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petioles 1^ line broad; cymes terminal, with about 10 closely approximated flowers; 

 peduncle many times longer than the calyx ; pedicels a little longer than the calyx ; bracts 

 small, lanceolate ; sepals lanceolate, subpatent, half the length of the tube of the corolla, 

 which is swollen below the middle, with a pilose ring near its base, from which the 

 stamens originate ; it is pubescent in the throat. 



19. Peschiera geacillima, nob. : Tabernmnontana gracilis, Miill. (non Bth.) I. c. p. 82. In prov. Rio 

 de Janeiro, Sierra d'Estrella : non vidi. 



The specific name is changed, that it may not be confounded with T. gracilis, Bth. 

 It resembles the preceding in the small size of its linear lanceolate leaves, which are 

 1|— 2 in. long, ^ in. broad, on short petioles ; cyme subterminal, 2-3 times shorter than 

 the leaf; peduncle as short as the petiole; pedicels twice the length of the calyx; 

 peduncle depauperated, bearing 2-3 bracteoles, often by abortion 1-flowered; sepals 

 2 lines long ; tube of coroUa slender, 5 lines long, narrow above, broader below, pubes- 

 cent within, segments obliquely ovate, puberulous within, — aU being the characters of 

 Feschiera. It is a small tree, 12-15 feet high. 



20. Peschieka HiLAaiANA, nob.: .Taberntemontana Hilariana, M.v\\. I. c. p. 85. In prov. S. Paulo: 



non vidi. 



The leaves sublanceolate, suddenly acuminated at the apex, membranaceous, 3^4 

 in. long (including the petiole), 8^11j lines broad. The inflorescence is a terminal 

 corymb, with about 20 crowded flowers ; peduncle length of calyx ; pedicels bracteolated, 

 of the same length ; sepals lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube of the corolla, which is 

 narrow above, pubescent within ; stamens inserted below the middle of the tube ; ovaries 

 ovate, length of style. 



21. Peschiera Catherinensis, nob.: Tabermemontana Catherinensis, Miill. I. c. p. 85: A. DC. 



Prodr. mi. 365. In prov. S. Paulo : non vidi. 



It has slender, spreading, dichotomous branches : leaves oblong elliptic, obtusely 

 acuminated at both ends, 2-2f in. long, including the puberulous petiole (2-2f lines 

 long), 1-1^ in. broad; corymb as in F-fuchsifsfoUa, but more densely flowered. 



22. Peschiera Florida, nob. : Taberncemontana lata, var. puberiflora, Miill. I. c. p. 79. In Brasilia : 

 V. s. in hb. meo prov. Minas Geraes (Gardn. 5011). 



A species very proximate to P. multiflora, and with little resemblance to P. Icnta. It 

 has stoutish, subdichotomous, pallid, rugously striated branches, the younger imes dark 

 and very compressed ; the leaves are elliptic oblong, subacute at the base, little con- 

 stricted towards the shortish obtuse acumen, thinly chartaceous, with undulated or 

 interruptedly revolute margins, darkish green and opake above, with sulcated midrib 

 and semi-immersed fine nerves, yellowish opake below, subpruinose, with prominulent 

 midrib and reddish fine nerves, 4-5 in. long, If-lf in. broad, on stoutish channelled 

 petioles 5-6 lines long, fossulated at the base, and conjoined across the node by an 

 arching, raised ridge ; cymes 2 or 4, fasciculated at the end of the young branchlets ; 

 peduncles 9-12 lines long, their branches 2 lines long, minutely bracteolated ; pedicels 



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