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nectivo crasse apiculato. Ovarium sessile, biovulatura. Stylus brcviter filiformis, apicc minute 
stigmatosus. Legumen planum, coriaceo-sublignosum, obovato-orbiculatum, rcticulato-vcnosum, 
tardius bivalve. Semen ab apice pendulum, orbiculatum, cavitatem implens, planum. Albumen 0, 
Testa tenuis. Coty ledones carnosae, induratae, arete cohaercnte3; radicula brevissima, mammiforniis, 
a hilo pai'um remota. Plumula inconspicua. 
Species unica, P. copaifera, Griseb. Arbor procera, glabra, ramis patentibus. Stipuhe 
quamgefornies, caducoe. iFolia alterna, abrupte pinnata, petiolo 
2-pol 
Hear 
i ; foliola 2-juga, rarius 1-juga, opposita, oblique v. falcato-ovata, 3-G-p 
iter et obtuse acuminata, basi rotundata v. cuneata, pctiolulo 2-3 li 
lou 
o 
utrinque reticulato-pennivenia, pellucido-punctat 
Panicula) terminalcs 
arnplae, p 
ramosoe, ramis iuterrupte spiciformibus 2-G-pollicaribus 
Hoi 
parvi, sessiles, dissiti v. subfasciculati. Bractea? inconspicuae. Bracteolac in cupulam 
bilobam calycis tubum requantein connata?. Calycis tubus vix \ lin. longus ; lacunae 
lineam longae, margine minute ciliolat 
Filament a ad marginem tubi 
ta, laciniis Ion 
o 
basi ciliato-hirsuta. Anther 
ato-oblon 
- 
locul 
curvulis; connectivi apiculus carnoso-conicus, Hu 
quodammodo referens 
Ovarium villosum. Legumen 8] -4 poll 
terminalis, sed anthera reversa infer 
gum, 3-3^ polL latum, basi subcuneatum, facie altera convexa, alter 
elevatis longitudinalibus reticulatis, ad apicem et 
versus basin convergentibus. 
Semen maturum 3 poll, longtun, 2i poll, latum, uncUque fere 2 lin. crassum. 
Ha b. Jamaica {Wilson); Isthmus of Panama (Seemann, Sutton Hayes). 
Tab. XL. fig. 1. Flower; fig. 2. Stamen with a back view of the anther; fig. 3. Anther, front view; 
fig. 4. Ovary and Style; fig. 5. Ovary, longitudinal section, shoeing the ovules; fig. G. Ovule: 
all the above magnified, 
showing the seed. 
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