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exstipulata. Inflorescentia paniculata, axillaris, gracilis; flores 
minimi. 
l. Aptandra Spruceanum, Miers; foliis ellipticis subreflexis apice 
subito-attenuatis utrinque glabris subtus punctis minutissimis len- 
tiginosis et pellucidis notatis, rachi nervisque rubentibus, paniculis 
folio tertio brevioribus, pedicellis gracilibus subfasciculatis in fructu 
valde elongatis et crassioribus, bractea e dichotomiis minuta cadu- 
cissima.—Prope Obidos. (J. Miers.) : 
Among Nymphæaceæ, besides the Victoria, were a few specimens of 
a Nymphea, probably a variety of N. ampla, DC.; but the leaves are 
rather bluntly sinuated than sharply toothed, and on that account 
Salzmann, who gathered the same form near Bahia, gave it the MS. 
name of N. sinuata. The Cabomba distributed as C. aquatica, is the 
variety or species described by Gardner as C. Piauhiensis, and figured 
Hook. Ic. t. 641. 
The Capparidee contain single specimens of Cleome villosa, Gardn., 
and of C. Hostmanni, Miq., both from Obidos; the latter, perhaps, a 
mere aculeate form of C. latifolia, Vahl. Also a few specimens of 
Physostemon intermedium, Moric., from Lake Quiriquiry ; of a variety of 
Capparis lineata, Pers., from Obidos, with much less of down on the 
leaves than in the ordinary Brazilian forms ; aud lastly,of a species of 
Capparis, from Santarem, very nearly allied to, if not identical with, 
C. Fellosiana, Mart. 
To the Bixacee belongs a new species of Lindackeria, from Obidos, 
nearly allied to the Z. Maynensis, Pópp. (Nov. Gen. et Spec. vol. iii. 
p. 63, t. 270), and distributed under the name of L. latifolia. The 
genus is, perhaps, too closely allied to Aublet's Mayna, and especially 
to the three species which I described from Schomburgk’s collection, 
and which Walpers has referred to Carpotroche, for what reason I am 
unable to guess, as they have not the peculiar fruit, nor the other - 
characters, by which Carpotroche has been distinguished from Mayna. 
As the original species of Mayna is as yet imperfectly known, and as 
Mr. Spruce’s plant is certainly a congener of Póppig's, and probably 
of Presl's Lindackerie, 1 here describe it under the name I gave it in 
distributing. I have, however, little doubt that further investigation 
will cause to be united under Mayna, not only the three species I 
formerly described, but all the Lindackerie and two or three as yet — 
unpublished species 1 have in my herbarium ; whilst Póppig's Mayna 
