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disperma), ratlier than to my Z. acuminata^ which cannot be shown to 
have been known to Forster at all. [Similar considerations led me 
(Bouplaadia, 1862, p. 154) to refer Dais disperma to Leucosmia Bttr- 
nettiana. — Ed.] 
1. JjEUCosiiiA Burnettiana^ Benth. {Dah disperma^ Forst., fide 
herb, et tab. — Drymispermiim Forsteri, Meisn.) ; foliis late ovalibus 
ovatis summis nunc orbiculatis subito aciiminulatis crassiusculis; cnpi- 
tulo terminals mnltifloro ; floribus 5-meri3 10-andris extus glabris, 
lobis ovatis ; squamis faucialibus parvis integris ; antheris linearibns 
oblongisve ; drupa globosa putamine percrasso, — Shores of the Tongan, 
Samoan, and Pijian Islands. 
2. Leucosmia acuminata (sp. nov.) ; foliis ovato-lanccolatis sen 
ovato-oblongis sensim vel promisse acuminatis membranaceis ■ capi- 
talis terminalibus axillaribusque plurifloris ; floribus 4-meri3 8-andris 
extus glabris, lobis oblongis ; squamis faucialibus majusculis tenuibns 
subincisis erosisve ; antheris oblongis. — Samoan and Fijian Islands. 
3. Leucosmia piihiflora (sp. nov.); foliis ovato-lanceolatis oblon- 
gisve sensira acutatis vel acuminatis subcoriaccis ; pedunculis axillari- 
•bus et fasciculatis e ramis vetustioribus defoliatis ; capitulis pauci-pluri- 
floris; floribus 5-meris 10-andris extus pubescentibus, lobis oblongis ; 
sqnamis faucialibus parvis iutegris ; antheris parvis brevi-oblongis ; 
drupa immatura ovato-fnsiformi. — T'iji Islands. 
Drymispermum sp., n. 379, Seem. Cat., is referable to Ijeucosmia 
hlfL 
B. sub- 
(which 
of L. ac/imirtnia) are too imperfectly 'known to me to be determined. 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 
July 3, 1865. 
PLANTS USED MEDICINALLY AT CAEACAS, VENEZUELA, 
SOUTH AMERICA, AND THEIR YEENACULAR NAMES. 
By A. Ernst, Esq., 
Local Secretary of the Anihropolojical Society of London ^ at Caracas, 
{Concluded from p. 284.) 
Golondririo {Enphorhia pro-strata y Ait.), growing frequently amongst 
the pavement of Caracas. ** Golondrino " is the vulgar name for a kind 
of tumour in the armpits, which may be cured by poultices made of 
IS. prostrata. 
