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the upper surface is polished and finely shagreened ; beneath they 
are of a ferruginous hue, dead, almost glabrous, and when 
viewed under the lens seem covered with minute raised glandular 
dots ; generally two racemes spring out of each axil, from to | 
inch long, which, when younger, appear like a crow'ded globular 
axillary fascicle. The anthers in structure resemble those of the 
following species. The long red hairs that densely spring from 
the inner keel of the petals under the lens appear marked by 
large prominent glands in two uneven series, so that they seem 
almost torulose. 
3. Emmotum fagifolium, Desv. in Ham. Prodr. FI. Ind. Occid. 
p. 29. Pogopetalum acutum, Bcnth., Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 
ii. 377 ; — ramis angulatis, rufo-tomentosis ; folds oblongis, 
ovatisve, apice repente lineari-attenuatis, basi rotundatis vel 
truncatis, valde coriaceis, supra sublucidis, glaberrimis, nervis 
divaricatis, pubentibus, approximatis, incurvo-parallelis, sul- 
catis, venis transversis immersis, subtus prsesertim in nervis 
sparse sericeo-pubescentibus, ner\ds tenuibus subprominulis, 
petiolo canaliculato tomentoso ; racemis geminis, axillaribus, 
petiolo vix longioribus, floribus aggregatis, aurantiaco- vel 
cano-tomentosis, petalis lineari-oblongis, intus pilis longis 
rufis in carinam lanatis, lateribus glabris, filamentis tenui- 
oribus, dilatatis, antheris ovatis, vix mucronulatis, loculis op- 
positis, complanatis, ovario pilis longis hispido (nec glabro), 
stylo elongato, gracili. — Guiana Gallica,Desvaux. — v. s. in herb. 
Hook. (Leprieur et Martin). 
There can be little doubt that this is the plant described by 
Desvaux as the “ Bois d’ Agouti,” and which is identical with the 
Pogopetalum acutum of Mr. Bentham : the leaves in form much 
resemble those of the preceding species j they are from 3| to 6| 
inches long, and to 3f inches broad, on a slender petiole half 
an inch in length ; the apex is very suddenly acuminated by a 
linear point, half an inch in length, and often little more than a 
line in breadth. The flowers are closely aggregated, each being 
articulated on its short pedicel ; the calyx is cupuliform, pubes- 
cent, and cleft into five ovate, fleshy and somewhat acute lobes, 
which are slightly imbricated in {estivation, as in Platea ; the 
petals are clothed outside with short grey adpressed hairs, and 
the prominent internal keel is furnished with a line of very 
densely-set long red spreading woolly hairs, which are flattened 
and marked with glandular dots ; the stamens are nearly as long 
as the petals ; the filaments are fleshy, compressed and broader at 
the base, somewhat terete and subulate above, and suddenly bent 
back at the apex, where the point is affixed to the front of the 
red fleshy connective, just above its short basal sinus ; the 
