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essentially from Sarcocampsa in its manner of inflorescence, which consists of six to 
twelve single pedicellated flowers fasciculated in each axil, upon a small mammeform 
gemma, as in the genus Raddia; its fruit is different in being one-celled, with numerous 
seeds embedded in fleshy pulp, filled with innumerable spiral threads; the seeds are said 
to have a small embryo enveloped in copious albumen, which is probably an error from 
mistaking the large fleshy cotyledons for albumen, and the radicle for a small embryo. 
The name of the genus is derived from cap£, caro, xáuja, vas, from the thick fleshy 
pericarp of its fruit. 
SARCOCAMPSA, nob. 
Calypso, Camb. (non Thouars). 
Sepala 5, obtuse rotundata, carnosula, extus rugulosa, glabra, marginibus anguste membranaceis, pecti- 
nato-denticulatis, æstivatione imbricatis. Petala 5, oblonga, duplo majora, medio carnosula, mar- 
gine late membranaceo eroso-denticulata, «estivatione quincuncialiter valde imbricata. Discus 
breviter tubulosus, textura subtenui, albidus, margine crebriter obsolete denticulatus, undulato-sub- 
plicatus, glaber, ovarium occludens. Stamina 3, intra discum inserta: filamenta compresso-linearia, 
imo paulo latiora, disco triplo longiora, suberecta; anthere parve, bilobe, lobis ovatis, imo divari- 
catis, ad connectivum latum brevius (apice nunquam productum) extrorsum affixis, rima utrinque 
obliqua dehiscentibus. Ovarium trigonoideum, valde depressum, medio disci insitum, triloculare ; 
ovula in quoque loculo solitaria (vel sec. Camb. 2 collateralia) ex angulo appensa: stylus brevis, 
conico-subulatus : stigma parvum, obtusum, obsolete tridenticulatum. Drupa subglobosa vel ovata, 
disco staminibusque suffulta; pericarpium crassissimum, epicarpio subcoriaceo, mesocarpio crassis- 
simo, molliter carnoso, evasculari, endocarpio tenuissimo ; 3-locularis vel abortu 1-2-locularis, dis- 
sepimentis tenuibus, loculis l-spermis: semen oblongum, subsuspensum, pulpa mucilaginosa tectum ; 
testa crustacea, raphe ramosissima, immersa, primum in nervis brevibus brunneis, mox multidivisis, 
demum in fibrillis albidis innumerosissimis undique crebre dispersis; infegumentum internum tenue, 
adnatum ; embryo exalbuminosus, oblongo-ovatus, cotyledonibus 2 crasso-carnosis, sæpe subadhæren- 
tibus, radicula minima, mammeeformi, supera, hilum spectante. 
Frutices, aut suffrutices humiles Brasiliani, erecti, glaberrimi: folia sepius alterna, rarius subopposita, 
oblonga, subintegra vel subserrata, breviter petiolata: panicule axillares, breves, repetitim et alter- 
natim ramosa, bracteolate : flores minimi, breviter pedicellati. 
1. SARCOCAMPSA CAMPESTRIS, nob.: Calypso campestris, Camb. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 111, 
tab. 104: Salacia campestris, Walp. Rep. i. 402: frutex humilis, ramosissimus, 
ramis lenticellis minimis crebre verruculosis; ramulis imperfecte oppositis, aut 
alternis, tenuibus, teretibus, in axillis subdilatatis et nodosis, subcompressis, an- 
gulato-striatis, fuscis, glaberrimis, levibus: foliis suboppositis, inferioribus sæpe 
alternis, lanceolato-oblongis, imo cuneatim aeutis, a medio sensim angustioribus, 
acumine obtusulo mucronato vel emarginato, margine cartilagineo grosse et obsolete 
serratis, dentibus obtusis, coriaceis, supra fusco-viridibus, subnitentibus, sub lente 
obsoletissime scabrido-pilosulis, costa prominula, nervis tenuibus, paulo divergen- 
tibus, areuatim nexis, venis transversis reticulatis, subtus brunnescentibus, opacis, 
crebriter minute granulosis, nervis prominulis, venis reticulatis subimmersis ; petiolo 
fuseo, eanaliculato, corrugato-ruguloso, limbo 14-plo breviore: panieulis axillaribus, 
petiolo 2-3-plo longioribus, solitariis, vel 3 subfasciculatis, longiuscule pedunculatis, 
breviter ramosis, ramis repetitim et alternatim divisis, ultimis approximatis apice 
