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II. Leafy twig (M. enjthroxylum, AUem). 



Rio (le Jiineiro ; Dr. F. F. AllemSo ; 1863. " Lch fleum 

 ont (M (letruite par les vers." A drawing of the 

 leaves, flowers, fniits, and very complete dissections 

 of them accompany this sheet. 



•0. Leafy twig. 



w. Tn-ig, wth Ie<-ives and 3 fruits, and detached leaves. 



From the Province of Ceara ; Dr. F. F. Allemao ; received 

 2 Nov., 1864. 



Appended to tliis sheet is a long descriptive botanical account of the 

 plant, in Portuguese, from Dr. .\lleraao, who evidently regarded the 

 tree a-s a new species ; but Mr. Hanbury, in his note book (\-iL p. 314), 

 writes as follows :— " Dr. Allemao has been .so good as to send me some 

 leaves of this tree (M. erythroxylum, Allemao), from an examination of 

 which I am of your (Capanema) opinion that it is the same species as 

 M. peruiferum, Linn, f."— D. H. 



Forma /B.—Mi/rospennum pedicellatum, Lamarck. 



a. Leaflets and bud, and tracing of a flowering shoot. 

 From the type specimen of Joseph de Jussieu, in the 



. Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. The 

 tracing, taken 6 Februar.v, 1865, is from Lamarck, 

 HI. PI. 341. Communicated by M. Brongniart, 

 per J. Triana; received Jan., 1865.' See Encyclop^die 

 Methodique, Botanique, tome iv., p. 191. 



b. Leaflets and flowei-s, and tracing of fruit. 



The leaflets and flowers were received from Dr. Klotzsch, 

 30 Aug., 1853, under the name of Mijrnxylm pediceU 

 latum, Klotzsch ; M. pmnjcmn, EX., in Hayne's Arzney- 

 Gewachse, vol. xiv., t. 2 ; Myrospermum pedu/Ualum, 

 Lamarck. The tracing is that of the ixxis of 

 (Myro.ryloti pedicellahun, Klotzsch) "Myrospmnnm bal- 

 samiferum," in Pavon's collection in the British 

 Museum. 



Of these specimens Hanbuiy remarks :— " Four specimens of the above, 

 marked thus, are in Pavon's Herbarium in the Britisli Museum ; all 

 have flowers and fruits also in a more or less young state ; in none does 

 the fruit appear quite mature. J. J. Bennett and Professor Guibourt 

 agiee with me as to the identity of these four specimens of the above " 

 —D.H., 20 Sept., 1853. 



