Mr. J. Miers on the genus Saracha. 447 



angulato-5-loba, lobis acutis, staminibus erectis, elongatis, imo 



pilis moUibus patentibus dense hirsutis : bacca pisiformi, calycc 



rotate sufFulta. — Peruvia, v. in herb. Hook. (Cuesto de Purru- 



chucho, Mathews, no. 77^, S. procumbens nominata.) 



This plant is oertainly very distinct from the S. procumbens of 



the ' Flora Peruviana/ and does not appear to correspond with 



any recorded species. The leaves are 2 inches long and 1 inch 



wide, with its broadest part towards the base, which is suddenly 



attenuated into a somewhat fine petiole 4 lines in length. The 



slender peduncle almost glabrous, striated and shining, is about 



an inch loitg, bearing on its summit the very delicate pedicels, 



umbellately spreading, and | inch in length : the calyx measures 



very nearly half an inch across, and the rotate corolla is 1 inch 



in diameter, the stamens being | inch long, very slender, smooth 



at the summit, while the lower moiety is densely pilose with very 



spreading articulated dark-coloured hairs : the round berries are 



about 4 lines in diameter, supported on their spreading, scarcely 



enlarged calyx*. 



14. Saracha diffusa (n. sp.) ; — ^herbacea, caule angulato, glabro, 

 dichotome ramoso ; foliis ovatis vel ellipticis, versus apicem 

 attenuatis, et saltim obtusiusculis, grosse sinuato-serratis, laci- 

 nulis obtusis, margine eroso-denticulatis et ciliatis, basi sub- 

 insequalibus, in petiolum gracilem angustissime decurrentibus, 

 submembranaceis, reticulato-venosis, vix glabris, vel utrinque 

 prsesertim in venis glanduloso-pilosis ; floribus in dichotomiis 

 umbellatis, 4-6 floris, pedunculo elongato gracillimo, pedicel- 

 lisque filiformibus glabris ; calyce.rotato, angulato, 5-dentato ; 

 corolla rotata, 15-nervia, extus lanuginosa, margine 5-angu- 

 lata, longe ciliata, staminibus erectis, coroUse dimidio brevio- 

 ribus, glabris. — Peruvia, v. in herb. Hook. (Cuesta de Purru- 

 chucho, Mathews, no. 775, S. contorta noncupata.) 



This species clearly does not correspond with the Saracha con- 

 torta of the ' Flora Peruviana,' agreeing neither with its figure nor 

 its description. The leaves, which are remarkable not only for 

 their sinuose serrate border, but for their distinctly eroso-ciliate 

 margins, are 2| inches long, ] ^ inch broad, with a petiole half 

 an inch in length : the peduncle of the umbel is from f to 1 inch 

 or sometimes 2~ inches, and the pedicels f inch long : the very 

 expanded flower measures 8 lines in diameter. The whole plant 

 appears herbaceous and almost glabrous, and is said to flower in 

 April. 



15. Saracha laxa (n. sp.) ; — caule angulato-striato, subglabro vel 



* A drawing of this species witli generic details will be given in the ' Il- 

 lustrations of South Amer. Plants,' plate 08. 



