Mr. J. Miers 07i some of the Heliotropieae. 195 



branches like the axillary panicles, but without leaves : the 

 uniserial flowers are 1^-2 lines apart, each on a pedicel -J line 

 long ; the sepals are 1 line long, glabrous, with ciliated mar- 

 gins ; the tube of the corolla 2 lines long, its segments 1 line 

 long ; the anthers cohere by their papillose summits ; the style 

 is slender, enlarged at its summit, and terminated by an oval, 

 obtuse, pilose stigma. 



4. Messerschmidtia Blanchetii^ nob. ; Tournefortia Blanchetii, 

 A. DC. Prodr. ix. 524 ; Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Bras, xix. 52 j 

 — scandens, ramis teretibus, adpresse sericeis ; foliis ovatis, 

 acutissime acuminatis, imo obtusis, membranaceis, utrinque 

 pilosis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis parum distinctis, petiolo 

 limbo 10-plo breviore : paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, 

 divaricato-dichotomis, subferrugineo-pubescentibus ; flori- 

 bus in ramis ultimis spicatim sessilibus, remotiusculis ; se- 

 palis lanceolatis, [acuminatis, tubo corollas sericese dimidio 

 brevioribus ; limbi lobis anguste linearibus. — In Bahia 

 (Blanchet, 1914) [non vidi). 



A species much resembling M. Salzmanni. Leaves 2^-3 

 inches long, 20-24 lines broad, on a petiole 4 lines long; 

 flowers 3 lines long. 



5. Messerschmidtia salicifolia^ Gardn. Lond. Jour. Bot. i. 181 ; 

 — Tournefortia salicifolia, BG. Prodr. ix. 531 ; Fresen. in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. xix. p. 55 ; — scandens, ramis fistulosis, 

 angulato-compressis, subflexuosis, moUiter patenter pilosis ; 

 foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, lanceolatisve, imo obtusis, a medio 

 sensim acuminatis, supra molliter pilosulis, subtus ferru- 

 gineo-glaucis, tomentoso-villosulis, marginibus ciliatis ; pe- 

 tiolo patenter ferrugineo-villoso, limbo 12-plo breviore : 

 paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio longioribus et 

 suboppositis, bis dichotome geniculatim divisis, ramis alter- 

 natim ramosis et spicatifloris, villosis ; floribus remotius- 

 culis, sessilibus ; sepalis lobisque corollas acutissimis ; drupis 

 4-gastris, pilosis. — In Brasilia ad Rio de Janeiro : v. v. et s. 

 Mori'o de Flamengo (Gardner, n. 81). 



A climbing plant, not uncommon in the neighbourhood of 

 Kio de Janeiro, with branches 1-1 ^ line thick, geniculately 

 flexuose at the axils, which are about 1 inch apart ; the leaves 

 are 2-4 inches long, 5-18 lines broad, on a petiole 2-3 lines 

 long. The panicle, 2 inches long and broad, has a peduncle 

 6 lines long, its primary very divaricated branches 4 lines 

 long, the secondary branchlets 3 lines long, each bearing two 

 or three spikes 6-9 lines long, with about ten to fifteen sessile 

 flowers f line apart ; sepals 1 line long, clothed with long 



