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acuminate, remotely serrate with glandular-ti]rped or glandular-truncate 

 teeth, more or less obtuse and rather unequal at the base, which is 

 triplinerved or quintuplinerved (the lateral nerves fainter or marginal), 

 glabrous, of the same green hue both sides, thin and chartaceous in 

 texture, reticulate-veined, alternate, 2 or 3 inches long. Petioles 3 

 lines long. Stipules minute, subulate, caducous. Panicle compound, 

 terminal, many-flowered ; its branches, with the subulate bracts, the 

 short pedicels, &c., minutely and softly pubescent. Flowers very small; 

 the flower-buds less than half a line in diameter, globular, glabrous 

 or nearly so. Perianth in two distinct series, each three-parted; 

 the three exterior segments (sepals) broadly ovate, obtuse, nearly 

 if not strictly valvate in early aestivation, but their margins more or 

 less separated before the bud has attained its full growth, their edges 

 minutely ciliate ; the three inner (equivalent to the petals of Banara 

 and Prockia) united with the exterior at the base, rather larger than 

 they and more ciliate, but nearly similar in texture, obovate, their 

 overlapping summits strongly imbricated in aestivation, yellowish 

 inside, spreading in anthesis. Disk none. Stamens from 15 to 20, 

 inserted into the base of the perianth : filaments filiform, yellowish, 

 twice the length of the perianth : anthers didymous. Ovary ovoid- 

 conical, one-celled, narrowed into a short and thickish style, which is 

 tipped with an obtuse and obscurely three-lobed stigma. Placentae 3, 

 parietal, occupying the whole length of the cell, into which they 

 slightly project. Ovules indefinitely numerous, in several series, ana- 

 tropous. Fruit unknown. 



In habit as well as in floral structure, this plant is manifestly a con- 

 gener of Kuhlia glauca of Kunth. I ought perhaps to follow the high 

 authority of Mr. Bennett,* who pronounces Kuldia not to be generi- 

 cally distinct from Azara. But it appears to me, that the biserial 

 perianth (as truly double as that of Banara), the exterior subvalvate, 

 the inner strongly imbricated, along with the difference in habit, sti- 

 pulation, and inflorescence, should serve to distinguish them. 



To the genus, if preserved, belongs another Brazilian plant, namely 

 Ascra Brasiliensis, Schott, in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post., p. 407, of which 

 I have received a specimen from Professor Yon Martius. The same 

 species is rudely figured in the Flora Fluminensis, 5, 1. 115, under 

 the name of Boca serrata. Kuhlia Brasiliensis, as it must be called, is 



* Plantse Javanicae Rariores, p. 190. 



