150 MR. J. MIERS ON MARUPA, 



Marupa, nob. — Odina, Netto (non Boxb.y 



Flores diclini. In 3 , calyx parvus, glaber, profunde 5-fidus; sepala 

 acuta, suberecta, persistentia : petala 5, alterna, triplo longiora, ob- 

 ovata, concava, carnosula, circa gynophorum patentia : stamina 10, 

 petalis breviora, glabra ; filamenta tenuia, ad squamulas totidem glo- 

 bosas extus affixa ; antherce parvae, ovoidese, bilobae, lobis longitudi- 

 naliter dehiscentibus : gynophorus centralis, breviter columnaris, apice 

 ovaria 5 sterilia gerens, quorum unum raro pseudopolygamum. In 

 floribus 2 sepala marium, persistentia : petala caduca aut nulla : squa- 

 mulce staminales 10*, illis marium simillimae, ad insertionem stami- 

 num extus fossatoe stamina dein caduca : gynophorus centralis, altius 

 columnaris, 5-sulcatus, fructum unicum et ovaria 4 sterilia sustinens. 

 Fructus majusculus, subcompresse oblongus, gibbus, latere basali 

 ventrali gynophoro insitus, suberectus, latere sub apicem depres- 

 sione concava et lata signatus, ubi, in fundo, styli vestigium latet : 

 pericarpium in partes distinctas solutum ; epicarpium tenuiter per- 

 gamineum, translucens, latere ventrali a basi ad stylum, chorda 

 latiuscula vasis nutritoriis repleta signatum ; endocarpium dia- 

 phanum, pelliculare; mesocarpium intermedium copiose mucosum. 

 Semen solitarium, oblongum, compressum, margine ventrali fere rec- 

 tum, ubi sub apicem rostro brevi expanso et ab illo suspensum ; 

 testa conformis, ossea, in faciebus cancellato-rugosa ; raphe mar- 

 gine ventrali linearis, a rostro ad chalazam basalem et unilateralem 

 descendens ; integumentum internum tenuissimura : embryo exalbu- 

 minosus, conformis ; cotyledones 2, amplae, plano-convexae, accumben- 

 tes, apice breviter oblique sinuatse; radicula supera, brevis, teres, 

 sinui insita, et a latere ventrali aversam se ostendens. 



Arbusculse Brasilienses, trunco magno Xxgcioque subalbido utilissimo 

 donatce ; folia majuscula, alterna, glabra, bijugatim pinnata cum im- 

 parl ; foliola elliptica,petiolata Integra ; flores axillares, minimi, albidi, 

 monoid, glomeratim spicati, spicis superioribus efoliatis ; fructus ma- 

 jusculus, physiformis. 



Marupa Francoaista, nob.— Odina Francoana, Netto, Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. 5th ser. y. p. 85. In Brasilia, prov. Minas Geraes in campos 

 secus Rio San Francisco : non vidi. 



A tree 20-25 feet high, with glabrous branches ; leaves alter- 

 nate, nearly \ in. apart, 6 in. long, on a common petiole which is 

 bare at its base for \\ in., and 1 in. between the leaflets, of which 

 there are two pairs and a terminal one somewhat larger than the 

 lateral leaflets; these are 3£ in. long, \\ in. broad, on petioles 6 



lobed 



by analogy with all other Sim 

 which the stamens are affixed. 



