus, 
vix striatulis; foliis ellipticis vel oblongis, utrinque acutis, 
apice acuminatis, integerrimis, submembranaceis, margine 
cartilagineo nitido reflexo, obscure viridibus, opacis, subtus 
_pallidioribus; nervis tenuibus venisque vix prominulis, eglan- 
_ dulosis et epunctatis, breviter petiolatis: paniculis racemoso-. 
spicatis, simplicibus, axillaribus et terminalibus, breviusculis ; 
floribus sessilibus in’ apice ramorum brevissimorum glome- 
_* This species, with analytical details, will be seen in the same work, 
Plate 71, 
