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petals are 18 lines long, 13 lines broad, flesh-coloured outside, brick-red within ; tlie 

 andropborum is 4 lines in diam., white, with a reddish ligula. The pyxidium, according 

 to Spruce's notes, is almost globular, 7-7^ in. in diam., somewhat narrower towards the 

 base, rather depressed above, with a linear zone a little above the middle, showing there 

 the vestiges of the sepals ; the upper zone and operculum are small ; the pericarp is 

 J in. thick, the epicarp and endocarp hard and osseous, the latter subtomentous inside ; 

 the fleshy mesocarp, becoming fluid, escapes, and leaves the space it occupied quite 



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empty ; the 6 fleshy dissepiments, at first firm and distinct, are soon resolved into a 

 mucilaginous pulp, which envelops many smallish seeds arranged in 2 series : this 

 pulp on exposure to the air becomes black and fetid. It is used by the natives to cure 

 skin-diseases in aoimals. 



. This species in many respects approaches C Surinamensis , especially in the hairy 

 tufts in the axils of the nerves ; but it diff'ers in its larger leaves upon longer petioles, 

 more numerous nerves, in the more slender persistent pedicels of the inflorescence (not 

 articulated at the base), in its smaller flowers, in its much larger fruit not quite 

 spherical. . . 



6. CouROTJPiTA ODORATissiMA, Seem, in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 301 ; Bot. Tier. p. 126 : 



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ramis divergentibus ; ramulis validiusculis, teretibus, pallide opacis, striatis, len- 

 ticellis flavidis odoriferis crebre verruculosis ; foliis oblongis, imo sensim cuncatis, 

 apice in acumen breve repente constrictis, iutcgcrrimis, vel obsolete sinuatis ct 

 minute denticulatis, margine ciliatis, tenuiter membranaceis vcl subchartaccis, 

 supra viridibus, vix nitidis, sparse pilosulis, nervis tonuibus plmumis parallelis 

 patentira divaricatis baud prominulis, venis trans versim rcticulatis, costa tcnui, 



subimmersa, subtus concoloribus, sparse puberulis 



;ostanuc prom 



densius pilosulis ; petiolo crassiusculo, supra piano, subtus convexo, dense pubcrulo, 

 limbo 15plo breviore ; stipulis parvis, subcordatis, puberulis, caducissimis : racemis 

 terminalibus, vel a trunco enatis, folium subaequantibus ; rachi valida, angulato- 

 sulcata, glanduloso-verruculosa, tomentosa, multiflora; floribus speciosis, odora- 

 tissimis; pedicellis sublongiusculis, rufo-tomentellis, demum glabratis, subcrcctis, 

 imo firmatis, apice cum floribus articulatis ; sepalis obtusis, ciliatis ; pctalis oblongis, 

 obtusis, marline fimbriatis, carneolis, luteo-striatis ; androphoro splcndente aurco; 



rio ut in spec, prgecedente ; stigmate 6-radiato. In Verag 



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ylvis Rio Jesus (Seemanny 1151). 



lib. Uooh 



A lofty tree, 60-80 feet high, growing in the forest, the trunk bare to the height of 

 20 feet, and bearing many racemes, with handsome flowers as large as those of a passion- 

 flower, from a resemblance to which it bears the vernacular name of Granadillo : it is 

 also caUed Falo de paraiso. The axils of its branchlets are f in. apart; the leaves are 

 6-74 in. long, 21-3 in. broad, on a stout petiole 5-6 Hnes long, and they have about 

 20 pairs of slender parallel nerves arcuately joined near the margin ; the rachis of the 



terminal raceme is 7 in. long, 2 lines thick ; pedicels alternately 2-4 lines apart, 6 



Hnes long, with flowers articulated on their summit, which arc 1^-2 in. broad when 

 expanded ; stamens very numerous, crowded upon both the annular ring and head of the 



