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que flavido-tomentosis ; petiolo tomentoso, limbo 5-6-plo 
breviore : paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, flavo-tomen- 
tosis, bis dichotome geniculatim divisis, ramis ultimis spi- 
catifloris ; floribus 1 -seriatis, crebre sessilibus ; sepalis la- 
ciniisque corollge valde subulatis, tubo superne inflato ; drupis 
4-gastris, glabris. — In Brasilia : v. v. in prov. Bio de 
Janeiro, ad Botofogo ; v. s. in herb, variis, ex eodem loco 
(Gardn. 82). 
Prof. Fresenius makes this plant identical with Kunth’s 
Tournefortia floribunda, which does not belong to Messer- 
schmidtia ; it differs in its compressed flexuous subfistulose 
branches, its acute (not acuminated) leaves, covered with short 
rigid hairs (not slenderly pubescent nor cano-tomentose be- 
neath) ; it differs also in its longer style and stigma. In Kunth’s 
plant the drupe is globular, containing four globose nucules. 
In this species the flattened branches are 1| line broad, with 
axils 1 - 2 ^ inches apart; the leaves are 2 | inches long, 1 ^- 1 | 
inch broad, on a petiole 4-6 lines long ; the panicle, widely 
expanded, is 4 inches long, on a peduncle 6 lines long; primary 
and secondary branches 9 lines long, tertiary spicated, 3-6 
lines apart, each 9-18 lines long; sepals \ line long; tube of 
corolla less than 1 line long, the rest all conformable to the 
generic character; di'upes glabrous*. 
18. Messerschmidtia Salzmanni., nob. ; — Tournefortia Salz- 
manni, D G. Prodr. ix. 524 ; Fresen. in Mart. FI. Bras. xix. 
p. 51 ; — scandens, ramis teretibus, fistulosis, subflexuosis, 
simplicibus aut breviter ramulosis, flavide aut ferrugineo- 
tomentosis, axillis subnodosis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis vel 
lanceolatis, sensim acuminatis, imo rotundatis, supra pilis 
brevibus velutino-tomentosis, subtus pallidioribus, ferrugineo- 
tomentosis ; petiolo superne canaliculato, dense ferrugineo- 
pubescente, limbo 9-10-plo breviore : paniculis in ramulis 
alaribus terminalibus, flavo vel ferrugineo-tomentosis, bis 
' dichotome divaricato-divisis, ramis conjugatis vel simplicibus, 
ultimis spicatifloris ; floribus remotiusculis, brevissime pe- 
dicellatis ; sepalis laciniisque corollae longe subulatis. — In 
Brasilia, prov. Bahia (Blanche!, 3787-3789, et Claussen, 
412-419) ; V. s. in herb, meo, Ceard (Gardner, 1785) ; in herb. 
Mus. Brit.., Bahia (Luschnatt). 
A plant with long tortuous scandent branches, with axils 
|-2 inches apart; leaves 2^-3^ inches long, I-I 5 inch broad, 
on a petiole 3-4 lines long ; peduncle of inflorescence 5 lines, 
* A drawing of this plant, with sectional detafls to show the generic 
structure, is given in Plate 53 B. 
