450 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Saracha. 



extus margineque pubescente ; staminibus pilosis ; bacca pisi- 

 formi, calyce subaucto rotate suffulta. — Columbia, v. in her-h. 

 Hook. (Hartwegj no. 1292.) 



Judging from the specimen above referred to, this plant would 

 appear to be almost erect, and different from the usually strag- 

 gling dichotomous growth of this genus, but in the structm'e of 

 the flower and of the seed it accords entirely with Saracha. The 

 leaves are 1^ inch long, | inch broad, upon a very short petiole 

 of 4 or 5 lines ; the very sericeous peduncle with its two pedicels 

 are scarcely longer than half an inch ; the calyx in flower mea- 

 sures f inch in diameter, increasing in fructification to a dia- 

 meter of f inch ; the corolla barely measures f inch across, and 

 three parallel nervures extend from the apex of each segment to 

 the base ; the fruit is from 3 to 4 lines in diameter. 



21 . Saracha glandulosa (n. sp.) ; — glanduloso-pubescens ; foliis 

 alternis, floralibus subgeminis, oblongis, acuminatis, in petio- 

 lum longiusculum attenuatis, insequahter grosse serratis et 

 eroso-denticulatis, crassis, utrinque tomentosis, nervis patentim 

 pilosis, margine glanduloso-ciliatis, superioribus subintegris ; 

 pedunculo brevi, axillari, 2-floro, pedicellis aequilongo ; calyce 

 5-fido ; corolla parva, rotata, flava, utrinque subpubescente, 

 angulato-5-loba, lobis acutis; staminibus inclusis, filamentis 

 brevibus, imo dilatatis, pilosis, antheris ovalibus, conniventibus. 

 — Nova Granada, v. in herb. Hook. (La Pena, Bogota, Goudot.) 



This is the plant elsewhere mentioned as appearing to me to 

 bear so close an analogy with the figure and character of Withe- 

 ringia solanacea (L^Herit.). Its leaves are 2\ inches long, 1 inch 

 broad, on a somewhat slender petiole 9 lines to an inch in length : 

 the peduncle and pedicels together scarcely measure more than 

 3 lines, the flower being no more than 4 lines in diameter ; the 

 stamens, scarcely a line long, are shorter than the somewhat cam- 

 panular base of the corolla, the filaments are suddenly dilated into 

 triangular processes at base, and united into a short adnate ring ; 

 above they are flat and narrow, the margins being clothed with 

 diverging ciliate hairs ; the anthers are oval, adnate to a small 

 oblong dorsal connective, and they burst on the edges by longi- 

 tudinal fissures *. 



22. Saracha solanacea. Witheringia solanacea, UHerit. Stirp. 

 Nov. Angl. 1. 33. tab. 1; Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1. 149; Lam. 

 Illustr. 1. 326. tab. 82; Diet. 8. 800;— radice tuberoso fusi- 

 formi ; caule inferne lignoso, perenni ; ramulis subherbaceis, 

 annuis, erectis, pedalibus, pilosis, angulatis; foliis ovato-ob- 



* This plant will be shown in plate 39 A. of the * Illustr. South Amer. 

 Plants.' 



