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toward the summit, and are more deltoid, while others are trun- 
cated at base ; they are from l|-3 inches long, 2|-3j inches 
broad, on a petiole 1-1 5 inch long. From two to six ^ panicles 
are fasciculated in each axil, supported upon bare peduncles about 
the length of the petiole, each emitting at its summit three to six 
umbellate branches, which are dichotomously divided and fur- 
nished with numerous very small corymbose flowers ; the sepals 
are membranaceous, spathulately oblong, pilose outside ; the six 
petals are opposite to them, cuneately obovate, truncated at the 
summit, with inflected sides which embrace the filaments ; they 
are about half the length of the sepals, and shorter than the 
stamens ; the filaments are quite free, erect, thickened towards 
the apex, where they are suddenly bent outwards, the anthers are 
globosely subdidymous, partly imbedded in the filament, some- 
what extrorse, each lobe opening by a horizontal fissure. The ? 
panicles do not exceed two in number, are shorter, less spreading, 
with much fewer flowers ; the sepals and petals are similar, the 
filaments anantherous ; the three ovaries, seated upon a short re- 
ceptacle, face the three narrower sepals ; the style is short, sud- 
denly reflected horizontally, and is deeply cleft into two divari- 
cating slender stigmata obtuse at the extremity, all perfectly 
glabrous ; the putamen is obovate, much compressed, truncated 
at base, with a hippocrepical cell, forming a broad raised border, 
circumscribed round the concave discoid condyle ; this border, 
on each side, is marked by a number of incurved radiating 
scutcheons separated by as many shallow grooves and terminated 
at each extremity by obtuse tubercles, thus forming two hippo- 
crepical rows of raised tubercles, one peripherical, the other 
making a raised rim round the condyle. 
2. Pericampylus aduncus, nob.; — P. incanus. Hook. ^ Th., in 
parte, FI. Ind. i. 194; — ramulis teretibus, retrorsum pubes- 
centibus, subflexuosis; foliis vix peltatis, deltoideo-orbicu- 
laribus vel deltoideo-ovatis, basi in sinum latissimum fere trun- 
catis, obtusis, aut subcordatis, e medio summum versus an- 
gustatis, sEepius attenuatis, apice raro obtusis, ssepissime valde 
acutis et longe mucronatis, 5-7-nerviis, submembranaceis, 
valde reticulatis, marginibus integris nervulo incrassatis, 
supra subnitentibus, glabris, aut in nervis subpuberulis, sub- 
tus thalassino-glaucis, et in nervis tenuibus prominulis pubes- 
centibus ; petiolo tenui, tomentello, limbo sequilongo : pani- 
culis ^ axillaribus, pluribus fasciculatis, petiolo subbrevioribus, 
altematim ramosis, floribus sparsis pedicellatis, vel inflores- 
centia e ramulo novello aphyllo racemum elongatum simu- 
lante, axillis cymulas, ramosas gerentibus ; sepalis 3 exteriori- 
bus lineari-oblongis, 3 alternis obovatis ; petahs glabris, paulo 
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