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surfaces, apiculate with a short very acute acumen ; flowers cinereous- 

 milk-white or pale-bluish, rather fleshy. Capsules arranged in erect 

 racemes, velvety, deep-scarlet, the size of a small walnut, subspherical, 

 girt at the base with the pentamerous remains of the calyx and corolla, 

 mucronate at the apex with the hardened style, ribbed, 4-furrowed, 

 coriaceous-woody, the younger ones deep-violet and as large as a hazel 

 nut, 4- or very rarely o-valved ; seeds scarlet except the orange cup- 

 shaped aril at the base. In moist primitive forests among the 

 mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, sporadic ; fl. June 1855 and August 

 1856, ripe fr. 8 Oct. 1855 ; primitive forest of Quisuculo, Sobato de 

 Bango ; fl. Sept. 1855. No. 1695. A tree ; capsule 4-valved, violet- 

 scarlet ; seeds scarlet, arillate. Queta, June 1856. Coll. Carp. 345. 

 A small tree, with leaves spread at the apex of the trunk in a palm-like 

 manner ; flowers racemose-spicate ; calyx violaceous ; petals yellowish ; 

 capsule woody, 4-seeded. Mata de Quisuculo ; fl. and fr. 8 Sept. 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 348. A small very elegant palm-like tree ; leaflets glossy, 

 usually quite entire, but also on one and the same leaf occasionally 

 remotely dentate-serrate. In the primitive forests of Serra de Alto 

 Queta ; fl. 25 July 1856 and Quisuculo May 1856. Xo. 1696. A tree 

 of 12 f t ; trunk straight, as thick as a man's fore-arm ; branchlets 

 nodose-scarred, erect, with leaves crowded at their apex ; leaflets in 

 5 or 6 pairs, softly coriaceous, entire or serrate-dentate, bright green 

 and rather glossy above, pale-green and glossy beneath ; flowers 

 yellowish ; calyx-segments 4, 3 equal, the 4th broader and shortly bifid ; 

 petals ligulate-spathulate, rather hairy, yellowish-greenish ; stamens 4 ; 

 style shorter than the stamens ; stigma ovoid-capitate vertically sub- 

 costate, obtuse ; disk semicircular, 3-crenate, deep-red, opposite to the 

 three equal calyx-segments. In primitive forests of the mountains of 

 Serra de Queta Central, Zengas do Golungo ; fl. Sept. 1855. No. 1696&. 

 No notes, without either fl. or fr. Determination quite doubtful. 

 No. 6695. A tree, 12 to 20 ft. high ; trunk slender ; head palm-like ; 

 leaflets (21 in one case) not pellucid-punctate, but the younger ones 

 very delicately pellucid-striate ; in the very shady primitive forests at 

 the spring of Quibolo near Sange ; without fl. or fr. March and June 

 1856. Determination also doubtful. No. 1699. 



2. B. acutidens Welw. ms. in Herb. 



A shrub of 6 ft. or a small very elegant palm -like tree of 8 to 

 15 ft., erectly branched, glabrous except the inflorescence ; branch - 

 lets terete, shining; leaves alternate, impari-pinnate, 1 to 2 ft. 

 long, 2- to 6-jugate near the extremity of the trunk and branches; 

 common peduncle 3 to 4 in. long ; rachis often winged ; stipules 

 ovate, I in. long ; leaflets elliptical or oblong, somewhat narrowed, 

 sometimes acutely acuminate and apiculate at the apex, unequal 

 at the base except the cuneate terminal one, acutely or coarsely 

 dentate or in the lower part nearly entire, thinly coriaceous, 

 rather glossy, 2 to 8 in. long by 1 to 3 in. broad ; petiolule short ; 

 racemes mostly axillary ; flowers of a pale sulphur colour, clove- 

 scented ; gland various in shape, in some flowers almost like the 

 residue of a blunt disk ; calyx-segments 4, one broader, bidentate 

 at the apex. Entire and dentate or serrate leaflets occur on one 

 and the same tree. 



Golungo Alto. — In dense primitive forests at the cataract of 

 Capopa, in Sobato de Bumba ; without fl. or fr. July 1855. No. 4536. 

 In dense primitive forests of Serra de Queta Central, flower-bud 



