﻿Plate 1590. 



GOUPIA GLABRA, Aubl. 



CELASTRACEiE ? 



G. glabra, Aubl. PI. Guiane, i. p. 296, t. 116. Arbor 30-pedalis, 

 ramulis gracilibus glabris v. innovationibns parce setulosis, foliis 

 stipulatis, alternis distichis petiolatis ovato- y. lanceolato-oblongis 



pilosulis subtriplinerviis venulis altimis subtransversis, floribus quasi- 

 umbellatis, umbellis breviter pedunculatis, pedicellis gracilibus flore 

 saipius longioribus, calycis parvi segmentis o vat is, pctalis elongatis 

 lineari-lanceolatis puberulis sestivatione apice inhYxis valv.'itis.autheris 

 facie interiore disci cupuliformis insertis apice inflexo-setulosis, ovano 

 libero, stylis 5 stellatim divaricatis brevibus subulatis, ovulis in locnhs 

 plnrimis adscendentibus— Miers, Contrib. Bot.ii. 134, t. 74; Baill , Hist. 

 Plant, vi. 10 and 514 (where additional references are given and tbe 

 fruit and seed are described). 



Hab. North Brazil, Spruce ; Guiana, various collectors (the speci- 

 men figured collected in British Guiana by Mr. Jenman). 



Folia 2i-7 poll, longa ; stipute caducse, lineares Hr poll, longae. 

 Flares poll, longi. 



Mr. Miers proposed (I.e.) to found an Order upon this plant. M. 

 Baillon, who kindly referred me to Aublet for it, treats it as the type 

 of a distinct group of Celastracea?, to which Order as , '" / e 



anomalum' Mr. Bentham also refers it (Gn>. Plant, i. W)- ^ 

 Spruce has an interesting note on the plant drawn up from fresh 

 specimens. The petals, he says, are yellow with red bases. The 

 anther-apex is incurved and ' furnished with several straight, hori- 

 zontal cilia which meet in apex of ovary.' Fruit : a small deep red- 

 purple berry, subglobose depressed at apex. * Seeds usually only one, 

 rarely two, matured in each of the five cells. . . . Embryo in axis ot 

 fleshy albumen.' We may hope some ally, throwing light on the 

 affinity of Goupia, may yet turn up in Guiana, where Mr. Jenman 

 now keeps a watchful outlook. — D. Oliver. 



Fig. 1. Diagram of flower. 2. Flower. 3. Petal. 4. Cupuli form disk J***^ 

 7 Trunxvfrse, and 8, longitudinal sections of ovarv. Enlarged. 



