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viridiusculis, albumini fere aequilatis, et paullo bi-evioribus, 
radicula brevi, tereti, supera, sumnmm attingente. 
Arbusculse Brasilienses intertropicce, liguo duro rigido, ramis sub- 
sarmentosis, ramulis sapissime pendulis ■, folia petiolaia, inte- 
gerrima, nitida, valde reticulata, glabra, in nervis puberula, 
glandulis paucis scepe in dichotomiam nervorum immersis-, petiolus 
in imo articulatus ■, stipulae bina, acutce, deciduce, utrinque e 
glandula umbilicata ortce ; inflorescentia racemosa ; racemi folio 
breviores, in ramulis novellis axillaribus terminales, pluriflori ; 
dores alterni breviter pedicellati ; pedicellus breviusculus, e no- 
dulo 3-tuberculato ortus, in imo articulatus et ^-bracteatus •, 
bractese parvce, acutce, valde decidua ; corolla ochroleuca, sicci- 
tate purpurascens ■, fructus cerasiformis. 
1. Diclidanthera penduliflora. Mart. Nov. Gen. ii. 140, tab. 196 ; 
Flor. Brasil, fasc. xvii. 11, tab. 4. fig. 1; — ramis pendulis, 
ramulis subpuberulis ; foliis oblongis vel lanceolato-oblongis, 
utrinque acutis, supra lucidis, bine ad basin petiolum versus 
2-glandulosis, costa media inferne rufescente, glabris, utrin- 
que valde reticulatis, petiolo tereti, pubescente ; racemis in 
ramulis novellis terminalibus, folii floriferi fere longitudine; 
sepalis extus fere glabris, sub lente sparse retrorsum puberulis, 
corollae glabrae ocbroleucse tertia parte longitudinis. — Brasilia 
tropica, ad fiuv. Amazonas. — v.s. in herb.meo, — prope Santarem 
(Spruce). 
Prof. Martius describes it as a tree 10 to 15 feet high, with 
loose pendulous and subscandent branches, the leaves being 
4 to 6 inches long and 12 to 18 lines broad. In Spruce’s speci- 
men they measure 4 inches in length, and 15 to 17 lines in 
breadth, on a petiole 3 lines long. In the size of the tree, its 
habit, in the form of its leaves, their size and colour, this spe- 
cies is scarcely to be distinguished from the following one, the 
only valid specific difference being in the two basal glands 
constantly seen on the upper side of the leaf, at the point of 
junction of its blade with the petiole, which are always wanting 
in D. laurifolia. The corolla is a little more slender and rather 
longer in regard to the calyx, and when dried, of a brighter 
crimson colour ; its pedicel is only half a line long ; the sepals, 
which become reddish in drying, are 4 lines long and 1 line 
broad; the length of the corolla is 10 or 11 lines, including the 
border of 3 lines, the tube being only a line in diameter. 
Var. penceantha. Mart. loc. cit. D. Martii, Popp. MSS, in 
herb. 2883 ; — “ foliis brevioribus, latioribus, ovato-oblongis, 
basi subrotundatis, petiolis evidentius puberulis ; racemis 
