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A specimen in the Kew Herbarium collected by Imray in Dominica, 

 and named S. Atictiparhim by Grisebach, probably belongs to this 

 species, which was founded upon and described from plants cultivated 

 in Paris ; Gay's specimen, cited abovC; may be regarded as typical. — 



W. BOTTING HeMSLEY. 



Fig. 1, a female infloresceuce, bearing a reduced very tliick foliar organ wilh 

 conspicuously pored glands ; 2, base of leaf and spreading petiolar glands ; 3, tip 

 of leaf ; 4, portion of a male inflorescence ; 5, portions of axillary female spikes 

 from which the leaves have fallen. — Tlie upper branch and all the numbered 

 figures except 5, drawn fron\ Gay's specimens ; the lower branch and fruit from 

 Sintenis's lGu9, All exc-ept 5 enlarged. 



Fendler's n. 1012, from Trinidad, collected between 1877 and 1880, 

 is a species closely allied to S. Laurocerasus , differing as here set forth ; 



S. Fendleri, HemsL ; species nova, ab >S. Lauroceraso, Desf., recedit 

 foliis tennioribus apice late cucuUatis margine integris, glandulis 

 petiolaribus olongatis patentibus, spicis folia exccdentibus androgynis 

 et capsulis scssilibus. — W. Botting IIemsley. 



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