114 My. J: Miers on Villaresia. 
. + foliis ovatis vel ellipticis, utrinque acutis, apicé mucrone longo 
valido cuspidatis aut retusis, crasso-coriaceis, margine cartila- 
gineo integro crasso reflexo, supra nitidis, pallidiusculis, reti- 
culato-venosis, nervis immersis leviter sulcatis, subtus valde 
_ -flavido-opacis, minute nigro-punctulatis, costa, nervis arcuatis 
. venisque prominentibus, rarius in axillis nervorum glandula 
porifera donatis, longe petiolatis; petiolo flavido-opaco, sub- 
ruguloso, superne profunde canaliculato ; racemis axillaribus 
et terminalibus 3-4, fasciculatis, folio tertia parte brevioribus, 
subspicatis ; brachiis patentibus, imo bracteatis, summo flores 
3 sessiles bracteolatos gerentibus ; rachi brachiisque flavido 
puberulis.—Prov. Minas Geraés, v. s. in herb. meo; Salgado, 
ad Rio San Francisco. 
This species differs from the preceding in having still thicker 
leaves, which are quite entire, nigro-punctulate beneath, and 
rarely with poriferous glands in the axils of the nerves; the pe- 
tiole is three or four times the length of that of the former. The 
leaves are 2-23 inches long, 11-2: + inches broad, on a petiole 5 
or 6 lines in length. The racemes are 9-12 lines long, the lateral 
branchlets 1 lime long. The flowers are much smaller than in 
V. mucronata, being about 14 line in diameter when expanded ; 
the minute sepals are nearly glabrous, membranous, with ciliate 
margins, concave, suborbicular, acute at the apex, and imbri- 
cated ; they are adnate upon an externally pilose deeply 5-lobed 
fleshy torus: the petals are elliptic, with an internal carimated 
nervure, three times longer than the sepals; the stamens are 
two-thirds the length of the petals, and as long as the ovary and 
aie which-are quite glabrous*. 
5. Villaresia megaphylla, n. sp.;—ramis angulatis, striatis, opacis ; 
foliis majusculis, oblongis, imo acutis, summum versus breviter 
attenuatis, acumine calloso, integerrimis, margine undulato, 
submembranaceis, glaberrimis, nervo marginali tenuissimo 
revoluto nitido, supra pallide viridibus, opacis ; costa mediana 
immersa, hine sulcata, inferne prominente et striata; nervis 
tenuissimis venisque haud reticulatis utrinque vix prominulis 
et eglandulosis, impunctatis; petiolo longiusculo, subtenui, 
semitereti, supra canaliculato, imo articulato ; paniculis axil- 
lartbus et terminalibus, paulo supra basin brachia 5-8 arete 
approximata et fere fasciculata emittentibus, divaricatis, folio 
dimidio vel triente brevioribus, spicatim racemosis; ramis 
remotiusculis, brevibus, patentibus, imo bracteatis, apice flores 
parvos, 3-5 sessiles bracteolatos gerentibus; sepalis parvis 
bracteolisque puberulis ; petalis oblongis, glabris, et stamini- 
* A drawing of this plant will be given in the ‘ Contributions,’ vol. ii, 
Plate “70. 
