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racemes and smaller flowers ; its leaves are much darker, thicker, 

 more opaque beneath, more acute at base, all (even younger 

 ones) quite glabrous, excepting along the midrib above ; nervures 

 shorter, more spreading ; calyx and corolla smooth ; branchlets 

 virgate, of a golden-yellow colour and puberulous : its leaves arc 

 3| inches long, \\ inch wide, the petiole being 1| line in length; 

 the racemes are 4 lines long, the pedicels 1 line, the flowers be- 

 fore opening 2 lines long ; the drupe is 8 lines long and 5 lines 

 in diameter. 



7. Liriosma ovata, n. sp. ; — foliis late ovatis, imo obtusis, prope 

 summuni attenuatis, hinc obtusis et eniarginatis, crassiusculis, 

 supra lucidis, subtus opacis, fuscis, utrinque glabris, nervis 

 paucis sese arcuatis breviter divergentibus omnino immersis, 

 subtus vix visibilibus, margine tenui reflexo, costa mediana 

 superne pubere, subtus glabra, sulcata, petiolo brevi ruguloso ; 

 racemulis brevibus axillaribus glabris, 4^6-fioris, floribus mi- 

 noribus, glabris. — Barra do Rio Negro, Amazonas. (Spruce, 

 in fiore, sine numero, coll. 1850-51; in fructu immaturo, 

 No. 1366). 



In this species the leaves are 2|-2§ inches long, 1§-1§ inch 

 broad, on a petiole 2 lines in length ; the racemes are 3 lines 

 long. 



8. Liriosma acuta, n. sp. ; — ramulis virgatis, strictis, glabris, 

 striatis ; foliis distantibus, oblongis, imo valde obtusis, infra 

 medium versus summum gradatim acutis, acuminatis, con- 

 coloribus, subpallidis, utrinque opacis, supra glabris, sub- 

 convexis, nervis immersis, subtus sub lente sparse puberibus, 

 nervis prominulis, reticulatis, margine tenui revoluto, junio- 

 ribus miuoribus et utrinque viridibus, petiolo brevi ; racemulis 

 axillaribus, brevibus, paucifloris. — Rio Negro, Amazonas 

 (Spruce, 1508). 



The branchlets are long and virgate, the internodes about 



I inch apart; the leaves 3-4 inches long, lf-lf inch broad, on 

 a petiole 2 lines long : the floral racemes, in my specimen, are 

 in a very young state ; they are only 3 lines long, both in flower 

 and fruit. The drupe, supported on a very short pedicel, is 



II lines long and 7 lines in diameter; the sarcocarp, in a dried 

 state, is very thin ; the putamen is also very thin, marked exter- 

 nally and internally by nine longitudinal lines ; the integuments 

 are membranaceous ; the albumen is very thick and fleshy, 

 marked by three longitudinal grooves, which terminate at the 

 base in three short hollow spaces, uniting in a long hollow 

 cylindrical cavity in the axis which extends to f of the length 

 of the albumen ; in the solid apex, over this space, the minute 



