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broad, on a petiole l|-2 inches long. A single panicle springs 
out of each lower axil, and two panicles out of the upper axils : 
these are generally 6 inches long, though sometimes not ex- 
ceeding 2 inches ; their branches, 4-6 lines apart, furnished at 
base with an acute bractlet | line long, vary in length from 6 
to 21 lines, and bear alternately single-pedicellated flowers out 
of as many bractlets somewhat shorter than the pedicels, which 
are | line long, the flower before expansion being 1 line long. 
2. Sychnosepalum Sagotianum, Eichl. l.c. p.203, tab, 49. flg. 2 ; — 
Abuta tomentosa, Sagot, MS . ; — ramulis teretibus, cinereo- 
velutino tomentosis j foliis ovatis, imo cordatis, a medio sen- 
sim angustioribus, acuminatis, valde acutis et mucronatis, e 
basi 5-nerviis (cum nervulis 2 alteris basalibus mox evanidis), 
coriaceis, supra fusco-viridibus, nitentibus, nervis tenuibus 
venisque transversim reticulatis vix prominulis, omnino glabris, 
nisi in nervis (ubi interdum subpuberula sunt), subtus fulvo 
vel ferrugineo tomentosis, nervis venisque prominentibus ; 
petiolo prorsus subtenui, ferrugineo tomentoso, limbo bre- 
viore : panicula ^ axillari, racemiformi, fulvo tomentosa, folium 
superante; ramis plurimis, alternis, bracteolatis, flores al- 
ternos subsessiles gerentibus, alabastris ovatis; sepalis 15, ter- 
natim dispositis, extus adpresse villosulis ; petalis 6, integris, 
oblongo-ovatis, lateribus introflexis ; staminibus 6, quorum 
3 exteriora libera erecta, 3 fere ad summum monadelpha; 
antherarum lobis divaricatis, subglobosis, subintrorsis. — In 
Guiana Gallica: v. s. in herb. Hook., Karouany (Sagot, 19). 
This is a scandent plant, diff’ering from the preceding species 
in its cordate leaves, the number of its sepals, and in its stamens, 
in which the outer series is constantly free. The leaves are 
3^-4^ inches long, 2^-3^ inches broad, the basal sinus being 
4 lilies deep, or sometimes less ; the petiole, not tumescent at 
the apex, is nearly of equal thickness throughout, and is 1^-lf 
inch long. The panicle in the only specimen I have seen is in- 
complete, all its branches having fallen, leaving the rachis only, 
with two or three sessile flowers on its summit ; the rachis is 
5 inches long. I examined a single flower with great care, 
which was of an oval shape and line long; it certainly had 
only 15 sepals, in outwardly gradually decreasing series, very 
imbricated and erect. The petals were entire, of an oval form, 
two-thirds the length of the sepals, very pilose outside, with the 
nearly straight margins inflected from near the summit to the 
base ; the three free stamens were as long as the petals, the 
three inner ones, rather longer, were united nearly to their 
summit into a central column : at the point of their junction I 
observed a much smaller dwindled stamen of accidental abnormal 
growth. 
