4 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Arbor 40-pedalis (Mann. in sched.), berrima. Rami teretiusculi v. 
obscure eo leves, glabri. Folia coriacea, petiolata, elliptico- v. ovato- 
oblonga, apiculata v. breviter acuminata, acuta, basi plus minus (interdum 
aes rotundata integra, supra _ lucida, -subtus subopaca, costa subtus promi- 
ente. 4—6 poll. longa, 14-23 poll. 
lata; petiolus 3} poll. lo lo ngus. Tiglorencentio v. axillaris machide Sei eth 
producta , v. terminalis paniculatim v. Sar atim racemosa, foliis floriferis 
minoribus bracteiformibus apicem versus ramorum ~ L apeircener Flores 
interiora duplo majora margine scariosa. Petala eosin basin versus cu- 
neata, 3-1 ae longa, per < anthesin patentia—D, OLiver. 
Fig. 1 e of stamens and corrugated red - disk of male flower. 2. Anther and 
free portion of eaten t detached,—front and back view. 3. Female flower. 4. Transverse 
section of ovary. 5. Porton of placenta and pony 6. Immature fruit 
PLATE 1005. 
CHAUNOCHITON LORANTHOIDES, Bent. 
OLACINER. 
Chaunochiton, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pi. 996. 
oni Along streams near Barra do Rio Negro, North Brazil, Spruce, n 
Arbor 30- spine ramis seepe fastigiatis, ex omni parte glabra. Folia 
alterna, ovata obtusa v. erin sae in petiolum brevem contracta, in- 
egerrima, coriacea rere ollica Flores pallide flavicantes, in cymis densis 
confertim paniculatis v. snbeoryan bosis sessiles vy. revissime aeotearpiae 
see age fere pollicem diametro. Corolla tenuis, 2-23-pollicaris. Stamina 
endocarpio du ro, exocarpio tenul uissimo. 
This plant, of which the full generic character will be found in the above- 
quoted Genera, bears, in the dried specimens, and, according to Mr. Spruce, in 
the fresh state, so much resemblance to a Loranthus, that in the hasty sorting 
of the Sprucean collection it was distributed as Loranthus, n. 22, and the 
more readily as the scar left by the style on the top of the drupe i is exactly like 
that left by a deciduous corolla on an inferior fruit. It t is, however, as ob- 
served by Mr. Spruce, a terrestrial tree by no means parasite, ‘and the ovary is 
really superior, = on dissection of the flowers and fruit it proved to eth 
all the characters of Olacinee of the tribe Olacee, with, however, the ova 
as far as we “ra been able to ascertain, perfectly 2-celled. That, bowever, 
occurs in most species of Strombosia, ‘and, apparently, in some species of 
