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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
The branches are rigid; the leaves are 4J-5| inches long, 
2-2^ inches broad, on a stiff petiole, 8-10 lines long. The 
male racemose panicles, on a very slender rachis 2-2J inches 
long, have several capillary short branches, with very minute 
dowers. The fructiferous branches, scarcely more than 1 inch 
long, on a slender flexuose rachis, bear a few 1 -flowered pedicels, 
3 lines long, supporting a glabrous drupe 10 lines long. 
4. Anelasma Guianense, nob. ; — Abuta concolor, Benth. in part. 
1. c. p. 49 [non Popp .) ; — ramulis teretibus, obsolete striatis, 
nitidis, rubescentibus, verruculis albidis signatis ; foliis ovali- 
bus, basi late rotundatis, fere truncatis vel subcordatis, apice 
gradatim acutis, crasso-coriaceis, utrinque nitidis, subopacis, 
5-nerviis, nervis rubescentibus, superne immersis, exterioribus 
ultra medium extensis et tunc cum venis arcuatim nexis intra- 
marginalibus, superne venis transversis immersis, inferne cre- 
berrime reticulatis, margine cartilagineo ; petiolo basi apice- 
que longe incrassato; racemis ^ 3^, supra-axillaribus, valde 
elongatis, ramosis, glaberrimis ; rachi nitida, graciliter strio- 
lata, rubente ; pedicellis capillaribus ; floribus numerosis, 
minutis. — In Guiana Britannica, v. s, (Schomburgk, 440). 
This differs from A. concolor, with which it has been con- 
founded, in its much broader leaves, extremely rounded and 
almost subcordate at base, with petioles and short internodes as 
in A. Gardnerianum, and also in its much longer and more 
compound racemes. The branches are stouter, 2^ lin. in diam., 
quite polished, reddish brown, spotted with white oblong tu- 
bercular lenticels, the internodes being |-1 inch. The leaves 
are 4|-5^ inches long, 2|-3 inches broad; the two principal 
nerves are united at the base with the midrib for a short dis- 
tance, the two more external basal nervures running at some 
distance from the- margin to a point beyond the middle, when 
they anastomose with the veins; they are immersed in the 
fleshy parenchyma, and are of a reddish colour; the under sur- 
face is very finely reticulated with prominent veins ; the petioles 
are somewhat elongated, finely striated, reddish, 1-2^ inches 
long, with an elongated, channelled, rugose, dark bourrelet at 
the apex ; the ^ racemes 3-4, fasciculated and supra-axillary, 
with a very slender polished rachis, 7-8 inches long, and many 
alternate capillary divaricated ramifications, 4-6 lines long, with 
secondary branchlets, 3 lines long, each branching again, with 
ultimate pedicels bearing a minute flower, all the articulations 
being bracteolated ; the flowers are glabrous, scarcely ^ line in 
diam. in bud ; the sepals have pruinose margins, overlapping in 
aestivation. The ? raceme is simple, 2^ inches long, with alter- 
nate pedicels 3-4 lines long, each bearing three ovaries. 
