Mr. J. Miers on some of the Heliotropieae. 20l 



que flavido-tomentosis ; petiolo tomentoso, limbo 5-6-plo 

 breviore : paniculls axillaribus et terminalibus, flavo-tomen- 

 tosis, bis dichotome geniculatim divisis, ramis ultimis spi- 

 catifloris ; floribus 1-seriatis, crebre sessilibus ; sepalis la- 

 ciniisque corollas valde subulatis, tubo superne inflato ; drupis 

 4-gastris, glabris. — In Brasilia : v, v. in prov. Rio de 

 Janeiro, ad Botofogo ; v. s. in herb, variis^ ex eodem loco 

 (Gardn. 82). 



Prof. Fresenius makes this plant identical witli Kuntb's 

 Tournefortia jloribunda^ which does not belong to Messer- 

 schmidtia] it differs in its compressed flexuous subfistulose 

 branches, its acute (not acuminated) leaves, covered with short 

 rigid hairs (not slenderly pubescent nor cano-tomentose be- 

 neath) ; it differs also in its longer style and stigma. In Kunth's 

 plant the drupe is globular, containing four globose nucules. 

 In this species the flattened branches are 1\ line broad, with 

 axils 1-2J inches apart; the leaves are 2\ inches long, IJ-lf 

 inch broad, on a petiole 4-6 lines long : the panicle, widely 

 expanded, is 4 inches long, on a peduncle 6 lines long; primary 

 and secondary branches 9 lines long, tertiary spicated, 3-6 

 lines apart, each 9-18 lines long ; sepals \ line long ; tube of 

 corolla less than 1 line long, the rest all conformable to the 

 generic character ; drupes glabrous*. 



18. Messerschmidtia Salzmanni^ nob. ; — Tournefortia Salz- 

 manni, D G. Prodr. ix. 524 ; Fresen. in Mart, Fl. Bras. xix. 

 p. 51 ; — scandens, ramis teretibus, fistulosis, subflexuosis, 

 simplicibus aut breviter ramulosis, flavide aut ferrugineo- 

 tomentosis, axillis subnodosis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis vel 

 lanceolatis, sensim acuminatis, imo rotundatis, supra pilis 

 brevibus velutino-tomentosis, subtus pallidioribus, ferrugineo- 

 tomentosis ; petiolo superne canaliculato, dense ferrugineo- 

 pubescente, limbo 9-10-plo breviore : paniculis in ramulis 

 alaribus terminalibus, flavo vel ferrugineo-tomentosis, bis 

 dichotome divaricato-divisis, ramis conjugatis vel simplicibus, 

 ultimis spicatifloris ; floribus remotiusculis, brevissime pe- 

 dicellatis ; sepalis laciniisque corollge longe subulatis. — In 

 Brasilia, prov. Bahia (Blanchet, 3787-3789, et Claussen, 

 412-419) ; V. s. in herb, meo, Ceara (Gardner, 1785) ; in herb. 

 Mus. Brit.^ Bahia (Luschnatt). 



A plant with long tortuous scandent branches, with axils 

 |-2 inches apart ; leaves 2:^-3^ inches long, 1-1 J inch broad, 

 on a petiole 3-4 lines long ; peduncle of inflorescence 5 lines, 



* A drawing of this plant, with sectional details to show the generic 

 structure, will be given in the second volume of my 'Contributions,* 

 Plate 53 b. 



