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Second Report on Mm. Spruce’s Collections of Dried Plants from 
North BRAZIL; by GEORGE BENTHAM, Esq. 
(Continued from p. 166.) 
The Sapindaceæ are more numerous, several of them new, and, many 
being both in fruit and flower, I shall in describing them add a few notes 
on some allied species. 
The Cardiospermum, distributed as C. microcarpum, H.B.K., appears 
to accompany the C. Halicacabum over the whole of the tropical world, 
and to be at least equally common; and as it seems impossible to 
distinguish the two by any other character than that of the fruit, it 
becomes doubtful whether they may not be varieties of one species. 
I have them both from western and eastern tropical America, from the 
warmer regions of North America, east and west tropical Africa, South 
Africa, various parts of East India, and the Pacific Islands. 
1. Serjania nitidula, sp.n.; glaberrima, ramis teretiusculis, foliolis ter- 
nis ovato-oblongis obtusis paucidentatis, intermedio in petiolulum 
contracto, paniculis racemiformibus subsimplicibus, sepalis 5, inte- 
rioribus exteriores paullo superantibus, fructu basi late cordato glaber- 
rimo nitidulo reticulato, alis dimidio longitudinis angustioribus.— . 
Rami tenues, juniores leviter angulati. Stipule lineam longæ, late 
triangulares, obtuse. Foliorum petiolus communis 1-3-pollicaris ; 
foliolum intermedium 2-3-pollicare, apice obtuso dentibusque paucis 
callosis, basi rotundatum v. cuneatum et in petiolulum 2-3 lin. 
longum abrupte contractum, lateralia subsessilia quam terminale 
nune paullo nune dimidio minora, omnia incegra v. intermedium i 
raro subtrilobum, penninervia et reticulato-venosa, chartacea v. de- 
mum subcoriacea, supra nitidula, subtus pariter viridia sed palli- E 
diora. Thyrsi (v. paniculæ racemiformes) axillares, breviter pec 
culati v. ad apices ramorum terni v. subpaniculati, 3-5-pollicares, 
glaberrimi, basi cirrhosi ; ramuli per anthesin breves, recurvi, dust : 
sepe semipollicares, 5-10-flori. Pedicelli 2-3 lin. longi, infra me- 
dium articulati. Sepala exteriora late ovata, concava, 14 lin. longa, 
interiora angustiora et longiora. Petala calycem vix superantia, 
anguste oblonga, in unguem longe contracta, appendice basilari 
eucullata petalo breviore villoso, apice glanduliformi glabra. Ova- 
rium glabrum. Fructus 10 lin. longus, apice emarginatus, undique 
reticulatus et nitidulus, alis basi rotundatis singulis 4 lin. latis. 
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