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MR. G. BENTHAM ON FISSICALYX AND PRIORIA. 
apice 
Ion 
b 
ba 
bi 
attenuatus, sumnio apice minute penicillatus 
Petala 
aurantiaca, calycem paullo superantia, breviter unguiculata. Vexillum basi com- 
plicatum, nee auriculatum nee appendiculatum, erect urn, lateribus reflexis, glabrum. 
Ala? et petala carinalia basi bine rotundato-auriculata, supra basin transversini rugu- 
losa, versus apiceni pilosa. Legumen breviter stipitatum, puberulum, cum alis 2 poll, 
gum, 1^ poll, latum, apice late rotundatum et emarginatum, valvulorum ab's 
Ion 
membranaceis, transversim parallele 
quales, longior apice uncinata. 
Cotyledones in seminc examinato 
Hub 
sea (Fendler, n. 2223). 
Tab. XXXIX. fig. 1. Flower; fig. 2. the same with the petals removed, showing the stamens; fig. 3. 
Vexillum ; fig. 4. one of the Aire ; fig. 5. one of the Petals of the Carina ; fig. G. a Stamen, front view ; 
fig. 7. the same, back view; fig. 8. Ovary and Style; fig. 9. Ovary, longitudinal section showing the 
ovules; fig. 10. Fruit; fig. 11. the same, cross section; fig. 12. the same, longitudinal section 
Knowing the seed; fig. 13. Seed, showing the hilum ; fig. 14. Embryo ; fig. 15. the same with one 
cotyledon removed, showing the plumula. 
2. Pbiobia copaifeba, Griseb. 
This plant, forming a distinct genus allied to Copaifera, was dedicated by Dr. Grisebach 
to Dr. Alexander Prior, so well known for bis botanical researches at the Cape, in the 
West Indies, and Southern Europe, and was described by him in the last Part of his ' Flora 
of the British West Indies,' p. 215, from specimens gathered by Mr. W T ilson at Bachelor's 
Hall, near Bath, in Jamaica 
The tree is there rare, and the fruit was 
Since 
then, however, we have received specimens, both in flower and in fruit, of evidently the 
same species, from Mr. Sutton Hayes, who found it growing in swamps in Panama, near 
the Barbacoa station of the Panama Railroad 
* 
name of Catica. 
The tree, which was felled to obtain the specimens 
He states it to be there known under the 
was near 100 feet 
high, and the trunk measured 5 feet in diameter 
the affinitv of the 
The pod confirms in many respects 
genus with Gopaifera ; it is, however, very much larger and flatter, 
woody rather than fleshy; the single seed is very flat, without any albumen ; the cotyle 
closelv that, aft 
hly 
dons, of a somewhat hard fleshy consistence, adhere 
boiling and soaking the seed, I was unable to separate them except close round the edge ; 
the radicle forms only a slight protuberance, at no great distance from the hilum ; and 
altogether the seed shows none of that approximation to the Connaraceous seed observable 
m Copaifera, We find in the Kew Museum some of the same fruits, deposited there by 
Dr. Seemann as those of the « Amanza muger " of the Isthmus of Panama, sold in the 
markets 
for their 
description of the " Amanza mu 
exciting properties 
They do not, how 
>> 
D 
with the 
fruits given in the " Botany " of the ' Voya 
of 
the Herald' (p. 90), which are there referred to a Hipp 
The following are the technical characters of the plant. 
Pbiobia, Griseb. 
Ciiau. GENV-Cofy* tubo brevi cupulato, lobis 5 orbiculatis subpetaloideis valde imbricatis, infimo ex- 
tenore. Petala O. Stamina 10, libera, sub*qualia. Anther* versatiles, 2-loculares, 2-rimosae, con- 
