ICONES PLANTARUM. 
PLATE 1326, 
LANESSANIA TURBINATA, Baill. 
Urticacea, Tribe ArrocarPEe#. 
L. turbinata, Baill. Adans. xi. 298. 
Has. North Brasil, in the Capoeiras at Barra do Rio Negro, where 
it is known under the name of Mururé, Spruce, n. 1825. 
Arbor 20-pedalis, ramulis petiolis venis pagine rearhied folioram 
receptaculisque tomento brevi rufescentibus, succo lacteo sordido. 
Folia alterna, breviter petiolata, elliptico-oblonga, neater et angus 
Floves $ numerosi, apicem explanatum receptaculi obtegentes, arcte 
conferti, basi subconnati. Perianthium tubulosum, carnosulum, bre- 
vissime obtuseque 3-4-fidum. Stamina 2, rarius 9 filamentis inclusis 
rectis crassis; anthers parva, loculis adnatis. Ovariw rudimentum 
0 v. minute subulatum. Flos ¢@ in centro receptaculi unicus. Perian- 
thium a receptaculo carnoso hand distinctum, canalem centralem efli- 
ne 8. Ovariwm in fundo receptaculi inferum ; stylus intra canalem 
liber, apice ern, ramis stigmatosis elon ngatis ; ovulum ex apice 
loculi pendulum 
The fruit of this species is unknown, but specimens of what srould 
7 from the foliage and inflorescence to be a nearly allied congener 
OL. IV. THIRD SERIES, “ 
