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drupa conice globosa, parva, imo brevissime stipitata et bifossata, apice rostrata, 
corolla persistente cincta et calyce valde aucto 4-lobo cireumdata, 4-loculari (loculis 
2 subabortivis) ; seminibus generis. In Brasilia prov. Rio Grande do Sul: v. s. i» 
hb. Hook. Viamaó ( Tweedie, 27). 
Tweedie describes this as a “ fine tree," growing in the woods of Viamaó, about 
10 miles E. of Port Alegre, and 30 miles from the locality of the preceding species. It 
is distinguished from the latter by its more lanceolate leaves, by its glomerulate flowers, 
which are constantly 4-merous, by the insertion of its stamens, its hairy filaments, and 
the presence of 4 augmented calycine lobes around the fruit. Тһе branches are slender, 
with axils 4 in. apart; the leaves are 23-3 in. long, 8-10 lines broad, on petioles 23 lines 
long; the tube of the corolla is 1 line long, its lobes of the same length; the 4 patent 
segments of the augmented calyx are 10 lines long, 25-3 lines broad; the exsuccous 
drupe is 3 lines long, 2 lines broad, is shortly stipitate at the base, with 2 hollow 
cavities; the nut, somewhat fibrous in texture, has 2 larger cells, bearing each an erect 
seed, terminated by the micropyle, and fixed by its base to the bottom angle of the cell, 
with a basal ehalaza, no raphe being visible. 
4. PATAGONULA BAHIENSIS, Moric. Pl. Amer. tab. 86; A. DC. Prodr. ix. 467, in not.; 
Fresen. in Fl. Br. /. c. p. 28: ramulis fuscis, lenticellis albis rugulosis, glanduloso- 
tomentosis: foliis alternis, vel 2-3 approximatis, ovato-ellipticis, utrinque sub- 
acutulis, imo circa petiolum brevissimum subito rotundiusculis, acumine obtusiusculo, 
fere integris, aut in marginibus cartilagineis crenulatis obsolete denticulatis, supra 
sublucidis, fere glabris, costa nervisque subimmersis hirtellis, subtus pallidis, 
opacis, dense puberulis atque setaceo-hirsutulis, costa nervisque prominulis ; petiolo 
. semitereti, setaceo-piloso, limbo 40plo breviore : paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, 
tenuiter dichotome  multidivisis, pubescentibus; floribus parvis, subsessilibus ; 
calyce 5-partito, lobis oblongis, acutis, extus glanduloso-setaceo hirsutulis, margine 
ciliatis; corolla membranacea, minute pellucido-punctata, tubo subcampanulato, 
calycem æquante, limbi lobis 5, ovato-ellipticis, obtusis, subreflexis, margine 
ciliatis; staminibus 5, imo insertis, vix exsertis, glabris; ovario semigloboso, disco 
insito, 4-loculari; stylo bis bifido. In Brasilia, prov. Bahia: v. s. in hb. Hook. 
Jacobina (Blanchet, 3086). | 
Besides the above cited, DeCandolle quotes others of Blanchet's numbers (2855 and 
3902) among his specimens. The axils of its branchlets are 1-11 in. apart; the leaves 
8-3% in. long, 1-12 in. broad, on petioles 1 line long; the panicle is 28 in. long and 
broad; several flowers are agglomerated at the end of its branchlets into a head 3 lines 
in diam.; the flower expanded is 2 lines broad, the calycine lobes 3 line long; these | : 
expand in the fruit to а length of 9 lines and breadth of 2 lines, nerved and reticulated ; 
.the fruit as in the preceding species. 
5. PARADIGMA. 
. This genus is proposed for a plant from the island of Cuba, insufficiently described 
many years ago by Richard as a species of Cordia. The general structure of the flower 
and fruit, the peculiar estivation of the corolla, its numerous lobes, its sessile linear 
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