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. superiore integra. In Brasilia : v, s. in herl. Hook, ad ostium Rio Negro {Spruce, 

 1574 in parte sub G. augusta) : v. fmct, s. in Mm. Kew. (Spruce, 1574, sub 

 Cr. fastuosa) . 



It is a busby tree, 15-20 feet higb, witb leaves ' 12-13 in. long, 3f in. broad, on a 

 petiole 1-1 in. long, and about 22 pairs of nerves : tbe raceme is about 3 in. long, tbe 

 pedicels, 3-6 Knes apart, are l-lj in. long. The pyxidium is IJ in. long, IJ in. broad in 

 the middle, contracted to 1^ in. below the calycary zone, which is 1^ in. in diam., the 

 interzonal band 1 line high ; upper zone 1^ in. in diam. 



• In the form of its leaves it approaches G. superha, but differs in their much thicker 

 texture, coarser and blunter teeth, a more obtuse acumen and more slender, longer, 

 distinct petioles, in the more slender inflorescence, ecostate ovary, with 6 acute teeth. 

 For the same reasons it differs from G. conferta and G. calycaris, with which it is con- 

 founded by Berg. , 



5. GusTAViA Antillana, nob. : ramulis pallidis, opacis, profunde sulcatis : foliis con- 



fertis, cuneato-lanceolato-oblongis, supra medium sensim acuminatis, marginibus 

 subrevolutis, crenato-serratis, rigide chartaceis, utrinquepallidissimis, opacis, nervis 

 divaricatis juxta marginem nexis, costa supra striolata prominula, subtus promi- 

 nente, fulvida, striolata, nervis venisque reticulatis promincntibus, petiole supra 

 convexiusculo, subtus convexo, striolato, subpruinoso : inflorescentia ignota : pyxidio 

 subparvo, globoso, sub zonam coarctato ; zona calycari lineatim circular! : vitta 

 interzonali angustissima, horizontali; zona superiore circular!; opcrculo concavo; 

 pericarpio tenui, crustaceo, pallide brunnco, lenticcllis granosis flavidis crobre 

 maculato. In Antillanis : v, s, in herb. Hook. S. Vinccnte {Guilding, sub G, hcxa- 

 petala\ v.fruct s. in Mus. Kew. {Gullding). 



A species remarkable for its .extremely pallid rigid leaves and the smallncss of its 

 fruit. The leaves are 8-10 in. long, 2^-3 in. broad, on a stoutish flattened petiole J in. 

 long ; the specimen has no flower ; the pyxidium is 1 in. high, If broad in the middle ; 

 the calycary zone, scarcely prominent, is 1 in. in diam. 



6. GusTAViA DUBiA, Berg; Linn, xxvii. p. 446 (excl. syn.) : foliis oblongis, vel oblongo- 



lanceolatis, utrinque angustatis, medio subserratis, chartaceis, supra nervis sub- 

 patulis, tenuibus, prominulis, valde reticulatis, costa planiuscula, subtus costa 

 prominente, nervis costatis, petiolo limbo 16-20plo breviore : inflorescentia ignota : 

 pedicello fructifero longo, medio minute 2-bracteolato ; fructu globoso, laBvi, tenu- 

 issime velutino. In Nova Granada ad fluv. Magdalena (spec, malum in Mus Beru- 

 lino, herb. Willd., no. 10155, sec. cl. Berg) : non vidi. 



This plant is evidently a Gustama, to which Berg referred the Lecylhis elliptica and 

 X. duhia of Kunth, which most certainly are two very different plants. It appears to 

 come very near G, Antillana : its leaves are 7J-8i in. long, 2|-2.^ in. broad, on a petiole 

 4^6 lines long ; the peduncle of the fruit is 1^ in. long, the pyxidium is 1 J in. in diam. 



'Hie specimen is said to be very incomplete. 



