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10. Abuta’i Imene-, — Cocculus Imene, Mart. FI. xxiv., Beibl. ii. 
44; Walp.Rep. ii. 748; — caudice subvolubili, ssepe compresso; 
ramulis subscandentibus, cinereo pubescentibus v. tomentellis ; 
foliis coriaceis, late ovatis, acuminatis, basi acutis, supra niti- 
dis, quintuplinervis, nervis lateralibus evanidis ; petiolis nervis- 
que foliorum novellorum et inflorescentia cinerascenti tomen- 
tellis ; racemis cymuligeris elongatis axillaribus et lateralibus, 
aggregatis; drupis ellipticis, pollicaribus. — In Brasilia in di- 
tione Japurensi. 
The above character agrees so well with Abuta as to justify 
its position in this genus. 
§ 2. Batschia : folia minus coriacea, subglabra, nervis minus 
crassis et prominentibus ; stamina fertilia in pilosa 
arbusculce erectce. 
11. Abuta racemosa, Tr. & PI. Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 ser. xvii. p. 48; — 
Batschia racemosa, Thunb. Nova Act. Ups. v. 120, tab. 2. fig. 1; 
Usteri Ann. tab. 10. fig. 1 ; — Trichoa racemosa, Pers. Ench. 
ii. 634; DC. Prodr. i. 103; — ramulis junioribus puberulis, 
demum glabris ; foliis oblongis, basi obtusis, apice acuminatis 
vel obtusis et emarginatis, triplinervis, supra Isevibus, sub- 
lucidis, nervis rufulis nitentibus vix prominulis, subtus opacis, 
concoloribus, nervis obsolete puberulis, valde prominentibus ; 
petiole brevi, subpubescente ; racemis ? axillaribus, sohtariis 
vel geminis, folio brevioribus ; pedicellis alternis, imo bracteo- 
latis, 1-floris, in fructu longioribus; drupis amplis, tomen- 
tosis. — In Ecuador, v. s. in herb. Hook. ; Mariquita, Rio Mag- 
dalena (Triana). 
This species, originally collected at Mariquita hy Mutis, was 
first described by Thunberg, in 1794, as the type of the genus 
Batschia, upon very good details obtained from the examination 
of male and female flowers; M. Triana’s specimens, from the 
same locality, have ? flowers only. The leaves are 2^-4 inches 
long, 1^-2 inches broad, on a petiole inch long. The $ ra- 
ceme is 3 inches long, the pedicels 2 lines long, the flower in 
bud 1 line in diam. The fructiferous raceme in Thunherg^s 
drawing is 3 inches long, with about six alternate pedicels about 
^ inch long, each bearing one to three drupes |-1 inch long, 
f inch broad, enclosing an oblong coriaceous putamen with a 
bimarsupiate cell and a hippocrepiform seed, as in the true 
Abuta section. It should be remarked that the sterile stamens 
are perfectly glabrous in the female flower. 
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