192 MR. JOHN MIERS ON G(ETZIA AND ESPADEA. 
number to, and alternate with its lobes ; a simple style and stigma; a superior 2-locular 
ovary, half imbedded in a large, partly free, fleshy, hypogynous disk having a lobed 
margin, the lobes sometimes enlarged into long, acute, mellifluous appendages ; two col- 
lateral ovules in each cell of the ovary, fixed at the base of the dissepiment ; a fleshy 
fruit, 2-celled, often by abortion 1-celled, with a single seed attached at the base of the 
ventral angle of each cell; seed with a testaceous testa, without albumen, containing an 
embryo, with two, or often four, large, fleshy cotyledons, united to a minute inferior 
radicle. 
I will now proceed to describe the two genera more particularly :— 
Garzia, Wydl. (non Reichenb. nec Griesb.). 
Calyx tubulosus, imo subglobosus, superne constrictus, ore 6-dentatus, dentibus lanceolatis, erectis, 
extus nervo prominulo notatis, margine ciliatis, intus reticulato-nervosis, persistens. Corolla infun- 
dibuliformi-tubulosa, tubo infra medium anguste cylindrico, 6-gono, superne sensim ampliato, fauce 
regulari, limbo 6-fido, laciniis subacutis, reflexis, «estivatione subvalvatis, crassiuscula, puberula. 
Stamina 6, laciniis corolle alterna, æqualia, longe exserta ; filamenta imo tubi inserta, libera, subu- 
lato-filiformia, erecta, glabra; anthere oblongæ, 2-lobz, imo sagittatæ, dorso versatiliter suspense, 
pilosiusculæ, utrinque rima longitudinali dehiscentes ; pollen album, globosum. Stylus tenuiter fili- 
formis, staminibus paulo brevior, glaber; stigma majusculum, clavato-2-lobum, utrinque sulcatum. 
Discus crassus, carnosus, superus, depressus, 6-gonus. Ovarium parvum, conicum, medio disci semi- 
immersum, pilosum, 2-loculare, loculis 1-2-ovulatis, ovulis ex apice pendulis ? (sec, Wydl.). Drupa 
pyriformi-ovata, calyce persistente suffulta, carnosa, disperma; seminis structura, immatura visa, 
hinc incerta, forsan ad eam Espadeæ accedens. 
Arbuscula Antillana, ramosissima : folia alterna, cuneatim oblonga, acuta vel emarginato-truncata, integra, 
supra nitentia, confertissime penninervia, subtus flavo-pubescentia, breviter petiolata ; inflorescentia 
axillaris, racemosa, 3-4-flora ; flores alterni, pedicellati ; corolla drupaque aurantiace. 
l. GŒTZIA ELEGANS, Wydl. Linn. v. 423, tab. 8: arborescens, ramulis sparsis; foliis 
oblongis, utrinque acute attenuatis, glaberrimis, supra nitentibus, crebre parallelim 
nervosis, nervis marginem versus anastomosantibus, subtus pallide ferrugineis, utrin- 
que sparse pilosis, petiolo ferrugineo-pubescente, limbo 10-plo breviore; racemis 
axillaribus vel terminalibus, folio brevioribus, 3-5-floris ; floribus pedicellatis, ebrac- 
teatis; calyce acute 6-dentato; corolla infundibuliformi, carnosa, puberula, fauce 
ampliata, limbo regulari, 6-fido, laciniis acutis, revolutis: staminibus 6, imo tubi 
insertis, filamentis subulato-filiformibus; antheris lineari-oblongis, imo cordatis, 
dorso pilosulis, exsertis: ovario depresse conico-piloso, disco tenui glabro cincto: 
drupa pyriformi, pericarpio exsucco aurantiaco, abortu monosperma. In ins. Puerto 
Rico (Wydler) : non vidi. 
The leaves are 21-23 inches long, 11-15 inch wide, on a petiole 3 lines long ; the 
raceme is 1-2 inches long, the pedicels 2 lines long; the persistent calyx 4 lines long ; 
the tube of the corolla 10 lines long; the lobes of the border 2 lines long; anthers 
exserted 2 lines beyond the mouth; the dependent drupe obovate, 6-8 lines long. 
No one appears to have seen this plant, except Dr. Wydler, from whose details the above 
description is made. 
