﻿3^34 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE. 



stylo "brevi, conico; stigmate minimo, 4-lobatim globoso: pyxidio subgloboso. In 

 Brasilia : v. s. in herb, variis, Pernambnco {Gardner, 1022). 



A small tree, common in woods near Pernambnco ; its brancblets are i-| in. thick, 

 with a soft wood, almost fistulous, or filled with a large quantity of pith ; the axils are 

 alternately 3-4 lines apart ; the leaves are 6-18 in. long, 3-5 in. wide, on a broad petiole 

 1 line long, or sometimes decurrent to its base, and they have about 20 pairs of nerves : 

 the pedicel is IJ in. long, with 2 bracteoles, ^1 in. above the base, 1 line long, and puhe- 

 rnlous : the flower expanded is 5 J in. in diam. : the calycine border is J line broad, very 



crenulated and undulated ; the unequal petals are 1 J-2 J in. long., |"1 in. broad ; the 

 cup of the androphorum is IJ in. in diam., its outer appendages 9 lines long, | line 

 broad. I doubt much whether the pyxidium figured by Berg under G. augmta belongs 

 to this species. I therefore do not cite the dimensions he gives of it. According to 

 Marcgraaf, it is rather larger than an apple, flatly truncated at the summit, 2 or 3 hanging 

 together in a bunch, greyish externally, yellow within : the seeds are oblong, the size of 

 an almond-nut, shintag, somewhat angular, and cordate where they are attached to the 

 coiling thick fimicles. The plant of Gardner is unquestionably identical with the Jani- 

 parandiha of Marcgraaf from the same locality, and is certainly distinct from G. angusta, 

 Linn., to which it is referred and figured in Berg*s plates 55 & 56. 



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15. Gtjstavia longipolia, Popp. : Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras. /. c. 472 ; in Linn, xxvii. 



p. 442 : arbor parva ; foliis magnis spathulatis, sessilibus, apice obtusiuscule 

 acutatis, leviter serrulatis, chartaceis, supra cano-virentibus, opacis, creberrime et 

 subtilissime punctatis, nervis crebre parallelis, subpatulis, marginem versus adscen- 

 dentibus, prominulis, subtus puberulis, nervis venisque tenuissimis reticulatis pro- 

 minentibus : racemis 1-4-floris e trunco vel ex axillis inferioribus ortis ; pediccllis 

 puberulis, infra medium 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis minimis, ovatis; calycis limbo 

 fere integro, vel breviter rotundiusculo et 3-4-lobo ; petalis 8, obverse ohlongis, 

 alternatim angustioribus, roseo-purpureis : ovario infero, turbinato, puberulo, vertice 

 depresse orbiculari, 4-loculari, loculis pluriovulatis ; stylo obsolete ; stigmate obso- 

 lete 4-sulcato: pyxidio globoso, sanguineo, 3-4-loculari, 3-4-spermo; seminibus 

 obovatis. In Peruvia, ad Yurimaguas, in prov. Maynas {Foppig, 2094) : non vidi. 

 A small tree 6 feet high, scarcely ramose, called Chope or Sachavaya by the natives. 

 The leaves are lJ-2 feet long, 5-7^ in. broad above the middle, 10-18 lines broad at the 

 sessile base, and without petioles ; pedicels 8-16 lines long ; lobes of calyx 2 lines broad, 

 \ line long ; greenish petals, broader ones 1 in. long, 5 lines broad ; androphorum 6 lines 

 long, incurved ; filament 4 lines long, anther bursting at summit by 2 short longitudinal 



fissures ; ovary 4 lines long ; disk 5 lines in diam. ; pyxidium 2 in. 



diam., with 



;le seed in eacb cell ; a very distinct species, remarkable for its large, very broa 

 sessile leaves, with very close parallel nerves, and puberulous beneath ; flowers of mode 

 rate size, upon long pedicels. 



GusTAViA P(EPPiGiANA, Berg in Mart. PI. Bras. /. c. p. 471; Linn, xxvii. 442: folus 



