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canaliculate saspe deflexo ; paniculis racemosis, temis, axilla- 

 ribus, petiolo sublongioribus, floribus dense aggregatis, grisco- 

 pilosulis^ pctalis lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, sum mo patcntim 

 reflexis, intus ad carinse basin apicemque fascicule pilorum 

 donatis, pilis brevibus albidis ; staminibus incurvis crassius- 

 culis, connective tereti, imo cordato, in mucronem obtusura 

 incurvum longe protenso, antherarum loculis sejunctis, antice 

 contiguis, subparallelis, margine dorsali dehiscentibus ; ovario 

 pilis brevibus micantibus adpressis vestito, disco glabro insito ; 

 stylo brevissimo valde excentrico. — Brasilia intertropica; — v. s. 

 in herb. Hook. — Pj^ov. Goyaz, Minas Geracs et Pemambuco 

 (Gardn. n. 294 J, 3309, 4451); Rio S. Francisco (Blanchet, 

 2889). 



In this species the leaves, in the dried state, present a re- 

 markably pallido-glaueous and lurid aspect above, and are co- 

 vered below with yellow, very short, adpressed and bright tomen- 

 tum ; the upper surface is shining, with prominent nervures, and 

 under a lens appears marked with numerous minute impressed 

 dots, between which are seen still more numerous raised resinous 

 spots ; they are generally about 4 inches long and 2 inches 

 broad, on a longer and more slender petiole, about 9 lines in 

 length. One, two or three short branching racemes, about the 

 length of the petioles, crowded with numerous flowers, spring 

 from each axil ; the stamens are incurved, about the length of 

 the petals, the anthers being nearly as long as the broad fleshy 

 filaments ; the thick, fleshy, almost terete connective is slightly 

 cordate at its base, is somewhat incurved and subulate, and ter- 

 minates in an obtuse point that much exceeds the length of the 

 anther-cells; this is affixed just in the angle of its sinus in front, 

 to the obtuse apex of the filament, so that the anthers, though 

 at first sight apparently basifixed, are in reality also extrorse in 

 position : the anther-cells are white, of thin texture, linearly 

 boatshaped, quite separate, nearly parallel, and fixed extrorsely 

 upon the sinus of the inner face of the connective, and they dis- 

 charge their pollen by the secession of the exterior margins from 

 the body of the connective. The pollen is oval, marked by three 

 longitudinal lines. The ovarium is shorter than the stamens, 

 covered with short erect hairs, and seated on a small fleshy 

 glabrous disk ; it is 3-celled as in the last- described species ; the 

 style is very short, very excentric, hollow at its apex, and termi- 

 nated by three very minute teeth. 



