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3-floris, hine floribus capitato-congestis ; bracteolis parvis, acutis, ciliolatis; floribus 
brevissime pedicellatis, glabris, parvis; sepalis rotundatis, fuscis, crassis, rugulosis, 
margine rubidulo erosulis vel ciliolatis; petalis triplo longioribus, cuneato-oblongis, 
erectiusculis, demum reflexis, glabris, flavidis vel ochraceis, marginibus late mem- 
branaceis, eroso-denticulatis ; disco breviter tubulari, textura tenui, albido, crenulato ; 
ovario trigonoideo, depresso, disco semiinvoluto, ovulo solitario in quoque loculo sus- 
penso; stylo brevi, obtuso; stigmate minimo, 3-denticulato : drupa turbinato-globosa, 
cerasi mole, armeniaca, rugulosa, roride glauca, mesocarpio carnoso eduli, 3-loculari ; 
seminibus in loculis solitariis, oblongis aut ovatis, pulpa mucilaginea dulci invo- 
lutis. In Brasilia, in prov. St. Paulo et Goyaz australiore (St.-Hilaire): v. s. i» 
herb. Hook., in prov. Minas Geraés (Claussen): ex herb. Imp. Vindob. (no. 1796 et 
1961), prov. St. Paulo ad Jundiahy (Burchell, 4904); prov. Rio de Janeiro, Lan- 
hosa (Burchell, 5752); prov. Goyaz, Serra das Araras, Gardner, 4458; Rio das 
Velhas (Burchell, 5806); prov. Minas Geraés, inter Chapáda et Rio das Palmas 
(Burchell, 8269). 
- This is a small erect shrub, according to St.-Hilaire only 11-2 feet high; in Burchell's 
plant 8269 it is 18 feet high. It is much branched, and called by the natives Bacopari 
do Campo. The axils of its branchlets are 11-21 in. apart; the leaves are 21—43 in. 
long, 7-10 lines broad, on a petiole 2-33 lines long; the peduncle of the panicles is 
9 lines long, its primary branches are alternate, 2 lines apart, and 2 lines long; these are 
again shortly and alternately divided, the ultimate very close, so that the flowers are 
much aggregated at the extremities; the pedicels are half a line long, the flower ex- 
panded 2 lines in diameter: the stamens are three times as long as the disk, and as 
long as the petals; the filaments are narrow and much compressed, slightly broader at 
the base, and at their summit affixed to a thick fleshy connective double their breadth, 
and narrower than the anther-cells, which are oblong-oval, parallel, and separated by a 
distinet interval; the connective does not extend beyond them. "The drupe is subglobular, 
10 lines long, 8 lines in diameter, shortly stipitate at its base by the persistent disk, 
petals, and stamens; the mesocarp consists of a fleshy matter 2 lines thick, and of the 
consistence of an apple, with no spiral threads; in an unripe seed which I examined, the 
testa was dark and coriaceous, containing numerous white spiral filaments. Cambessédes 
states that each cell of the ovary contains two collateral ovules; I found distinctly only 
one in each cell. 
2. SARCOCAMPSA SILVESTRIS, nob.: Calypso sylvestris, Mart. in Flor. xx. Beibl. 96: 
Salacia sylvestris, Walp. Rep. i. 402 : ramulis teretibus, subgriseis, corrugato-striatis, 
lenticellis concavis verruculosis: foliis imperfecte oppositis, oblongis, utrinque obtu- 
satis, marginibus subrevolutis, subcartilagineis, integris aut obsolete et remotiuscule 
sinuatis, subcoriaceis, supra profunde viridibus, subopacis, punctulis elevatis crebris 
interdum brevissime piliferis rugulosis, nervis tenuibus immersis, subtus paulo pal- 
lidioribus, opacis, sparsius et grossius granulosis, costa striata nervisque griseis pro- 
minulis; petiolo profunde canaliculato, ruguloso-striato, limbo 12-plo breviore: 
paniculis axillaribus, 2 vel 3, fasciculatis, petiolo 3-5-plo longioribus, fusculis, 
