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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANV. 
Spirospermum penduliflorum, Pet. Th. Gen. Madag. p. 9. no. 63; 
DC. Syst. i. 515, Prodr, i. 93; — ubique glabrum, ramosum, 
ramis iteruin ramosis, teretibus, nitentibus, pulverulento- 
flavidulis, striatis, axillis subapproximatis, pendulis; foliis 
oblongo-lanceolatis, imo rotundatis, mox paululo sensim 
angustioribus, apice breviter attenuatis, a basi sursuin alter- 
natim penninerviis, nervis utrinque circa 9, coriaceis, supra 
lucidis, pallide viridibus, subtus pallidioribus et iiavescenti- 
glaucis, venis flavidis, nitentibus, reticulatis, marginibus car- 
tilagineis, subrevoiutis ; petiolo crassiusculo, tereti, striato, 
limbo 12-plo breviore : panicula ^ axillari, ramosa, pendula, 
folio longiore, nigrescente; rachi tenui, ramis alternis, in 
axillulis geminis, altero breviore, iterumque dichotome divisis, 
ultimis pedicellos 2 unifloros gerentibus; floribus minusculis ; 
panicula $ axillari, iterumque ramosa, pendula, nigrescente, 
folio duplo longiore; rachi crassiuscula, ramulis teuuioribus, 
angulatis, dichotome divisis, ebracteatis, striatis, ultimis pedi- 
cellos 2 unifloros ferentibus ; pedicellis fructiferis longius- 
culis, subtenuibus, apice receptaculo parvo donatis ; drupis 9, 
crebriter erectis, stipitatis, receptaculo insitis. — In Mada- 
gascar : w. s. et $ in herb. Hook. (Gerard, 32). 
M. Gerard calls this “ a large shrub, or low tree.'' Its leaves 
ai’e 10 inches long, 3 inches broad, on a stout petiole | inch long ; 
in the ^ specimen they are somewhat smaller, 5-7 inches long, 
2-2f inches broad, on a more slender petiole f inch long. The 
(^panicle is 8| inches long, its axillules about I inch apart, the 
primary branches 1-2 inches long; the pedicels I^ line, the 
dowers in bud globular, | line in diam. ; the $ panicle is upwards 
of a foot long, its primary branches very numerous and ap- 
proximated ; the branchlets densely crowded, laxly pendulous ; 
the tertiary branchlets (somewhat slender, H inch long) bear 
two slender fructiferous pedicels, I^ inch long, scarcely swollen 
at the apex, which supports nine crowded, erect, orbicular, very 
compressed drupes, 6 lines in diam., each on its stipitate sup- 
port I line long. 
53. Detandka. 
This genus was proposed by me, several years ago, for two 
plants in the herbarium of Prof. DeCandolle, both natives of the 
province of Bahia in Brazil ; its characters were sketched more 
than three years since in my synopsis of the genera of the 
family (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. xiii. p. 124; vide 
supra, p. 18). One of these plants, in the size, shape, and tex- 
ture of its leaves, offers some resemblance to Chondrodendron 
tomentosum, R. & P., with which it also agrees in the more than 
usual number of its imbricately disposed sepals ; but it differs 
