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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
intus in tubum membranaceum imo coalita, persistentia ; puta- 
men renifornii-ovatum, paulo compressum, tenuiter coriaceum, 
1-Ioculare; condylus subobsoletus, lateralis, intra loculum 
intrnsus, convexus, paululo incrassatus et placentaris. Se- 
men loculo conforme, lunatum ; integumentum membrana- 
ceum, chalaza laterali ad condylum affixum : embryo exalbu- 
minosus, cotyledonibus magnis, crassis, incurvis, accumbenti- 
bus, radicula minima supera ad stylum spectante multoties 
longioribus. 
Frutices Guianenses, scandentes ; folia elliptica, apice attenuata, 
h-nervia, nervis rectis, subparallelis, intra marginem arcuatim 
nexis, transversim venosa et reticulata, utrinque glabra et ni- 
tentia, petiolo subbrevi : pedunculus $ supra-axillaris, solitarius 
{vel e ramulo novella brevissimo plures approximati), folio cequi- 
longus vel longior, suberectus, ebracteatus, apice l-floi-us, tomen- 
tosus : flos parvus. 
1. Sciadotenia Cayennensis, nob., in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 
43 ; Benth. in Proc. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 51; Eichl. in Mart. 
FI. Bras, xxxviii. 201, tab. 47. fig. 4; — ramulis teretibus, te- 
nuibus, subflexuosis, striatis, junioribus subfistulosis, fulvo- 
tomcntosis, demum glabris ; foliis elliptico-ovatis, utrinque 
subacutis, apice repente acuminatis et acutis, imo 5-nerviis, 
nervis paulo divei’gentibus et longitudinaliter subparallelis, 
intra marginem arcuatim nexis, transversim venosis et reticu- 
latis, subcoriaceis, concoloribus, nitentibus, utrinque glabris, 
in nervis tantum subtomentosis ; petiolo tenui, fulvo-tomen- 
toso, limbo 5-6-plo breviore ; pedunculo $ solitario, supra- 
axillari, tenui, stricto, suberecto, tomentoso, folio longiore, 
apice 1-floro, sepalis et petalis delapsis ovaria plurima ses- 
silia uniseriata cano-pilosa in receptaculo parvo gerente ; 
receptaculo demum in fructu mutato et in carpophora 9-10 
elongata erecta 4-gona 3-sulcata umbellata tomentella imo 
in tubum coalita sursum libera et erecta producto, singulis 
drupam unicam pulposam scabriusculam ferentibus. — In 
Guiana, Karauany (Sagot, 23) : v. s. in herb. De Candolle et 
Hook., Cayenne (Martin). 
The leaves are 5^ inches long, inches broad, on a petiole 
1-1^ inch long; the peduncle is 5-7 inches long; the umbelli- 
form carpophora are 1 inch long, united at their base within by 
a thin web into a somewhat bell-shaped hollow tube ; they are 
solidly affixed, being a growth of the torus, and each carries 
articulated on its apex a subglobular, shortly stipitated, tieshy, 
glabrous drupe, with a yellow shagreened surface, 6 lines long, 
4^ lines broad. 
