16 DR. B. SEEMANN ON THE CRESCENTlACEiE. 



TaTUEcimn albiflorum, DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 245 ; Seem, in Bonpl. iv. p. 12/, et in Hook. Journ. et Kew 



Misc. ix. p. 83. 

 Tanacium Jaroba, Swartz. Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. p. 1050, t. 20. fig. 1 (exclud. syn. Marcgr. et idee nomine). 

 CucurbiHfera, Sloane, Hist. ii. p. 173 ; Browne, Jamaica, p. 266. n. 6. 

 Geogr. Distr. Jamaica {Robins ! Distan ! Wright ! Swartz !) ; British Guiana {Schomburgk ! n. 829) ; 



woods near Crato, prov. Ceara, Brazil {Gardner \ n. 1765). 



§ II. Caules ramique radicantes, folia simplicia coriacea. Corolla glabra, lilacina, violacea, carulescens, 

 rosea vel coccinea. (Schlegelia, Miq. !) 



3. TANiECiUM PARASITICUM ; foiiis ovato-oblongis acuminatis iitrinque glabris, racemis 



axillaribus 2-12-floris, corolla (coccinea) glabra, tubo abbreviato, bacca globosa, 

 glabra (ferriiginea), seminibus angvilato-oblongis parvis. (v. sp. s. et v. cult.) 



Tancecium parasitiaim, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. p. 1053, t. 20. f. 2 ; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 245 ; Seem, in 

 Bonpl. iv. p. 127; et in Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. ix. p. 83. 



Crescentia, Browne, Jamaica, p. 266. n. 5. 



Geogr. Distr. Woods of Jamaica {Swartzl Purdiel Alexander^) ; Cuba {Ch. Wright, n. 434); near San 

 Gabriel da Cachoeira, Rio Negro, Brazil {Spruce ! n. 2243). Cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Kew, 



4. Tan^cium lilacinum; foiiis ovatis ovato-elKpticis vel lanceolato-oblongis utrinque 



glabris, panicuKs terminalibus miiltifioris, bracteis ovato-oblongis acuminatis, brac- 

 teolis Mneari-lanceolatis striatis pedunculisque puberulis, corolla (lilacina, rosea vel 

 violacea) glabra, tubo abbreviato, bacca ovali glabra (nigra), (v. sp. v. et sp. s.) 



Tancecium lilacinum. Seem. Bot. Herald, p. 182, Bonpl. iv. p. 128, et Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. ix. 



p. 84. 

 Schlegelia lilacina, Miq, in Bot. Zeit. ii. (1844) p. 788, Stirp. Surinam, p. 116 cum icon.; DeCand. 



Prodr. ix. p. 564. 

 Schlegelia elongata, Miq. in Linnaea, xxii. p. 73? Stirpes Surinam, p. 128. 

 Besleria ? violacea, Aubl. Guian. ii. p. 630, t. 254 ; DeCand. Prodr. vii. p. 539. 

 Besleria ? carulea, Aubl. Guian. ii. p. 631 ; DeCand. Prodr. vii. p. 539, 

 Citharexylon cineremn, {" jmrasiticum, scandens") Linn. Plant. Surinam, p. 11. n. 92 (non Syst., non 



Spec. Plant.) et in Herb. prop. 

 Nomen vernaculum Guianense : " Emosse bereoy," teste Aublet. 

 Geogr. Distr. Darien {Seemann !) ; Surinam {Hostmann ! n. 553 in Herb, Paris. ; Herb. Linn. prop. ; Focke 



et Kegel, teste Miquel) ; French Guiana (Aublet! in Mus. Brit.). 



Authors do not quite agree respecting the colour of the corolla. In the specimens I 

 collected in Darien it was lilac, some might call it pink. Aublet had specimens with blue, 

 and some with violet corollas, I regard these discrepancies as indicating so many slight 

 varieties. 



Species exchtsce. 



Tanacium'i paniculatum, Sieh. = Arrabidcea paniculata, Seem. 

 Tancecium pinnatum, 'W\\[d. = Kigelia p)innata, DeCand. 

 Tancecium tripinna, Raeusch = CoZea tripinnata, Seem. 



