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fasciculatis, axillis ebracteatis, approximatis, singulis flores 
circiter 5 pedicellatos gerentibus, vel rarius ipsis ad apicem 
pedunculi brevissimi fasciculatis ; ovario villoso ; drupis ovatis, 
subglabris. — In Brasilia et Guiana ; v. viv. ^ in montibus 
Organensibus : v. s. in herb. DC. ^ , Bahia (Blancbet, 3947); 
in herb. Lindley, & $ , Bahia (Salzmann) ; in herb. Hook. 
Rio de Janeiro (M'Gillivray, 297), Guiana Brit. et ? 
(Schomb. 677), Guiana Gall. (Sagot, 18); in herb, meo 
Obidos, Santarem, Rio Trombetas (Spruce) ; $ , Santarem 
(Spruce) ; Veraguas (Seemann, 1156). 
The plant collected by me in the Organ Mountains, and that 
in Bahia by Blanchet, quite correspond with that figured in 
Delessert’s leones and described by DeCandolle, so as to leave 
no doubt in my mind as to their identity. The plant described 
and figured by Dr. Eichler as C. andromorpha is very difierent, 
as the above diagnosis shows. Turpin’s drawing in the leones 
is a correct representation of the ? inflorescence as seen in 
Salzmann’s specimen. 
The species is peculiar in the character of its ^ inflorescence, 
in which respect it otfers some analogy to C. australis and the 
preceding species. The diameter of the floriferous stem in my 
specimen is 4 lines, that of the leaf-bearing branch 1 line, with 
internodes 2 inches long ; the leaves are remarkably dull and of 
thin texture, 3 inches long, 3 inches broad, the slender petiole 
(3-3^ inches long) being inserted 5 line or only just within the 
margin. The rachis of the cJ raceme is 4|-5 inches long, thickly 
tomentose, having, at intervals of 2 to 4 lines, a fascicle of • two 
to six cymules, 2^-4 lines long; eight or ten minute flowers 
appear in a panicular form on the summit of each of its three 
very short rays ; the pedicels are \ line, the sepals \ line long, 
the petal half that length. In Blanchet’s Bahia specimen the 
leaves are 3|-4 inches long, 3|-4 inches broad, with a broad 
basal sinus 3 lines deep ; those of Salzmann’s plant are smaller. 
About fifteen $ racemes are fasciculated iu the aphyllous nodes 
of the older branch, each 2-3 inches long ; the rachis is bare of 
flowers in its lower moiety, above which are numerous approxi- 
mated axils, each bearing a linear minute bracteole and about 
seven fasciculated flowers : in some of them the fasciculated 
flowers are borne upon a very short peduncle. 
I have referred here my C. denudata, which diflPers in little 
except its more cordate leaves ; its inflorescence and flowers are 
quite in accord. It is called Amboa-rembu by the natives, and 
is remarkable for its long, straggling, radicant, aphyllous, and 
floriferous branches. The leaves are 2-2f inches long, 2^-2| 
inches broad, with a basal sinus 3 lines deep, and on a petiole 
