590 PHANEROGAM1A. 



adnate to its base. Petals 5, narrow, subulate-acuminate, rather shorter 

 than the calyx-teeth. Anthers linear-oblong, narrowed upwards. 

 Style filiform, elongated : stigma minute, simple. Ovary three-celled. 

 Fruit dry, globular, setose, 2 lines in diameter, three-celled ; the par- 

 titions very thin. Seeds very numerous, obovoid, angled, with a 

 smooth testa, marked on one side by a broad and dark brown rhaphe. 



Plate 74. — Clidemia ch^tocaltx : a branch, of the natural size. 

 Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower. 2. A petal. 3. A stamen. 4. 

 Fruit (with the persistent calyx-lobes), divided transversely. 5. A 

 seed. — The details variously magnified. 



11. Clidemia oocarpa, Sp. Nov. 



G. ramulis compresso-angulatis glabris ; foliis ovali-oblongis utrinque 

 acwninatis in petiolum brevem attenuatis serrulatis quintuplir-septupli- 

 nerviis supra glabellis subtus hirtellis; panicula terininali multiflora 

 glabrata; floribus cymulosis subsessilibus ; calyce urceolato parce 

 hirtello, dentibus subulatis tubo paullo brevioribus, appendicibus obso- 

 letis ; petalis oblongis acuminatis; fructu ovoideo trilocidari. 



Hab. Brazil ; in the Organ Mountains. 



There is only an imperfect, fruiting specimen, with one or two 

 withered petals and stamens remaining to certify the genus. The 

 species is apparently a new one. The branch is rather stout, appa- 

 rently herbaceous, and, as well as the young branchlets, glabrous, com- 

 pressed-angled. Leaves ample, 4 to 6 inches long and 2 or 3 wide, 

 rather membranaceous, oval-oblong, acuminate at both ends, tapering at 

 the base into a very short petiole, serrulate, strigose when young but 

 soon nearly glabrate above, minutely hirsute beneath with a simple 

 pubescence; the ribs 5 to 7, springing in pairs along the narrowed 

 base, the uppermost pair more remote and stronger; the transverse 

 veins and veinlets very numerous and conspicuous underneath. 

 Panicle terminal, becoming alar by innovation, open, sessile; its 

 branches glabrous, except a few small bristles ; the flowers cymulose, 

 almost sessile, at least the central ones. Bracilets setaceous, minute. 

 Calyx urceolate, sparsely and minutely hispid; the 5 teeth subulate, H 



