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acuminate, with 2 acute basal prongs ; disk of 5 erect emarginate lobes, as long as the 

 2 ovate ovaries ; follicles 2, nearly straight, terete, subparaUel, suddenly inflected near 

 the apex, seemingly as if they had been there conjoined, black, opake, lenticellate, 

 2f in. long, 1 line thick ; seeds many, linearly fusiform, f line long, compressed and 

 subchannelled on the ventral face, which bears a longitudinal raphe terminating in a 

 point by which they are attached to the placenta, striate on the dorsal face ; a widely 

 spreading sericeous coma of fine soft hairs, 12 lines long, with an outer series of hairs of 

 half that length. 



17. Temnadenia cohrugulata, nob. : volubilis, ramulis temiissimis : foliis elliptico-oblongis, imo sub- 

 acutis, acmnmatis, marginibus subrevolutis, undulatis, flaccide cbartaceis, utrinque minutissime 

 corrugulatisj supra Isete viridibus, ad costam nervisque sulcatis, ad basin costse glandula raunitis, 

 subtus flavide opacis, subscabridulis, costa nervisque fdscis at prominulis, eveniis, petiolo tenui : 

 racemis lateralibus, simplicibus, quam folium quadruplo brevioribus ; floribus ^subapproximatis ; 

 pedicellis tenuibus, calyce paullulo longioribus ; sepalis lanceolato-linearibus, puberulis, intus 

 squamula obtusa donatis ; corollse tubo cylindrico, parallele nervoso, quam calyx duplo longiore ; 

 segmentis insequilatere deltoideis, quam tubus dimidio brevioribus, dextrorsum convolutis ; staminibus 

 medio tubi insertis ; antheris longe cuspidatis, basi tenuiter biaristatis ; disci lobis emarginatis, 

 ovaria sequantibus : cseteris ut in prsecedentibus. In Brasilia: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Rio de Janeiro', 

 in montibus (Bowie et Cunningbam) . 



A species closely approaching the preceding. The axils of its slender branches are 3 in- 

 apart ; leaves 2-3^ in. long, f-1^ in. broad, on petioles 6 lines long ; raceme 1 in. long' 

 with about 10 congested flowers on pedicels 2^ lines long; sepals 1| line long ; tube of 

 corolla 6 lines long, its throat exactly as in the last species ; the segments 2^ lines long 

 and broad. It differs from, the preceding in its more corrugulate leaves, not folded at 

 the base, in its shorter raceme on a shorter peduncle, smaller flowers, in its erect sepals, 

 with a rounded internal scale, and in its longer disk. 



18. Temnadenia paeviflora, nob. : Hamadictyon parviflorum, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 355. In Nova 

 Granada, circa Pandi (Hartweg 1053) : non vidi. 

 A plant bearing all the appearance of a Prestofda, as Mr. Bentham observed. Its 

 scandent branches are softly and rufously tomentous, its axils furnished with many seti- 

 form stipules ; leaves ovate-oblong, narrowed below the middle, acute at the base, acu- 

 miaate, softly chartaceous, villous above, sericeo-tomentous beneath, 4-7 in. long, 2-4 

 in. broad, on petioles 6-12 lines long ; corymb terminal, on a divided peduncle bearing 

 numerous flowers in a densely capitate head 1-3 in. in diameter, on thickish subfasci- 

 culated tomentose pedicels 3 lines long; sepals membranaceous, very acuminate, volu- 

 tin o-tomentose, 2 J lines long, each with an inner bifid or 2 simple scales ; corolla villous 

 outside; tube nearly 3 lines long, its mouth fleshy, without appendages; segments 

 nearly as long as the tube, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous ; stamens seated on a pilose ring 

 in the middle of the tube ; filaments short ; anthers included, the tips scarcely exserted ; 

 disk of 5 connate bifid lobes as long as the vUlous ovaries ; follicles less than a foot long, 

 clothed with rufo-velutinous hairs ; seeds with a long apical coma. 



