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longa, gracilis sericeo-pubescens alba. Lobi rotundati breves, 

 interne glabri. Stamina 5 . . . . antherae dorsifixae multo lon- 

 giores qnam latae, os tubi non superantes, ferine omnino sessiles in 

 corolla. Stylus stamina non superans pubescens, basi incrassata. 

 Stigma rotundatum clavatum. Drupa parva globosa testaceo- 

 puberula, calyce coronata. 



This shrub is distinguished from all the other Brazilian species 

 by its small flowers and large leaves. The foliage resembles that 

 of Ouettarda viburnoides ; but the flowers are small, straight, and 

 regular, like those of G. angelica, which also it resembles in fruit. 

 It is a low leafy shrub, only growing in the denser parts of the 

 wooded Cape Placelliere. Very few plants were seen, and some 

 of these not in flower or fruit. The flowers are white, about a 

 dozen together in the cyme ; the stamens as nearly as possible 

 sessile on the corolla-tube, and the stigma reaching to the level 

 of the top of the anthers. 



I have much pleasure in associating with it the name of the 

 Rev. T. S. Lea, who first found it. 



Palicourea insularis, n. sp. 



Frutex gracilis 10-12-pedalis, undique foliosus. Folia coriacea, 

 lanceolata, subobtusa densa, lamina 3 uncias longa, 1| uncias lata ; 

 petiolus |-uncialis. Stipulae breves amplexicaules unidentatae. 

 Inflorescentia axillaris. Panicula pauciflora patula vix triun- 

 cialis. Flores §-unciales, albi, pedicellis ^-uncialibus patulis. 

 Calyx poculiformis dentibus 5 parvis, subobtusis, viridis. Co- 

 rolla 5-partita, laciniis loratis obtusis recurvis. Stamina quam 

 petala breviora 5, libera ad basin ; antherae lineares acuminate non 

 appendiculatae. Stylus petala superans. Stigma clavatum ob- 

 tusum viride integrum. Drupa viridis, 5-angulata, 5 loculis. 



Main island, in the Sapate woods, only a few bushes at one 

 spot. 



COMPOSITE. 



Blalntillea rhomboidea, Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat 



DC. Prodr. v. p. 492 ; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 1 



Central district in damp spots. Also a garden-w 



Distribution. Brazil, from Pernambuco to Kio de « 



Tropical Africa. 



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