Mr. J. Miers on the Tricuspidariese. 47' 



telia. It has, however, one peculiarity in sometimes having 

 stipules, which do not seem to be known in other genera of 

 the EUeocarpece ; nor do they exist in the Sloanece ; but this 

 appears to be only a partial feature in the genus. 



I have drawn up an amended character of Vallea from my 

 own observations. 



Vallea, Mutis. — Flares hermaphroditi. Sepala 5, oblonga, 

 acuta, marginibus lanuginosis, sestivatione valvata. Pe- 

 tala 5, sepalis paulo longiora, membranacea, obovata, fere 

 ad medium 3-loba, marginibus supersessis, sestivatione im- 

 bricata. Discus crassus, in annulos 2 fossa intermedia con- 

 strictus, exteriore piano, margine undulato toro adnato, in- 

 terior e subcupulseformi, margine elevato et crenulato, in- 

 ter vallo staminigero. Stamina 40, in seriebus 2, in con- 

 strictione disci crebre disposita ; filamenta linearia, compla- 

 nata, superne tenuiora, puberula, apice incurvata ; antheroi 

 lineares, sub-4-gon£e, antice et postice profunde sulcatas, 

 basifixae, 2-loculares, apice utrinque poro obliquo angulato 

 dehiscentes. Ovarium conico-rotundum, 3-4-sulcatum, 3- 

 4-loculare, loculis 3-ovulatis ; ovula subreniformia, axe cen- 

 tral! affixa, superposita: stylus filiformis, erectus, stamina 

 sequans, glaber ; stigmata 3-5, subbrevia, teretia, subdivari- 

 cata. Fructus baccatus, globosus (pericarpio succulento, in 

 tubercula plurima elongata obtusa carnosa corrugato, endo- 

 carpio Isevi) , 3-locularis, siccus dehiscente ad apicem brevis- 

 sime ac loculicide 3-valvatim aperiens : semina pauca, ig- 

 nota. 

 Arbores Neogranadenses et PeruviancSj frondos(B ; folia al- 

 terna^ Integra^ ovato-ohlonga^ suhcordata^ Integra^ petiolata^ 

 interdum stipulata^ stipulis parvis^ reniformihuSj geminis ; 

 paniculi axillares et terminales^ pedicellis hracteatis. 



1. Vallea stipulariSj Mutis in Linn. f. Suppl. 266 ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. 520 ; H. B. K. v. 349, tab. 489.— In Santa Fe de Bogota : 

 V. s. in herb. Mus, Brit. (Mutis) . 



This plant is very weU described and figured by Kunth. 



2. Vallea piibescens^ H. B. K. v. 350 ; — -jamulis teretibus, ni- 

 grescentibus,junioribus ferrugineo-tomentosis ; foliis ovato- 

 oblongis, imo subrotundis, vix cordatis, apice subobtusis, 

 integris, e basi 3-5-nerviis, nervis conspicuis, reticulato 

 venosis, supra nitidis, glaberrimis, subtus flavido-glaucis, 

 undique prsesertim in axillis nervorum moUiter ferrugineo- 

 pubescentibus ; petiolo tenui, fere glabro, limbo dimidio 

 breviore; stipulis geminis, reniformibus, fere sessilibus, 

 extus parce puberulis : paniculis axillaribus, folio paulum 



