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wittout any disk; style short, clavuncle and stigmata as usual; follicles 2, much 

 divaricated, greatly resembling those of the preceding species, but somewhat larger, 

 IJ in. long, 1 in. broad, each containing about 20 seeds 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, 

 suspended by scarlet fleshy funicles ; structure of the seeds as in the preceding species, 

 and as depicted by Miiller. 



6. Peschiera LuNDii, nob.: Tabernosmontana Lundii, A. DC. I. c. p. 365; Miill. I. c. p. 81. Rio de 



Janeiro adBotafogo: v. v. et sice, inflore et fructu in herb, meo (n. 3965) ; v. s. in herb. Mm. Brit. 



Monte Corcovado (Gardn. 5 046). 

 A species differing from T. Gaudlchaudii in its more slender, more dichotomous, 

 rugously striated branchlets, the younger ones smooth and closely lenticellated, its much 

 darker leaves, less acute and more insequilateral at the base, obtuse at the summit, with 

 a short rounded excurrent point, subundulated margins, with a rougher surface above, 

 with slender proniinulent yellow nerves, yellowish opake below, with a pale interruptedly 

 striated midrib and prominent yellow fine nerves, and on longer petioles : it has a more 

 slender panicle with smaller flowers. The leaves are ovate, darkish and opake above, 

 3j-4<f in. long, l|-2 in. broad, on slender channelled petioles, fossulate at the base, 

 5-7 lines long ; axillary panicles IJ in. long, 10-12-flowered, with many slender, divided 

 branches and deciduoiTs bracteoles; peduncle 6 lines long, its alternate branchlets 

 2-4 lines long ; pedicels 2 lines long ; sepals acutely ovate, pruinose, with membranaceous 

 ciliolate margins, I line long; tube of corolla 2^ lines long, yellow and subtomentose, 

 rather swollen at the base, pilose within below the middle, glabrous above, segments 

 shorter than the tube, dolabriform, subpuberulous within at the base ; stamens inserted 

 near the base of the tube, anthers 2-lobed at the base; disk none; 2 ovate ovaries, 

 reddishly tomentose; style short, with an incrassated clavuncle; 2 reniformly ovate 

 follicles 1^ in. long, ^ in. thick, obtuse at both ends, marked by several transverse inter- 

 rupted ridges muricated on their acute edges, each containing 18 seeds, 4 lines long, 

 2^ lines broad, suspended from the sutural placentae by stout pale yellow funicles. 



7. Peschiera Spixiana, nob. : Tabermemontana Spixiana, Mart. ; Miill. I. c. p. 78. In prov. Rio de 



Janeiro: v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit, inflore Itagoahy (Bowie et Cunningham). 



A shrub 10-12 feet high ; branches terete, dichotomous, densely foliaceous ; leaves but 

 little heterophyllous, elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed and gradually acute at both ends, dark 

 green above, sulcate along the midrib, with semi-immersed nerves, below of a darkish 

 yellow colour, opake, with prominulent reddish nerves, 5 and 5^ in. long, 1^ and If in. 

 broad, on slender petioles 4| lines long ; upper pairs of leavts 4| and 3| in. long, 13 and 

 15 lines broad, on petioles 4 lines long ; axillary panicles 2-3, fasciculated, 1| in. long ; 

 peduncles 6 lines long, bearing 5-6 branchlets 1 in. long, each supporting about 3 flowers, 

 on pedicels 2 lines long, with small acutely oval bracteoles ; sepals triangular ovate, sub- 

 obtuse, with membranaceous margins, f line long, each with an inner basal 4-6.1acinulate 

 scale ; tube of corolla cylindrical, broader at the base, segments broadly obovate, gibbous, 

 pubescent within at their base and in the mouth of the tube; stamens inserted near the 

 base of the tube, out of a pilose ring ; disk none ; ovaries 2, ovoid ; follicles 2, spreading, 

 broadly obovoid, obtuse, densely muricated, IJ-li in. long; seeds ovoid, clianneUed on 



