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antheras ssepe excedentia; mdhera 2-lob8e, lobis oblongis, 
parallele sejunctis, filamento immersis, rima marginali dehis- 
centibus. Ovaria rudimentaria nulla. — Fcem. Sepala et petala 
ut in masc. Stamina sterilia 6, forma marium, sed multo 
minora, antheris effoetis glandulseformibus terminata, circa 
gynsecium stipitatum inserta. Ovaria 3,oblonga, extus gibbosa, 
apice tenuiora, glabra ; stylus nullus ; stigma sessile, deltoideo- 
acutum, subito deflexum, radiato-incisum ; ovulum unicum, ex 
angulo ventrali appensum. Drupes ovatse, 3, vel abortu soli- 
tarise, mucilagineo-carnosge : pvtamen osseum, ovatum, sub- 
compressum, dorso convexum, tuberculis serialibus scabridis 
rugulosum, apice iraoque 3-dentatum, extus pilis papillosis 
creberrimis tectum, 1-loculare, intus Iseve, nisi ad ventrem 
lineis paucis transversalibus prominentibus notatum ; condylus 
ad faciem ventralem, scutiformis, extus concavus, intra loculum 
convexus. Semen loculo conforme, meniscoideum, e summo 
condyli funiculo brevissimo appensum ; integumenta tenuis- 
’ sima, facie ventrali raphe longitudinali signata : embryo fere 
rectus, intra albumen copiosum carnosum fere 2-lamellosum 
latere dorsali tenue, ventrali crassum, fissuris paueis transver- 
salibus ruminatum, radicula supera, tereti, ad stylum spectante, 
cotyledonihus ellipticis, membranaeeo-foliosis, 5-nerviis, late- 
raliter valde divaricatis, et in locellis sejunctis utrinque positis. 
Frutices scandentes, ramis lignosis, verrucosis, cortice termi, resi- 
liente, ramulis teneribus, subfistulosis ; folia alterna, longe pe~ 
tiolata, scepius palata, ovata, cordata, acuminata, submembra- 
nacea, glabra aut subpubescentia , ^-7-nervia; racemi graciles, 
axillares, pedicellis subfasciculatis, 1-^om; drupse pulposce, 
uviformes. 
1. Odontocarya acuparata, nob. ; — caule scandente, tereti, striato, 
ligno laxe fibroso, cortice resiliente tuberculis majusculis ver- 
rucoso; ramulis junioribus subfistulosis, lenticellatis ; foliis 
ovatis, imo cordatis, sinu lato, mox acutioribus, apice repente 
attenuatis, acumine longe linear!, emarginato et mucronato, 
utrinque glaberrimis, supra lurido-viridibus, opacis, subtus 
glauco-pallidioribus, creberrime pellucido-punctulatis, imo 5- 
nerviis, nervis tenuibus rubescentibus venisque reticulatis, 
subtus prominulis, margine pellucido ; petiolo tenui, striato, 
limbo aequilongo, vel dimidio longiore, glabro, laxo, imo 
incrassato et torto ; racemo fructifero simplici, supra-axil- 
lari, petiolo paulo longiore ; drupis uviformibus. — In Brasilia, 
V. V. in montibus Organensibus. 
I found this plant climbing on trees on the outskirts of the 
virgin forests. Its branches are about \ ineb in diam., covered 
by a thin, membranaceous, striated and tuberculated bark, which 
