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glabris, marginibus tenuioribus, ciliato-pilosis, gradatim extus 
minoribus, iis serierum 2 interiorum oblongioribus, quam ex- 
teriora triplo majoribus, apice recurvis, reliquis magis ovalibus ; 
petalis 6, spathulato-oblongis, sepalis brevioribus, glabris, 
marginibus papillosis; staminibus iis sequilougis, erectis, fila- 
mentis apice crassioribus et intus inflexis ; antberis bine hori- 
zontalibus, lobis sejunctis lateraliter semiimmersis, connective 
longe exciirrente recurvo : racemo 2 ex axillis annotinis soli- 
tario, brunneo-tomentoso ; rachi valde elongata, flexuosa et 
pendula, raniosa ; ramis longiusculis, divaricatis, apice pauci- 
rioris ; pedicellis ad apicem in receptaculum magnum sub- 
globosum auctis ; drupis 6, oblongis, glabris, carnosulis, longe 
stipitatis, tore aflfixis et radiatim divaricatis. — In Brasilia : v.v. 
et 2 in montibus Organensibus prov. Rio de Janeiro. 
This species was first collected by me in 1827, when I found 
it climbing to the summit of a tree 100 feet high ; all its 
branches within reach were then bare of leaves, and from them 
I obtained fructiferous specimens : subsequently I met with 
male specimens; and upon these I proposed the genus Botryopsts, 
since found to be too close to Chondrodendron to be separated 
from it. The bare branches are 4 lines in diameter, the leaf- 
bearing branchlets 1 line thick, having their axils 4-6 lines 
apart, these being enlarged by very prominent cup-shaped nodes, 
upon which the petioles are articulated. The leaves are 3-5^ 
inches long, 25 - 4 f inches broad, on a petiole 2-3| inches long. 
The stump of the compound ^ inflorescence, growing out of the 
old leafless nodes, is about ^ inch long, 1^ line thick, closely 
beset with several cupular articulations, from which as many 
bi’anches divaricate at nearly a right angle, 3-5 inches long, bare 
at base, with branchlets 3-4 lines apart, -j-l inch long, with 
secondary branchlets, 2 lines long, bearing at their summit 
three flowers on pedicels 1^ line long. The fifteen sepals, in 
five series, are arranged upon a rather elongated torus, adpres- 
sedly imbricated on one another in an oblong cylindrical form, 
all being of a dark fuscous colour, glabrous, with whitish ciliated 
margins, the summits of the two inner series being patently 
expanded; in the inner series they are 1| line long, the outer 
ones ^ line long ; the petals are ohlong, narrower towards the 
base, slightly concave, fleshy, with thinner subpapillose margins, 
as long as the stamens, and two-thirds the length of the inner 
sepals. The 2 raceme is 10 inches long, its branches |-3 inches 
long, with branchlets 3-5 lines long, bearing pedicels 4 lines 
long, swollen at their apex into a tumid receptacle 2 lines in 
diameter, which supports six radiating stipitated drupes 8 lines 
long, 4^ lines in diameter. It differs from the preceding spe- 
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