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three or six interior (1 line long) being somewhat reflected at 
their apex ; they are all very pale and somewhat fleshy. 
6. Chondrodendron cemulum, nob.; — Cocculus platyphyllus, il/ar/. 
[non St. HU.) FI. Bot.Zeit. xxiv.App. 2. 42; — Botryopsis platy- 
phylla, Eichl. {in parte) 1. c. 200, tab. 48 ; — ramulis teretibus, 
dense fusco vel ferrugineo tomentosis ; foliis subpeltatis, late 
ovatis vel angustioribus et oblongis, imo rotundatis vel leviter 
cordatis, apice rotundatis et subemarginatis, vel sensim acutis, 
e basi 7-nerviis, nervis infimis mox evanidis, marginibus re- 
volutis, integris aut obsolete crenulatis, planiusculis, textura 
firmulis, supra glabris, subnitidis, nervis subsulcatis, subtus 
sordide cinerascentibus et sub lente tomentellis, nervis venis- 
que anastomosantibus prominentibus brunneis ; petiolo tereti, 
imo apiceque incrassato, striato, fusco-tomentoso, limbo triplo 
vel dimidio breviore : paniculis ^ e nodis annotinis aphyllis per- 
plurimis, fasciculatis, rarius axillaribus et solitariis, ferrugineo 
tomentosis, rachi folio longiore, gracili, e basi remotiuscule et 
longiuscule ramosa, ramis tenuibus, imo nudis et ultra me- 
dium ramulosis, ramulis corymbulosis et paucifloris ; floribus 
parvulis; sepalis 15, in seriebus ternariis valde imbricatis, 
extus pubescentibus, gradatim minoribus, 9 exterioribus brac- 
teiformibus, acutiuscule ovatis, 6 interioribus majoribus, 
sequalibus, subacute ovatis, concavis, imo rotundatis ; petalis 
illis paulo brevioribus, oblongis vel lanceolato-oblongis, utrin- 
que acutiusculis, extus glanduloso pruinosis, marginibus 
glandulose ciliolatis; staminibus 6, androecio insitis, imo fere 
nexis, filamentis apice incrassatis, antherarum lobis sejunctis, 
lateraliter semiimmersis, subvecticalibus, connective longius- 
cule excurrente, sursum recurvo. — In Brasilia : v. s. in herb. 
Be Cand. (Martins, Herb. FI. Br. 170, sub Cocc. platyphyl.) ; 
in herb. Be Boissier ^ , Bahia (Luschnatt, a.d. 1841). 
This plant, distributed by Prof, von Martins under the name 
of Coc. platyphyllus, is very different from the species of St. Hi- 
laire, though nearly allied to it. Dr. Eichler has followed in 
the wake of other botanists in confounding many different plants 
under the same name. I have regarded LuschnatPs specimen 
as belonging to this species ; for the differences between it and 
the other above quoted are very small. The internodes are 
about 1^ inch long, the axils being furnished with cupular 
nodes, upon which the petioles are articulated. The leaves are 
4|-5 inches long, 2^-3^ inches broad, rarely with a basal sinus 
1 line deep; they are quite flat, the margins (not crispated, 
with a nerve prominent below) being almost entire ; the petiole, 
thickened at both extremities, is li-2| inches long, and is in- 
serted line within the margin. From forty to fifty slender 
