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nigris immersis sulcatis, subtus albido-eretaceis et subtilis- 
sime tomentellis, nervis tenerrimis bruuneis vix prominulis ; 
petiolo tomentello, striato, imo et apice incrassato, limbo 
iongiore, margini inserto : panicula ^ axillari et terminali, 
e basi ramosa, petiolo dimidio Iongiore^ tomentosa; rachi 
ramisque teneribus, teretibus ; ramulis brevissimis, 1-4, fasci- 
culatis, 1-2-floris ; floribus siccis aurantiacis, subglabris : 
racemo $ axillari ; pedicello fructifero apice incrassato ; drupis 
4, globoso-ovatis, stylo circa basin notatis, longiuscule stipi- 
tatis, supra torum valde ailctum radiatim insitis. — In Peruvia 
alta : v. s. in herb, variis, Tarapota, in lat. 6° S. (Spruce, 4474). 
This species, very distinct from C. platyphyllum, differs from 
the preceding in its less truncate, more cordate, more orbiculate 
leaves, clothed beneath with very fine white tomentum, their 
much thinner texture, their upper surface not at all shining, 
with immersed sulcate nervation, the lateral nerves originating 
close to the base of the leaf, the ^ inflorescence being often di- 
vided at base into two or four raceme-like panicles half the 
length of the petiole, and in the form of its sepals. The leaves 
are 4-4^ inches long, including the basal sinus nearly ^ inch deep, 
4^-5J inches broad, on a petiole 3f-4 inches long. The ^ in- 
florescence divides at its base into several panicles 2-2| inches 
long, their branches 2-4 lines long, often fasciculated, sometimes 
supporting a single flower, others being branched and 2-flowered. 
The flower has only six external bracteiform sepals, pilose out- 
side and glandular at base, and six more internal, biserial, longer, 
equal, spathulately oblong, acute, submembranaceous, all with 
ciliate margins, the three outer of which are pilose externally, 
the other three being glabrous, — all horizontally reflected 
from the middle ; the six petals are scale-like, as in the pre- 
ceding species ; but there is sometimes a seventh in the centre 
of them : the stamens have a flattened linguiform apical expan- 
sion ; and the anther-lobes are more deeply imbedded laterally 
in the much thicker summit of the filament, and consequently 
are more parallel ; the drupes are 5 lines long, supported by a 
fleshy carpophorus 1 line long. 
3. Chondrodendron phtyphyllunifnoh.', — Botryopsis platyphyllus, 
nob. olim in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 43; Benth. /. c. 51 ; 
Eichl. {in parte) FI. Bras. fasc. xxxviii. p. 199 ; — Cocculus pla- 
typhyllus, St. HU. PI. Us. tab. 42, FI. Br. Merid. i. 59 ; Walp. 
Rep. i. 95 ; — ramulis scandentibus, striatis, glabris, compres- 
siusculis, subangulosis, junioribus tomentosis; foliis sub- 
peltatis, late et deltoideo-orbicularibus, imo sat profunde cor- 
datis, infra summum plus minusve constrictis, apice obtusis, 
e basi 5-ner\iis, margine crenulatis, supra glabris, subtus 
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