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lated, with a lengthened and more slender bourrelet, and a very 
tumid base ; the racemes are extremely slender, 2 inches long, 
their capillary ramifications, 2 lines long, bear three small pedi- 
cellated flowers. 
7. Anelasma pallidum, nob. ; — Anelasma laurifolium, Sagot, MS. 
{non nob.) ; — Abuta concolor, Benth. in part. 1. c. {non Popp.) ; 
— ramis lenticellato-rugosis ; ramulis teretibus, obsolete 
striatis, glaberrimis ; foliis elongato-ellipticis, utrinque acutis, 
apice subbreviter acuminatis, obsolete mucronatis, e basi tri- 
nerviis cum nervulis binis margine contiguis mox evanidis, 
utrinque pallidis, glaberrimis, crassis, coriaceis ; nervis venis- 
que transversis superne prominulis, subtus immersis, paulo 
prominulis, interstitiis vix reticulatis, margine cartilagineo, 
paulo reflexo ; petiolo glabro, brevi, crasso, ruguloso, imo tu- 
mido, apice clavato et superne sulcato ; racemis ^ 1-2-3, fasci- 
culatis, axillaribus, tenuissimis, glabris, petiolo triplo longiori- 
bus ; ramis capillaribus alternatim trifloris ; pedicellis fasci- 
culatis ; floribus glaberrimis. — In prov. Rio Amazonas -.v.s. 
Barra do Rio Negro (Spruce, no 1829), ? in herb. Hook., 
Karoung, Guyane Fran 9 aise (Sagot, no. 20, sub nom. Ane- 
lasma laurifolium). 
The same species, collected by Poppig, exists in some herbaria 
under the name of Cocculus glaber. It resembles the preceding 
in the acute extremities of its leaves, in which respect both difier 
from A. concolor, with which they have been confounded ; the 
leaves are larger than in the preceding species, much thicker, 
smoother, with shorter and stouter petioles, and with racemes 
of double the length. The branches are 2 lines and the branch- 
lets 1 line in diam., with internodes about | inch long; the 
leaves, with both surfaces remarkably smooth, are 5^ inches long, 
2^-2^ inches broad, on a petiole 8-10 lines long ; the racemes 
are about 3-5 inches long, the branches 3 lines, the pedicels 
2 lines, the flowers | line in diam., all glabrous. 
8. Anelasma strumosum, nob.; — Abuta, sp., Benth. 1. c. p. 49; — 
ramulis teretibus, Isevibus, sub lente rugulosis ; foliis ovalibus, 
basi late rotundatis, apice repente breviter et anguste acumi- 
natis, acumine obtusiusculo, supra fuscis nitentibus, nervis 
venisque transversis immersis, subtus pallidioribus et opacis, 
imo triplinerviis, cum nervis alteris binis basalibus valde con- 
spicuis ad medium in marginem evanescentibus, venis reticu- 
latis, prominulis ; petiolo elongato, striato, valido, apice lon- 
gissime et fortissimo tumido et tortuoso ; racemis ? solitariis 
vel binis, supra-axillaribus, petiolum superantibus ; pedicellis 
alternis, brevibus, 1-floris, in fructu incrassatis ; drupis ovali- 
