RET. M. J. BEBKELEY ON TWO SPECIES OE BUDGE A. 155 



times with a very long nearly equal tube, sometimes shorter and 

 wider above, divided into four or five laciniaa, the number very 

 frequently varying in the same specimen, with a valvate aestivation, 

 and commonly more or less thickened and cucullate at the apex, 

 and furnished at the back beneath the tip with a tubercle or horn ; 

 more rarely obtuse, with the margin merely slightly inflected. 

 The stamens are generally exserted, the anthers supported on 

 more or less distinct filaments. The ovary is perfectly bilocular, 

 the ovules distinct from the dissepiment, obovate, erect from the 

 base of the cells. The berry obovate or globose, crowned with the 

 teeth of the calyx, or umbilicate when these are obliterated, even, 

 or more rarely angular with a few acute ribs ; frequently but not 

 always furrowed, with interlongitudinal crustaceous nuclei as in 

 Rsychotria. The seeds are erect from the base of the cells, with a 

 flat side ; I have however seen perfect seeds in a few species only. 

 The inflorescence, in all which have been observed, is terminal, the 

 branches often opposite, simple or di-trichotomous, the ultimate 

 one sometimes three-flowered, sometimes capitate 5-oo -flowered." 



Of the two species described below, one was exhibited by 

 Mr. Bull, on the 17th of April, which has since been ascertained to 

 be RsycJiotria leucocephala, Brongn., Rudgea macrophylla, Benth. ; 

 the other attracted much attention at the late International 

 Horticultural Exhibition, whither it was sent by Mr. Linden 

 under the name of RsycJiotria nivosa, but is assuredly a Rudgea, 

 and apparently an undescribed species. It belongs evidently to 

 Mr. Bentham's division Erianthece, and is near to Rudgea longi- 

 Jlora, Benth., and R. magnoliceflora, Benth. (Coffea magnoliceflora, 

 Cham.), but especially the latter, with which it agrees in the 

 elongated and extremely villous corolla; but which seems from the 

 description, made from a single specimen, with the flowers not 

 yet expanded, which I have had no opportunity of seeing, to differ 

 in its smooth stem, and probably in the stipules, inflorescence, 

 and other points. The leaves also seem to be on a much larger 

 scale. It should however be remarked that there is no great 

 difference of geographical position ; Linden's plant is from Paranas, 

 and that gathered by Sellow in intertropical Brazil. It also agrees 

 in some points with Rudgea eriantha, Benth. (Coffea eriantha, 

 G-ard. in ' Lond. Journ. of Bot.,' vol. i. p. 534), especially in the 

 foliage ; but the villosity of the inflorescence is very different. 



