248 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Brunsfelsia. 



these sutures: in most cases, the capsule (which is 2-locular) 

 splits at its apex by four vertical lines : it presents few seeds 

 (about ten) without any intervening pulp. In Brunsfelsia, on 

 the contrary, the fruit is a globular deep orange-coloured drupe 

 many times larger than the calyx, about the size of a small apple, 

 with a soft pulpy envelope inclosing a coriaceous put amen, con- 

 taining many seeds immersed in a fleshy pulp. Franciscea grows 

 only to the size of low bushes or small shrubs, while Brunsfelsia 

 attains the dimensions of large trees, B. undulata being 20 feet 

 high, and B. americana growing to the size of an apple-tree with 

 a trunk as thick as the human body. 



Brunsfelsia, Sw. (char, reform.). — Calyx brevissimus, urceo- 

 latus, profunde 5-dentatus. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, car- 

 nosa, tubo gracili, cylindrico, calyce 4-12-ies longiore, fauce 

 paulo infundibuliformi, limbo valde expanso, obliquo, ad 

 medium 5-fido, lobis insequalibus, carnosis, rotundatis, undu- 

 lato-crispatis, subreflexis, inferiore majori, 2 superioribus mi- 

 noribus, sestivatione valde imbricatis, maximo exteriori. Sta- 

 mina 4, didynama, inclusa; filamenta sursum incrassata et 

 incurva, 2 breviora inferiora et lobo majore opposita : anther <b 

 oblongse, sub-bilobse, sub-biloculares, lobis transversim latiori- 

 bus et confluentibus, rima marginali 2-valvatim hiantes, hinc 

 pseudo-1-loculares. Ovarium conicum, sessile, glandula basali 

 fere obsoleta, aut nulla, 2-loculare, placentis carnosis, valde 

 prominulis, dissepimento utrinque adnatis, multi-ovulatis. 

 Stylus gracilis, filiformis, longitudine tubi corollse, apice in- 

 crassatus, interdum subincurvus. Stigma clavatum, 2-labia- 

 tum, lobis rotundatis, semi-globosis, glandula magna viscosa 

 prominula interposita. Drupa magna globosa, calyce parva 

 patente suffulta, epicarpio carnoso; putamen cartilagineum, 

 indehiscens, rarius in valvulis 2 separabile. Semina plurima, 

 ovata, compressa, subreniformia, testa tentii fragili, minute 

 scrobiculata, integumento membranaceo, angulo basali chalaza 

 fusca notato. Embryo in albumine carnoso arcuatus, hetero- 

 tropus, cotyledonibus ovatis, compressis, accumbentibus, radi- 

 cuia tereti 2-plo latioribus et 3-plo brevioribus. — Arbores An- 

 tillani, foliis alternis, integris, oblongis, sapius nitidis ; floribus 

 speciosis, solitariis, vel paucis, subcymosis, terminalibus, corolla 

 fiava vel pallide ochroleuca. 



1. Brunsfelsia americana, Sw., DC. Prodr. x. 200. 



2. undulata, Sw., DC. Prodr. x. 200. 



3. — nitida, Benth., DC. Prodr. x. 201. 



4, violacea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.792. — Subglabra, foliis 



lanceolato-ellipticis, utrinque acuminatis, subundulatis, supra 

 glabris, minute punctato-rugosis, subtus pallide glaucis et pube 



