Tas. 3325, 
CLUSIA BroneniartTIANA. 
Brongniart’s Clusia. 
Nat. Ord. GuTr1rerm.—PoLyaNDRIA MONOoGYNIA. 
Gen, Char, Calyx 4-8-sepalus, coloratus. Corolla 4—-8-petala. Stamina 
numerosa, raro definita. Stylus 0. Stigma radiato-peltatum. Flores vulgo 
polygami et in foemincis ovarium nectario stamineo brevi crasso circumdatum. 
Capsula carneo-coriacea, 5-12-valvis, costis ab apice dehiscentibus. Placente 
3-angulares, valvulis introflexis affixee ; anguli interni placentarum unam efficiunt 
centralem placentam angulosam. Semina teretia aut placente centrali aut 
lateralibus angulis affixa. Cotyledones separabiles.—Arbores parasitice, foliis 
oppositis, caulibus se@pe tetragonis. De Cand. 
Ciusta Brongniartiana ; frutex erectus ramosus, foliis petiolatis oblongis acumi- 
natis subacutis crassiusculis nervo medio prominente, lateralibus paucis 
tenuibus, cymis (fl. masc.) terminalibus 3—plurifloris, floribus magnitudine 
mediocri albis (exsiccatione leviter flavescentibus) pedicellatis, bracteis 
ealycinis 6 triseriatis adpressis ovato-orbiculatis, sepalis 4 decussatis, petalis 
demum patentibus, receptaculo staminifero prominente quadrato, staminibus 
in acervum quadrilaterum congestis obscure 4—seriatis, filamentis. brevibus, 
antheris muticis cuneato-oblongis, loculis 2 linearibus laterali-introrsis. 
Planch. et Triana. 
Civusta Brongniartiana. Planch. et Triana, Ann. des Sc. Nat., 4me ser. v. 13, 
p. 355. 
Tovomirta oblongifolia. Hort. Bot. Par. (Planch. et Triana.) 
‘The Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted for the possession 
of this plant to the Jardin des Plantes of Paris. It is a native of 
Cayenne, and is considered among the numerous species of the - 
genus Clusia (62 species, as elaborated by the authors above 
mentioned) to be most nearly allied to C. fava, L., and to C. 
ovigera, Planch. et Triana. With us it flowered in the stove in 
January, 1862. 
Descr. A shrud, quite woody below, but the young branches 
are very dark green, terete, very obscurely and obtusely 4-angled. 
Leaves opposite, four to six inches long, oblong, acuminate, very 
thick and coriaceous, veinless, on thick petioles an inch long. 
JULY Ist, 1862. 
