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broad. The male racemes are 5 inches long, the simple pedicels 
4-6 lines long; the flowers, 1^ line in diam. in bud, are 3 lines in 
diam. when expanded, the petals being aggregated in the form 
of a trigonous disk, as in the preceding species. The axillary 
solitary peduncle of the female flower is 8-9 lines long, the floral 
parts being somewhat smaller than in the other sex ; the drupe is 
If inch long j the putamen is cylindrical, straight, 15 lines long, 
4 lines in diam., somewhat pointed towards the summit, almost 
smooth on the outer surface, marked inside with raised lines 
corresponding with the fissures of the ruminated albumen ; the 
condyle is a thin vertical plate running along the ventral internal 
face of the cell, protruding nearly as far as the axis, and upon 
this the seed is folded and attached along its edge by the line of 
the raphe; the albumen is cleft nearly to its centre by numerous 
horizontal fissures, which, again, are divided vertically and irre- 
gularly; the embryo, lying in the axis, is nearly straight, terete, 
^ line in diam., 13 lines long; the radicle, which is very short, 
points to the summit and the style; both of the thin integu- 
ments enter into the clefts of the albumen through their whole 
depth. 
6. Anomospermum Hostmanni, nob. ; — ramulis rubescentibus, 
striatulis ; folds ovatis, imo rotundatis, apice attenuatis, acu- 
mine obtusiusculo, glaberrimis, coriaceis, nitidis, imo 3-nerviis, 
cum nervis lateralibus utrinque 3 longe intra marginem ar- 
cuatim nexis, eveniis, margine flavo, cartilagineo ; petiolo gla- 
bro, limbo 5-plo breviore ; racemo simplici, supra-axillari, folio 
longiore, pedicellis 2-3 fasciculatis in axillis alternis, glaber- 
rimis, breviusculis, 1-floris. — In Guiana, v. s. $ in herb. Mux. 
Paris., Mus. Brit, et Hook . ; Surinam (Hostmann et Kappler, 
1298): $ in herb. Hook., Guiane Fran 9 aise (Sagot, 1058). 
This is distinct from all the preceding species, remarkable for 
its smaller, oval, pale, veinless, polished leaves and its elongated 
racemes. Its leaves are 2^ inches long, 1^ inch broad, on a 
petiole ^ inch long. The (J raceme is 3-5 inches long ; the pe- 
dicels 1-3 lines long, quite glabrous and bractless ; the expanded 
flowers 2| lines in diam. In the ? , at a distance of 2 lines above 
each axil is a slender solitary 1 -flowered pedicel, or towards the 
end of the branches two or three pedicels; but they are not 
fasciculated, they are superimposed at the interval of a line 
between each ; they are 4-8 lines long, with a bract above the 
middle: the flower is of the size of that of thccJ, and contains 
three ovaries ; the fructiferous pedicel is much thicker, 8 lines 
long, bearing an oblong glabrous drupe, 1^ inch long, 7 lines 
in diam., the mucronated remnant of the style being somewhat 
excentrically apical. 
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