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A bushy tree 20-30 feet high, on the Rio Negro. The leaves are 9-24 in. lono- 3 1_4 

 in. hroad, on a petiole 1-2 J in. long, with about 30 pairs of nerves : the peduncle i 

 about 2 in. long ; the pedicels 2-3 lines apart, are J in. long ; the liuib of the ealvx 

 sub-6-lobed, 1 J line broad ; the petals 2-3 in. long. The species is well distinguished bv 

 the long petioles of its large lanceolate leaves. I have not adopted Bero-'s amended 

 diagnosis, because it was altered to embrace the following species. Spruce's plants are 

 here considered to be specifically the same as Bonpland's plant from Mariquita, as there 

 is scarcely any difference in the characters assifirned to it. 



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12. GusTAviA LATiFOLiA, nob. : Gustavia spedosa, Benth. (non DO.), PI. Hartw. p. 176- 



Berg, Linn, xxvii. 445 : foliis cuneato-oblongis, imo gradatim spathulatis, ad medium 

 ample latioribus, apice acumhie brevi obtusulo constrictis, mari^inibus subinteoiMs 



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aut obsolete serratis, irregulariter repando-crenatis, submembranaceis aut flaccide 

 chartaceis, supra viridibus, pruinoso-opacis, ad nervos divaricate arcuatim nexos 

 sulcatulis, subtus pallidioribus, flavescentibus, opacis, minute granulosis, subpube- 

 rulis, costa nervisque prominentibus ; petiolo semitereti, elongato, fusco,' hmbo 

 5-6plo breviore : racemis abbreviatis, 4-8-fioris, ramis vetustis enatis, pedieellis 

 longiusculis, congestis, subvalidis, flavide tomentoso-puberulis, imo bractea rotun- 

 data concava, et supra medium bracteoHs 2 minutis munitis ; calycis limbo brevi, 

 crassiusculo, patenter subcampanulato, irregulariter crenato; petalis 6, ovato-oblongis, 

 puberulis, albis : ovario hemisphserice turbinato, obsolete 6-costato, granulato, ferru- 

 gineo-pubescente, 6-loculari, vertice intra discum crenato-pulvinatum concavo, 

 radiatim striolato et tomentoso; stylo brevissimo umbonato : fructu eduli. In 

 America tropica : v. s, in hb. Sooh, Guaduas in prov. Bogota {Sartweg, 981), 

 Panama [Seemanrhi sine num.). 



This is a slender tree 30-40 feet high; its leaves are 10^-12 in. lon^, 4i-4| in. broad, 



on a petiole 2^-2^ in. long, having about 18 pairs of nerves ; the inflorescence sometimes 

 terminal, more generally springing from the wood of its bare branches, has a thick 

 peduncle J in. long, bearing almost fasciculated flowers; the stout pedicels are curved, 

 IJ-lf in. long, the basal bract 3 lines lonsr, and broad, and 2 minute bracts 3 Hnes 



below the sumaiit ; the limb of the calyx is J line broad and 9 lines in diam. ; the flower 

 (expanded is 2i in. or more in diameter. 



The species is very distinct from G. speciosa, to which it has been referred : although 

 approaching it in its lengthened petioles, the leaves are double the breadth in proportion, 

 ol)tusely and shortly constricted at the apex (not long and sharply acuminated at the 

 summit), and having only 18 pabs of nerves (instead of 30) : in the Panama specimen 

 the leaves are more glabrous, and the petiole flatter. 



13. Gustavia pulchra, nob. : foliis elongato-oblongis, imo longe spathulatis et in pe- 

 tiolo decurrentibus, a medio sursum latioribus, apice subrotundatis, supra medium 

 repando-serratis, marginibus revolutis, chartaceis, supra viridibus, opacis, nervis 

 tcnuibus prominulis, costa convexa, subtus luride fuscioribus vel hepatice viridibus, 

 valde opacis, nervis pluribus prominentibus, venis transversim reticulatis, petiolo 



