MYRTACE^. 379 



entire or serrate ; stipules minute, caducous ; flowers ^ in large 

 racemes springing from the trunk and branches; bracts and brac- 

 teoles caducous. (Trop, America,^) 



60. Lecythis Loepl ^ — Flowers nearly of Couratari, 3-6-merous; 

 ligule of androecium large petaloid, at apex once or twice (sometime^ 

 contrarywise) cucuUate. Androecium of Gouratari (or Couroupita) ; 

 stamens interior at top of ligule sterile, anantherous or with small 

 effete anthers, sometimes {Allantoma'^) aggregated in a mass. Germen 

 inferior or partly superior, 2-6-locular ; style short and other cha- 

 racters of Couroupita. Fruit clothed with externally adnate calyx, 

 globose or cupuliform, sometimes subcylindrical, coriaceous or woody; 

 operculum on both sides conical or convex, more rarely (Bschweilera^) 

 concave within. Seeds few, stipate on a thick fleshy arilliform funicle, 

 sometimes narrow elongate very rugose [Allantoma), externally gla- 

 brous or variously reticulate costate ; embryo undivided fleshy. — 

 Trees, sometimes immense ; leaves alternate, entire or serrate ; inflo- 

 rescence,^ etc., of Couroupita. [Trop, America, Africa,'^ trop, and 

 east, islands.^) 



61. BerthoUetia H. B.^ — Flowers nearly of Lecythis] calyx 

 gamophyllous, at first closed ; lobes very short to apex ; finally un- 

 equally 2-4-fid, deciduous. Petals unequal or subequal. Stamens 

 at top of cucullate ligule sterile. Germen inferior ; cells 4, 5, pauci- 

 ovulate. Fruit broadly subglobose woody, to a large extent exter- 

 nally stipate to adnate receptacle and girt with its margin, dehiscing 

 by a small circumscissile operculum. Seeds oo (oftener about 20), 

 obovoidly 3-quetrous ; testa very hard rugose ; embryo fleshy undi- 



1 Large, "dirty white or pink." * Mart. DC. Prodr. iii. 293.— Miers, he. cit. 



2 Spec. 6, 7. Berg, Zinncea, xxvii. 461 ; xxxi. 165, 246, t. 34 C. 



261 ; Mart. FL Bars. Myrt. 475, t. 57-59.— -^o^. « Flowers often showy. 



Mag. t. 3158. ^ Query if natives of this country ? 



3 7^. 181i.— L. Ge7i. n. 664.— J. Gen. 327.— » Spec, about 50 (ex Miers 130). Jacq.^w^?;*. 

 LamK. ///. t. 476.— Poiu. Diet. vi. 25.— DO. t. 109, — AfBL. (?Miam t. 283-289.— A. S.-H.i^/. 

 Prodr. iii. 290.— Spach, Suit.aBuffon, iv. 185. — Bras. Mer. ii. 272.— Berg, Limicea, xxvii. 448 ; 

 ExDL. Gen. n. 6332.— Poit. Mem. Mus. xiii. 141, xxix. 258 ; Mart. FL Bras. Mijrt. 479, t. 62-74. 

 t. 2, 3, 7.— H. Bx. Payer Fam. Nat. 369.— B. H. — Walp. Rep. ii. 193. 



Gen. 723, n. 69.— Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. ^ PL ^quin. i. 122, t. 36.— Poit. Mem. Mus. 



162, 199, t. 34 A, dS-57.—Chytroma Miers, loc. xiii. 148, t. 4-8.— DC. Prodr. iii. 293.— Endl. 



cU. 164, 229, t. SiB.'-fJugastrum Miers, loc. Gen. n. 6333.— Schomb. Proc. Bot.Soc.i. 71, t. 



cU. 167, 275, t. 35 A (stamens at top of ligule 3, 4.— H. 1^^. Payer Fam. Nat. 670.— B. H. Gen. 



sometimes fertile ?). 723, n. 70. — Miers, Trans, Linn. Soc. xxx. 161, 



^ Miers, loc. cit. 170, 291, t. 30 A. 195, t. 33 C, 37. 



