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mose, plurime (8-5), fasciculate, supra-axillares, graciles, 
glabre ; flores numerosi, minufi, glabri: racemi 2? 1-2, sim- 
plices, pauciflori. 
The following is a list of the species, the full characters of 
which are printed for my ‘ Contributions to Botany ’:— 
1. Anelasma Gardnerianum, nob. ;—Abuta concolor, Benth, in 
part.—Goyaz (Gardner, 3567). 
2. concolor, nob. ;—Abuta concolor, Benth. ;—Trichoa con- 
color, Endl.;—Cocculus levigatus, Mart.—San Gabriel 
(Spruce, 2192); Barra do Rio Negro (Spruce, sub Cocculus 
levigatus, Mart.). 
3. Martianum, nob. ;—Abuta concolor, Benth. in parl.— 
Guiana (Martin). 
A, Guianense, nob.;—Abuta concolor, Benth. in part.— 
Guiana (Schomb. 4-40). 
Di. Sellowianum, nob. ;—Abuta, sp., Benth.—Brasilia (Sel- 
low). 
6. Spruceanum, nob.—Abuta concolor, Benth. in part. 
7. pallidum, nob.;—Anclasma laurifolhum, Sagot, MSS. 
(non nob.) ;—Abuta concolor, Benth. in part.—Barra do 
Rio Negro (Spruce, 1829) ; Guiana (Sagot, 20). 
8. strumosum, nob.;—Abuta, sp., Benth—San Gabriel 
(Spruce, 2393). 
2. intaminatum, nob.—Brasilia (Bowie & Cunningham). 
The following species, though unknown to me, appear to 
belong to this genus :— 
tO. urophyllum ;—Cocculus urophyllus, Mart. 
11. ——- laurifolium ;—Cissampelos laurifolia, Poir.—Ins. 8, 
Thome. 
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XXXI.—Descriptions of Genera and Species of Hispide. 
By J. S. Baty. 
Havine been disappointed, like many others, in the hope that 
the Trustees of the British Museum would resume the publica- 
tion of their catalogues, and thereby enable me to complete my 
monograph of Hispidze under their auspices, and having during 
a long period of waiting exhausted both my own patience and 
that of those numerous friends who have allowed their collections 
to remain for so long a time in my hands, I have at length de- 
termined to publish, from time to time, as opportunities occur, 
all the materials within my reach in a detached form, I hope 
