360 PHANEROGAMIA. 



simple, acute. Ovule arising from a little above the base of the cell, 

 ascending, between anatropous and amphitropous, straight ; the micro- 

 pyle inferior. Fruit not seen. 



Allied in some respects to Gomphia stipulacea and G. salicifolia, but 

 a truly distinct, and apparently entirely new species, with narrower 

 leaves than any other known Gomphia. 



Plate 41. — Gomphia linearis : a branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. 

 A leaf, somewhat enlarged, showing the venation and the stipules. 

 2. Diagram of the flower. 3. An expanded flower. 4. A sepal. 5. 

 A petal. 6, 7. Anthers. 8. Pistil, with the gynophore and pedicel. 

 9. Vertical section of the same. — The details enlarged. 



2. Gomphia stipulacea, Planch. 



Ochna stipulata, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 5, t. 91. 



Gomphia stipulacea, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 6, p. 6. 



G. iteoides, Erhard, in Flora (Bot. Zeit.), 1849, p. 251 ? 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



The specimen resembles Gardner's No. 5692; but the flowers are 

 decandrous; and the leaves (of which the larger are almost three 

 inches long) are not three-toothed, but barely emarginate at the apex. 



3. Gomphia parviflora, DC. 



Gomphia parviflora, DC. in Ann. Mus. 17, p. 420, t. 16; Planch. 1. c.; Erhard, I.e. 

 Ochna Jabotapita, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 5, t. 90. 



Hab. Vicinity of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



4. Gomphia ^emula, Pbhl. 



Gomphia asmula, Pohl, PI. Bras. Ic. 2, p. 180, t. 182, ex tab.; Erhard, 1. c. p. 249. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (With young fruit.) 



