434 Mr. J. Miers on the Genus Rhabdia. 



pariete oppositis divaricatim bifidis marginibus uniovuligeris, 

 hinc pseudo-4-locularej ovulis appensis, micropyle supera : 

 gynobasis seu columella centralis tubulosa, vacua, vasis ad 

 ovula pertingentibus munita. Stylus filiformis, longitudine 

 staminum. Stigma parvum, 2-lobum et subpeltatum. 

 Drupa ovato-globosa, nitida, parce succosa, calyce per- 

 sistente inclusa, 4-pyrena ; pyrence oblongo-ovatse, dorso 

 convexiores, per paria medio lineae placentaris fungosas mar- 

 gine semiadhserentes, mox liberas, subosseae, uno margine 

 rima longitudinali pro intrusione vasorum oblique fissae, 

 l-sperma3 : semen loculum implens, Mlo punctiformi con- 

 spicuo inter medium et summum appensum ; integumenta 

 tenuissima, alba, opaca, raphe ab hilo ad chalazam parvam 

 basalem percursa; embryo in alhumine carnoso inclusus, 

 cotyledonihus foliaceis, ovatis, faciebus diametro fructus pa- 

 rallelis, radicula tereti ad summum spectante 2-3-plo lon- 

 gioribus. 

 Suffrutices Brasilienses et Asiatici : caules plurimij congesti^ 

 erectly virgati^ subramosi^ ramis adscendentihus ; folia plu- 

 rimaj alterna^ linear i-ohlong a j sessilia^ ant hrevissime petio- 

 latttj suhpuberula ; racemi in ramulis novellis terminalesy 

 pauciflori ; floresJ9ar^;^', hreviter pedicellatij pedicellis medio 

 hracteatis. 



1. Rhabdia lycioideSj Mart. Nov. Gen. ii. 136, tab. 195; 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 512 ; Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xix. p. 58, 

 tab. 9. fig. 9 ; — caulibus plurimis, congestis, erectis, ramosis ; 

 ramis adscendentibus, virgatis, elongatis, breviter ramulosis ; 

 ramulis apice floriferis ; foliis sparsis, sursum gradatim mi- 

 noribus, lineari-oblongis, apice obtusis aut breviter acutis, 

 imum versus latioribus et rotundato-truncatis, marginibus 

 undulatis, sessilibus, erecto-patulis, utrinque pubescenti- 

 hirtis, pilis prsesertim subtus imo tuberculatis, subtus pal- 

 lide viridibus, costa prominente viridi-rubescente pubes- 

 centi-hirtula : racemis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, 

 brevissimis, simplicibus vel 2-fidis, 2-3-floris, pedicellisque 

 imo bracteatis et calycibus molliter pilosis ; floribus imo 

 bracteolatis ; bacca globoso-ovata, nitida, coccinea. — In 

 Brasilia prov. Bahia, Rio S. Francisco, in inundatis prope 

 Joazeiro. {Non vidi.) 



Martins describes tliis species as growing in numerous 

 cespitose upright branches, 5 or 6 feet high ; these throw out 

 several erect branchlets, which are again ramified : the leaves 

 are alternate, 4-6 or 8 lines apart, 1-1 1- inch long, 4-5 lines 

 broad ; the bracts are 1^ line long ; the sepals 1^-2 lines long; 

 the corolla 2^ lines long, the tubular part being white, the 



