102 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Composirz.—Il. (Vide ante, pp. 35-38.) 
Aspilia leucoglossa Malme ?. 585, 644. As respects the leaf, 
two of the specimens agree with Malme’s figure and description, 
but most have much broader leaves, rotundate- cordate at base; 
apparently been white. If this identification be correct, the species 
has a considerable range of variation 
Myrsinez. 
Cybianthus collinus 8. Moore. 814, 876. The specimens are 
males, but the leaves are so exactly those of my plant collected 
also at Sant’ Anna da Chapada, that I name them as above without 
any hesitation, in spite of the difference in the flowers. Instead of 
being broad, as in my plant, the pedicels are slender, 0-2 cm. long, 
and 0-02 cm. broad. the flowers examined are 4-merous and 
0°3 cm. in Pence. the filaments inserted near the base of the 
corolla-lobes are 0:08-0-04 em. long, and the sare nearly 
0:1 cm. long, dehisce by Re terminal longitudinal p 
n his monograph of the Myrsinee (Engler ; Dias. Phat — 
Heft j iv. 236, p. 898), Dr. Mes has refrained from placing C. collinu 
in its proper position. I can assure Dr. Mez that the doubt he 
throws upon the accuracy of my me reheat is quite unwarranted, 
except for the pedicels being said to be 0°8 cm. thick, which is an 
obvious lapsus calamt or printer’s error for 0: 1-08 em. In fact, my 
specimen is the female or hermaphrodite form of the species ; that 
it is the latter I cannot state with certainty, as, possibly owing 
the advanced stage of the flo rene. no pollen could be fo und, 
though the anthers, very small it must be admitted, seem well- 
developed and quite capable of holding pollen. In any case, wit 
this specimen before me, I cannot agree with Dr. Mez in calling 
likely to prove correct when the plant becomes fully kno 
e affinity for C. collinus suggested by me was with "C. " nitidus 
Miq., and this is borne out by Dr. Mez’s clavis, the stamens of my 
specimen being inserted about the middle of the lobes of the corolla. 
r. Mez's proposed affinity is with C. cujabensis Mez; and this is 
sobtoet for the male plant, which has filaments inserted near the 
base of the lobes. The coexistence in one species of these two 
kinds of staminal insertion, a point to which Dr. Mez attaches 
pestre t importance, is only one more instance of the way in 
ich Nature is apt to spoil so attempts of the most laborious 
were to classify her production 
Weigeltia densiflora bo 375, “527, 619. The two last numbers 
are those of specimens in fruit, which may thus be described— 
fructus spheroidei, glabri, in sicco levissime bullulati, 04 cm. diam. 
onomorpha peruviana A. DC. . 
