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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
stamina attingens, glaber, apice incrassatus et turbinatus ; 
stigma obtuse conicum, 4-sulcatum, pilosum. Fructus bac- 
catus, parce camosus, globose 4-gaster, depressus, in medio 
umbilicatns et styli vestigio notatus ; pyrence 4, demum se- 
parabiles, dorso convexm, intus angulatse, hippocrepice pli- 
catse, caninculatse, et bine primum cohserentes, ossese, inde- 
hiscentes, 1-loculares, l-spermse : semen hippocrepice cnr- 
vatum ; integumentum tenue ; albumen parcum, carnosum ; 
embryo conformis, cotyledonibus ovato-oblongis, foliaceis, 
incumbenter arcuatis, radicula supera ad stylum spectante 
6-plo longioribus. 
SutFrutices Americani, phrumque Brasilienses, scepius sub- 
scandentes; ramis tenuibus, scepe Jistulosis ; folia alterna^ 
petiolaiUj oblonga^ Integra^ glabra^ aut adpresse pilosa : in- 
florescentia axillaris et terminalis, divaricatim vel dichotome 
ramosa^ ramis ultimis spicatifloris, apice recurvatis ; flores 
parvij 1-lateraleSj crebri, sessiles aut brevissime pedunculati, 
ebracteati. 
* Panicalae axillares et subterminales. 
1. Messerschmidtia subulata, Gardn.Lond. Joum.Bot. i.532; — 
Tournefortia Gardneri, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 526; Fresen. in 
Mart. FI. Bras. xix. p. 54 ; — Tournefortia lanceolata, Fres. 
1. c. p. 55 ; — scandens, ramulis teneribus, fistulosis, pilosius- 
culis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, imo rotundatis, 
subraembranaceis, utrinque rugulosis et sparse adpresso- 
villosulis ; petiolo pilosulo, limbo 12-plo breviore : paniculis 
axillaribus et terminalibus, pubescentibus, brevibus, crebre 
alternatim ramosis et spicatifloris ; sepalis lobisque corollte 
longe subulatis ; baccis 4-gastris. — In Brasilia : v. v. prov. 
Rio de Janeiro (Jiumjuba, Botafogo, et Rio Cumprido) ; 
V. s. Tejuco (Gardner, 175). 
A slender climbing plant, frequent in the neighbourhood of 
Rio de Janeiro : its long slender branches are ^ line thick, 
with axils about 2 inches apaid ; leaves 2-3| inches long, 
9-14 lines broad, on a slender petiole 2-3 lines long ; panicle 
4 inch long, branching from the base with three or four alter- 
nate curving branches -g line apart, each 6 lines long, with 
about twelve sessile flowers closely uniserial on the upperside; 
sepals 2 lines long, | line broad at base, setifonn, ciliate on 
margins ; tube of corolla 2 lines long, pilose outside, a little 
swollen below the mouth ; segments patent, very narrow, with 
inflected margins 3 j lines long ; stamens cohering in the mouth 
by their barbated summits ; style long, slender, swollen above, 
with an annular ring terminated by a conical pilose apex ; 
