422 NEW SPECIES OF CRESCENTIA. 
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vince of Goyaz, I have found in cultivation a species of Cre- 
scentia which does not accord with any of the seven species of 
that genus described in Sprengel’s edition of the ** Systema 
Vegetabilium,” and which may be distinguished from them all 
in the following manner :— = 
CRESCENTIA. Linn. 
C. cuneifolia; arborea, foliis confertis obovatis abrupte et 
breviter acuminatis versus basin longe cuneatis superne gla- 
bris nitidis subtus nervo venisque puberulis, fructibus glo- 
bosis. D 
Has. in Brasilis Prov. Goyaz, apud Natividade in hortis 
culta. M 
Description.—A much branched tree, about eighteen feet 
high. Principal branches nearly vertical, the smaller ones 
horizontal. Bark thick, soft, much cracked longitudinally, 
and of a greyish colour. Leaves in fascicles of from 2—8, 
arising from the centre of large flattish nodes. Abortive. 
branchlets covered by thick broken lamine of soft bark, 
and petioles surrounded by a few small withered subulate 
scales; petioles about three lines long, somewhat winged 
by the decurrent base of the leaf ; entire leaf from 4—7 _ t 
inches long, and from 14—21 inches broad, obovate, 
: abruptly and shortly acuminate, towards the base greatly E 
cuneate, glabrous and shining above, and of a dark green 
colour, beneath slightly pubescent, particularly on the pro- 2r 
minent midrib and large veins, opaque, and paler than above. —— 
.. Flowers solitary or in pairs, springing from nodes similar to — 
those from whence the leaves arise; but always destitute of 
. leaves, principally on the thicker branches, and often on the 
. trunk itself, pedicellate; pedicel about an inch long, bearing oe 
.. three small scariose bracts a little below its middle. Calyz — 
inferior, monadelphous, deciduous ; in its early state forming - 
ovate oblong shut sac which encloses the internal parts. 
flower, ultimately splitting almost to the base into two, 
hree, nearly equal ovate divisions. These divi- 
