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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
paulo incrassato costaque mediana puberulo : pedicello ? 
supra-axillari, solitariOj tenui, glabro, petiolo sequilongo, 1- 
floro ; ovariis 2-3, gibboso-ovatis, flavido-tomentosis. — In 
insula Timor : v. s. in herb. Mus. Paris. 
It is now some years since I saw this specimen in the Paris 
Museum, which, from its habit and especially the nervation of 
its leaves, closely approaches the two preceding species : it has 
much smaller leaves, and is distinct from both. The leaves are 
4\ inches long, 1;^ inch broad, with ten to twelve pairs of alter- 
nate delicate nervures, and very fine reticulations, the petiole 
being 9 lines long : the ? pedicel is 9 lines long, and the gibbous 
drupes 2 lines long. 
5. Antitaxis ramiflora, nob.; — ramulis validiusculis, subangulatis, 
glabris, junioribus tomentosis ; foliis subparvis, oblongo- 
ovatis, imo rotundatis, apice obtusis, ultra basin alternatim 
penninerviis, nervis tenuibus, utrinque circiter 4 vix pro- 
minulis, tenuiter reticulatis, pallide viridibus, concoloribus, 
costa nervisque subtus subpuberulis ; petiolo tenui, pube- 
scente, limbo 3-4-plo breviore : racemis $ fructiferis axillari- 
bus ; rachi patente, valida, longiuscula, fulvo-tomentosa, 
imum versus nuda vel ssepius foliis 1-2 munita, superne alter- 
natim pedicellata ; pedicellis bi-evibus, crassis, imo bracteolatis, 
drupas 3 aut pauciores ovatas tomentosas gereutibus. — In 
Siam : v. s. in herb. Hook., ex herb. Bogor. (Teysen, 5993) . 
This species differs from any of the preceding in the much 
smaller size of its more ovate leaves, and in its racemose inflo- 
rescence, in which respect it resembles A. cauliflora. There are 
few leaves upon the specimen, and these only on young branch- 
lets or on the floriferous branches ; they are If -2 inches long, 
1-1 f inch broad, on a slender petiole 5 or 6 lines long. The 
flowering branches are 1-5 inches long, very divaricating, fur- 
nished towards the base for one-third their length with regular 
leaves at intervals of 3 lines, but which for the most part have 
fallen off the specimen (as in A. cauliflora), thus giving it the 
appearance of a long raceme : the branches in this manner are 
bare at the base, above which the pedicels alternate towards the 
extremity at intervals of about 3 lines; they are 1-1 5 line long, 
half that thiekness, and are much swollen at their extremity by 
a globular receptacle, upon which from one to three drupes are 
seated ; the bracteole at the foot of the pedicels is ^ line long, 
acute ; the drupes are 5 lines long, 3 lines broad. The drupes 
I examined were void of seed ; but they correspond so exactly 
with those of the other species that there can be no doubt in 
regard to their structure. 
