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across, closely beset with numerous short fusiform staminiferous appendages ; anthers 

 small, oval, yellow ; ligula 1 J in. long and broad ; appendages of hood reddish 6 lin^ 



Ions; the inferior ovary is 6-celled, surmounted by a prominent 



epigynous disk 



on 



hich the base of the androphorum and claws of the petals are agglutinated ; within 



ity the vertex of the -ovary rises in a cuj)ola-form 



ith 



most 



obsolete styl 



terminated by a 6-rayed stigma. The pyxidium, from an outline sketch round Mr 

 Guilding's drawing, would seem to be 8 in. iu diameter. • 

 The species differs from C. Guianensis in being a tree of much greater height in it' 



more cuneated leaves, more acute at the apex, in its 



longer racemes, with 



numerous flowers much greater in size and differently coloured, and much laro-er fruit 



5. CoUROUPiTA Peruviana, nob. : ramulis teretibus, validiusculis, fusco-rufescentibu 



luride opacis, sulcato-angulatis, apice crebre foliif 

 deorsum sensim ani 



foliis oblon 



g 



s, a medio 

 ustioribus, imo obtusis, et hinc in petiolo breviter decur- 

 rentibus, apice obtusis, breviter obtuse aut acutiuscule acuminatis, margine obso- 

 letissime serrulatis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra viridibus, nervis plurimis, rectiusculis, 

 parallele divaricatis, subimmersis, venis tenuissimis, reticulatis, subtus pallidius 

 viridibus, opacis, costa striata prominente, nervis imo barbatis venisque crebre 

 reticulatis prominentibus ; petiolo supra sulcato, subruguloso, parce puberulo, limbo 

 quadruple breviore : racemis axillaribus ; rachi longissima, erassissima, simpliei vel 

 in ramos 3-5 alternos interdum divisa, angulato-sulcata, ochraceo-pruinosa, verru- 

 culosa, multiflora ; pedicellis longiusculis (rarius bifurcatis et 2-floris), subvahdis, 

 rectis, subadscendentibus, firme persistentibus, imo bractea parva ciliata et apice 

 bracteis 2 calycem involucrantibus munitis ; floribus cum istis articulatis, plerum- 

 que caducis, majusculis, odoratissimis ; sepalis suborbicularibus, valde convexis, 

 extus granulato-rugulosis, puberulis, margine anguste membranaceis et ciliatis; 

 petalis majusculis, late oblongis, concavis, imo breviter unguiculatis, carnosulis, 



extus pallid 



intus rubris vel later 



siccitate flavide punctulatis, extus 



granoso-rugulosis ; androphoro albo, ligula rubra; ovario turbinate, 6-sulcato, sub- 

 infero, flavide pulverulento, 6.1oculari, ovulis plurimis axi afiixis, vertice intra 

 discum alte pulvinatim annularem convexo, et stylo brevi obtuso umbonato ; stig- 

 mate majuscule, depresse orbiculari, 6-lobato, lobis sulcatis : pyxidio majusculo, fere 

 loboso, imo angustato, apice subdepresso, paullo supra medium zona calycari sub- 



lineari cincto, 6-loculari 



In Peruvia alta 



hb 



m « 



rivulos {Spruce, 4495) 



Tarapota, in sj 



A very large tree about 100 feet high, with a softish wood, known by the name of 

 Aiauma {caput mortui), probably from its large round fetid fruit. The axils at the ends 

 of its pendent branchlets are 



1 



4 



broad 



close, about I line 



part 



the leaves are 4 



. long, 



a petiole f-1 in. long, with 18-20 pairs of straight parallel 



the rachis of the inflorescence is 2-3 Hues thick, a-9 in. long, with axils 3 Imes apart ; 

 the nearly erect persistent pedicels are 9-12 lines long and 1-1 i line thick; the oral 

 bracts at the apex of each pedicel are 2 lines long and broad, concealing the ovary, 

 which is articulated upon the pedicel ; the sepals are 1 J Hne long and broad ; the flesby 



