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opposite insertee, fere rectee, juxta marginem subito arcuate; petioli 0:5-1:5 cm. 
long., validi, facie superiori canaliculati. Flores ignoti. Calyx fem. supra fructum 
0-1 cm. alt., 0:3 cm. diam. Bacca unilocularis, immatura 2:0 cm. diam., viridis. 
Semina ignota. 
Species insignis, et ob baccas verrucosas omnibus ab aliis hucusque descriptis facile 
distinguenda. 
The warted fruits are so striking a character that I have ventured to describe this 
plant, although both male and female flowers are unknown. T he fruits, which were 
rapidly increasing in size at the time we had to leave Santa Cruz (the beginning of 
December), were said by the people of that place to ripen before the end of the year; 
they are then made into a preserve. 
BASANACANTHA ARMATA, Hook. f. in Gen. Pl. ii. p. 83, var. et typica forma pubiloba. 
Hab. Crescit ad Santa Cruz, ubi mens. Nov. floret. (N. 464.) [ Amer. Austr. Trop., 
Paraguaria. | | 
'TOCOYENA HIRSUTA, Moric. DC. Prod. iv. p. 375. 
Hab. Reperi florentem ad Jangada mens. Sept. (N. 261.) 
Arbuscula 3-metralis, sursum foliata. Corolle: odoratee tubus pallide viridis, limbus 
niveus. [Bras. Or., Amazonia, Guiana. | 
RANDIA RUIZIANA, DC. Prod. iv. p. 388, var. LONGIFLORA, K. Schum. 
Hab. In ripá inveni fl. Brasinho, itaque fl. Paraguay prope Santa Cruz, mens. Oct. 
florentem. (Nn. 441, 630.) 
The ovary of a flower examined by me certainly had parietal placentas, so that, if this 
be a character of the plant named by De Candolle Randia Ruiziana, the latter is not a 
good Randia. 
Although included by K. Schumann among the Brazilian Rubiacew, there can be but 
little doubt that this was done without warrant. Spruce’s specimens formed part of a 
collection made upon the Cassiquiari, Vasiva, and Pacimone rivers; the first and last 
of these are plainly in the Amazonas province of Venezuela, and the Vasiva is probably 
_ one of the small neighbouring affluents of the Rio Negro. 
From the phytogeographical point of view, this plant, of which I saw plenty, is one 
of the most interesting in the collection. [Venezuela, Guiana, Nov. Granat., Peruvia, 
Amer. Centr. | 
GUETTARDA VIBURNOIDES, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 1829, p. 182, var. œ. PANNOSA, 
Muell. Arg. 
Hab. Viget ad Santa Cruz, mens. Nov. florens. (N. 661.) [Bras. Or., Goyaz.] 
GUETTARDA MATTOGROSSENSIS (sp. nov.); ramulis patentibus, hinc inde ad spinas 
validas leviter curvatas per paria dispositas vel ramulis foliigeris oppositis et nune 
solitariis reductis; stipulis parvis, ovato-lanceolatis; petiolis mediocribus, paginá 
foliorum obovato-oblongà vel ovato-lanceolatá, plerumque acutA vel cuspidato- 
