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branches like the axillary panicles, but without leaves : the 
uniserial flowers are 1^-2 lines apart, each on a pedicel ^ line 
long ; the sepals are 1 line long, glabrous, with ciliated mar- 
gins ; the tube of the corolla 2 hues long, its segments 1 hne 
long ; the anthers cohere by their papillose summits ; the style 
is slender, enlarged at its summit, and terminated by an oval, 
obtuse, pilose stigma. 
4. Messersclimidtia Blanchetii^ nob. ; Touimefortia Blanchetii, 
A. DC. Prodr. ix. 524 ; Fresen. in Mart. FI. Bras. xix. 52 ; 
— scandens, ramis teretibus, adpresse sericeis ; foliis ovatis, 
acutissime acuminatis, imo obtusis, membranaceis, utrinque 
pilosis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis parum distinctis, petiolo 
limbo 10-plo breviore : paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, 
divaricato-dichotomis, subfen'ugineo-pubescentibus ; flori- 
bus in ramis ultimis spicatim sessilibus, remotiuscuhs ; se- 
palis lanceolatis, acuminatis, tubo corollse sericege dimidio 
brevioribus ; limbi lobis anguste linearibus. — In Bahia 
(Blanchet, 1914) {non vidi). 
A species much resembling M. Salzmanni. Leaves 2^-3 
inches long, 20-24 lines broad, on a petiole 4 lines long ; 
flowers 3 lines long. 
5. Messersclimidtia salicifolia, Gardn. Lond. Jour. Bot. i. 181 ; 
— Toumefortia salicifolia, DC. Prodr. ix. 531 ; Fresen. in 
Mart. FI. Bras. xix. p. 55 ; — scandens, ramis flstulosis, 
angulato-compressis, subflexuosis, molliter patenter pilosis ; 
foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, lanceolatisve, imo obtusis, a medio 
sensim acuminatis, supra molliter pilosulis, subtus ferru- 
gineo-glaucis, tomentoso-villosulis, marginibus ciliatis ; pe- 
tiolo patenter, femigineo-villoso, limbo 12-plo breviore : 
paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio longioribus et 
suboppositis, bis dichotome geniculatim divisis, ramis alter- 
natim ramosis et spicatifloris, villosis ; floribus remotius- 
culis, sessilibus ; sepahs lobisque corollie acutissimis ; drupis 
4-gastris, pilosis. — In Brasilia ad Bio de Janeiro : v. v. et s. 
i\Iorro de Flamengo (Gardner, n. 81). 
A climbing plant, not uncommon in the neighbourhood of 
Bio de Janeiro, with branches 1-1^ line thick, geniculately 
flexuose at the axils, which are about 1 inch apart ; the leaves 
are 2-4 inches long, 5-18 lines broad, on a petiole 2-3 lines 
long. The panicle, 2 inches long and broad, has a peduncle 
6 lines long, its primary very divaricated branches 4 lines 
long, the secondary branchlets 3 lines long, each bearing two 
or three spikes 6-9 lines long, with about ten to fifteen sessile 
flowers I line apart ; sepals 1 line long, clothed with long 
