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In a portion of the fructiferous raceme figured by Aublet there 
are three drupes seated together on a pedicel f inch long ; they 
are 1 inch long, | inch diam. According to MM. Triana and 
Planchon, the plant described by DeCandolle as Abuta rufescens 
is very different from the type above described : it is a species 
which they have named Abuta Candollei. They also describe 
the following species, which they erroneously consider to be the 
same as AublePs plant ; but it will be seen to be very different, 
both in the pubescence and the nervation of the leaves. In 
Aublet’s plant the intermediate basal nerve diverges from the 
midrib at a medium angle of 30°, and has four strong spreading 
external branches ; only three pairs of lateral nerves spring from 
the midrib, the first of which emanates from it at a distance of 
3| inches from the base : this character is seen in the smaller as 
well as in the larger leaves, and is well shown in Aublet’s draw- 
ing. The upper surface of the leaf is very flat, the nerves and 
transverse veins being finely striated, and there is a broad patch 
of cinereous tomentum round the basal confluence of the nerves; 
the under side is covered with a short brown tomentum ; the 
very prominent nerves and the petiole are densely covered with 
an extremely short cinereous tomentum having a somewhat 
rufescent hue, in no way resembling the pubescence of the fol- 
lowing species. 
2. Abuta barbata, nob. ; — Abuta rufescens, Tr. PL {non Aubl. 
nec DC.), Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 ser. xvii. p. 44; — ramulis validis, 
teretibus, pilis longis mollibus ferrugineis densissime barbatis; 
foliis magnis, lanceolato-oblongis vel ovatis, imo paulo cor- 
datis, apice attenuato-acutis, mucronatis, e basi 5-nerviis, 
nervis intei-mediis valde divaricatis, extus ramosis, nervis 
lateralibus e costa utrinque 5-6 parallele divergentibus mox 
e basi enatis, nervo marginali limbatis, coriaceis, supra punc- 
tulatis, glabris, apud nervos immersos pubescentes venas- 
que transversas profunde canaliculatis, subtus undique ferru- 
gineo pilosis, nervis crassis venisque transversis valde promi- 
nentibus ; petiolo longo pilis patentibus ferrugineis dense ac 
molliter lanato, valido, imoque apice incrassato ; racemis $ ax- 
illaribus, solitariis, pubescentibus, folio dimidio brevioribus ; 
pedicellis 1-floris, longiusculis, infra medium 2-bracteolatis ; 
sepalis ovariisque cinereo pilosis; staminibus sterilibus 6, 
semiteretibus, infra medium longe ciliatis. — In Cayenne, v. s. 
in herb. Hook.-, Karoung (Sagot, 919). 
This species is considered by MM. Triana and Planchon to be 
the Abuta rufescens of Aublet, in which it will be seen they are 
mistaken ; but they are correct in stating it to be different from 
DeCandolle’s plant of that name. The branches are abundantly 
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