534 PHANEROGAM I A. 



This plant apparently has been gathered by several collectors, but 

 I do not find it anywhere described. It is remarkable for the fine 

 satin-like and silvery sheen of the lower face of its leaves, as in some 

 Malpighiacece. These are 6 or 7 inches long by li to 2 in width, on 

 petioles of 3 lines in length, oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, and 

 tapering gradually into a slender and very acute point at the apex, 

 chartaceous, pellucid-punctate, transversely and closely nervosely 

 veined (like a Chrysophyllum) ; the veins confluent into a marginal 

 vein. Both sides are silvery-silky in the nascent foliage; but the 

 upper face is soon glabrous and bright green. Peduncles axillary, 

 half an inch to an inch long, bearing several sessile flowers apparently 

 in a small condensed cyme, the silky buds subtended by silky oblong- 

 lanceolate bracts. Expanded flowers not seen. The obovoid calyx 

 however has a five-cleft limb, the lobes imbricated in aestivation ; the 

 throat silky inside. Ovary two-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. 



14. Myrcia rostrata, DC. ? 



Myrcia rostrata, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 255 ? Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2, p. 320. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



15. Myrcia sepiaria, DC. ? I. c. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



There are specimens of two or three more species, probably of this 

 genus, but not in a state for determination. 



4. MARLIEREA, St. Hil. 

 1. Marlierea suaveolens, St. Hil. 



Marlierea saaveolens, St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 374, t. 156. 

 Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



