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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
The branches are slender and very twining: the leaves are 
2i-3 inches long, Ij-li inch broad, on a slender petiole 
l| line long; they are plicately channelled, and bent back 
towards the tip, which is recurved, with a mucronate point; 
when fresh, they are dark green, shining above, pale green below, 
becoming of a reddish hue when dried ; they are marked on 
both sides by raised crowded reticulations, and five pairs of 
scarcely prominent nerves (ineluding the basal pair), the margin 
being cartilaginous. The ^ panicle has a slender rachis, 2 inches 
long, with three or four one-flowei’ed pedicels, 4-6 lines long, 
bracteated at base and in the middle, and which ai’e sometimes 
branched at the bract, and thus 2-flowered : the flowers in 
bud are line in diam., expanded 3 lines ; both sepals and 
petals are of a greenish white in the living state, becoming dark 
red when dried. The ? flowers are solitaiy in each axil, on pedi- 
cels 6 lines long, growing to 10 lines in fruit. The drupe is 
transversely ovoid, with a shining surface, of a yellowish colour 
(becoming blackish brown when dried), l-lj inch long, | inch 
broad, and f inch thick : the sarcocarp is tough and coriaceous ; 
the mesocarp, yellow and transparent, is composed of convex 
aggregated glands ; the subreniform putamen is 9 lines long, 
5 lines broad; the albumen, deeply cleft into numerous fissures, 
is of a hard waxy consistence, the embryo imbedded in its centre 
being 9 lines long, slender, uniform in thickness, ^ line in diam., 
the radicle at its upper extremity pointing to the style being 
only ^ line long ; the cotyledons, uncinately curved at their 
base, point to the stipitate support of the fruit, which in this 
species is not very far removed from the style. 
2. Anomospermum ovatiim, nob. ; — ramis teretibus, lenticellis 
longiusculis notatis; ramulis Isevibus; folds ovalibus, imo 
rotundatis, apiae obtusis, mucronulatis, marginibus cartilagi- 
neis, glaberrimis, supra nitidis, valde reticulatis, utrinque 
concoloribus, e basi 3-nerviis, cum alteris lateralibus utrinque 
2 ; petiolo limbo dimidio breviore, glabro, apice crassiore et 
geniculato ; racemo fructifero, axillari,. brevi ; drupis minori- 
bus, ovatis, transversim reniformibus ; stylo lateral! apiculatis; 
putamine embryoneque curvatis. — Brasilia, v. s. in herb. Mus. 
Brit. (Bowie & Cunningham). 
This species difiers from the preceding in its smaller and more 
oval leaves (of a more rufuscent hue), and in their glabrous pe- 
tioles; they are 2^ inches long, inch broad, on a petiole 
inch long, the rufescent midrib and petiole being quite gla- 
brous. The drupes, which are not quite ripe, ai’e of the same 
shape as in the typical species, though smaller and very difi'erent 
in shape from those of some of the following species. 
