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peels off easily ; the branchlets are of a lax, fibrous texture, and 
almost fistulose; the internodes are 1-lf inch, the petioles 
(3-4 inches long) being articulated at their origin upon a cupular 
swelling; the leaves are 2-4 inches long, 2-3^ inches broad, 
broadly cordate at the base, and suddenly attenuated upon the 
petiole, the summit narrowed by a linear attenuation 6 lines long, 
1^ line broad. The fructiferous raceme is about 5 inches long, 
with slender simple pedicels, 2-4 lines apart and 6 lines long, 
each bearing from one to three drupes, of a darkish colour, of 
the size of grapes ; the putamen, usually clothed with papillose 
fibres imbedded in the soft pulp, is 5-6 lines long, 3^ lines broad. 
The embryo has a superior radicle, 1 line long ; its two acute 
divaricated cotyledons, imbedded in distinct cells of the albu- 
men, being each 3 lines long, 1 line broad. 
2. Odontocarya macrostachya, noh.) — Cissampelos vitis, Vell.Fl. 
Flum. X. tab. 137 ; — ramulis teretibus, tuberculatis ; foliis late 
ovatis, cordatis, apice breviter acutis, petiolo crassiusculo imo 
torto subsequilongis ; racemo fructifero petiolo 4-plo longiore, 
pedicellis longiusculis ; drupis glabris, uvi magnitudine. — In 
Brasilia. 
This is evidently allied to the preceding species, and known 
only from the figure above cited : its leaves are more oval, some- 
what acute (not acuminated) ; they are 4-4^ inches long, 3^-4 
inches broad, on a petiole 4-4^ inches long; the fructiferous 
raceme is 14 inches long, its pedicels 4-6 lines apart and 4-6 
lines long. 
3. Odontocarya convolvulacea, nob. ; — Chondodendron convolvu- 
laceum, Popp. Nov. Gen. ii. 65, tab. 190; — Chondodendron 
tomentosum, Benth. {non R. ^ P.) Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. v. 
2nd Suppl. 47 ; — ramul is fistulosis, striatis, compresso-teretibus, 
pubescentibus, cortice purpurascente, amarissimo ; foliis ovatis, 
sensim acuminatis, imo profunde cordatis, lobis basalibus ro- 
tundatis, sinu angusto, utrinque villosis, subtus imprimis mol- 
lissimis, margine integro ciliatis, imo 5-nerviis ; petiolo lon- 
gissimo, gracili, puberulo, imo torto; racemis ? simplicibus, 
axillaribus, petiolo brevioribus; floribus majusculis, petalis 
quam sepalis 3-plo brevioribus ; baccis uviformibus, pulposis, 
atro-violaceis, putamine ovali, compresso, marginem versus 
radiatim striato. — In Peruvia ad Cuchero. 
This plant, figured by Poppig, resembles the two preceding 
species in its soft, scarcely ligneous branchlets, and in the size 
and form of its leaves upon long slender petioles ; but it differs 
in the pubescence of its leaves, in which respect it approaches 
