194 MR. JOHN MIERS ON G(ETZIA AND ESPADEA. 
6 lines long; the lobes of the border are ¿ line long; the anthers extend 1 line above 
them: the superior ovary is a depressed cone seated in the hollow of a very broad raised 
fleshy disk, which has five rounded erect lobes alternate with the calycine teeth and 
stamens; the lower portion of the disk is adnate to the calyx. The fruit is covered with 
a dense yellowish ferruginous tomentum, is 7 lines in diameter, rounded at the summit ; 
it is very fleshy, and is either 1- or 2-celled, the cells being lined with a membranaceous 
endocarp: the seeds are already described. "There is a difference in the three plants above 
quoted: in La Sagra's plant, according to the drawing of Richard, the flowers are 4-merous 
and the leaves are only 13-13 inch long: in Wright's plant the flowers are 6-merous, and 
the leaves are of the same size as those in Richard's drawing; but in Linden's specimen 
the flowers are all 5-merous and the leaves are double the size, being 23-3 inches long; 
as, however, the leaves are similar in shape and appearance in the three specimens, I 
have regarded them as one species. 
2. EsPADEA APICULATA, nob. Armeniastrum apiculatum, Lem. Jard. Fleur. vol. iv. 
misc. p. 78, cum tab. in p. 77; A. DC. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. iii. 948: fruticosa, ramis 
ramulisque gracilibus, divaricatissimis, junioribus tenuiter ferrugineo-puberulis ; 
foliis parvis, alternis, pyriformibus, apice rotundatis, minute mucronatis, imo acute 
cuneatis, coriaceis, crassiusculis, glaberrimis, crebre parallelim nervosis; petiolo 
tenui, ferrugineo-puberulo, limbo 4-plo breviore; floribus extraaxillaribus, soli- 
tariis, breviter pedicellatis, pedicello puberulo; calyce subgloboso, parce puberulo, 
minutissime et acute 5-dentato; corollæ tubo infundibuliformi, curvato, antice paulo 
ventricoso, fauce obliqua, limbo 5-lobo, lobis subacutis, reflexis; staminibus 5, gra- 
datim inæqualibus, imo tubi insertis, exsertis, postremo longiore; antheris 2-lobis, ' 
lobis collateraliter adnatis, in sinu affixis; stylo stamina excedente, sursum curvato; 
stigmate rotunde 2-lobulato; disco magno, carnoso, calyci adnato, margine appen- 
dicibus 5 erectis subulatis ovarium circumstantibus mellifluis instructo; ovario 
conico, brevi, 2-loculari, loculis 1- (vel 2-?) ovulatis; drupa subglobosa, longe api- 
culata, leete aurantiaca, carnosa, eduli, abortione sæpius 1-sperma : embryone 
basilari, exalbuminoso, cotyledonibus carnosis, radiculam inferam brevissimam clau- 
dentibus. Ex insula Cube, in hort. Belgic. culta (Lemaire) : non vidi. 
À species very distinct from either of the preceding, remarkable for its much smaller 
leaves and flowers. The axils are 2-4 lines apart; the leaves are 5-8 lines long, 33- 
4$ lines broad, on a petiole 2 lines long; the calyx-is 14 line long and broad; the tube 
of the corolla 3 lines long, the lobes of the border 1 line long, the appendages 1 line long : 
the fruit is 6 lines in diameter, 9 lines long, including the apical point. 
