266 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Brachistus. 



8. Brachistus hehephyllus (n. sp.) ; — fruticosus, ramulis teretibus, 

 elliptico-lanceolatis, attenuato-acumiiiatis^ basi subcuneatis, 

 integris, utrinque molliter incano-pubescentibus ; floribus plu- 

 rimis, parvulis, 4-meriSj axillaribus, fasciculatis, pedunculis fili- 

 formibuSj petiolo subtequalibus, pilosis; calyce piloso, urceolato, 

 margine integro, ciliato ; corolla rotata, laciniis 4, oblongis, 

 acutis, margine ciliatis, tubo brevi, intus pilosulo, staminibus 

 brevibus, erectis : ovario ovato, disco annul ari insito : stylo 

 staminibus superante, subincurvo ; stigmate clavato ; bacca 

 parva, calyce minimo suffulta. — Nova Granada, v. s. in herb. 

 Hook. (Los Tapios, Quindiu^ Goudot, sub nomine " Witheringia 

 mollis, H. B. K.") 



This species, although approaching the Witheringia mollisj 

 H. B. K., is certainly distinct from it in the form and size of its 

 leaves, and its much smaller flowers, which are 4-merous : it has 

 also an entire calyx. The leaves are 3 to 3J inches long, and 

 about 1 or 1^ inch broad, upon a petiole from 5 to 9 lines in 

 length ; the flowers, from 6 to 10 or more, are crowded in each 

 axil, the pedicels being 5 lines in flower and 7 lines in fruit, they 

 are pubescent and erect ; the corolla has a short tube with a 4-tid 

 expanded border ; the filaments are gradually dilated to the base, 

 smooth and somewhat pilose at the point of their insertion in the 

 middle of the short tube, which is there pubescent ; the anthers 

 are ovate, cordate, acute, adnate, and terminated by a sharp point ; 

 the style is long, slender and exserted, somewhat incurved, with 

 a small clavate stigma ; the ovarium is ovate, and surrounded at 

 the base by an annular fleshy ring ; the berry is about the size of a 

 peppercorn, supported on its smaller persistent withered calyx; 

 the dissepiment and bifurcate placentae are membranaceous : the 

 seeds were too immature to determine the form of the embryo*. 



9. Brachistus oblongifolius (n. sp.) ; — fruticosus, ramulis teneris, 

 teretibus, glabris ; foliis oblongis, utrinque acuminatis, omnino 

 glabris, breviter petiolatis, inferioribus subcoriaceis, rugoso- 

 venosis, superioribus planiusculis, submembranaceis, geminis, 

 altero tertio vel quarto minore, rhomboideo-ovato, breviter pe- 

 tiolatis; floribus pentameris paucis, fasciculatis (2-4), pedun- 

 culis subcernuis, petiolo sequilongis ; calyce urceolato, brevis- 

 sime 5-dentato, glabro ; corolla tubulosa, breviter infundibu- 

 liformi, limbo 5-lobo expanso, laciniis acutis, staminibus vix 

 inclusis, filamentis filiformibus, medio tubi insertis, tubo hinc 

 pubescente, aliter intus glabro. — Nova Granada, v. s. in herb. 

 Hook. (Pantano del Moral, Ibague, Goudot.) 



* A figure of this species witli generic details will be given in Plate 36 of 

 the * Illustr. South Amer. Plants.' 



