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cionospermio in filum extenso) impressiim. Integumentum 
tenuissimum. Embryo in albumen dense carnosum infra 
apieem inclusus, brevis^ cotyledonibus minutisj ovatis, com- 
pressis, radicula ovata, umbilico proxima, supera. — Frutices 
Brasilienses ; folia alterna, breviter petiolata, ovata, Integra {ra- 
rius subdentata ?), punctata ; racemi axillares, breves, pauciflori ; 
^ovesparvi,pediceUati‘, pedicellis ebracteatis, articulatis ; jiorum 
partes prcemolles interdum sese laxe agglutinantes. 
1. Liriosma Candida, Popp. (Nov. Gen. iii. 33. tab. 239) ; — folds 
ellipticis, utrinqiie acutis, obiter remoteque serratis, vel inte- 
gerriniis, utrinque glaberriniis ; racemis axillaribus, corym- 
bosis, plurifloris, folio dimidio brevioribus, ealyee petalisque 
lineari-lanceolatis, glabris, istis extus virenti-cinereis. — Prov. 
Rio Negro Braziliae, circa tluv. TelFe, coufluentem Amazo- 
nicum. 
The leaves are described as being 5 inches long, 2 inches broad, 
the flowers supported by two bracts, the calyx obsoletely denti- 
culate, the petals thickened at their summit, 3-uerved, and cori- 
aceous. 
2. Liriosma pauciflora, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 673 ; Deless. Icon. 
Sel. V. 18. tab. 41. Olax pauciflora, Bth. Linn. Trans, xviii. 
678; Land. Journ.Bot. ii. 375. Hypocarpus pauciflorus,^.Z)C'. 
Prodr. viii. 246 ; — foliis ovatis, obtusis, junioribus cum ramulis 
pedicellisque pubescentibus; pedunculo axillari brevi, 1-3-floro, 
et pedicellis calycibusque molliter puberulis. — Prov. Bahia ad 
Serra d’Acm-uk; v.s. in herb. Hook. (Blanchet, n. 2795). 
The above characters are w'holly taken from the description of 
Mr. Bentham, who also states that the ovarium is adnate to the 
calyx ; the lower half is without doubt subsequently so, by the 
intervention of the cupular disk, but I suspect that at an earlier 
stage it is entirely free from the disk, as occurs in L. Gardne- 
riana : the upper uncovered moiety, as in that species, is covered 
with short erect hairs. The only specimens known were collected 
by Blanchet in the Serra d’Acuruk or Aguk, — the rich diamond 
district discovered a few years ago in the province of Bahia. 
3. Liriosma Gardneriana, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 679. Olax Gard- 
nerianus, Bth. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 375. Hypocarpus Gard- 
nerianus, .4. DC. loc. cit. viii. 216; — foliis lanceolato-oblongis 
vel ovato-oblongis, acumiuatis, apice obtusiusculo, imo subro- 
tundatis, textura teneris, ramulisque glabris ; racemulo brevi 
4-12-floro, pediceho pedicellisque pulverulentis, calyce petalis- 
que extus glabris, ovario pubescente. — Prov. Ceark, Serra de 
Araripe, prope Bomjardim (Gardn. n. 1957). 
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