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two primary divaricating branches 6 lines long, bearing five 
alternate floriferous spikes 3 lines apart, 12-20 lines long ; 
sepals I line, tube of corolla 1^ line, segments 1 line long ; an- 
thers included, cohering by their summits ; ovary glabrous ; 
style slender, incrassated at the apex, and surhiounted by a 
pilose eUiptical stigma; drupes much depressed, deeply 4- 
lobed, 1^ line in diameter, glabrous, the nucules incurved, 
dorsally tuberculated. 
*** Paniculaa terminales et subpyramidatae. 
19. Messerschmidtia candidula^ nob. ; — Tournefortia sericea, 
DC. (non Vafd) Prodr. ix. 524; Fresen. in Mart. FI. Bras. 
xix. 54 ; — scandens, ramulis rectiuscule elongatis, teretibus, 
subfistulosis, moUiter cano-tomentosis ; foliis ovatis, brevis- 
sime acutis, imo rotundatis aut subcordatis, supra dense 
viridibus, nigulosis, sparse molliter sericeo-viUosis, in nervis 
sulcatis, subtus dense albo-lanato-tomentosis ; petiolo tomen- 
toso, limbo 20-plo breviore : panicula terminali, anguste 
pyramidata, albo-tomentosa, altematim breviter ramosa, 
cum ramulis brevissimis et approximatis, paucifloris ; flori- 
bus minusculis, crebris, obsolete pedicellatis ; sepalis corol- 
Ijeque laciniis lineari-setaceis, pubeseentibus, tubo imo gla- 
bro, supeme densissime villoso ; drupis depresso-globosis, 
4-gastris, pilosis. — In Brasilia : v. s. in herh. meo^ Ceara 
(Gardn. 1078). 
This plant has been referred to the Tournefortia sericea of 
Vahl, a species from the Antilles, known only from his short 
description. It difiers from it in its leaves not being glabrous 
above, and being nearly sessile, in its much denser terminal and 
pyi’amidal inflorescence (not axillary and dichotomously di- 
vided). Its branches are nearly straight and simple, 1^ line 
thick, with axils |-1^ i^^ch apart ; the leaves are l|-2 inches 
long, 1-1 1 inch broad, on a petiole scarcely more than 1 Line 
in length. The terminal inflorescence is not pedunculated, 
2^ inches long, 1 inch broad, consisting of many alternate 
branches 1-2 lines apart, each with very crowded short flori- 
ferous branchlets 2—4 lines long ; flowers on very short pedi- 
cels, crowded ; sepals 1^ line long ; tube of corolla 1^ line long, 
lobes of border ^ line long ; anthers cohering at their apex ; 
the style, thickened at the summit, including the stigma, is 
I line long ; the drupe in its structure quite conforms to the 
generic character. 
20. Messerschmidtia villosa, nob. ; — Tournefortia viUosa, DC. 
Prodr. ix. 524 ; Fresen. in Mart. FI. Bras. xix. p. 52 ; — 
ramis teretibus, hirsutissimis ; foliis ovatis, acuminatis. 
