214 SCHOMBURGK’S GUIANA PLANTS. 
284. Chrysobalanus pellocarpus. G. F. W. Meyer, Prim 
Fl. Esseq. p. 193.—Sand-banks of the Essequibo. Schom- 
burgk, n. 220. The leaves are very nearly as in the common 
Icaco, but the fruit is more that of a Hirtella, narrow obovoid, 
much less fleshy than in C. Icaco, and opening from the base 
to about the middle in five valves. The seeds have a thi 
testa, no albumen, the cotyledons thin but somewhat fleshy, 
and a very short radicle, which seems to be the case with 
all the Hirtelle and Licanie I have been able to examine, 
The albumen figured and described by Geertner appears 10 
me to be the somewhat fleshy portion of the testa from which 
the outer coating is separable. Zuccarini (Flora, 1832, XL 
Beibl. p. 18), describes the testa of Hirtella as very thin and 
membranaceous, closely adhering to the embryo, and the 
cotyledons as glued together by their margins, which I have 
not found to be the case in any species I have examined. Is 
it possible that he can have considered as belonging to the 
cotyledons that coating which Gertner considers as albumen? 
and which I should describe as a portion of the testa, since It 
is certainly vascular. E 
-~ Moquilea of Aublet has been joined by Martius and. 
Zuccarini with Couepia of the same author, and the former 
appellation given to the group thus formed, which is to bear 
gretted, as the first named genus is but little known, and ed 
new species described all belong without doubt to Couepis 
which may now be considered as a well established distinct 
group. The true Moguilea has nearly the flower of Cu 
sobalanus, from which, as long as the fruit is unknown, it 80” 
only be distinguished by the racemose inflorescence, and the 
stamens being fertile in the whole circumference of the flower 
the former, in few, if any cases, a good generic character, and 
the latter, if adopted, requiring the corresponding adoption 35 - 
genera of the above-named sections of Parinarium, Couepit» 
and Licania. Ihave not, however, ventured to join Moquiles 
to € 7ysobalanus, in order to avoid further confusion if m 
discovery of the fruit should hereafter render it necessary 
separate it again. The following new species, being - 992 
