352 
Petala 8” long., £ lat. Stamina 3 long. Stylus 4— 5 
long. Frucius valde aromatieus, daleis (teste Moritz). 
Habitat in altitudine 7 — 909° regionis subalpinae pro- 
vinciae Merida et Truxillo, reipublicae Penezuela, floret 
Oectobri (Moritz; 3. Linden, coll. no. 289), 
XXIX Peidium Linn. 
Linn. Gen. no. 615. — Lam, Il. 416, — Lindi. Coll. 
ne. 16. — DC. 1. c. p. 23%. — Camb. I. c. p. 198. — Endl. 
Gen. 1231. — Berg in Mart. Flor. Br, XV. g. XXIV. — 
Gauajava Tourn. Inst. t, 443. — Gaertn, Fr. I. p. 184. tah. 
38. — Psidium et Burchardia Neck. Elem. no. 327 et 728. 
Hypanthinm (calyeis tubus auct,) supra germen pro- 
duetum ibique introrsum staminiferam, in calycem abiens, 
basi bracteolis 2, saepe cadneis stipatum. Germen inferum, 
%—7-Ioculare, multiovulatuın, sporophora parietalia, ®— 7, 
axin allingentia, ibi connata v. disereta et bilamellata , lamel- 
lis reflexis, magis minisve productis, intus ovuliferis, per 
paria connatis, sporophora centralia bilamellata mentientibus. 
Calyx ante authesin indivisus elaususque v. apiee pertusus v. 
4— 5-dentatus, demum longitadinaliter usque ad verticem 
germinis 2 — 5-partitus, ex margine hypanthii lihero oriun- 
dus. Petala 4—5, perigyna. Stamina cereberrima, parieti 
interiori libere hypanthii seriebus pluribus inserta, libera, 
praefloratione introflexa; antherae oblongae v. lineares, dorso 
supra basin affixee, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. 
Stylus simplex; stigma eapitatum v. peltatum. Bacea calyce 
voronata, poly- v. abortn pleiosperma. Semina in pulpa ni- 
Aulantia,, hippoerepiea v. reniformia, testa ossea instruclk. 
Embryo exalbuminosus, uneinato-enrvatus, radienla longis- 
sims, hilum speetante; cotylis hrevibus, 
