210 REPORT ON THE PLANTS 
iwo forms or species of the Uci-uba, or Oil-tree, mentioned in the 
Kew list, n. 15 (p. 72 of this vol). The one specially designated by 
Mr. Spruce as furnishing the oil, is the narrow-leaved Myristica fatua, 
Sw.: the specimens are in flower, and were gathered from a tree about 
one hundred feet in height. Of the broader-leated M. sebifera, Sw., 
figured by Aublet as his Virola sebifera, there were only two or three 
specimens in fruit, from a small tree in the immediate neighbourhood 
of Para. Notwithstanding the difference usually observed in the vena- 
tion as well as in the breadth of the leaves, it is yet doubtful whether 
the two are not mere varieties of one species. 
. The Polygalee comprise specimens, not in sufficient number for 
general distribution, of the handsome Polygala spectabilis, DO., and of 
two Securidace, one of them. hitherto undescribed, allied in foliage to 
- S. ovalifolia, St. Hil., but without any hairs on the leaves, and with differ- 
ently formed and proportioned petals. It may be thus characterized : 
Securidaca retusa, scandens, glabra v. summitatibus vix puberulis, foliis 
tenuibus ovatis obtusissimis retusisve, alis orbiculatis, carina lata apice 
- vix triloba plicato-cristata, petalis superioribus orbiculatis.—Frutex 
super arbores scandens. Folia 1-14 poll. longa, breviter petiolata, 
apice basique obtusissima v. emarginata, tenuiter venosa. Racemi 
terminales, laxze, 2—4-pollicares, rhachi pedicellisque puberulis. Caly- 
. cis foliola 3, puberula, vix linea lóngiora ; ala breviter unguiculate, 
4 Tin. longee et late, glabre, haud disti Carina breviter ungui- 
culata, supra unguem 3 lin. longa et lata, apice minute triloba, lobo 
medio cristato. Petala superiora 2 lin. longa, inæquilatera, se 
invicem applicita. Fructus non visus.* 
: The specimens distributed under the name of Casearia grandiffora, 
. St. Hil., differ from the more southern Brazilian ones in their leaves, 
copiously marked with pellucid dots; but the number of these vary in 
Several Caseariz, and I can find no other distinction. 
. The few Malvacee are uninteresting. "The fine specimens of Pachira 
quatica differ slightly from the Guiana form in their broader leaves, 
but do not appear to be specifically distinct. 
The Anani, n. 14 of the Kew list (p. 72), is the Moronobea globuli- 
fera, Schlecht., pomy distributed. The remaining Guttifere were 
; is opportunity ing a mistake of Walpers, who, in his Reper- 
7 torium (yol; i p. 24 , has ennmerated as Securidace the five species of Seguiera 
Which I had published i in the ‘ Linnean Transactions.’ 
