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2. Sciadotenia clathrata, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, striatis, obso- 
lete rufo-tomentellis foliis ovalibus, imo truncatis vel rotun- 
datis, a medio sursum angustioribus, apice repente breviter 
acuminatis, cuspidato-mucronatis, e basi 5-nerviis, nervis 
intra marginem arcuatim nexis, transversim clathrato-venosis 
et retieulatis, utrinque nitidis, supra pallide viridibus, nitidis, 
nervis subimmersis, subtus paulo pallidioribus, nervis promi- 
nulis et subpuberulis •, petiolo striato, tenui, fulvo-puberulo, 
limbo 4-5-plo breviore : pedunculo supra-axillari, solitario, 
folio longiore, tomentoso, apice ovaria circiter 16 uniserialia 
cano-pilosa gerente; fructifero carpophoris 12, umbellatis, 
imo campanulatim coalitis, singulatim drupa glabra, flavida, 
subglobosa munitis. — In Guiana : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., 
Demerara (Andersen), Cayenne (Martin), 
This species differs from the preceding in its more ovate 
leaves, rounded at the base, with a shorter acumen cuspidately 
mucronated. The internodes are 1-1 J inch long; the leaves 
4|^-5 inches long, 2^-S inches broad, on a petiole 9-14 lines 
long; the slender peduncle is 3^-5 inches long, bearing on its 
summit about sixteen very compressed ovaries about ^ line long, 
very pilose, with a short, subulate, glabrous, inflected style ; the 
carpophora are 7-9 lines long, united by a web at the base 3 lines 
long : the drupe is 4 lines in diameter, upon a stoutish stipitated 
support 1 line long; it has a lax pericarp, and a reniformly 
orbicular papyraceous putamen. 
3. Sciadotenia nitida, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, striatis, glabris, 
fusco-opacis ; foliis oblongis, imo rotundato-obtusis vel acutis, 
apice repente breviter attenuatis, acumine angusto et obtusulo, 
e basi 5-nerviis, nervis intermediis valde divaricatis et summum 
fere attingentibus, et illic cum aliis utrinque 1-2 arcuatim 
nexis, nervis tenuibus venisque crebris conspicuis transversim 
parallelis et prominulis, fusco-viridibus, supra nitentibus, sub- 
tus pallidioribus, glaucis, in costa nervisque prominentibus ob- 
solete et adpresseferrugineo-puberulis,marginibus subcrenatis; 
petiolo tenui, fere glabro, limbo 4-plo breviore : pedunculo ? 
solitario, axillari, tenui, folio sequilongo vel fere 2-plo longiore, 
apice ovaria plurima sessilia pilosa sepalis involucrata gerente, 
demum carpophoris paucis longiusculis liberis cinereo-pube- 
rulis 4-sulcatis emissis. — In Brasilia : v. s. in hei'b. Hook., 
Para (Burchell, 9775 et 9784). 
This has a very different aspect from all the others, on ac- 
count of its very dark-coloured leaves. The axils are cupuliform, 
I-l^ inch apart ; the leaves are 3^-4^ inches long, 1|—2| inches 
