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primary branches 4 lines, gradually diminishing upwards; the flower expanded does not 
exeeed 1 line in diameter. 
6. ToNTELEA ERYTHROXYLOIDES, nob.: Salacia erythroxyloides, Camb. Fl. Bras. Mer. 
ii. 106 : ramulis teretibus, griseis, crebre verruculosis : foliis ellipticis vel elliptico- 
oblongis, obtusis, marginibus revolutis obsolete sinuatis et fere integris, coriaceis, 
glaberrimis, nervis utrinque subimpressis et vix conspicuis, costa subtus promi- 
nente; petiolo canaliculato, ruguloso, corrugato, limbo 12-plo breviore: pani- 
culis axillaribus pluribus, fasciculatis, repetitim divisis, multifloris, pruinosis ; sepalis 
rotundatis, erosis, pruinosis; petalis rotundato-ellipticis, patentibus, pruinosis, 
sordide luteis. In Brasilia, in Catingas, ad Pedras de abaixo, prov. Minas Geraés 
(non vidi). 
St.-Hilaire describes this to be a tree growing in the deciduous forests in the westerly 
certáo, or desert portion of the province of Minas Geraés. It evidently approaches the 
preceding species, and is remarkable for its large leaves, which are from 4 to 7 inches 
long, 11-3 in. broad, on a petiole 4-8 lines long. The peduncles of the fasciculated 
panicles are 4-6 lines long; the flowers are considerably larger, the sepals being ¿4-1 line 
long, the petals 3 lines long and 2 lines broad; the disk has a thick entire margin; the 
stigma is small, obscurely 3-lobed, almost sessile; the cells of the ovary each with five 
ovules. | 
7. TONTELEA PARVIFLORA, nob.: ramulis subteretibus, angulato-compressis, fusco-ruben- 
tibus, minute verruculosis : foliis ovatis, imo obtusis vel rotundiusculis, apice in acu- 
men breve obtusulum subito constrictis, grosse crenato-serratis, marginibus tenuiter 
cartilagineis subrevolutis, supra nitidis, profunde viridibus, nervis pluribus tenuibus 
curvatis arcuatim nexis, transverse venosis, creberrime reticulatis, hinc sæpe sulca- 
tulis, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, sub lente minutissime granulatis, nervis venisque 
prominulis, costa suleata et prominente; petiolo subtenui, profunde canaliculato, 
striato, ruguloso, limbo 10-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus, brevibus, repetitim 
dichotome ramosis, petiolo duplo longioribus, pedunculo ramisque subcompressis, 
angulosis, rugulosis, fuscis; braeteolis parvis, ovatis, acutis, membranaceis, denticu- 
latis; floribus minutis. In Guiana: v. s. in herb. Hook., fluv. Maná (Sagot, 1183, 
sub nom. Salacia parviflora, Sag.). 
The axils of its branches are 13-13 in. apart; the leaves are 4-5 in. long, 21-21 in. 
broad, on a petiole 53—6 lines long; the panicle is 1 line long, including the peduncle 5 
lines long, with somewhat slender, dichotomous, bibracteolated branches, again and again 
divided; the flowers were too minute and undeveloped to ascertain correctly the form of 
the floral parts. 
8. TONTELEA CORRUGULATA, nob.: ramulis crassis, nodosis, opace subgriseis, junioribus 
striato-angulosis, rugulosis, ad axillas incrassatis: foliis oppositis, seepe subalternis, 
elongato-oblongis, imo cuneatim obtusis et in petiolo decurrentibus, apice obtusis 
vel rotundatis, sæpe emarginatis, valde coriaceis, integerrimis, supra pallidis, leevibus, 
