Plate 2521. 



SACOGLOTTIS AMAZONICA, Mart. 



HUMIRIAOBJB. 



S. amazonica, Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. PL Bras. ii. p. 146 ; 77. Bras. 

 xii. 2. p. 449, t. 95 ; inter atfines ad 8. ffabonemem proxime accedit, 

 differt imprimis sepalis vertice glandulosis, fructu oblongo-ovoideo. 



Arbor novellis omnino glabris, ramulis floriferis gracilibus, inter- 

 nodiis quam folia multo brevioribus. Folia distincte petiolata, lamina 

 decurrente et biglandulosa, tenuiter coriacea, lanceolata, 4-8 poll, longn 

 et H-2J poll, lata, caudato-acuminata sed vix acuta, basi cuneata vel 

 subrotundata, obscure crenulata, subtus pallidiora, venis primariis 

 lateralibus paucis inter se osculatis, venis ultimis laxe reticulatis sat 

 conspicuis. Flores circiter 2^ lin. longi, in cymasparvas extra axillares 

 dispositi. Sepal a basi coalita, rotundata, in margine 2-4-glandulosa. 

 Petala anguste oblonga, obtusa, sepala triplo superantia. Stamina 

 monadelpha, alterna breviora. Ovarium glabrum, 5-loculare. Fructus 

 drupaceus, ellipsoideus vel interdum fere globosus, usque ad 2 poll, 

 longus, exocarpio vix carnoso, endocarpio crasso osseo cavernis magnis 

 resiniferis referto extus obscure bullato tardissime dehiscente. Semina 

 5, vel abortu pauciora, in quoque loculo solitaria, elongate, angulata, 

 C-10 lin. longa. 



Trinidad : Irios forest, Cedros, C integer ; J. If. Hart. Also in the 

 delta of the Amazon, Martins. 



The singular drift-fruit of this tree was known to European writers 

 nearly three centuries ago. Clusius seems to have been the first to 

 describe and figure it, in his Exoticorum Libri Decern, lib. ii. cap. 19 

 (1605). It is remarkable for the numerous large resin-chambers in the 

 endocarp. Dr. D. Morris has given the history of it in Nature, liii. 



pp. 64-66 (1895). — W. Botting Hemsley. 



Pig. 1, a flower; 2, a sepal; 3, andrceeium ; 4, stamens; 5, pistil; 6, cross 

 section of ovary ; 7, a fruit ; 8, a fruit denuded of its epicarp (copied from ■ 'Nature ') ; 

 9, one of the divisions into which the fruit finally breaks up ; 10, a seed. — Figures 

 1-G enlarged, 7-10 natural she. 



