Ohd. ochnace^, 



1. GOMPHIA, Schreb. 



1. Gomphia linearis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 41.) 



G. ramosissima, glaberrima; ramis gracillimis ; foliis linearibus utrin- 

 que acutiusculis brevissime petiolatis subintegerrimis subaveniis; sti- 

 pidis subidatis caducis ; paniculis terminalibus paucifloris ; petalis 

 calyce vix longioribus; antlieris Icevibus; gynoplioro ovario longiore. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro, Brazil; in deep shady 

 woods. 



Shrub 5 to 10 feet high, entirely glabrous, much branched, the branches 

 very slender, and perhaps somewhat climbing or sarmentose, very 

 leafy; the youngest branchlets minutely puberulent. Leaves linear, 

 or linear-lanceolate, often falcate, mucronulate, one to two inches long, 

 one to 3 lines wide, tapering more or less to the apex, which, like the 

 base is rather acute, on very short petioles (of barely a line in length), 

 entire, or sometimes obscurely serrulate above the middle, not shining, 

 almost veinless to the naked eye, under a lens showing rather sparse 

 and indistinct, oblique, simple, primary veins. Stipules subulate, 

 rather longer than the petioles, scarious, striate, distinct, early decidu- 

 ous for the most part. Panicles terminal, small, loosely few-flowered ; 

 the branches divaricate. Bracts minute, caducous. Pedicels one to 3 

 lines long, very glabrous. Flowers 3 or 4 lines in diameter, yellow ; 

 the buds ovoid and very obtuse. Sepals thin, elliptical-oblong, very 

 obtuse, deciduous. Petals rather longer than the calyx, obovate. 

 Anthers smooth and even, oblong-linear, sessile. Oynophore longer than 

 the pentacarpellary ovary, columnar. Style filiform, elongated. Stigma 



