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subtcnui, marginatim canaliculato, limbo 12plo breviore : racemis axillaribus et 

 terminalibus, folio brevioribus; rachi rugosa, compresse striata, ferrugineo-opaca, 

 subpubcrula, lenticellata, spicatim multiflora; pedicellis longissimis tenuibus, re- 

 curvatis, striolatis, imo articiilatis ; sepalis parvis, ovatis, subacutis, patulis, margine 

 membranaceo-ciliatis ; petalis rotundatis, subinsequalibus ; andropboro carnoso, gra- 

 nulatim ruguloso, structura generis ; ovario infero, semiovali, subgranulato, pube- 

 rulo, 3-loculari, ovulis plmimis basi affixis, erectis, vertice piano, radiatim granulato ; 

 stylo brevi conico. In Guiana : v. s. in Jib. Hook. {JBarher, cum foliis et floribus) ; 

 iti Kb. Mus. Brit, et Soc. Linn., Cayenne [Martin^ foliis diremptis). 



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Parker's specimen enables us to recognize those of Martin, where all the leaves are 

 wanting, and upon which Sir James Smith first established the species, which has since 

 been doubtfully acknowledged. The axils of its slender branchlets are f-1 in. apart ; the 

 loaves, generally caducous, are 3i-4in. long, 1|-1| in. broad, on a petiole 3-4. lines long, 

 and with about 12 pairs of parallelly divergent arching nerves, with others shorter and 

 inter uicdiate, all anastomosed ; the panicle is 5 in. long, has several] slender branches, 

 with approximated prominent nodes 2-3 lines apart, each bearing a very slender pedicel 

 f-l in. long ; the liower, before expansion, is J in. in diam. ; the sepals are IJ line long ; 

 the development of the androphorum closely resembles that figured in Plate XXXVI. A ; 

 its semioval head is 2 lines long and broad. 



2. At 



SUBHAMosA, nob. : ramulis subcinereo-opacis, rugoso-striatis, subver- 

 ruciilosis, junioribus laevibus et striatis; foliis ovatis, vel ovali-oblongis, imo rotun- 

 datis aut rotundo-obtusis, srepe circa petiolum breviter acutatis, marginibus undu- 

 latis fere integris, obsolctissime serrulatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallidis, opacis, nerns 

 plurimis scmiiinmersis, crebre parallelim divergentibus, rectiuscuiis, circa marginem 



transversim reticulatis immersis, costa sulcata, subtus ochraceo-opacis 

 et grannlato-pruiiiosis, aut fuscioribus, nervis venisque transversis prominentibiis ; 

 petiole profunde canaliculate, marginibus submembranaceis introflexis, Hmbo 5-8plo 

 breviore : panicula terminali, valde ramosa ; rachi cinerea, ru-ulosa : ramis fuscis, 



vems 



approximatis, tcnuioribus, valde nodosis, plurifloris ; pediceUis teretibus, gracilibus ; 

 floribus subparvis, roseo-purpureis ; sepaUs parvis, rotundatis, subimbricatis, fuscis, 

 extus pruinosis ; petalis 6, quorum 4 interioribus, lineari-oblongis, subinaequalibus, 

 mcmbranaceis, 2 extcrioribus majoribus suborbiculatis, valde membranaceis, extus 

 farmoso-prumosis ; ovario infero, hemisphserico, 3-loculari, ovulis plurimis basi 

 affixis, erectis, vertice ,concavo, radiatim striolato; stylo pulvinato; stigmate 

 rotundato : fruetu ignoto. In Guiana Batava : v. s. in lib. Mus. Brit, et EooK a^ 

 Karavoury {Sagot, 271, sub Conratari Guianensis). 



This plant is very different from Aublet's Conratari Guianensis in the shape, texture, 

 and venation of its leaves. Notwithstanding its 3-celled ovary, I have placed it in the 

 ^nus Allan foTna, on account of its ramosely paniculate inflorescence, its long slender 

 pedicels, and more especially because of the peculiar development of its androphorum. 

 iJrom Its smaUish flowers, upon the long slender pedicels of a very branching panicle, 



