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long, 5-7 lines broad ; the cup of tlie andropliomm is 8-10 lines broad, the slender 

 appendages 6 lines long; J line broad ; the pyxidium in an immature state is 2 J in. in 

 diameter. This species, as elsewhere stated, was wrongly confounded by Dr. Bero* with 

 G.fasttwsa, Willd. ; but it is well distinguished from it by its congested terminal inflo- 

 rescence, its larger flowers on pedicels 2-bracteolated at base, its ovary with broader 

 more undulated wings, terminating at their base in a mucronate tooth, and crowned 

 with 5 long broad sepals carinated within, in its larger whiter petals, in its winged 

 fruit double the size. 



20. GusTAYiA BRASILIANA, DO. Prodr. iii. 290 (excl. var. /3) ; Mart. Med. Bras. p. 72 ; 



Berg in Mart. PL Br. I. c. p. 472, tab. 7. fig. 160 (excl. syn.); in Linn, xxrii. 446 : 

 ramulis crassiusculis, fuscis, profunde sulcatis, rugulosis ; foliis supcrioribus crebre 

 congestis, inferioribus sparsis, ovato-ellipticis, imo sensim cuneatis, medio latioribus, 



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apice in acumen breve obtusulum recurvulum subito constrictis, ad marginem 



cartilagincum subrevolutum repando-undulatis et obsolete serratis, rigide chartaceis, 

 supra fusee et profunde viridibus, subopacis, costa prominula, striolata, ncrns 

 tenuibus, patente divaricatis, marginem versus arcuatis, paullo prominulis, subtus 

 pallidioribus, hepatice rubescentibiis vel rubro brunnescentibus, opacis, cpsta ncrvis 

 venisque transversis reticulatis prominentibus, petiolo latiusculo, late margiiuito, 



fusco, limbo 12plo breviore : floribus terminalibus 5-G, subfasciculatis, magnis, 

 odoriferis ; pedicellis subvalidis, acute angulatis, fuscis, pruinoso-toraentellis, medio 

 2-bracteolatis ; calycis limbo in sepala 6 diviso, laciniis late triangulnribus, acutis, 

 coriaceis, granulatis, opace pulverulcntis, fuscis, persistentibus ; petalis 6, magnis, 

 obovato-oblongis, subconcavis, albis ; ovario infero, turbinate, alis 6 scpalis altcrnis 

 angustis undulato-crispatis munito, fusco, granulatim strigoso, G-loculari, pluri- 

 ovulate, vertice intra discum latum valde elcvatum margine intus acutum sub- 

 concavo, opaco, sparse puberulo ; stylo brevi, angulato, umboniformi; stigmato 

 parvo, inflexim lobato : pyxidio subgloboso, anguste 6-alato, operculo concave calyce 

 coronato, flavo, abortu 2-5-loculari ; seminibus in quoque loculo 4i-6, subglo- 

 bosis, pallide flavis, nitidis. In Brasilia, Rio Negro, prope Garupd [Marlius): 

 v.pl. 8. {cum Jiorihus) in herb, variis, San Carlos, Kio Uahailpes, Eio 'Segvo{Sj)ruce, 

 2514). 



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A handsome spreading tree, 20-30 feet high, with leaves 4-9 in. long, IJ-S in. broad on 

 a petiole 5-7 lines long, with 18-20 pairs of spreading nerves ; the pedicels are 1-lJ in. 

 long, with 2 small bracts above the middle ; flowers 7 in. across, white, odoriferous ; 

 ovary 6 lines in diam. ; sepals 3 lines long and broad ; androphorum 1 in. broad ; 



pyxidium (according to Martins) IJ in. in diam., crowned by the persistent sepals 

 8 lines long. 



This species, which is confined to the region of the Rio Negro, approaches G. ptcro- 

 carjKt, agreeing in its winged ovary and fruit crowned by 6 acute sepals ; but it differs 

 in its more approximated, much darker, broader, more rigid leaves, witli more numerous 

 and more patent nerves, with a broader and stouter petiole, and finally by its much 

 larger flowers. Berg was certainly wrong in making it identical with the Janiparan<Vla 



