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Mali MciUcae foliis ampJiorihus tcnuissime crcnatis, sticco maxime 

 venenoso, Pluk. Almag. p. 369 ; Phytograpli. t. 229, f. 8. 



Barbadoes : Without locality, Robert Schoinhurgh, 700, Dutch 

 Guiana : Surinam, Ilostmann, 314 ; Focke. Bkazil: Aiuazonas; Juruii, 

 Ule, 5355, 5358. 



The foregoing synonymy is partly taken from Urban, witli whom 

 I agree in regarding S, suberosimiy Mucll.-Arg, (t. 2681), as a diseased 

 condition of S. Ili'pijoinane, Meyer. I had my doubts about its being 

 normal, to which I gave expression in the letterpress to the plato 

 cited, and Urban confirms them. To S. Ifippomanej Meyer, belong the 

 detached leaves of Plukcnet's herbarium (lib. Sloane, vol. iv. pp. 82 

 and 1 1 1 in Herb, Mus. Brit.). According to notes attached to Ule's speci- 

 mens from the Amazonas, this species yields rubber of the first quality, 



— W. BOTTING HeMSLEY. 



Fig. 1, base of petiole and stipules ; 2, base of leaf and petiolar ghmds ; 3, tip 

 of leaf; 4, lower part of flower-spike, bearing both male and female flowers; 

 5, fruit. — The main figure and flowers were drawn from Hostmann's n, 314, and 

 the fruit from Ule's n. 5355. All except 5 enlarged. 



