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above ; the racemes are usually axillary, and much shorter ; the 
flowers only half the size ; the petals are more linear, and the 
stamens proportionally shorter. In Tweedie's specimens, the 
leaves are If inch long, 1 inch broad, on a petiole 1^ line long; 
in the drawing given in Lambert’s work, of a plant from the pro- 
vince of Minas Geraes, which I have not seen, and which is pro- 
bably a distinct species, the leaves are 4-4^ inches long, 2^ inches 
broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long. In both, the racemes do not 
exceed a length of 9 lines, and are often shorter; their lateral 
branchlets are 1-2 lines long, bearing on their summits a cluster 
of three to six extremely small sessile flowers ; the sepals are f 
the length of the petals, and are seated on a 5-lobed hispid torus; 
the petals are little more than | line long, and J line in bi’eadth; 
they are erect (not expanded as in V. mucronata) ; in sestivation 
their summits are more deeply inflected : the stamens are y the 
length of the petals ; the ovary and style | of their length. The 
ovary is glabrous, gibbous on the dorsal side, 2-sulcate on the 
ventral face, the style being somewhat excentrical, and with a 
clavate stigma*. 
4. Villaresia cvspidata, n. sp. ; — Villaresia mucronata, Reiss, in 
parte {non R. ^ P.) ; — ramulis angularibus, flavido-opacis, 
foliis ovatis vel ellipticis, utrinque acutis, apice mucrone longo 
valido cuspidatis aut retusis, crasso-coriaceis, margine cartila- 
gineo integro crasso reflexo, supra nitidis, pallidiusculis, reti- 
culato-venosis, nervis immersis leviter sulcatis, subtus valde 
flavido-opacis, minute nigro-punctulatis, costa, nervis arcuatis 
venisque prominentibus, rarius in axillis nervorum glandula 
porifera donatis, longe petiolatis; petiolo flavido-opaco, sub- 
ruguloso, superne profunde canaliculate ; racemis axillaribus 
et terminal ibus 3-4, fasciculatis, folio tertia parte brevioribus, 
subspicatis ; brachiis patentibus, imo bracteatis, summo flores 
3 sessiles bracteolatos gerentibus ; rachi brachiisque flavido- 
puberulis. — Prov. Minas Geraes, v. s. in herb, meo ; Salgado, 
ad Rio San Francisco. 
This species differs from the preceding in having still thicker 
leaves, which are quite entire, nigro-punctulate beneath, and 
rarely with poriferous glands in the axils of the nerves ; the pe- 
tiole is three or four times the length of that of the former. The 
leaves are 2-2| inches long, lj-2f inches broad, on a petiole 5 
or 6 lines in length. The racemes are 9-12 lines long, the lateral 
branchlets 1 line long. The flowers are much smaller than in 
V. mucronata, being about line in diameter when expanded; 
the minute sepals are nearly glabrous, membranous, with ciliate 
* This species is shown in Plate 69. 
