34 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCYNACILE. 



a blimted acumen, thinly chartaceons, the subundulated margins somewhat revolute, 

 pale opake green above, sulcated on the midrib, with rather distant fine nerves,, below 

 pallid and yellowish, opake, spotted by many small elevated dots ; they are 3-4 J in. long, 

 l|-2 in. broad, on slender petioles broadly fossulated at the base, where they are con- 

 joined by a transverse elevated ring, and vary in length from 3 to 5 lines. The axillary 

 peduncles are 4-6 lines long, forked, the branches 3 lines long, each 4-flowered, with 

 slender pedicels 5 lines long : sepals acute, erect, ^ line long ; tube of corolla 4 lines long, 

 swoUen below the middle, narrow above, its dolabriform segments 2^ lines long ; stamens 

 enclosed in the swollen part of the tube, and inserted a little above the base : no visible 

 disk. The 2 follicles (which I. have not seen) are widely divaricated, 2 in. long, 1 in. 

 rod, reniform band adensely covered with subadpressed very acute spines. In Velloz's 

 drawing they appear by mistake dehiscent on the dorsal side. They contain many ovate 

 seeds, half immersed in scarlet fleshy funicles. 



It is a small tree, lactescent, with a soft white wood, often carved into spoons and 

 other utensils for domestic use, and is called "pao de culher" (spoonwood). 



The characters given by Miiller of T. Salzmanni accord with this species, as he ex- 

 pressly indicates, and differ in few particulars. 



3. Peschiera MtJRiCATA, A. DC. I. c. p. 361 : Tabernceniontana muricata, R. & Sch. (non A. DC.) Syst. 



iv. 431, 797. In Brasilia {non vidi) . 



Its branches are glabrous and striated ; its leaves are ovate-bblong, acuminated, repand 

 on the margins, with elevated granular dots above, which are impressed beneath, more 

 than 7 in. long, on very short petioles; the peduncle of the inflorescence is ^1 in. 

 long ; pedicels less than 1 line long ; sepals li line long ; tube of coroUa nearly 1 in. 

 long; fruit muricated. It is a species near the following. Miiller has confounded it 

 with P. ochracea, a very different plant, as shown in the description of the latter 

 (page 42). 



4. Peschiera fuchsi^folia, nob. : Tabernamontanafuchsiafolia, A. DC. I. c. 365 et 676 ; Miill. I. c. p. 88 : 



Tabemoemontana collina, Gardn. Lond. Joum. Bot. i. 178. In prov. Rio de Janeiro : v. v. et sice, 

 in herb, meo (n. 3013), infi. et fr. ad Morro Flamengo; v. s. in flore in hb. Mm. Brit, ex eodem 

 loco (Gai'dn. 74, sub T. collina). 



Prof. De Candolle recognized the identity of Gardner's plant with his T. fuchsicefolia. 

 The species is noted for its rubescent nerves and leaves. I was fortunate in finding its 

 fruit in a living state, which enabled me to ascertain the funicular nature of the pulpy 

 covering which half involves the seeds throughout the whole tribe of the Tabernee- 

 montunece. This species is a small tree, from 6 to 20 feet high, much branched the 

 branches pale brown, rugosely striated, the branchlets rather slender and dichotomously 

 divided; the leaves are heterophyllous in each node, elKptic, acute at the base, and 

 terminated by a short obtuse acumen, margins subrevolute, chartaceously flaccid, pale 

 green and opake above, granulo-punctulate on both sides, with immersed nerves, below 

 somewhat paler, opake, yellowish, with prDminulent reddish nerves ; they are 2J and g^ in. 

 long at each node, 1^ and 1| in. broad, on slender petioles 2^ and 4 lines long, the upper 

 pairs somewhat smaller ; the petioles are conjoined across the nodes by a prominent 



