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middle of the tube; anthers as before stated; disk very short, membranaceous, in- 

 vesting the base of 2 ovaries ; follicles 2, containing many seeds half-immersed in pulpy 

 funicles. 



3. Taberna laurina, nob. : Taberrusmontana laurifolia, Ker (non Linn.) Bot. Reg. tab. 716 ; A. DC. 



I. c. p. 363. In Antilles : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Jamaica (Shakespear). 



De, OandoUe states that this is very distinct from T. Icmrifolia, Linn., founded on 

 Sloane's plant, differing in its more rounded, cuneated leaves, having the nervation of 

 T. neriifoUa, and in its much larger flowers, which are white (not yellow), upon a much 

 longer peduncle, bare at its 'base. It is a lactescent shrub, with stoutish 4-angular 

 branches, apparently much verrucated, with axils f- 1 in. apart ; the opposite leaves are 

 roundly obovate, cuneated from the middle to the petiole, with many nearly horizontally 

 patent nerves conjoined along the margin, 2J-5J in. long, 1-lf in. broad, on slender 

 petioles 6-9 lines long, channelled above, broadly flattened at the base, and there con- 

 joined by a transverse ridge, at each node; panicles opposite, on bare peduncles 2 in. 

 long, terminated by 3 alternate, very odoriferous flowers, on thickish pedicels 2 lines 

 long ; calyx thickly coriaceous, shortly cupshaped at the base ; sepals 5, equal, roundly 

 ovate, convex, imbricated, yellowish green, externally papillose and poriferous, emitting 

 a viscous juice ; tube of corolla thickly cylindrical, 9 lines long, IJ line broad, seg- 

 ments inequilaterally oblong, very expanded, 9 lines long, 4 lines broad, sinistrorsely 

 convoluted ; stamens said to be short and fixed below the middle of the tube, — all being 

 characters conformable with Taberna. 



4. Taberna Poppigii, nob. : Tabemmmontana Poppigii, Miiller in Linn. xxx. 405. In Peru via ad 



Tocacbe : non vidi. 



A species with the habit of T. Sananho, R. & P., and with internodes as long as the 

 leaves, which are elliptic, obtuse at the base, acuminated at the summit, membrana- 

 ceous, with 14-16 pairs of arching nerves, concolorous, 8-9 in. long, 3|-4 in. broad, with 

 petioles 3^ lines long ; peduncle If in. long, bearing 6-8 slender flowers, which in bud 

 are 6|— 8 lines long, on pedicels 3 lines long ; sepals obtusely ovate, ciliolate, with 5-7 

 internal scales ; tube of corolla puberulous within at the insertion of the stamens ; 

 ovaries obtusely ovoid, surrounded at the base by an adherent disk. 



5. Taberna disparifolia, nob.: ramulis tenuibus, dichotome divisis: foliis plerumque heterophyllis, 



elliptico-oblongis, imo acutis, apice in acumen longum et angustum subito constrictis, tenuiter 

 chartaceisj supra viridibus, nervis tenuissimis patentim divaricatis vix prominulis, subtus pal- 

 lidioribus, opacis, costa nervisque rufulis subprominulis ; petiolis tenuissimis, canaliculatis, imo 

 vaginatim conjunctis, limbo 12plo brevioribus : racemo laterali aut terminali, brevissimo ; pedun- 

 culo depauperate, 1-3-floro; pedicellis ei sequilongis; sepalis oblongis, submembranaceis, imbri- 

 catis, intus squamulis parvis acutis basalibus munitis : corollae tubo tenuiter elongato, medio 

 angustiore, segmentis obtuse oblongis, subobliquis, quam tubus dimidio brevioribus, subreflexis, sinis- 

 trorsum convolutis ; staminibus versus medium tubi insertis ; ovariis 2, oblongis, apice liberis, imo 

 pro dimidia parte disco adnatis. In Peruvia: v. s. in hb. meu et alior. Tarapoto (Spruce 4611). 



A species having the habit and appearance of a Peschiera : the axils of its slender 

 dichotomous branchlets are J-1 in. apart; its opposite leaves 2^ and 1 or 2| and IJ in. 



