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generic with them. Aublet describes it as a stout, much branching tree, with a main 
trunk 4-5 feet high, and 4-5 feet (probably a mistake for 4-5 inches) in thickness, with 
long slender branches, twining round or scandent upon the neighbouring trees for sup- 
port. The axils of the branchlets are 11-13 in. apart; the leaves are 41-6 in. long, 2-21 
in. broad, on a petiole 3-5 lines long. The fruit is 5 in. long, with a diameter of 4 in., 
having a thick, coriaceous, indehiscent pericarp, containing 4 to 6 seeds, which are 2 in. 
long, 1i in. broad, filled with an exalbuminous embryo, with 2 large fleshy cotyledons. 
4. CLERCIA DISPANSA, nob.: ramulis tenuibus, patentissime oppositis et divaricatis, sub- 
teretibus, opacis, glabris, axillis valde remotis : foliis ovato-ellipticis, imo rotundato- 
obtusis, apice sensim obtusis, marginibus flavide cartilagineis, sinuato-serratis, supra 
profunde viridibus, opacis, nervis tenuibus costaque striolata flavidulis, subreticu- 
latis, subtus pallidis, opacis, nervis costaque paulo prominentibus, utrinque sub lente 
minutissime granulosis ; petiolo tenui, superne sulcato, flavido, limbo 8-plo breviore : 
panieulis axillaribus, folio sequilongis, dichotome divisis, pedunculo ramulisque 
tenuibus, fuscis, glabris, subangulatis ; bracteolis parvis, acute ovatis, membranaceis, 
denticulatis; floribus minoribus, pedicellatis; sepalis rotundatis, obsolete denticu- 
latis; petalis ovatis, duplo longioribus, erectis, pallide carnosulis, marginibus mem- 
branaceis, subintegris; disco subcarnosulo, pruinoso; antheris patentissime hian- 
tibus. In Brasilia: v. s. in herb. Hook. (Sellow). 
This is evidently a scandent plant, with very slender, lax, straight branches, divari- 
cating at right angles, with axils 3—42 in. apart; the leaves are 2-21 in. long, 13-14 lines 
broad, on a petiole 3 lines long; the peduncle of the inflorescence is about 8 lines long, 
its branches 4-3 lines long, diminishing upwards; the petals are nearly half a line in 
length. 
5. CLERCIA MICRANTHA, nob.: Hippocratea micrantha, Camb. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 103 ; 
Anthodon micranthum, Mart. in Schult. Mant. i. 253; DC. Prodr. i. 570: Tonsella 
micrantha, Spr. Syst. i. 177: scandens, ramulis teretibus, curvatis vel interdum cir- 
rhoso-contortis, glabris, creberrime et scabridule verruculosis, junioribus angulosis : 
foliis elliptico-oblongis, imo in petiolum cuneatim decurrentibus, apice sensim arcte 
acuminatis, subcoriaceis, subintegris, aut summum versus obsoletissime serrato- 
dentatis, marginibus cartilagineis revolutis, supra pallide viridibus, nervis divergen- 
tibus venisque crebre reticulatis subprominulis, minutissime granulosis, sub lente 
sparsim brevissime puberulis, subtus opacis, paulo pallidioribus, nervis venisque 
magis prominulis, sub lente crebre granulato-punctulatis ; petiolo semitereti, canali- 
culato, rubescente, ruguloso, substriato, limbo 9-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus, 
petiolo duplo longioribus, mox supra basin bis usque quater divisis, ramis repetitim 
dichotome ramulosis, ramulis brevibus, glabris, compressis, ultimis sæpius irregulari- 
bus aut alternis ; floribus hine erebre agoregatis, breviter pedicellatis, minutis; brac- 
teolis oppositis vel alternis, parvis, acutis, membranaceis, denticulatis ; sepalis fuscis, 
acutis, eroso-ciliatis ; petalis duplo longioribus, acute oblongis, aureis, crassiusculis, 
extus pruinosis, margine eroso-denticulatis; staminibus brevibus; stylo brevi, cras- 
