Tas. 5239. 
GUSTAVIA prerocarpa. 
Wing-fruited Gustavia. 
Nat. Ord. Myrtacem: 7r. Barringtoniee.—MonaDELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5069.) 
Gustavia pterocarpa ; floribus hexapetalis albis, calycis subalte 5-6-lobo, lobis 
limbo rotundatis pedunculoque pubescentibus, ovario pentaptero, foliis co- 
riaceis longo-petiolatis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis obsoletissime crenatis, 
stylo elongato. 
Gustavia pterocarpa. Poiteau, Mém. du Mus. v. 13. p. 158. ¢. 13. De Cand. 
Prodr, v. 2. p. 290. 
Gustavia Leopoldi. Cat. Hort. Lind. (name only). 
Among the most desirable of tropical American plants for in- 
troduction to our stoves are assuredly the large-flowered, large- 
foliaged, and evergreen trees and shrubs almost peculiar to those 
regions, among which the several species of the genus Gustavia, 
ZL. (Pirigara, Awbl.), rank pre-eminent. Mr. Linden, the distin- 
guished horticulturist and botanical traveller (recently, we be- 
lieve, attached to the Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclima- 
tation of Paris), has had the honour of importing two species, 
both of which have already flowered in our stoves at Kew. One 
we have already figured at our Tab. 5069, the Gustavia insignis 
of Linden (but which a further examination leads me to believe 
is identical with Gustavia urceolata, Poit., Bois puant of French 
Guiana, differing only in the slightly greater development of the 
calyx), and the almost equally beautiful species now before us. 
This, though named by Linden in his Catalogue G. Leopold, 
is assuredly the G. pterocarpa of Poiteau, in his Mémoire sur 
les Lécythidées, published in the thirteenth volume of the “ Mé- 
moires du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle,” p. 158, and figured 
at plate 6, from specimens in their native locality on the banks 
of the river Mana, French Guiana; afterwards found in a dis- 
APRIL Ist, 1861. 
