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longe lanceolatis^ anguste acuminatis, in texturam tcnuibus, 

 supra sparse pilosis, subtus pallidioribusj costa media nervisque 

 hirsutulisj breviter petiolulatis, petiolulo tomentoso, folio ter- 

 minali alteris longiori et longius petiolulato; racemo longe 

 extra-axillari, elongato, imo nudo, sub-10-flore, floribus alter- 

 nisj ilavis, glabris, subsecundis, pedicellis longiusculis,pilosulis, 

 apiee valde incrassatis, imo articulatis, infimis dcciduis, 

 Brasilia (in Montibus Organcnsibus, Prov. Rio dc Janeiro). 



I found this plant on the skirts of the extensive forests of the 

 Organ Mountains ; the branchlets are green, smooth, rounds 

 marked with numerous minute whitish specks, woody but fistu- 

 lar,. and somewhat flexuosely geniculated at the nodes, which are 

 3 or 3| inches apart. The leaves are about 10 inches long ; the 

 petiole diverges nearly at a right angle from the stem, and is 

 bare for the length of 2 inches ; the leaflets are generally in 

 opposite pairs, about 1 inch apart, though often alternate ; the 

 lowermost are shorter, scarcely more than an inch long, upon 

 tomentose petioles of a line in length ; the upper ones are 3 inches 

 long, 7 lines broad, on a petiole of 1| line ; and the terminal one 

 is 8 lines broad and 4 inches long, exclusive of its petiole of half 

 an inch. The raceme issues from the stem upon the same 

 side as the leaf, but at a distance of 2 inches above the axil ; it 

 is quite glabrous, about 5 inches long, the lower portion for a 

 leno-th of 3 inches being bare of flowers, but from this point eleven 

 pedicels, each bearing a single flower, spring secundly ; they 

 are suddenly thickened below the calyx, are about 8 Imes long, 

 and are articulated at their base, the lower ones generally falling 

 aw^ay, and leaving cicatrices at the points of their insertion. The 

 calyx is short, with five triangular teeth ; the corolla is about 

 5 lines long, has a short tube scarcely exceeding a line in length, 

 the border being divided into five equal, oblong segments, which 

 are quite smooth, with woolly margins : the stamens are the 

 leno-th of the corolla, the filaments are extremely short, and arise 

 from an adnate 5-toothed ring fixed to the tube ; the ovary is 

 short, smooth, not longer than the calyx; the style is slender, 

 somewhat thickened above, and hollow for half its length*. 



Cliocarpus. 



It is now more than five years since I proposed this genus 

 for a Brazilian plant collected in the provmce of Mmas Geraes 

 bv mv friend the late Mr. Gardner. The generic outhne given 

 (huL vol p. 31) was incomplete, as I had then only seen it m 

 fruit, but I am at length able to add its floral character- The 



A drawing of this plant with its floral analysis is given in plate 74. 



