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which belong to numbered or named collections in the Kew 

 Herbaria*. 



1. A.concolor^oepp.^s limited by Grisebach (the inflorescences 

 as well as the rest of the plant are always perfectly glabrous). 

 Anelasma Guianensis, Miers,— British Guiana, Bob. Schomburgk, 

 2nd coll. n. 440, Rich. Schomburgk, n. 696 ; Cayenne, Martin.— 

 Anelasma laurifolia, Sagot, pl.exs. n.20, from Cayenne.— Anelasma 

 Spruceana, Miers, in Kew Journ. Bot. v. iii. p. 116, North Brazil, 

 Spruce— viz. opposite the Isle of Marimahituba on the Amazon, 

 n. 402, near Barra do Bio Negro, n. 1415 ; in the forest and capo- 

 eiras near Barra, n. 1829 ; at the falls of San Gabriel on the Eio 

 Negro, n. 2192, on rocks near the cataract of Panure on the Eio 

 Uaupes, n. 2763 (described sometimes as a climber, sometimes as 

 a shrub with weak but not climbing branches). — Anelasma Gard- 

 neriana, Miers, in dry woods near Nativitade, province of Goyaz 

 in Brazil, Gardner, n. 3567 (described as a small tree). 



2. A closely allied species, or perhaps a variety of A. concolor — 

 BatscUa conferta, Thunb., according to Miers in Seem. Bot. Her. 

 p. 76, from the Bay of Ardita, Isthmus of Panama (small speci- 

 mens, the supposed females with opposite leaves belong to a Stry~ 

 cnnos). — JBatsehia racemosa, Thunb., according to Triana, from 

 Mariquita in New Grenada (female specimens). 



3. A large stout species with very coriaceous leaves, glabrous 

 as m A. concolor, but broader and the inflorescence hoary ; North 

 ■Brazil, Spruce ; in the forest near Barra, n. 1416, and in the gapo 

 of an igarape or creek of the Eio Negro near San Gabriel, n. 2393. 



4. A glabrous species like A. concolor, but with much narrower 

 and smaller leaves — Anelasma Sellowiana, Miers — Brazil, Sello. 



5. A. rufescens, Aubl., according to Grisebach ; Cayenne, Sagot ; 

 North Brazil, Spruce ; in the forest near Barra, n. 1251, and in 

 the capoeiras near San Gabriel, n. 2346. 



Cocculus, DO. 



Coccuhts proper, as limited by Hooker and Thomson, contains, 

 besides the five Indian species enumerated in their flora, two 

 American species, C. carolinianus, DC, from the Southern United 

 States, and G. oblonjifolius, DC, apparently a common Mexican 

 plant (Berlandier, n. 2300, Coulter, n. 657 and 1656, Galeotti, n. 



In Grisebach' s note on Abuta above alluded to, several clerical or typo- 

 graphical errors occur in the Sprucean numbers quoted, and they are therefore 

 here repeated. 



LINN. PBOC. — BOTANT, VOL. V. SUPPLEMENT. E 



