COLLECTED BY MR. SPRUCE IN BRAZIL. 15 
under the number 1274, but named only in his Catalogue without any 
description. It agrees precisely with Aublet’s principal figure of his 
Tapiriria (or Tapiria). Guianensis, and is very much like the apparently 
male specimen of that plant preserved in the British Museum; but 
 Aublet's description and figure of the ovary and fruit (which I have 
no means of verifying) are at total variance with our plant. It is, 
however, very probably Kunth's Comocladia ? Tapaculo, but certainly, as 
suspected by Kunth, does not belong to that genus. From Mauria, to 
` which Martius refers it, it differs in the æstivation of the corolla, which 
is slightly imbricate, not strictly valvate, and in some respects in the 
style. The embryo is also different from that of Mauria simplicifolia 
(the only one of which I have seen ripe fruit), yet we can hardly venture 
to establish it as a distinct genus, unless both sexes as well as the fruit 
of the several other published Maurie, especially the small-flowered 
species described by Tulasne, shall, on comparison with the present 
species and some others allied to it, confirm these distinctions. In the 
mean time we may consider it as a section of Mauria, under the name 
of Tapirioides, which, if it be proved that Aublet had by mistake 
described the fruit of some different plant, may be exchanged for his 
name of Tapiria. 
Mr. Spruce's specimens were first distributed to a few subscribers 
under the name of Tapiriz, sp. n.? from Caripi, and afterwards more 
generally from Santarem, under the name of Mauria multiflora, Mart. 
I have also examined from other collections male specimens—from : de 
Guiana, Sir Robt. Schomburgk, 1st coll. n. 174, 2nd coll. n. 721, 789, — — 
793, 915 and 916 (Rich. Schomburgk, n. 1052, 1350, 1406, 1483, . 
1482); from Surinam, Hostmann, n. 368 and 853; from Brazil, — 
Martius, Sello, Salzmann, and Spruce ; female specimens from Guiana, 
Sir Robt. Schomburgk, n. 1010 (Rich. Schomburgk, n. 1706), and 
from Brazil, Spruce ; the fruit I have only seen in Spruce's specimens. 
To the same section appear to belong the two following species, of 
which, however, I have only seen male specimens :—JMauria (Tapi- 
rioides) subbijuga, Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. n. 1275 ; foliolis brevissime 
petiolulatis 3-5 v. inferioribus solitariis oblongo-ellipticis obtuse acumi- 
natis basi angustatis glaberrimis nitidis, paniculis masculis ramosissimis 
floribundis minutifloris.—Petioli communes 1-2-pollicares. Foliola 
3-5 poll. longa, subcoriacea. Panicula mascula M. multiflore. Petala 
calycis laciniis ovatis duplo longiora.—Minas Geraes (Claussen) ;—and | 
