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divergentibus et longe intra marginem arcuatim nexis prominulis, ereberrime reti- 
culatis, subtus flavide pallidioribus, costa nervisque pallidis prominentibus; petiolo 
subtenui, canaliculato, striolato, limbo 22-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus, pedun- 
culo longiusculo, patente dichotomo, ramisque primariis longis compressis tenuis- 
simis, ramulis tunc alternis, brevibus, ultimis unifloris; petalis oblongis, acutis, 
membranaceis, flavis: pedunculo fructifero axillari, valde incrassato, verrucoso, 
folio 4-plo breviore: capsula (2 caducis) maxima, indehiscente, obovata, imo sen- 
sim acutiore, apice rotundule obtusata, utrinque convexa, lateribus compressiore, 
radiatim nervoso-striata, ecarinata, pericarpio laxe coriaceo, lateribus irregula- 
riter rupto, uniloculari 4-spermo ; seminibus majusculis, nuciformibus, fuscis, ob- 
longis, dorso carinatis, carina angusta imo in stipite coriaceo apice latiore imo 
sensim valde angusto suffultis; embryonis exalbuminosi cotyledonibus crassissimis, 
radiculam minutam basalem includentibus. In Brasilia septentrionali: v. s. in 
herb. Hook., Rio Negro, prope Panuré (Spruce, 2796, in fructu; idem, 3773, in 
flore). 
The branchlet, about 3 lines thick, has its axils 1j in. apart: the leaves are 6-7 in. 
long, 21-27 in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long: the flowering panicle consists of a 
slender peduncle 15 lines long, with two spreading branches 4—5 lines long, with short 
. branchlets bearing alternate pedicellated flowers. The fructiferous peduncle is 15 in. long, 
2 lines thick, verruculated, articulated at its summit by a receptacle 4 lines broad: the 
capsule, with a coriaceous pericarp, is 4 inches long, 3 in. broad and 1j in. thick in the 
middle: the seeds are nuciform, fuscous, hard, 2$ in. long, 14 lines broad, much rounded 
at base, obtuse at the summit, with a dorsal narrow keel, which expands at its base into 
a coriaceous alar support 3 lines broad at its summit, and narrowing to its hilar point 
at the base; the testa or outer tunic is fuscous, finely regulose, coriaceous, half a line in 
thickness; the inner integument is as thick as the testa, and free from it, but it adheres 
to the embryo; its two cotyledons are hard, fleshy, oleagineous, rounded, truncated at 
their base, within which the small radicle is imbedded. 
5. CUERVEA AMPLIssIMA, nob.: Coa scandens fructu amplissimo, Plum. Amer. 77, 
tab. 88. figg. A & B: foliis oblongis, imo subobtusis, apice sensim subacutis, integer- 
rimis; petiolo crassiusculo, limbo 24-plo breviore : capsula (alteris abortivis) maxima, 
oblonga, apice repente et obtuse attenuata, nervis plurimis parallelis striata. In 
Antillis, regione ignota. 
This belongs to a plant evidently congeneric with the several preceding species. 
Plumier left no description or other drawing than the one above quoted: the leaves are 
shown to be opposite, 8 in. long, 31 in. broad, on a thick petiole 4 lines long; the capsule 
is 8 inches long, 31 in. broad, on a thick pedicel 3 inch long. The seeds are large, oblong, 
striately nerved, hard, and nucumentaceous. 
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