CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
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adpressa densa incana aut fulva vestitis, nervis valde promi- 
nentibus, margine reflexo, petiolo elongate cano-tomentoso 
canaliculato ssepe deflexo ; paniculis racemosis, ternis, axilla- 
ribus, petiolo sublongioribus, floribus dense aggregatis, griseo- 
pilosulis^ petal] s lineari-lanceolatis^ acutis, summo patentim 
reflexis, intus ad carinse basin apicemque fascicule pilorum 
donatis, pilis brevibus albidis ; staminibus incurvis crassius- 
culis, connective tereti, imo cordate, in muci’onem obtusum 
incurvum longe protenso, antherarum loculis sejunctis, antice 
contiguis, subparallelis, margine dorsali debiscentibus ; ovario 
pilis brevibus micantibus adpressis vestito, disco glabro insito ; 
stylo brevissimo valde excentrico. — Brasilia intertropica. — v. s. 
in herb. Hook. — Prov. Goyaz, Minas Geraes et Pei'nambuco 
(Gardn. n. 2941, 3309, 4451); Pio S. Francisco (Blanchet, 
2889). 
In this species the leaves, in the dried state, present a re- 
markably pallido-glaucous and lurid aspeet above, and are co- 
vered below with yellow, veiy short, adpressed and bright tomen- 
tum ; the upper surface is shining, with prominent nervures, and 
under a lens appears marked with numerous minute impressed 
dots, between which are seen still more numerous raised resinous 
spots ; they are generally about 4 inches long and 2 inches 
bi’oad, on a longer and more slender petiole, about 9 lines in 
length. One, two or three short branching racemes, about the 
length of the petioles, crowded with numerous flowers, spring 
from each axil ; the stamens are incurved, about the length of 
the petals, the anthers being nearly as long as the broad fleshy 
filaments ; the thick, fleshy, almost terete connective is slightly 
cordate at its base, is somewhat incurved and subulate, and ter- 
minates in an obtuse point that much exceeds the length of the 
anther-cells ; this is affixed just in the angle of its sinus in front, 
to the obtuse apex of the filament, so that the anthers, though 
at first sight apparently basifixed, are in reality also extrorse in 
position : the anther-cells are white, of thin texture, linearly 
boatshaped, quite separate, nearly parallel, and fixed extrorsely 
upon the sinus of the inner face of the connective, and they dis- 
charge their pollen by the secession of the exterior margins from 
the body of the connective. The pollen is oval, marked by three 
longitudinal lines. The ovarium is shorter than the stamens, 
covered with short erect hairs, and seated on a small fleshy 
glabrous disk ; it is 3-celled as in the last- described species ; the 
style is very short, very excentric, hollow at its apex, and termi- 
nated by three very minute teeth. 
