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menta subulata, imo compressa ; antherce didymse, ovatac. Discus 

 epigynus, latus, vix conicus, carnosus, intus vacuus, cavitatc cum 

 ovarii loculo continua; stylus brevissimus ; stigma subpeltatum, con- 

 cavum, margine crenulatum. Ovarium turbinatum, disco coronatum, 

 late 1-loculare ; placenta centralis, libera, anguste taenitcformis, e basi 

 adscendens, loculo multo longior, hinc vermiformi-flexuosa, apice 

 ovuligera ; ovula 2-3 suspensa. Fructus ovatus, calyce aucto libero 

 cinctus ; pericarpium carnosum, 5-fissibile ; nux conformis, Crustacea, 

 1-locularis, abortione monosperma. Semen loculum implens ; integu- 

 mentum albidum furfuraceuni, subbilamellare ; raphe inter lamellas, 

 uivca, araneose expansa, e vasis spiralibus confecta; albumen car- 

 nosum; embryo inclusus, subfdiformis, longitudine fere albuminis; 

 radicula supera, ad medium pertingens ; cotyledones 2, carnosae. 

 Arbores Peruviana, ramosissimce ; rami jlexuosi ; folia alterna, oblonga, 

 scepe tomentosa, petiolata ; inflorescentia racemosa ; fiores parvi, caly- 

 culati. 



1. Cekyaxtesia. tomentosa, R. Sf P. Flor. Peruv. ii. p. 19, 



tab. 141 b. 



Willd. ex B. Sf 



v. p, 315. — Casimiroa tomentosa, Dombey MS. In Peruvia prov. 

 Tarma prope Acobamba ; in prov. Huaocheri et Canla. 



A tree 12 feet high, with a hard whitish wood, and a rounded 

 copious head, very much branched ; branches thick and somewhat 

 gnarled ; branchlets stoutish, short, subflexuous; leaves alternate, 

 oblong, with straightish sides, obtuse at the base, narrowing ob- 

 tusely toward the apex, subcoriaceous, entire, with revolute mar- 

 gins, smooth and dark green above, deeply sulcate along the 



midrib, very convex on each side of the latter, without perceptible 



nerves, woolly beneath, with a rusty-white tomentum, 1^ in. long, 

 G-7^- lines broad, on woolly petioles 1 line long, 2-3 lines apart ; 

 inflorescence axillary on the younger branchlets ; flowers spicately 

 disposed upon a very geniculate peduncle 1^-2 in. long, bearing 

 at each flexure a small fascicle of about 3 flowers on extremely 

 short stout pedicels, all tomentose ; calycle acutely 5-partite, ex- 

 panded ; calyx many times its length, and free from it, sub-5-an- 

 gular at the base, deeply cleft into 5 oblong subacute fleshy 

 divisions, with valvate aestivation ; corolla shorter than the divi- 

 sions of the calyx, adnate at the base around the ovary, free else- 

 where ; the segments alternate with the calycine lobes ; stamens 

 alternate with segments ; these and other parts as in lodina ; 

 fruit obovate, 9-11 lines long, 5-6 lines broad, environed by 



1 R. & P. Flor. Peruv. iii. p. 20, where this kind of rapho (like that of Styracc) 

 is well described. 



