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acuminatis basi rotundatis cordatisve supra glabris v. ad 
venas impressas puberulis, subtus ferrugineo-pubescenti- 
bus, racemis folio brevioribus, pedicellis perigonio sublon- 
gioribus bracteam vix æquantibus, perigonii tubo lobis multo 
breviore. — Caulis lignosus, super arbores alte scandens. 
Ramuli juniores ferrugineo-pubescentes, demum glabrati 
verrucosi. Vagine breves. Folia pleraque 6-8 poll. longa, 
4-5 poll. lata, petiolo subsemipollicari, nonnulla tamen multo 
minora, omnia subcoriacea, supra siccitate nigricantia et 
venis exceptis glabra, subtus pube brevi ferruginea vestita, 
nervis reteque majore venarum valde prominentibus. Racemi 
laxiusculi, secus ramos ad axillas foliorum delapsorum, v. in 
axillis foliorum subfasciculati, 2-3-pollicares, flexuosi, a basi 
floridi.  Bracteæ exteriores demum 1 lin. longe, a basi 
membranacez, truncate, extus minutissime puberule. Flores 
plerique abortu masculi, nonnulli tamen in iisdem racemis 
hermaphroditi. Perigoinum lineam longum, laciniis 5 ro- 
tundatis subæqualibus, tubus brevis carnosus cum disco 
staminifero connatus. Stamina 8, in omnibus floribus tam 
hermaphroditis quam masculis consimilia, nec unquam abor- 
tiva videntur. Ovarium in floribus hermaphroditis sessile, 
obtuse trigonum, superne attenuatum. Styli apice leviter 
incrassati, vix capitati, tenuiter papillosi, et forte flores quos 
vidi non vere fertiles sunt, etsi ovulum adest, ut videtur per- 
fectum. Ovarium in floribus masculis minimum est v. omnino 
evanescit.— British Guiana, Schomburgk, lst Coll, n. 400, 
?nd. Coll. n. 218, (128).* Ex 
In Forsyth’s herbarium, I found, under the name of C. 
scandens, an imperfect specimen of a plant gathered by 
Anderson in Saint Lucia, very much like the above, but with 
the leaves perfectly smooth, the racemes much longer, and 
the bracts very small. These are the only two species as yet 
known to be climbers. | 
* The plants of the 2nd Collection were many of them gathered by Mr. 
Richard Schomburgk, brother of Sir Robert, who accompanied him on 
account of the Royal Herbarium, Berlin, and the numbers inserted last Pd 
onthe labels or within a parenthesis, are those given to these specimens in — 3 
- the Berlin collection. 
