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cies in its much smaller leaves, which are not deltoidly orbicular, 
not deeply cordate, nor incano-tomentose beneath. 
5. Chondrodendron cinerascens, nob. ; — Cocculus cinerascens, 
St. HU. FI. Bras. Mer. i. 59; Walp. Rep. i. 95; — Botryopsis 
platyphylla, Eichl. (in parte) 1. c. 200; — ramulis scandentibus, 
tlexuosis, striatis, junioribus cinereo-tomentosis, demum gla- 
bris et nitidulis ; foliis subpeltatis, rotundato-ovatis vel ovali- 
bus, imo rotundiusculis vel paululo cordatis, apice subacutis 
vel rotundatis, mucronulatis, marginibus remote et irregula- 
riter crenatis, valde uudulato-crispatis, e basi 3-5-nerviis, 
nervis inferioribus mox evauidis, coriaceo-rigidis, supra gla- 
berrimis vix nitidis, sub lente rugulosis, nervis extus ramosis 
anastomosantibus venisque valde reticulatis immersis, subtus 
cinereo- vel liavido-glaucis, adpresse puberulis, nervis venisque 
transversis prominentibus et rufescentibus ; petiolo subvalido, 
tereti, striato, tomentoso, imo apiceque tumidulo, limbo triplo 
breviore : paniculis axillaribus, ssepius 3, ramulis abortivis 
ortis, divaricatim ramosis, pubescentibus ; rachi folio longiore, 
ramis longiusculis, iterum iterumque divaricatim ramulosis, 
ramulis ultimis apicem versus flores plurimos breviter pedi- 
cellatos gereutibus; sepalis 18, extus gradatim minoribus, 
quorum 6 externis minutis et bracteiformibus, 6 interioribus 
obovatis, majoribus, striato nervosis, puberulis, cunctis pal- 
lidis, carnosulis, marginibus membranaceis et piloso-ciliatis ; 
petalis 6, sepalis paulo brevioribus, ovato-oblongis, carnosulis, 
pallidis, lineis 2 divaricatis crassis notatis, margine glandulose 
ciliolatis : racerais ? axillaribus, 3, fasciculatis, pendulis, folio 
longioribus, longe ramosis, pedicellis drupasl-4gerentibus. — 
In Brasilia: v.s. in herb. Mus. Brit. (Bowie & Cunningham). 
This species diflfers from the preceding in its darker and more 
rigid leaves, upon much shorter petioles ; they are sparsely 
clothed beneath with greyish adpressed hairs ; its flowers are not 
more than half the size of the former, are more pubescent, quite 
pallid, and arranged in more straggling panicles : the branches 
are not so straight, and the axils are not beset with such con- 
spicuously prominent cupular nodes. The leaves are 3^-4 inches 
long, 3-3f inches broad, on a petiole 1|^-1^ inch long, inserted 
1^ line within the margin. The inflorescence rises out of an 
abortive axillary branchlet, 2 or 3 lines long, which throws out 
three straggling panicles 5-6 inches long, with very patent 
branches ^-1^ inch long, the secondary branchlets 2-3 lines 
long, the tertiary ones 1 line long, bearing three or four crowded 
flowers : there are eighteen sepals, if we include the six more 
external ones that look like very minute bracts, all being shorter 
and more compactly imbricated than in the former species, the 
