1^^ BOTANY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. HEUALD. 
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415. Eugenia sp., Herb. Nostr. no. 476. Woods near the Hacienda de Juan Lanas. 
The specimens arc in too imperfect a state to allow of description. 
416. Myrcia acuminata, De Cand. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 2o6. In the savanas of Panama and 
Vera^as. 
417. Jambosa vulgaris, De Cand. Prodi*, vol, iii. p, 286.— Nomen vernacui. " Pomaroso." Cul- 
tivated on account of its edible fruit. 
418. PuNiCA Granatum, Linn., De Cand. Prodr. vol. iii. p. S.—Nomen vemacul. "Granado.^' 
Cultivated for ornamental purposes. 
BARINGTONIE.E. 
419. GiTSTAviA angustifoUa, Benth., Bot. Sulph. p. 99.~-Wlprs. Rep. vol. v. p. 756.— Nomen 
vemacul. « McmbiiUo." In the central districts of the Province of Panama, forming entire ^^'ood8 
by itself. 
A tree about 50 feet high ; wood durahle,-u8ed for building puq^ose. ; branches erect, and mostly 
simple; leaves more generallj petiolated than sessile, and more or less serrulated; racemes terminal, or 
growmg from the old wood, in the latter case the flowers, which are purphsh, are the largest ; fruit ripens in 
June and is edible. 
430. Grias Fendkri, Seem. ; glabra, foliis sessilibus obovato-spatbulatis acumiuatis in petiolum 
angustatis mtegcrrimis, costa ncms^ue secundariis utrinque prominulis, racemis trunco ramisque 
mnasccntibus abbrcviatis, floiibns pedicellatis vel subsessiUbus, calyce integcrrimo vel demum irregu- 
lanter fisso, petaHs 4 obovato-oblongis obtusis (flavis), staminibus numcrosis, filamcntis basi in 
annulum connatis, anthcris bilocidaribus dorso insertis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, ovario 4- vel 
abortu 3-Ioculan, ovulis paucis, stigmate sessili cruciatim qnadrilobo, bacca ... In forests near 
Chagres (Fendler, no. 185). 
A tree; leaves U-2 feet long, and from 6 to 8 inches broad, very much reaembUng those of Cespedesia 
macrophjlh, Seem. ; flowers about I to 1| inch across ; petals coriaceous, imbricate iu aestivation ; stamens 
about 100, the mner ones the shortest; placenta axile, ovules numerous. 
Orias appears to stand between the Asiatic genus Camja and the Amcncan one Gustavia : with the 
former it agrees m the number of the petals and the 4-lobcd stigma, with the latter in the entire calyx 
LECYTHIDE^. 
421. Lecythis coriacea? De Cand. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 291.— Nomcu vemacul. " Ollito." Dark 
forests near Kemcdios, Vcraguas. 
In leaf my specimens agree weU with those of L, coriacea, iu Hooker's Herbarium, distributed by 
Martms ; but as the former have no flowers, and as I have only seen an imperfect fruit of the tree, I am not 
sure whether I am correct in referring the OUito of the Panamians to L. coriacea. De CandoUc does not 
describe the fruit of X. coriacea; that of my plant is about an inch across. 
422. CouRorpiTA odoratissima, Seem, in Hook. Journ. of Bot. and Kcw Gard. Misc. vol. iii. 
p. 301 ; foliis obovatis apice acutis basi cuneatis margine integerrimis brcviter pctiolatis, costa, 
nervis secundariis petiolisque hirsuto-pnbcsccntibus, stipulis subcordatis tomcntosis caducis, racemis 
