CHONDODENDRON TOMENTOSUM. 



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Mello. 



Mr. G. B. 



Francis. 



distinguish them as two species ; and Mr. Peckolt subsequently 1873. 

 informed me that their difference consists chiefly in habit, and Mr. Peckolt. 

 that the first or legitimate Pereira Brava is found in much drier 

 situations than the small sort or Pereira Brava miuda. 



I have also received specimens from my friend Mr. J. Correa 

 de Mello of Campinas, marked Parreira Brava pequena (small 

 Pareira Brava) or Abuta pequena, and others labelled Leaves of 

 the pi ant producing Pareira Brava, all of which seem referable to 

 Mr. Peckolt's plant. Mr. Correa de Me*llo has likewise sent M. Correa de 

 rne the dried root, and I have also received the root as supplied 

 by a drug house of Rio de Janeiro. 



Within the last few weeks two specimens of roots bearing 

 some leaves marked respectively Pareira Brava, large leaf, and 

 Pareira Brava, small leaf, have been presented to the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society as well as to myself by Mr. G. B. Francis of the 

 firm of Hearon, Squire, and Francis. Between these two sorts I 

 fail to recognize any difference. 



The roots of Mr. Peckolt's Pareira Brava legitima, those sent 

 me by Mr. Correa de Mello, and those received from Mr. Francis, 

 completely agree with Sloane's specimens, as well as with 

 Pomet's figure. 



As to the plant, I identify it with Chondodendron 1 tomen- 

 tosum of Kuiz et Pavon, with an authentic specimen of which 

 in the herbarium of the British Museum I have compared it. 

 It is the Cocculus Chondodendron of De Candolle (Prod. i. 98), 

 and has been figured as Cocculus (?) platyphylla by Auguste de 

 St. Hilaire, 2 and by Eichler, 3 as Bolryopsis platyphylla, Miers. 

 It agrees well with the plate of Cissampelos Abutua in Vellozo's 

 Flora Fluminensis 4 with which Eichler doubtfully identifies it. 



1 Mr. Miers (Contributions to Botany, iii. 307) contends for this name 

 being written Chondrodendron as more in accordance with its derivation from 

 Xovdpos. But I think it safer to retain the original spelling as accepted by 

 all botanists. 2 Plantes Usuelles des Brasiliens, pi. 42. 



3 Martius Flor. Bras., fasc. 38, tab. 48, Eichler makes two species under 

 the name of Botryopsis, Miers eight, six of them being apparently forms of 

 Ch. tomentosum. Mr. Miers's species, as named by himself, can be seen in 

 the British Museum, and a type-specimen of the plant figured by Eichler in 

 the Kew Herbarium. 



4 Tom. x., tab. 140. Mr. Miers regards this to represent his Abuta ma- 

 crophylla, a very different plant. 



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