46 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACEiE. 



distinctly broader at its base, wbere it is staminigerous ; disk none ; 2 obtusely obovoid 

 ovaries ; style double their length. 



34. Peschiera australis, nob. : Tabenusmontana australis, MiiU. l. c. p. 84. In Brasilise prov. aus- 



tralioribus : non vidi. 

 A species said to be near T. bracteolaris (P. hystriw), differing in its leaves scarcely 

 narrowed at the base, with much shorter petioles, in its acuminated bracts, and a shorter 

 tube in the corolla. Leaves narrowly elliptic oblong, subobtuse at the base, gradually 

 acutely acuminated, submembranaceous, 4-4| in. long, 11|-16 lines broad, on petioles 

 If line long ; corymbs in the dichotomies of the branchlets, densely 20-flowered, with 

 linear acute bracteoles ; pedicels IJ line long ; sepals acuminated, with membranaceous 

 margins, | line long; tube of corolla in bud cylindrical, 4 lines long, broader near 

 its base ; stamens inserted near its base, in a pilose ring ; disk none ; ovaries 2, acutely 

 oblong, with a short style ; follicles 1^ in. long. 



35. Peschiera solanifolia, nob. : Tabernoemontana solanifolia, A. DC. I. c. p. 365 : MiiU. I. c. p. 86. 

 In Bahia : v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Bahia (Blanchet 2734) . 



A very peculiar species, with thick, 4-angular, fuscous, pubescent branches, densely 

 covered with rather large leaves, and annularly ringed at intervals of 4 lines. The leaves 

 are ovate-oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminated, spathulately and gradually contracted 

 downwards from above the middle, becoming very narrow at the base, where they are 

 subcordate and nearly sessile, are membranaceous, opake green above, puberulous upon 

 about 15-30 pairs of short sub patent nerves conjoined near the margins, pale yellowish 

 below, and densely puberulous, 3§-6| in. long, If-S^ in. broad above the middle, 

 reduced gradually to a breadth of about 4 lines at the base, on petioles 1-1 j line long ; 

 cymes terminal, puberulous, 40-120-flowered, 3-4 in. long and broad, several times 

 trichotomously divided, each ultimate branchlet about 4 lines long, bearing about 

 7 almost umbellate approximated flowers on bracteolated pedicels 4 lines long ; sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate, I5 line long; tube of corolla 4f lines long, broader at the base, and 

 there staminigerous ; segments of border obliquely ovate, 2^ lines long ; no disk ; other 

 parts as in the preceding species. 



36. Peschiera Solandri, nob. : Taberneemontana cymosa, Sol. (non Jaeq.) Primit. PI. Bras. p. 72 : ramulis 

 dichotomis, pallidis, interrupte striatis : foliis'ovato-oblongis, imo acutis, apice in acumen obtusulum 

 constrictis, submembranaceis, supra viridibus, pruinoso-opacis, ad costam sulcatis, nervis curvatim 

 patentibus immersis, subtus flavide pallidioribus, opacis, granulatis, costa nervisque prominulis; 

 petiolo tenuissimo, limbo 15-18plo breviore : paniculis axillaribus, tenuiter ramosis, ramis medio 

 bracteolatis 2-floris- pedicellis calyce paullo longioribus; sepalis viridibus, anguste lanceolatis, 

 recurvis, intus squamula plurilacinulata munitis ; coroUse tubo calyce 2plo longiore, imo latiore, 

 intus pubescente, segmentis dolabriformibus, tubo 3plo brevioribus, glabris, sinistrorsum convolutis ; 

 stamiuibus paullo supra basin insertis, filamentis tenuibus ; disco nuUo ; ovariis 2, ovatis ; CEeteris 

 generis. In Brasilia : v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Rio de Janeiro (Solander). 



A species near P. Spixiana, differing in its smaller, more lanceolate leaves, on shorter 

 petioles, in its inflorescence and more lanceolate reflexed sepals. The leaves are 3-8f in. 



