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inch long, which, when younger, appear hke a crowded globular 

 axillary fascicle. The anthers in structure resemble those of the 

 following species. The long red hairs that densely spring from 

 the inner keel of the petals under the lens appear marked by 

 large prominent glands in two uneven series, so that they seem 

 almost torulose. 



3. Emmotum fagifolium, ])esv. in Ham. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occid. 

 p. 29. Pogopetalum acutum, Benth., Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 

 ii. 377; — ramis angulatis, rufo-tomentosis ; foliis oblongis, 

 ovatisve, apice repente lineari-attenuatis, basi rotundatis vel 

 truncatis, valde coriaceis, supra sublucidis, glaberrimis, nervis 

 divaricatis, pubentibus, approximatis, iucurvo-parallelis, sul« 

 eatis, venis transversis immersis, subtus prsesertim in nervis 

 sparse sericeo-pubescentibus, nervis tenuibus subprominulis, 

 petiolo canaliculato tomentoso; racemis geminis, axillaribus, 

 petiolo vix longioribus, floribus aggregatis, aurantiaco- vel 

 cano-tomentosis, petalis lineari-oblongis, intus pilis longis 

 rufis in carinam lanatis, lateribus glabris, iilamentis tenui- 

 oribus, dilatatis, antheris ovatis, vix mucronulatis, loculis op- 

 positis, complanatis, ovario pilis longis hispido (nee glabro), 

 stylo elongato, gracili. — Guiana Gallica, Desvaux. — v. s. in herb. 

 Hook. (Leprieur et Martin). 



There can be little doubt that this is the plant described by 

 Desvaux as the " Bois d' Agouti," and which is identical with the 

 Pogopetalum acutum of Mr. Bentham : the leaves in form much 

 resemble those of the preceding species ; they are from 3f to 6| 

 inches long, and 2^ to 3f inches broad, on a slender petiole half 

 an inch in length ; the apex is very suddenly acuminated by a 

 linear point, half an inch in length, and often little more than a 

 line in breadth. The flowers are closely aggregated, each being 

 (articulated on its short pedicel ; the calyx is cupuliform, pubes- 

 cent, and cleft into five ovate, fleshy and somewhat acute lobes, 

 which are slightly imbricated in aestivation, as in Platea; the 

 petals are clothed outside with short gray adpressed hairs, and 

 the prominent internal keel is furnished with a line of very 

 densely-set long red spreading woolly hairs, which are flattened 

 and marked with glandular dots ; the stamens are nearly as long 

 as the petals ; the filaments are fleshy, compressed and broader at 

 the base, somewhat terete and subulate above, and suddenly bent 

 ^[)ack at the apex, where the point is affixed to the front of the 

 red fleshy connective, just above its short basal sinus ; the 

 anthers are therefore strictly extrorse ; the connective is almost 

 terete, somewhat compressed, erect in position, and about one- 

 sixth of the length of the filament j the two anther-cells are di- 



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