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racemes and smaller flowers ; its leaves are much darker, thicker, 

 more opaque beneath, more acute at base, all (even younger 

 ones) quite glabrous, excepting along the midrib above ; nervures 

 shorter, more spreading ; calyx and corolla smooth ; branchlets 

 virgate, of a golden-yellow colour and puberulous : its leaves are 

 3 J inches long, 1| inch wide, the petiole being 1^ line in length ; 

 the racemes are 4 lines long, the pedicels 1 line, the flowers be- 

 fore opening 2 lines long ; the drupe is 8 lines long and 5 lines 

 in diameter. 



7. Liriosma ovata, n. sp. ; — foliis late ovatis, imo obtusis, prope 

 summum attenuatis, hinc obtusis et emarginatis, crassiusculis, 

 supra lucidis, subtus opacis*, fuscis, utrinque glabris, nervis 

 paucis sese arcuatis breviter divergentibus omnino immersis, 

 subtus vix visibilibus, margine tenui reflexo, costa mediana 

 superne pubere, subtus glabra, sulcata, petiolo brevi ruguloso ; 

 racemulis brevibus axillaribus glabris, 4-6-floris, floribus mi- 

 noribus, glabris. — Barra do Rio Negro, Amazonas. (Spruce, 

 in flore, sine numero, coll. 1850-51; in fructu immature, 

 No. 1366). 



In this species the leaves are 2|-2| inches long, If-lf inch 

 broad, on a petiole 2 lines in length ; the racemes are 3 lines 

 long. 



8. Liriosma acuta, n. sp. ; — ramulis virgatis, strictis, glabris, 

 striatis ; foliis distantibus, oblongis, imo valde obtusis, infra 

 medium versus summum gradatim acutis, acuminatis, con- 

 coloribus, subpallidis, utrinque opacis, supra glabris, sub- 

 convexis, nervis immersis, subtus sub lente sparse puberibus, 

 nervis prominulis, reticulatis, margine tenui revoluto, junio- 

 ribus minoribus et utrinque viridibus, petiolo brevi ; racemulis 

 axillaribus, brevibus, paucifloris. — Rio Negro, Amazonas 

 (Spruce, 1508). 



The branchlets are long and virgate, the internodes about 



I inch apart; the leaves 3-4 inches long, lf-l| inch broad, on 

 a petiole 2 lines long : the floral racemes, in my specimen, are 

 in a very young state ; they are only 3 lines long, both in flower 

 and fruit. The drupe, supported on a very short pedicel, is 



II lines long and 7 lines in diameter; the sarcocarp, in a dried 

 state, is very thin ; the putamen is also very thin, marked exter- 

 nally and internally by nine longitudinal lines ; the integuments 

 are membranaceous; the albumen is very thick and fleshy, 

 marked by three longitudinal grooves, which terminate at the 

 base in three short hollow spaces, uniting in a long hollow 

 cylindrical cavity in the axis \yhich extends to | of the length 

 of the albumen ; in the solid apex, over this space, the minute 



