Mr. J. Miers on Villaresia. 118 
sine Congonha, Mart. Isis. 1824, p. 589; St. Hil. in Guillem. 
Arch. Bot. i.31; Spreng. Syst. i. 939 ;—Myginda Congonha, 
DC. Prodr. ii. 18; G. Don, Dict. ii. 16 ;—ramulis foliis ob- 
longo-ovatis, imo acutis, apice obtusioribus et valde mucro- 
natis, margine crassiusculo cartilagineo reflexo, rarius integro, 
sepissime breviter et remote sinuato-spinosis, coriaceis, utrin- 
que subopacis, pallide viridibus, concoloribus, supra reticu- 
latis, subtus costa, nervis tenuibus venisque paulo prominulis, 
et hinc vesicula immersa poro aperta in axillis omnibus ner- 
vorum donatis, petiolo subbrevi, canaliculato ; racemis axil- 
laribus et terminalibus, subspicatis, bracteatis, flavido-pilosis ; 
ramis brevissimis, 8-floris, floribus parviusculis, sessilibus, 
bracteolatis, ramis basalibus iterum ramosis; sepalis parvis, 
rotundato-acutis, ciliatis; petalis oblongo-linearibus, sub- 
spathulatis, suberectis, cucullatis ; staminibus brevissimis, ses 
palis vix longioribus; ovario glabro, ventre 2-sulcato.—Bra- 
silia, in prov. australioribus et centralibus, v. s. in herb. Hook. ; 
Rio Grande et Entre Rios (Tweedie). 
This plant is considered by Dr. Reisseck to be identical with 
the typical species, of Chilian growth: it certainly resembles it 
in general appearance, but has several distinctly characteristic 
features. The leaves are differently shaped, and not so shining 
above ; the racemes are usually axillary, and much shorter; the 
flowers only half the size; the petals are more linear, and the 
stamens proportionally shorter. In Tweedie’s specimens, the 
leaves are 1? inch long, 1 inch broad, on a petiole 14 line long ; 
in the drawing given in Lambert’s work, of a plant from the pro- 
vince of Minas Geraés, which I have not seen, and which is pro- 
bably a distinct species, the leaves are 4—44 inches long, 24 inches 
broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long. In both, the racemes do not 
exceed a length of 9 lines, and are often shorter; their lateral 
branchlets are 1-2 lines long, bearing on their summits a cluster 
of three to six extremely small sessile flowers; the sepals are + 
the length of the petals, and are seated on a 5-lobed hispid torus: 
the petals are little more than 3 line long, and } line in breadth; 
they are erect (not expanded as in V. mucronata) ; in estivation 
their summits are more deeply inflected: the stamens are ¢ the 
length of the petals; the ovary and style ? of their length. The 
ovary is glabrous, gibbous on the dorsal side, 2-sulcate on the 
ventral face, the style being somewhat excentrical, and with a 
clavate stigma*, 
4. Villaresia cuspidata, n.sp.;—Villaresia mucronata, Reiss. in 
parte (non R. & P.) ;—yramulis angularibus, flavido-opacis, 
* This species will be also shown in the same work, Plate 69, 
Ann, § Mag. N. Hist, Ser. 3. Vol. ix, 8 
