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mits ; ovary, style, and stigma 1^ line long, glabrous ; style four 
times the length of the ovary, turbinate at its summit, with a 
fringed margin, supporting a pilose ovate stigma one-tenth of 
its length. 
11. Messer schmidtia valga, noh.r, — ramis teretibus, lignosis, 
lenticellatis, ramulis striateUis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, imo 
obtusis aut in petiolum acutiuscule decuiTcntibus, apice sub- 
acuminatis, submembranaceis, utrinque pilis brevibus e 
tuberculis sparsim adpresse strigosis, supra nervis tenuibus 
nigris immersis, subtus paulo prominulis, livide glaucis ; 
petiolo superne sulcato, pilosulo, limbo 5-6-plo breviore : 
paniculis axillaribus, folium ^quantibus, parce pilosis, 
pedunculo petiolo aequilongo ; rachi brevi, flexuosa, divari- 
catim bis dichotoma, aut tristachya ; ramis rigidulis, spicati- 
floris ; floribus 1-serialibus, remotiusculis ; sepalis corollae- 
que lobis longissime subulatis, valde pilosis. — In Brasilia : 
V. s. in herh. Mus. Brit.^ Maceio (Gardn. 1363). 
Its axils are | inch apart ; the leaves are 2:f-2| inches long, 
Ij-l^ inch broad, on a petiole 5 lines long; peduncle of 
inflorescence 9 lines long, its two branches 4 lines long, the 
spicate branches, slightly curved. If inch long ; the flowers 
1^ line apart; pedicels \ line long; sepals IJ hne long; tube 
of corolla If Hne, the segments Ij line long; anthers very 
short, cohering by their apices in the mouth of the tube ; pistil 
14 Hne long; style six times as long as the stigma. 
12. Messerschmidtia minuta\ — Tournefortia Bert, in 
DC. Prodr. ix. 527 ; — scandens?, ramis virgatis, junioribus 
minute pubenilis ; foliis anguste lanceolatis, obtusis, sca- 
bridis, petiolatis : paniculis axillaribus, conjugatim ramosis, 
ramis spicatifloris ; floribus remotis ; sepaHs lanceolatis, 
acutis ; corollse tubo medio coarctato, limbi lobis lanceolato- 
acuminatissimis ; di'upis 4-gastris. — In Jamaica {non vidi). 
Leaves 1| inch long, 3 lines broad. 
** Paniculae in ramis aut in ramulis terminales. 
13. Messerschmidtia microphylla., nob. ; — Toumefoidia micro- 
phylla, Desv. in Ham. Prodr. p. 24 {non Bert.) ; DC. Prodr. 
ix. 528 ; — Tournefortia lucida, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. p. 397 
{non Desv.) ; — subscandens ?, undique glabendma, ramulis 
tenuissimis, teretibus, lenticellatis ; foliis parvis, obovatis, 
imo rotimdatis, a medio gradatim angustioribus, apice valde 
obtusis, submucronulatis, crassiuscuHs, obscuris, utrinque 
rugulosis ; petiolo tenui, limbo 6-plo breviore : paniculis in 
ramulis terminalibus, suboppositifoliis, breviter puberuHs, 
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