108 ON SOTJTH-AMEEICAlf APOCTNACE^. 



trorsely convolute, rotately expanded, recurved at tte apex; stamens included within 

 the throat, seated on 5 pilose lines ; disk of 5 oblong free lobes, half as long as the 2 

 pUose obtusely oblong ovaries ; style slender, bearing a clavuncle membranaceous at its 

 base, adhering to the anthers ; 2 short, erect, terminal stigmata ; 2 divaricate follicles, 

 terete or subfusiform, 3 in. long, 2J lines thick, arcua^te ; seeds without an apical coma, 

 oblong, subcompressed, with a central hilum on one face, densely covered all over 

 with erect cottony hairs, which extend far beyond the apex ; embryo iu thin albumen, 

 with 2 linear-oblong flat cotyledons 8 times as long as the narrow terete superior 

 radicle. 

 A drawing of this species, with its floral analysis, is shown in Plate XII. b. 



2. RoBBiA GossiPiNA, nob. : ramulis quadrangulatis, dichotomis, ad nodos compressos dilatatis : foliis 

 oppositis, ellipticis, imo acutis, apice in acumen lineare obtusum attemiatis, marginibus subundnlatia, 

 tenuiter chartaceis, supra viridibuSj sublucentibus, ad nervos sulcatulis, snbtus fulvide pallidioribus, 

 opacis, costa rubella prominula, nervis adscendenti-divarieatis, cum glandula cava in quaque axiUa, 

 venis reticulatis immersis ; petiolis tenuibus, eanaliculatis, margine nodi iaSertis, limbo 12plo brevi- 

 oribus ; pedunculo fructifero axillari et subterminali, quam petiolus 3plo longiore : folliculis 2, paullo 

 divaricatis, subulato-teretibus, apice obtuse iacurvatis, sutura ventraH dehiscentibus, marginibus 

 introflexis placentiferis ; seminibus plurimis, ventre subconcavis et curte pilosis, medio hilo oblongo 

 peltatim aflBxis, dorso piHs lanatis longissimis erectis densis ultra apicem extensis; embryone 

 heterotropo, in albumin e inclusOj cotyledonibus oblongis, foUaceis, quam radicula supera teres 6plo 

 longioribus. In prov. Rio de Janeiro : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Itagoahy (Bowie et Cunningbam) . 



The opposite leaves are fixed on the edges of the prominent transverse compressed 

 nodes, which are f in. apart ; the leaves are 3-4 in. long, 1^1^ in. broad, on petioles 

 8-4 lines long, and are conspicuous for the concave glands seen beneath in the axU of 

 each nerve. The fructiferous peduncle is 9 lines long, terminated by 2 suberect, terete, 

 tapering follicles 2f in. long, 2^ lines broad, containing numerous cottony seeds densely 

 covered by long, soft, ascending hairs, which extend 6 lines beyond the summit, being 

 very short towards the base ; the testa is 9 lines long, 1^ line broad, very compressed : the 

 raphe and hilum are seen on the middle of one face. 



A drawing of this species, with its follicles, and analysis of its seeds, are seen in 

 Plate XII. c. 



3. RoBBiA MACROCARPA, nob. : EcMtes ? macrocarpa, Rich, (non Wallich) Fl. Cub. p. 94; Walpers Ann. 

 v. 495. In ins. Cuba: non vidi. 



This species cannot belong to any other genus than Robbia, with which it agrees well 

 in all its essential characters. It is glabrous, with an erect, branching, woody stem, the 

 branches being virgate ; the leaves are ternately verticUlate, eUiptic-oblong, very obtuse, 

 coriaceous, below finely reticulated, marked by many close impressed dots, on longish 

 petioles ; flowers aggregated in a cyme. As in the preceding species, one of its follicles is 

 abortive, the other being very elongated and narrow, more than 18 in. long, 2 lines 

 broad, containing many oblong-linear compressed seeds covered all over with very long 

 white hairs. 



