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Second Report on Mm. SpRucE’s Collections of Dried Plants from 
NorTH BRAZIL; by GEORGE BENTHAM, Esq. 
(Continued from p. 120.) 
The last portion of this report was already in type when the remain- 
der of Mr. Spruce’s Santarem collection reached this country in 
excellent condition, containing, besides a considerable number of 
additional species, specimens in fruit or in flower of many others, 
which had previously been found only in one of these states. The 
chief additions to the few orders mentioned in the last number of this 
Journal, are two Dilleniaceæ, a Doliocarpus answering very well to 
Garcke’s description of his D. brevipedicellatus (Linnæa, vol. xxii. p. 47), 
a Surinam species, found by Mr. Spruce on the shores of the Amazon, 
below Santarem, and the following new Davila, from the campos near 
Santarem. 
Davila pedicellaris, sp. n.; scandens, glabra, foliis oblongis ellipticisve 
obtusis integerrimis rigide coriaceis reticulato-venosis scabris, racemis 
1-4-floris, pedicellis elongatis, sepalis interioribus maximis induratis, 
ovariis geminis. 
These specimens resemble so closely the figure of D. flecuosa, St. Hil. 
(Fl. Bras. Mer. p. 17, t. 2), that I should have considered them as 
belonging to that species, were it not that St. Hilaire describes his 
plant as erect (not twining), and the lateral veins of the leaves as 
“vix manifestis," whilst in our plant, which is certainly a twiner, the 
lateral veins, as well as the smaller reticulations, are remarkably con- 
spicuous. The very hard inner lobes of the calyx, full half an inch in 
diameter when enclosing the fruit, the inflorescence, and the shape of | 
the leaves, are as described in the above-quoted work. The flowers. i 
are, according to Mr. Spruce, mostly apetalous, rarely with five- y | 
obcordate petals. 
Resuming the general Santarem collection with the Order Pelle: i. 
we have six species of Polygala, all published ones, and most of them — 
having a wide range in tropical America. Among them the delicate - 
P. subtilis, H. B. K., whose minute flowers were carefully examined 
when fresh by Mr. Spruce, proves to be hexandrous, like P. setacea, 
Mich., not octandrous, as usually described with the great mass of 
species. To the P. bryoides, St. Hil., of which a broad-leaved variety 
has been distributed, should be reduced my P. camporum (Hook. 
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