82 MR. J. HUBS ON THE CERVANTES (E\E. 



The above specimen quite corresponds with Bonpland's plant, 

 in regard to the very peculiar form of its inflorescence. It is a 

 tree, according to that botanist, 12-18 feet high, which in Chillon 

 bears the name of "elOlivo." It is branching, its branchlets 

 villously tomentose ; leaves lanceolately oblong, acute at both 

 ends, entire or obsoletely denticulate on the margins, coriaceous, 

 slightly hairy above, densely fusco-tomentose beneath, 2 inches or „ 

 above long, 8 lines broad, on pubescent petioles 2|-3 lines long ; 

 inflorescence axillary and terminal, dichotomous, each branch 

 consisting of a straight peduncle 1| in. long, bearing about 14 

 sessile flowers subglobose in bud, 2 lines long, spicately disposed 

 at sensible distances, all ferruginous-tomentose ; calycle minute, 

 5-toothed; calyx ovate, cleft to the base into 5 elliptic-acute 

 divisions, very fleshy, densely tomentose outside, glabrous within ; 

 much shorter petals, green according to Kunth, as in lodina; 

 corolla, stamens, disk, and ovary as in the generic character. Pruit 

 oblong-oval, 3% lines long, 2 J lines broad, environed by the now 

 augmented glabrous, rugous, rigidly fleshy, dark red divisions of 

 the calyx, which give out a crimson dye in boiling water ; drupe 

 blackish, rugous, striate, enclosing a crustaceous nut, which is 

 1-celled and monospermous ; seed as in the generic character. 



Before I had examined the structure of the fruit in this 

 species, I was unable to harmonize the marked differences shown 

 in figs. 4, 8, 9, and 10 in plate 2-11 of the ' Flora Peruviana,' and 

 figs. e,f, fj in Cavanilles's plate 475, and in their several descrip- 

 tions ; but now I see how these may be reconciled. If we turn to 

 the analytical figures of my drawing, Plate III., we may trace 

 the same principle of structure, indicated in the plates above 

 quoted, as that shown in C. Runtltiana. In the latter the fruit is 

 surrounded by an envelope consisting of the much enlarged divi- 

 sions of the calyx, which are 8 lines long, 2 lines broad, somewhat 

 narrower at each extremity ; these, disjoined in fact, but touching 

 one another in the middle, gradually divaricate at each extremity ; 

 and after maceration they may be completely separated. The di- 

 visions, now distinct, are 6^ lines long, 2 lines broad, rugously 

 tubercled and convex outside, very thick and rigid, quite smooth 

 and concave within, furnished there, at the distance of 4 lines from 

 the base, with a membranaceous brown scale 1 line long, fixed 

 there by a transverse basal line, but quite free above, bearing at 

 its subtruncate apex two small ovate bodies, appearing like a 

 stamen with a dilated filament. The question arises, What is the 



