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long ; but in the young lateral branches it is much shorter, and 
often reduced to a single pedicellated flower. The pedicels are 
4-6 lines long, glabrous, with two alternate bracteoles in the 
middle, which are slightly pubescent ; the flower, 2 lines in diam. 
in bud, expands to a breadth of 4 lines, the inner sepals 2 lines 
long, 1| line broad, the outer three bracteiform sepals having 
ciliate margins ; the very fleshy orbicular petals, with involuted 
margins, are closely aggregated into a central disciform mass, 
the summits of the stamens peeping out at intervals, just as in 
the flowers of some species of Hippocratea, where the stamens 
are imbedded in the cavities of a fleshy disk : there is no trace 
of any ovary in the centre, as in the typical species. 
5. Anomospermum lucidum, nob. ; — A. Schomburgkii, Benth. in 
part. 1 . c. ; — ramulis vix striatis, glaberrimis, in vetustioribus 
lenticellis rimosis pallidis signatis ; foliis elliptico-oblongis 
vel lanceolato-oblongis, utrinque acutis, vel rarius imo obtu- 
sioribus, apice longe attenuatis et mucronatis, valde coriaceis, 
nitidissimis, utrinque lucidis, basi obsolete 3-nerviis, nervis 
lateralibus evanidis, omnino eveniis, supra creberrime punctu- 
latis, subtus obsolete areolato-punctatis, costa infra prominula, 
glabra, marginibus cartilagineis ; petiolo glabro, apice cras- 
siore, deflexo, limbo 8-plo breviore ; racemis ^ supra-axillari- 
bus, semper simplicibus, folio fere 2-plo longioribus, vel in 
junioribus folio dimidio brevioribus, omnino glabris; pedi- 
cellis floribusque mediocribus ; sepalis 9, quorum 6 exteriori- 
bus, bracteiformibus, margine ciliatis; floribus ? solitariis, 
longiuscule pedunculatis, pedunculo quam petiolo 2-plo 
longiore ; drupa oblonga, stipite brevi crasso paulo excentrico 
suffulta; stylo apicali; putamine cylindrico; embryone tenuis- 
simo, fere recto, stipitem versus arcuato ; radicula supera, 
brevissima. — In Guiana et Brasilia, v. s. in herb. Mus. Paris., 
Cayenne (Melinon, 115, in fructu) ; in herb. Mus. Brit., De- 
merara (Anderson, in fructu) ; in herb, meo, prope Pauure Rio 
Uaiipes (Spruce, 2563 & $ et in fructu). 
This species is readily distinguished from the former, with 
which it has been confounded by Mr. Bentham, by its entirely 
glabrous habit, its remarkably smooth, polished, veinless leaves, 
by the absence (especially beneath) of lateral nerves, the basal 
ones being almost obsolete, by their more lanceolate form, their 
longer and very attenuated apex, more acute base, and shorter 
petiole, their longer, entirely glabrous, and quite simple racemes 
of considerable length, and by their smaller and apparently paler 
flowers, with an additional series of bracteiform sepals. The 
leaves are 3-4^ inches long, 1^-2 inches broad, on a petiole 
4-6 lines long ; their acuminated apex is ^ inch long, 2 lines 
