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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
ovatis, majusculis, segregatis et in filamentum lateraliter 
semiiuimersis, connective intermedio paululo excurrente, bi- 
locellatis, 2-valvatis, rima longitudinali dehiscentibus. — FI. 
feem. ignoti. 
Frutices Brasilienses scandentes ; rami striati, ad axillas cupuloso^ 
nodosi ; folia aiterna, petiolata, subpeltata, ovata vel ovato- 
oblonga, iino rotundata vel sinu levi subtruncata, Integra, co- 
riacea, 5-nervia, supra glabra, subtus pallide tomentosa : pani- 
cnla axillaris, petiolo brevior, tomentosa, alternatim ramosa, 
ramis brevibus, corymbuloso-paucifloris, pedicellis 2-3, fascicu- 
latis ; flores parvi. 
1. Detandra latifolia, nob. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. xiii. 124; — 
racemis subflexuosis, tenniter striatis, glabriusculis, subpel- 
tatis, orbiculato-ovatis, imo sinu levi truncatis, summum 
versus rotundiusculis, apice repente et breviter attenuatis, 
acutis, mucronatis, integris, coriaceis, marginibus subrevolutis, 
e basi 5-nerviis, supra nitidis, nervis impressis, subtus alutaceo- 
toinentosis, nervis prominentibus, ferrugineis, marginibus 
paululo reilexis ; petiolo tereti imo apieeque incrassato, e cu- 
pula nodosa orto, fere glabro, limbo dimidio breviore et intra 
ejusdem marginem affixo; paniculis 2-5, ad axillas anno- 
tinas aphyllas nodosas fasciculatis, subbrevibus, tomentosis, 
alteimatim I’amosis, ramis corymbulosis, paucifloris; floribus 
pedicellatis ; sepalis 12 cum 2 alteris bracteiformibus, flavido- 
albidis, extus pubescentibus. — In Brasilia : v. s. in herb. De- 
Cand., Bahia (Blanchet). 
This plant was collected by Blanchet, climbing on trees in 
shady forests. Its axils are about H inch apart; the leaves are 
34 inches long, 3 inches broad, on a petiole 1^ inch long, in- 
serted 1 line within the margin of the basal sinus, which is 
1 line deep. The inflorescence is seen on a leafless stem, of 
much older date, where the axils have grown into irregularly 
knotted tubercles, out of which spring two or three panicles 
1-1^ inch long, bare at base, branching from the middle alter- 
nately, each branch bearing one to three pedicellated flowers ; 
the pubescent pedicels are 1 line long, the flower expanded 
] line in diameter ; the bracts are smaller than the twelve sepals, 
in four alternate series, which are nearly equal in size, obtusely 
oblong, smooth inside, pubescent outside, in the inner series 
pubescent only on the midrib and ciliolate margin ; they are all 
imbricately fixed on the cylindrical androecium, which supports 
the petals and central column ; the six biserial petals are one- 
third of the length of the sepals, erect, much shorter than the 
stamens, cuneate at base, with the apex of the claw slightly in- 
flected, the limb flat, with denticulate margins, quite glabrous ; 
