198 Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropiese. 



mits ; ovary, style, and stigma \\ line long, glabrous ; style four 

 times the length of the ovary, turbinate at its summit, with a 

 fringed margin, supporting a pilose ovate stigma one-tenth of 

 its length. 



11. Messerschmidtia valga^ nob. ; — ^ramis teretibus, lignosis, 

 lenticellatis, ramulis striatellis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, imo 

 obtusis aut in petiolum acutiuscule decurrentibus, apice sub- 

 acuminatis, submembranaceis, utrinque pilis brevibus e 

 tuberculis sparsim adpresse strigosis, supra nervis tenuibus 

 nigris immersis, subtus paulo prominulis, livide glaucis ; 

 petiolo superne sulcato, pilosulo, limbo 5-6-plo breviore: 

 paniculis axillaribus, folium sequantibus, parce pilosis, 

 pedunculo petiolo sequilongo ; rachi brevi, flexuosa, divari- 

 catim bisdichotoma, aut tristachya ; ramis rigidulis, spicati- 

 floris ; floribus 1-serialibus, remotiusculis ; sepalis corollas- 

 que lobis longissime subulatis, valde pilosis. — In Brasilia : 

 V. s. in herb, Mus. Brit.^ Maceio (Gardn. 1363). 



Its axils are | inch apart ; the leaves are 2J-2| inches long, 

 1 1^-1 J inch broad, on a petiole 5 lines long ; peduncle of 

 inflorescence 9 lines long, its two branches 4 lines long, the 

 spicate branches, slightly curved, 1| inch long; the flowers 

 1\ line apart; pedicels^ line long; sepals 1^ line long; tube 

 of corolla If line, the segments 1 J line long ; anthers very 

 short, cohering by their apices in the mouth of the tube ; pistil 

 14 line long ; style six times as long as the stigma. 



12. Messerschmidtia minuta ; — Tournefortia minuta, Bert, in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 527; — scandens?, ramis virgatis, junioribus 

 minute puberulis ; foliis anguste lanceolatis, obtusis, sca- 

 bridis, petiolatis : paniculis axillaribus, conjugatim ramosis, 

 ramis spicatifloris ; floribus remotis ; sepalis lanceolatis, 

 acutis ; corollas tubo medio coarctato, limbi lobis lanceolato- 

 acuminatissimis ; drupis 4-gastris. — In Jamaica [non vidi). 



Leaves IJ inch long, 3 lines broad. 



** Paniculse in ramis aut in ramulis terminales. 



13. Messerschmidtia microphylla^ nob. ; — Tournefortia micro- 

 phylla, Desv. in Ham, Prodr. p. 24 {non Bert.) ; DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 528 ; — Tournefortia lucida, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. p. 397 

 [non Desv.) ; — subscandens ?, undique glaberrima, ramulis 

 tenuissimis, teretibus, lenticellatis ; foliis parvis, obovatis, 

 imo rotundatis, a medio gradatim angustioribus, apice valde 

 obtusis, submucronulatis, crassiusculis, obscuris, utrinque 

 rugulosis ; petiolo tenui, limbo 6-plo breviore : paniculis in 

 ramulis terminalibus, suboppositifoliis, breviter puberulis, 



