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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
brevi suspensum. Stylus brevissimus, teres, subexcentricus. 
Stigma carnosum, deltoideo-obliquum, in lobos 3 digitatos 
laciniatum. Drupce 3, vel abortu pauciores, magnse, siccse, 
valde tomentosae, horizontaliter oblongse, breviter stipitatae, 
styli vestigio prope basin notatse; putamen oblongum, sub- 
compressum, utrinque ultra medium sulcatum, coriaceum, 1- 
loculare, condylo septiformi sulcis apposito e basi ultra me- 
dium loculi protenso, proinde 2-marsupiatum, monospermum; 
semen loculo conforme, bicrure ; albumen copiosum, carnosum, 
fissuris numerosis anfractuosis irregularibus profunde rumi- 
natum, integumentis laxis tenuissimis intra fissuras plicatis 
cinctum ; embryo tenuis, teres, hippocrepice inflexus, centro 
albuminis immersus, cotyledonibus incumbentibus, radicula 
supera ad stylum spectante longioribus. 
Frutices America intertropicce volubiles, ramulis tomentosis ; folia 
orbicularia vel ovata, subacuta, imo sape cordata, supra gla- 
bra, subtus tomentosa, S-5 -nervia, nervis extus ramosis et 
transversim crasse venosis, petiolo longiusculo, pubere ; racemi 
paniculati, axillares, scepissime longissimi, tomentosi; flores 
minuti, pilosi. 
§ 1 . Abuta vera : folia crasso-coriacea, subtus valde tomentosa, 
nervis extus ramosis, grossis, valde prominentibus ; sta- 
mina in d glabra ; plantce scandentes. 
1. Abuta racemosa, Aubl. (non DC. nec Tr. & Planch.), PI. Guian. 
i. 618, t. 250; — ramis teretibus, sordide cinereo tomentosis; 
foliis amplissimis, ovatis, subcordatis, apice sensim acutis aut 
repente et brevissime acuminatis, mucronatis, imo 5-nerviis, 
nends intermediis paulo divaricatis et extus ramosis, nervis 
lateralibus e costa utrinque 3 longe a basi enatis, marginibus 
nervo crasso limbatis, coriaceis, supra glabris, bullato-rugosis, 
in nervis venisque transversis striatis, nervis obsolete tomen- 
tosis, imo juxta petiolum macula magna cinereo tomentosa 
signatis, subtus brunneo tomentosis, nervis venisque trans- 
versis crassis valde prominentibus petioloque tomento brevis- 
simo adpresso rufo-cinereo indutis ; petiolo valido, apice iu- 
crassato ; racemis fructiferis axillaribus ; di’upis ovalibus, valde 
tomentosis. — In Guiana, v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, (specim. typ. 
Aublet). 
Aublet states that the larger leaves are 11 inches long and 
9^ inches broad ; in the above specimens the larger leaf is 
10 inches long (including the basal sinus, \ inch deep), 7f inches 
broad, on a petiole 3^ inches long ; the smaller leaves are trun- 
cated at base, nearly orbicular, with a very short acuminated 
point, 5 inches long, 4| inches broad, on a petiole 3| inches long. 
