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on a petiole 6 lines long. The three spicated raceinules, fasci- 
culated in each axil, are 4 lines long, as thickly beset as possible 
with 1 -flowered pedicels 1 line long, bracteolated at base, the 
peduncle, pedicels, and bracts being covered with yellowish pubes- 
cence ; the nine sepals, in ternary series, are quite glabrous, 
obovate, the inner series much larger and rotately reflexed at 
the apex ; petals 6, one-third shorter, orbicular, margins some- 
what involute or plane ; stamens those of the genus : the $ ra- 
cemes are similar in size ; but the pedicels are not so closely 
aggregated, the pedicels being glabrous ; the sepals and petals 
are like those of the ^ in shape and size ; the six sterile stamens 
are in the form of minute round glands ; the three ovaria are 
gibbous and glabrous, the horizontally reflexed stigma terete 
and channelled above. 
14. Hyperbana banistericefolia, nob.; — Cocculus banisteriaefolius, 
A. Rich. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvii. 136 ; Walp. Rep. i. 95 ; — Coc- 
culus oblongifolius. Mart, {non DC.) in FI. Beibl. xxiv. Ap- 
pendix, ii. 43; Walp. Rep. ii. 748 ; — Pachygone oblongifolius, 
Eichl. in Mart. FI. Bras. fasc. xxxviii. p. 197, tab. 47. fig. 1 ; — 
ramulis erectis, fulvo aut rufo tomentosis ; foliis approximatis, 
elliptico-ovatis, imo summoque rotundatis, apice breviter con- 
strictis, acumine canaliculatim recurvo et mucronato, coriaceis, 
subtriplinerviis cum nervo marginali cartilagineo prominulo, 
et 2 aiteris basalibus mox evanidis, nervis lateralibus alternis 
utrinque 3 arcuatim nexis, uti'aque facie subnitidis, con- 
coloribus, valde reticulatis, fere glabris, subtus tantum in costa 
media pubescentibus ; petiolo apice incrassato et puberulo, 
demum subglabro, limbo 6-plo breviore : paniculis ^ axillari- 
bus, solitariis vel geminis, petiolo brevioribus, fulvo tomen- 
tosis, cylindraceis, spicatim densifloris ; ramis brevissimis, 
crebriter alternis, apice 3-6-floris; floribus fere sessilibus,imo 
bracteolatis ; sepalis 6, biseriatis, rotundato-ovalibus, extus 
parce pilosulis, marginibus sub-erosis, 3 interioribus 2-plo 
majoribus; petalis 6, late ovatis, his duplo minoribus, late- 
ribus ssepe obsolete lobatis et involutis, glabris ; staminibus 
petalis paulo longioribus ; ovariis rudimentaribus 3, super gy- 
naecium centralem insitis : paniculis ? axillaribus, solitariis, pe- 
tiolum aequantibus, rufo tomentosis ; ramis alternis, sub-3- 
floris, floribus pedicellatis, pedicellis demum iucrassatis ; 
sepalis et petalis marium ; ovariis 3 ; drupa oblonga ; puta- 
mine oblongo, subcompresso, utrinque ultra medium sul- 
cato, coriaceo, condylo sulcis opposite, septiformi; semine 
generis. — In Brasilia, v.v. in sinu Jurujuba, prov. Rio de Ja- 
neiro : V. s. in herb. Mas. Brit. J*, Rio de Janeiro (Bowie). 
The plant which I collected in the Bay of Jurajuba (an exten- 
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