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lobes of a dark rose-colour ; the ovary, seated on a small fleshy 
disk, is 1 line, the style 2 lines long; the crimson berry en- 
closes four small nuts imbedded in a small quantity of pulp. 
It was found in flower and fruit in the months of March and 
April. Its vernacular name is Apicum. 
2. Lhabdia crebrifolia, n. sp. ;—ramis teretibus, nudis, fuscis, 
glabris ; ramulis brevibus, imbricatim foliosis, novellis pu- 
berulis; foliis lineari-oblongis, a medio ad basin sensim 
angustatis, superne subacutis, cum acumine brevissimo ca- 
naliculatim reflexo, integris, utraque facie opacis, pallide 
concoloribus et pilis simplicibus molliter puberulis, crassis, 
fere enervils, costa subtus prominula, primum erectis, dein 
subreflexis, petiolo tereti, puberulo, limbo 15-plo breviore : 
racemulis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, brevibus, intra 
folia dense imbricata fere absconditis, alternatim 4—5-floris ; 
pedicellis brevibus, imo bractea majore, medio bracteola 
lanceolata pilosa donatis; calyce ebracteato, profunde 5- 
partito, lobis oblongis, acuminatis ; bacca subglobosa, nitente, 
calyce persistente inclusa.—In Brasilia: v.s. in herb. Mus. 
brit. et Hook., prov. Cearé (Gardner, 1793). 
This plant, somewhat resembling the preceding, was found 
by Gardner on the sandy banks of the Rio Salgado, near the 
town of Iced, in August 1838. It differs in its closer, more 
imbricated, smaller leaves, narrowed at the base, upon a very 
short petiole, and not sinuated on the margin. The branches 
are generally of no great length ; but the flowering branchlets, 
seldom more than 1} inch long, and 4-6 lines apart, are thickly 
covered with imbricated leaves, and bear a single raceme 
almost hidden at their extremity; the leaves are 6-8 lines 
long, 24 lines broad, narrowing gradually towards the base 
into an extremely short petiole; the raceme is 4-8 lines long, 
with four or five alternate flowers, upon pedicels $—1 line long; 
the basal bract is 3 or 4 lines, the median one 2 lines long ; 
the calyx is shortly campanular at its base, and cleft into five 
equal erect segments somewhat imbricated in estivation, 
broader in the middle than at the base, and very acute, 2 lines 
long, smooth inside, covered outside with short soft hairs 
emanating from minute tubercles, and with ciliated margins ; 
the corolla is very deciduous, its tube 1 line long, its border 
somewhat campanulate and reflected, has five lobes 23 lines 
long, ? line broad; the filaments, glabrous, fixed near the base 
of the tube, are 2 lines long; the anthers subglobose and 
didymous; there is no disk, but the subglobose ovary is shortly 
stipitated ; the style is compressed, 2-grooved, the length of 
the stamens, and persistent ; the flat peltate stigma is 2-lobed, 
