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outer one dark, containing on one side a simple line of raphe, running from the hilum to 
the summit, the inner one being brownish, polished, and subcorneous; the innermost 
integument, investing the embryo, is white, pellicular, and finely reticulated ; the embryo, 
without albumen, consists of two plano-convex cotyledons, with one of the convex faces 
opposite to the raphe, which are very fleshy, the radicle, near the hilum, being very small, 
and half imbedded in the cotyledons. 
2. RADDIA FASCICULATA, nob.: ramis ramulisque teretibus, brunneis, valde nodosis, ver- 
ruculis parvis numerosis asperatis: foliis elliptico-oblongis, imo subacutis, superne 
sensim angustioribus, cum acumine obtusulo, integris, marginibus cartilagineis et 
undulatis vel remote et obsoletissime serratis, valde coriaceis, rigidis, glaberrimis, 
supra viridibus, subnitidis, sub lente minute rugulosis, enerviis, subtus vix pallidi- 
oribus, opacis, minutissime impresso-punctulatis, ad nervos omnino immersos sulca- 
tulis, costa paulo prominente; petiolo subtereti, profunde canaliculato, rugose cor- 
rugato, limbo 10-plo breviore: inflorescentia axillari, pedunculo petiolo dimidio 
breviore, gemmiformi, crassiusculo, bracteolis tecto, flores plurimos longe et tenuiter 
pedicellatos subfasciculatos gerente; sepalis rotundatis, submembranaceis, reflexis, 
minutissime denticulatis; petalis triplo longioribus, late ovatis, imo angustioribus, 
subcarnosulis, obsolete denticulatis, expansis; disco annulari-pulvinato, basi late 
plano-dilatato; filamentis longiusculis ; ovario disco duplo longiore, sulcatim trilobo, 
subconico; stylo brevi, stigmatibus 3 minutis obtusato. In Brasilia: v. s. in herb. 
Mus. Brit., prov. S. Paolo, in sylvis (Bowie & Cunningham). 
This species is readily distinguished from the former by its narrower, rigidly coriaceous, 
smooth, veinless, almost entire leaves, and a very different inflorescence. Its branches 
are rather straight, with opposite axils about lin. apart; the leaves, seemingly entire: 
very smooth and coriaceous, are 21—3 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, on a petiole 3 lines long; 
the axillary bud-like peduncle is 2 lines long; and out of its several small bracts six or 
eight flowers spring, each upon. pedicels 4 lines long, each flower being 5 lines in dia- 
meter when expanded. "The whole plant is perfectly glabrous. 
3. RADDIA GRANDIFLORA, nob.: Anthodon grandifolium (ex errore pro grandiflorum), 
Mart. in Schult. Mant. i. 253; DC. Prodr. i. 569; Benth. Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 10: 
Tonsella grandiflora, Spr. Syst. i. 178: scandens, ramis robustis; ramulis teretibus, 
ad axillas oppositas nodosis, opacis, corrugato-striatis, lenticellis concavis sparsim 
verruculosis : foliis lanceolato-oblongis vel ovato-oblongis, imo rotundatis, apice 
attenuatis, acumine subobtusulo submucronulato naviculari-recurvo, valde cori- 
aceis, marginibus cartilagineis, undulatis, valde reflexis, integris aut interdum 
obsoletissime et remote crenatis, supra subnitidis, nervis valde divaricatis venisque 
omnino immersis reticulato-sulcatulis, sub lente minute granulosis, subtus palli- 
dioribus, opacis, nervis arcuatim nexis suleatis, costa rubescente paulo prominula, 
sub lente impresso-punctulatis ; petiolo subtereti, fusco, canaliculato, corrugato- 
rugoso, limbo 10-plo breviore: pedunculo axillari, gemmiformi, brevissimo, brac- 
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