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Fig. 1, Tuft of plant, natural size. Fig. 2, Single plant. 

 Fig. 3, Leaf. Fig. 4, Perichaetium, with one of its leaves. 

 Fig. 5, Operculum. Fig. 6, View of the underside of do. 

 with the numbers. Fig. 7, Peristome. Fig. 8, Teeth of the 

 Peristome : — more or less magnijied. 



[TAB. XXX.] 



GUILDINGIA PSIDIOIDES. 



Decandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Memecyle^. 



Gen. Char. Cal. undique clausus, demum irregulariter 

 rumpens, infra insertionem staminum concavus, radiato- 

 striatus. Petala 5, rotundata, breviter unguiculata, cris- 

 patula. AnthercB oblongas, basi curvatae, apice poris 

 duobus debiscentes. Bacca infera, bilocularis. Semina 

 plerumque duo in singulo loculo, pulpo nidulantia. 



Guildingia psidioides. (Tab. XXX.) 



Hab. In insula Martinicae, et in hortis insulae Sancti Vin- 

 centii culta. Rev. L. Guilding. 



Arbor 15-20 pedalis, ramosissima, cortice viridi-fusca, glabra 

 obtecta. Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, oblonga, 4-5 

 pollicaria, glaberrina, coriacea, integerrima, sublurida, 

 basi apiceque acutiuscula, suboblique venosa. Color in- 

 tense viridis, subtus pallidior. Pediinculi subunciales, 

 simplices, axillares, fasciculati, fusci, bracteati, cum brac- 

 teis duabus oppositis supra medium ad articulum insertis. 

 Calyx angulatus, coriaceus, irregulariter ab apicem usque 

 ad medium rumpens. Pars inferior calycis subha?misphe- 

 rica, superne concava, interne radiato- striata, inferne 

 germini adherens. Petala 5, calyce inserta ad mar- 

 ginem tubi, alba, subrotundata, substriata, marginibus 



