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que 3 arcuatim nexis, venis transversis laxe reticulatis, sub- 
mem branaceis, supra glaberrimis, nitidis, subtus ubique parce 
pilosiusculis ; petiolo tei’eti, tenui, apice crassiore, limbo 5-pl() 
breviore : pedunculo ? e ramulo novello supra-axillari, passim 
folio uno alterove onusto, plerumque solitario (raro 2-3), 
bractea minuta donato, petiolo saepius subbreviore, fusco- 
tomentoso; carpophoris 6, subtenuibus, breviter connatis, 
tomentosis, singulis drupam subovoideam pilosiusculam suf- 
fulcientibus. — In Peruvia alta, circa Yurimaguas, in prov. 
Maynas (Pdppig, 2271). 
This species is unknown to me. Its leaves are 3-5 inches 
long, 1-2^ inches broad, with a basal sinus 1 line deep, on a pe- 
tiole 1-1 i inch long; the young floriferous branch is inch 
long; the peduncle is scarcely more than f inch long; the 
carpophora are 4-6 lines long, connate for the length of 1^ line ; 
the drupes are 4 lines long. 
49. Tricltsia. 
This genus was established by i\Ir. Bentham, in his ‘ Genera 
Plantarum ’ (i. 39), for some plants from western tropical Africa, 
some of them with very large, oblong, shining, quintuplinerved 
leaves with very divaricated branching nervures. The inflores- 
cence is in two or more short panicles, fasciculated in the axils ; 
the flowers havS nine to seventeen sepals in ternary sei’ies, de- 
creasing externally in size, the outer ones bracteiform and mi- 
nute, the three innermost being always valvate in aestivation : 
in two of the species the flowers are globular in bud, the three 
inner sepals being very little larger than the others, very concave 
and orbicular ; in two other species the flow'ers before opening 
are pyriform, the three inner sepals being three times as long as 
the others, cuneately obloug and acute : one species has no pe- 
tals and only three stamens; another has three petals and three 
stamens, the two others having six petals and six stamens : the 
petals are squamiform^ very minute, and might easily be over- 
looked, being affixed upon the androecium at the foot of the 
stamens : the stamens are of the length of the inner sepals ; the 
filaments, erect or much incurved, are thickened gradually up- 
wards into an almost clavate connective, which terminates in a 
more or less elongated excurrent point, as in Chondrudendron ; 
the separated oblong anther-cells are half imbedded on each 
side of the connective ; they are all glabrous and seated around 
the summit of an elevated androecium, which is surmounted by 
a dense fascicle of long, stiff, erect hairs quite as long as the 
stamens. The $ flower has similar sepals and petals, no stamens, 
six or more ovaries, which are stipitated, gibbous, incurved, 
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