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1:5 em. long., subcongesti, sericei; eorum bracteve 0:2-0:3 cm. long. Flores lutei, 
circiter 1:0 cm. diam. Calycis segmenta acutiuscula, 0:4 cm. long.; glandulze 
anguste elliptieze, margine rugatee, 0:2-0:25 cm. long. Petala 05-07 cm. long., 
eorum unguis ad 0:15 em. long., nunc crassus, nunc tenuis. Ovarium sericeum, sub- 
globosum, circa 0:22 cm. diam. ; styli crassi, puberuli. Samar: sericeo-tomentosee, 
vix mature, alee laterales ad 0°7 cm. long., 0:25 cm. lat.; ala dorsalis 0'3 cm. long. ; 
omnes fere omnino glabree, virescentes, papyracez, in longitudinem crebre nervosve. 
Cum Zetrapteridi ramiflorá, A. Juss., comparanda, specie mihi descriptione tantum 
cognitá, sed ob pedunculos copiose prophyllis instructos, pedicellos elongatos, etc., certe 
distincta. 
This is one of the commonest plants round Cuyabá, but I had to search some time 
before finding flowering shoots still bearing leaves, and then the latter were in a very 
imperfect state. [Bras. Or. | 
Hirma ($ MascAGNIA, PLEUROPTERIS) NITENS (sp. nov.); caule terete, cinereo vel 
fusco-cinereo, glabro ; foliis breviter petiolatis, ovatis vel ovato-oblongis, obtusis vel 
obtuse acutis, nonnunquam leviter cuspidatis, basi rotundatis vel levissime coarctatis, 
coriaceis, glabris, nitentibus, eglandulosis ; floribus breviter racemosis vel paniculatis, 
. paniculis congestis, subthyroideis; prophyllis minutis; pedicellis infra medium 
minute bibracteolatis; bracteis bracteolis similibus; calycis 8-glandulosi segmentis 
late oblongis, obtusiusculis, quam glandulz haud duplo longioribus; samaris (an 
maturis?) parvis, dorso eximie carinatis et argute scrobiculatis, alis oblongis, 
margine inciso-undulatis. 
Hab. In convalle ad Serra da Chapada mens. Aug. fructus gerens. (N. 74.) 
Frutex scandens, a basi foliatus. Folia ad 15°0 cm. long. (plerumque 8:0-11:0 cm.), 
4-0-6:0 em. lat., reticulato-nervosa ; petioli 0°5-0°8 cm. long., crassi, juxta medium 
glandulas duas parvas ellipticas in sicco fuscas vix 0:2 em. long. preebentes. Costes 
secundarise circa 8, angulis latis plerumque insertz (inferiores raro erecto-ascen- 
dentes), aperte arcuatee, deinde margine parallele et maxime undulate; venulee 
arcte reticulate, utrinque conspicue. Inflorescentiz axis appresse pubescens, 
demum glaber. Panicula terminalis ad 5'0 cm. long., inferne vix 5:0 cm. diam. 
Prophylla et bracteze subulatze, illa 0:15 cm., he 0-1 cm. long. Pedicelli 0:8-1:0 
em. long., pubescentes. Calycis segmenta rufulo-tomentosa, vix 0:3 cm. long., 
glandulee vix 0:2 cm. long., anguste ellipticze. Petala haud visa. Ovarium sub- 
trigonum, tomentosum ; styli glabri, ovario breviores. Samars (an mature ?) 0°7 
em. long. et lat., membranace:e, virescentes. 
Ex affinitate H. chlorocarpe, A. Juss., abs quà ob foliorum formam et magnitudinem 
pluria inter propria eximie discrepat; videtur itaque ad H. hippocrateoidem, Planch. et 
Triana, accedere, sed foliis latioribus, petiolis biglandulosis, inflorescentia sæpe racemi- 
formi, bracteis minutis, ete., certe ab illa diversa. [Bras. Or., Nov. Granat. ] 
Hina ($ Mascaenta, EUMASCAGNIA) VOLUBILIS (sp. nov.). Frutex volubilis, caulibus 
teretibus, pubescentibus, demum fere glabris, in longitudinem rimosis; ramulis abunde 
foliosis, rufo-tomentosis ; foliis petiolatis, obtusis vel acutis vel breviter acuminatis, 
