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A. DC. Prodr. viii. 379. In Brasilia : v. v. in montibus Organensibus, et s. in herb. Mus. Brit, 

 loc. cit. (Gardner 5547) . 



I found this species in 1838, in the Organ Mountains, where it forms a shrub 10 feet 

 high, with dichotomous branchlets which are shining, darkly rufescent, striated, fistulose, 

 and compressed at the axils; leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, gradually acute at 

 both ends, with subrevolute margins, chartaceouSj deep green above, subnitid, somewhat 

 graiiular, with semi-immersed curving nerves, below pallidly flavescent, very opake, with 

 prominent midrib and reddish yellow prominent nerves, having a porous gland in their 

 axils; they are 2^3| in. long, f-1^ in. broad, on dark channelled petioles 2-3 lines 

 long. Cyme f in. long, solitary at each node, or in the dichotomy of the branches, 

 glabrous; a very short peduncle, thickened at the apex, with scale-like bracteoles, 

 bearing about 12 flowers ; pedicels crowded, slender, declinate ; sepals small, ovate, sub- 

 mucronate, with membranaceous margins, furnished within with alternate entire or 

 2-dentate scales ; tube of corolla slender, narrowed above, with 5 small fleshy glands in 

 its thickened mouth, 3 lines long; segments oblong obtuse, pubescent at their base, 

 dextrorsely convoluted, 4 lines long; stamens included and inserted a little above 

 the middle of the tube; anthers curvingly sagittate at their base, acute and pilose 

 at the apex ; disk of 5 ovate erect lobes, pilose at the apex, and somewhat shorter than 

 the ovaries. 



10. Malouetia arbokea, nob. : Echites arborea, Veil. Flor. Flum. p. 114, Icon. iii. tab. 47 : Secondatia 

 arborea, Miill. /. c. p. 110 : TaberruBmontana Iceta, A. DC. in parte (non Mart.), Prodr. viii. 364. In 

 Brasilia, prov. Eio de Janeiro, Pazenda de Mendanha (Velloz) : non vidi. 



A species unquestionably belonging to this genus, and differing little from M. glan- 

 dulifera, chiefly in its larger leaves and longer peduncles. Like most other species, it is 

 lactescent, with an erect trunk 8 in. in diameter, with its primary branches dichoto- 

 mous, spreading, 2 lines thick; branchlets 1 line thick, with axils I5-25 in. apart; 

 leaves opposite, elliptic, acute at both ends, very slender nerves above, the midrib and 

 nerves below being stouter, prominent, with a porous gland in their axils; they are 

 4-4J in. long, Ij-lf in. broad, on petioles 2-3 lines long ; inflorescence solitary at each 

 node, densely 8-flowered ; peduncle 1^ line long ; pedicels very slender, 5 lines long ; 

 sepals acute, IJ line long ; tube of corolla cylindrical, narrowed above, 5 lines long, with 

 5 glands in the mouth ; segments subequilateral, of a whitish yellow colour, 4 lines long, 

 1^ line broad ; stamens inserted below the mouth and partly exserted ; 2 follicles stoutly 

 terete, recurvingly divaricate, lactescent when cut across, 4 in. long, 4 lines thick ; seeds 

 many, subimbricated, glabrous, linear-oblong, very compressed, with incurving margins, 

 peltately attached to the inflexed placentae : this is clearly shown by the inclined section 

 in Velloz's drawing. The loose seed depicted in a separate figure, with a long apical 

 coma, has been placed there in mistake by the Paris lithographer; and this perhaps 

 led Dr. Miiller to refer the plant to Secondatia-, but it belongs "most certainly to 

 Malouetia. Bentham and Hooker (Gen. ii. 723) agree that it should be excluded from 

 Secondatia. 



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