116 Mr. J. Miers on Villaresia. 
rulatis ; sepalis pilosis; petalis glabris, intus carinatis ; ovario 
glabro; stylo brevi, subexcentrico; stigmate clavato, sub- 
bilobo.—Prov. Rio de Janeiro; v. s. in herb. meo, Iguassa, ad 
pedem montis Serra de Tingoa. 
A species analogous to the last mentioned, with smaller leaves, 
acute at both extremities, with much shorter petioles. The 
leaves are 44-5 inches long, 13-2 inches broad, on a petiole 
8 lines in length. The inflorescence consists of a short simple 
panicle, in which the lateral branches are so short and approxi- 
mated that the whole bears the appearance of a spike of agglo- 
merated flowers: the sessile flowers are nearly 2 lines in dia- 
meter; the sepals are oblong, membranaceous, obtuse, and 
slightly pubescent ; the petals are 1 line in length and three 
times as long as the sepals, they are smooth, carinate within ; 
the stamens are nearly equal to them in length, and as long as 
the pistil; the ovary is almost glabrous. 
7. Villaresia ramiflora, un. sp. ;—glaberrima, dichotome ramosa, 
ramulis striato-angulatis ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis, vel ellip- 
ticis, imo cuneatis, apice longiuscule sensim acuminatis, acu- 
_ mine obtusiusculo calloso, integerrimis, margine cartilagineo 
rubello nitido revoluto, supra viridibus subopacis, costa ner- 
visque immersis sulcatis, subtus ferrugineo-pallidis; costa 
striata, nervis tenuibus venisque subprominulis, cavitate porosa 
versus axillas nervorum, aliisque minutis vagis; petiolo sub- 
tenui profunde canaliculato: panicula ramosa, terminali, pe- 
tiolo 3-plo longiore ; floribus parvulis, sessilibus in ramis sub- 
elomerulato-spicatis ; sepalis villosis; petalis ovatis, paulo 
acutis, intus carinatis, sepalis 2-plo longioribus; staminibus, 
sepalis pistilloque zquilongis ; ovario glabro, vel pilis paucis 
in sulco ventrali munito; stylo brevi; stigmate clavato.—In 
montibus Organensibus prov. Rio de Janeiro, v. v. 
This species is near V. megaphylla, but has many distinct fea- 
tures. Its leaves are 4-5 inches long, 1?-2 inches broad, on 
a petiole 4-5 lines long. The panicle is little more than an inch 
long; it has several alternate branches, 4-6 lines long, the 
lateral branchlets being extremely short or almost obsolete, each 
bearing three sessile flowers in its apex, which make the branches 
appear glomerate-spicate; the flowers expanded are smaller than 
any of the preceding. 
8. Villaresia paniculata, nob.;—Leonia paniculata, Mart. hd. 
~ Bras. No. 420; DC. Prodr. vi. 669 (in adnot.) ;—Leretia 
paniculata, Mart. Flor. Bras. fase. xvi. p. 17 in not. ;—foliis 
oblongis, basi attenuatis, apice obtusis vel acutis, coriaccis; 
nervis tertiarlis vix distinctis; paniculis terminalibus, con- 
