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inches long, opaque, lucid above, obscurely and obliquely feather-veined, 

 on petioles of 2 or 3 lines in length. Flowers in axillary and ter- 

 minal, inany-flowered, paniculate, loose cymes, as long as the subtending 

 leaf; the principal branches bracteate with small leaves, which on the 

 slender and silky-pubescent pedicels are reduced to linear or subulate, 

 mostly alternate bractlets. Flower-buds a line and a half in dia- 

 meter. Calyx-tube in hermaphrodite flowers obovoid, silhy-canescent 

 and silvery; the lobes 5, ovate, obtuse, often rather unequal. Petals 

 orbicular, white, somewhat ciliate. Stamens, &c, as in the genus. 

 Flowers of the male specimens destitute of a style and of an ovary 

 (the apex of the pedicel merely clavate-thickened) : those of the her- 

 maphrodite plant with a style as long as the stamens, tipped with a 

 depressed-capitate stigma, and with & five-celled ovary; each cell, at the 

 time of anthesis, showing a projection from its back (in the manner 

 of Vaccinium, § Cyanococcus) , which probably soon divides the cavity 

 into two locelli. Ovules 3 or 4 in each proper cell, incurved. Fruit 

 not seen. 



This needs to be compared, especially the sterile plant here de- 

 scribed, with Blume's N. laxiflora of New Guinea. 



Plate 60, B.— Nelitris Vitiensis : a flowering branch of the male 

 plant, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower, with the pedicel, bract, 

 bractlets, &c. 2. A bract, detached. 3. Calyx, from which the 

 stamens and petals have fallen. 4. A petal. 5. A stamen. — O. Fig. 

 6. A flower of the hermaphrodite plant, the petals and stamens 

 removed. 7. A flower-bud of the same; the ovary transversely 

 divided. 8. Vertical section of the ovary. — The details more or less 

 magnified. 



10. CAMPOMANESIA, Ruiz & Pav. 

 1. Campomanesia cerasoides. 



Psidhtm cerasoides, Cainbess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 290. 



Hab. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. (In fruit.) 



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