112 BOTANICAL OBJECTS COMMUNICATED 
-99. Castanhas de Sapucaya (seeds of a Lecythis, but certainly not 
of L. ollaria, if, as Lindley says, the seeds of that tree “leave a bitter, 
unpleasant after-taste in the mouth.” These are delicious, resembling 
in taste the sweetest filberts, and are much preferred by everybody to 
the common Castanha, the fruit of Bertholletia excelsa). Rio Curua, 
north of the Amazon. 
29 bis. Wood of Sapindus, sp. Herb. 777. 
30. Wood of Murixi (Byrsonima, sp.). 
30 bis. Geonoma: stem, leaves, spathes, and spadices. Male flowers 
red; anthers innate; the two lobes separate even in estivation, when 
they are folded down on the filament, afterwards horizontal or ascending, 
diverging. (Compare with a Geonoma previously sent from Para.) 
Santarem, by the Igaripé d’Urumari, April, 1850. 
31. Palme an genus novum? Leaves, spathes, spadices, fruit, 
and part of stem. Caudex 8-12 feet high, leafy only at the apex; 
leaves of about thirty-six pairs of leaflets; spadices from among the 
leaves, simple or (very rarely) with one short branch near the base, 
thickly clad with fruits, which are vermilion when ripe. The most 
remarkable character is that in the ripe fruit the outer covering* splits 
up into six (rarely seven) subequal pieces, resembling an expanded 
flower of six petals, and allowing the stone to fall out. Besides this 
there is the peculiarity of the inner spathe forming an ochrea around 
the lower half of the rachis.—Santarem, forest near the Igaripé d'Uru- 
marí, April, 1850. I can find no Astrocaryum or Bactris in Kunth 
at all like it. 
32. Curuá Palm: leaves, spathe, spadix, and fruit. Santarem, uid 
shady forest. I am not satisfied that this is Attalea spectabilis of Mart., 
but it is what is here called Curud. The kernel is good eating, but - 
very hard. The leaves are used as those of the Pindoba, for thatching, 
ete. (The fruit and spathe were sent in April last, probably without 
number.) 
33. Pods of Inga-chiché. Santarem. (Flowering specimens of this 
are in my collection from Para.) The eottony pulp which envelops the 
seeds is eaten; it has a sweetish, subacid taste. 
34. Arvore de Frécha (Arrow-tree). Uya, Ling. Géral. Gyne- 
rium, sp. Growing in large beds on the Iha de Mari-mari-tuba, in 
* Epicarp and mesocarp. 
