Mr. J. Miers 07i some of the Heliotropieae. 193 



stamina attingens, glaber, apice incrassatus et turbinatus ; 

 stigma obtuse conicum, 4-sulcatum, pilosum. Fructus bac- 

 catus, parce carnosus, globose 4-gaster, depressus, in medio 

 umbilicatus et styli vestigio notatus ; pyrence 4, demum se^ 

 parabiles, dorso convexae, intus angulatae, hippocrepice pli- 

 catae, camnculatae, et hinc primum cohserentes, osseae, inde- 

 hiscentes, 1-loculares, l-spermae : semen hippocrepice cur- 

 vatum J integum^entum tenue ; albumen parcum, carnosum ; 

 embryo conformis, cotyledonibus ovato-oblongis, foliaceis, 

 incumbenter arcuatis, radicula supera ad stjlum spectante 

 6-plo longioribus. 

 Suffrutices Americani^ plerumque BrastlienseSj scepius sub- 

 scandentes; ramis tenuibus^ scepe fistidosis ; folia alterna^ 

 petiolata^ oblonga^ Integra^ glabra^ aut adpresse jpilosa : in- 

 florescentia axillaris et terminalis^ divaricatim vel dichotome 

 ramosa, ramis ultimis spicatijiorisj apice recurvatis ; flores 

 parvij \-lateraleSy crebrij sessiles aut brevissime pedunculatij 

 ebraxiteati, 



♦ Paniculse axillares et subterminales. 



1. Messerschmidtia subulata^ Gardn. Lond. Journ. Bot. i.532; — 

 Tournefortia Gardneri, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 526; Fresen, in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. xix. p. 54 ; — Tournefortia lanceolata, F^-es. 

 I. c. p. 66 ; — scandens, ramulis teneribus, fistulosis, pilosius- 

 culis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, imo rotundatis, 

 submembranaceisj utrinque rugulosis et sparse adpresso- 

 villosulis ; petiolo pilosulo, limbo 12-plo breviore : paniculis 

 axillaribus et terminalibuSj pubescentibus, brevibus, crebre 

 alternatim ramosis et spicatifloris ; sepalis lobisque corollas 

 longe subulatis ; baccis 4-gastris. — In Brasilia : v. v. prov. 

 Rio de Janeiro (Jurujuba, Botafogo, et Rio Cumprido) ; 

 V. s. Tejuco (Gardner, 175). 



A slender climbing plant, frequent in the neighbourhood of 

 Rio de Janeiro : its long slender branches are \ line thick, 

 with axils about 2 inches apart ; leaves 2-3 J inches long, 

 9-14 lines broad, on a slender petiole 2-3 lines long ; panicle 

 \ inch long, branching from the base with three or four alter- 

 nate curving branches \ line apart, each 6 lines long, with 

 about twelve sessile flowers closely uniserial on the upperside; 

 sepals 2 lines long, J line broad at base, setiform, ciliate on 

 margins ; tube of corolla 2 lines long, pilose outside, a little 

 swollen below the mouth ; segments patent, very narrow, with 

 inflected margins 3^ lines long ; stamens cohering in the mouth 

 by their barbated summits ; style long, slender, swollen above, 

 with an annular ring terminated by a conical pilose apex ; 



