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In the plate cited, taken from a young flowering branch, the 
axils are 1-1^ inch apart; the leaves are 3i-44 inches long, 
3-3| inches broad, on a pubescent petiole l^-lj inch long. 
The panicle is 3| inches long ; its branches, at intervals of 3 
to 6 lines, are inch long, with a bract at base 2 lines long, 
and are again divided, each branch bearing about three pedicel- 
lated flowers, in which the inner sepals are reflected at their 
summit, as in most of the preceding species. Claussen’s speci- 
men is without flowers; the leaves are 5^-6 inches long, 4|-5|^ 
inches broad, with the basal lobe 4-6 lines long, 9 lines broad, 
upon a petiole 4-4^ inches long and palately inserted. 
8. Chondrodendron nemophilum, nob.; — scandens, ramosum, cor- 
tice rugoso et rimoso; ramulis glabris, cinereo-glaucis, juniori- 
bus pubescentibus ; foliis subpeltatis, ovatis, imo rotundius- 
culis et late subcordatis, apicem versus gradatim acutis vel 
rotundioribus, cuspide brevi mucronatis, marginibus inte- 
gris, e basi 3-5-nerviis, supra pallidis, nitidis, glaberrimis, 
nervis sulcatis, valde reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus, obsolete 
puberulis, cinereo-glaucis, nervis flavidulis venisque tenuis- 
simis prominulis ; petiolo subtenui, imo vix crassiore, glabro, 
striato, pulverulente opaco, limbo fere dimidio breviore : pa- 
nicula axillari, racemosa; rachi folio sequilonga vel longiore, 
pubescente ; ramis subbrevibus, ramulis flores 2-4 brevi- 
ter pedicellatos gerentibus; sepalis 15, gradatim minoribus, 
ovalibus, extus pilosis, carnosulis; petalis 6, ovatis, carno- 
sulis, glabris, subpruinosis. — In Brasilia : v. s. in herb. Mus. 
Brit. Rio de Janeiro (Gardner, 5353); montibus Organensibus 
(Gardner, 5676). 
This species differs from all the preceding, approaching more 
to C. platyphyllum ; but the leaves are less than half the size, 
more oval, more pallid, and glabrous. The leaves are 2|-4J 
inches long, 2^-3| inches broad, on a petiole l^-lf inch long, 
inserted half a line within the basal margin. The raceme-like 
panicle is 3-3^ inches long, its branches 6 lines long, its branch- 
lets 1 line long, bracteolated at base, and bearing from one to 
four aggregated, nearly sessile, very small flowers. 
43. Sychnosepalum. 
In treating of Chondrodendron, I have already commented on 
this genus, which was established by Dr. Eichler in Martius^s 
‘ Flora Brasiliensis.’ I there showed how much it agrees with 
the former genus in habit and inflorescence, in the number of 
its sepals, petals, and stamens in the ^ , and in the number of 
