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white, as stated), which in drying becomes of a bright red 
colour : including the portions that form the border, which are 
3 lines long and barely a line broad, it measures 9 lines. 
A singular peculiarity is observable in its aestivation : — the free 
margin of each petal, where the adherent portions form the 
tube, is turned in the same direction, showing a contorsive im- 
brication, while the free portions constituting the border are 
quincuncially imbricated in the bud. The exsuccous rugose 
drupe is about 8 lines in diameter, and is of a reddish colour 
when fresh, becoming fuscous brown when dry, and quite coria- 
ceous, with chartaceous dissepiments. The suspended seeds, 
solitary in each cell, are covered with a white and almost woolly 
pubescence ; they ai’e 5 lines long, 3 lines broad, and 2 lines in 
thickness : the albumen is white and fleshy ; the embryo is 
quite green, the cotyledons being orbicular, 2^ lines in dia- 
meter ; its superior radicle, | of a line long, nearly touches the 
summit. 
3. Diclidanthera eUiptica, u. sp. Pluchia curiosa ?, Veil. Flor. 
Fluin. vol. iv. tab. 20, text, p. 157 ; — foliis ellipticis vel late ova- 
tis, apice subacutis et mucronatis, basi obtusioribus, utrinque 
pallide viridibus, valde reticulatis et subpuberulis (pi’sesertim 
in costa media straminea, et in nervibus), margine vix reflexo, 
supeime opacis, omnino eglandulosis, subtus rarius in dicho- 
tomiis nervorum glanduliferis, petiolo tenui, pubesceiite ; 
racemis plurifloris, in ramulis novellis terminalibus, folio in- 
terdum longioribus ; sepalis utrinque valde pubescentibus, 
corolla dimidio brcvioribus, oblongis, obtusis ; corolla fusciore 
subpuberula, marginibus petalorum in tubum longe ciliatis. — 
Brasilia. — v. s. in herb, meo, — Prov. Minas Geraes (Gardner, 
5002) ; Iguassu, in Prov. Rio de Janeiro (filio meo lecta). 
This is certainly a veiy distinct species, with quite a different 
aspect from the two former. It has scarcely the same scandent 
habit ; the leaves are larger, broader in proportion, paler, greener, 
more dull on the upper surface when dried, and niucronate at 
the point; they are 3| inches long, l|-2 inches broad, on a 
petiole of 2^ lines; the midrib is of a pale straw-colour; they 
bear no basal glands on the upper surface, as in D. penduliflora, 
but they have similar glands on the nerval furcations, as in the 
last species. The racemes are similarly terminal, l|^-2 inches 
long, 10-15-flowered ; the pedicels are 1 line long; the sepals 
3 lines ; the corolla rarely exceeds 6 lines in total length, the 
tube being only 4 lines long, broader than in the preceding spe- 
cies, and always of a dark fuscous red when diy, the margins of 
the limb being somewhat paler. The calyx, as well as the whole 
branchlet, is more densely pubescent, being almost tomentose. 
