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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
Discaria, to which genus one of the species has been referred 
by Dr. Hooker, on account of its disk. 
ScYPHARiA, nov. gen. — Calyx canipanulatus, semiglobosus, 
coloratus, glaber, limbo 5-6-tido, laciniis ovatis, acutis, lequa- 
libus, immutatus et persistens. Petala 5, interdum 6, parva, 
inter lacinias alterna, iisdem dimidio breviora, subreniformia, 
apice plus minusve profunde emarginata, aut bifida, basi un- 
guiculata,lateribus inter se mutuo plicata,et stamina claudentia, 
glabra, alba. Stamina tot quot petala, et cum eorum ungui- 
bus inserta ; filamenta subulata, glabra ; anthera ellipticse, 
2-loculares, utrinque rima longitudinal! dehiscentes. Discus 
cupuliformis, calycis tubo brevior, et ei omnino adnatus, car- 
nosus, fiavescens. Ovarium superum, globosum, fundo disci 
insitum, glabrum, 2-lobum, 2- (vel3-?) loculare; ovula erecta, 
in loculis solitaria. Stylus teres, crassus, brevis, glaber. 
Stigma 2-lobum, lobis obtusis, conniventibus. Fructus dru- 
paceus, ovatus, imo calyce persistente suflFultus, 2-locularis, 
loculis monospermis, vel abortu 1-locularis. Semen crusta- 
ceum ; caetera ignota. 
SuAFrutices Ecuadorenses et Gallapagenses, interdum spinosi ; 
spinae decussatim opposite, divaricates-, folia oblonga, scepius 
glaben'ima, petiolata, cito caduca ; llores pauci, minimi, fasci- 
culati, axillares vel sub spinis propullantes. 
1. Scypharia Guayaquilensis -, — Rhamnus Guayaquilensis,//.jB.A' 
vii. 55 ; — Rhamnus decussatus, R. ^ P. in herb. Lambert . ; — 
Sageretia Guayaquilensis, Brongn. Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 360; — 
fruticosa, suborgyalis, ramosissima, subspinosa, ramis ramulis- 
que angulato-tetragonis, laevibus, glabris ; spinis elongatis 
decussatim oppositis, sparsis, patentibus, glabris, apice 
pungentibus, axillis foliiferis pluribus munitis et post casum 
foliorum nodosis ; foliis oppositis, parvis, obcordatis, api- 
cem versus rotundatis, profunde retusis et mucronatis, e 
medio in petiolum brevem cuneatis, integerrimis, crassis, 
nervis immersis, utrinque glabris et pallidis, caducis ; flori- 
bus sparsis, viridibus, 5-meris ; petalis bilobis, squamae- 
formibus, filamentis brevissimis ; ovario glabro, 2- (vel 3- ?) 
loculari ; fructu obovato-rotundo, compressiusculo, calyce 
parvo suffulto, lievi, parce carnoso, 2-loculari, loculo abortive 
saepe unilocular!. — Ecuador ad Guayaquil. — v. s. in herb. Mus. 
Paris. (Bonpland). 
I have examined the original specimen of this plant, described 
by Kunth, which is in a very unsatisfactory condition : the two 
loose leaves that accompany it certainly do not belong to it, as 
that able botanist suspected. Bonpland related, in his notes, 
that they were alternate ; but the cicatrices on the branches show 
