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omitted, because lie obtained them from a specimen collected by Humboldt in Cumana, 

 now in tte Berlin herbarium, and which has no flower ; it is certainly doubtful whether 

 that specimen is identical with Loefling's plant, because the characters assigned to it by 

 Berg apply equally to his Lecythis cordata, from Barcelona, which, in like manner, has 



date leaves of similar shape. Indeed this latter plant might have been 



sidered identical with L. ollaria^ were it not for the structure of the ovary, which is said 

 by Berg to be 2-locular, with a shortish style, and which, therefore, must be referred to 

 the genus Uschiceilera. We know of another Venezuelan species with cordate leaves 

 (from Tovar), L. tenax, Berg, which, for a similar reason, is also an Eschweilera, as I 

 have verified. 



Linnaeus never saw the plant ; nor does it appear that any botanist since the time of 

 Loefling (1758) has met with it, if we except the doubtful instance of Humboldt. 



2. Lecythis ampullaria, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio maximo, vasiformi, oblongo- 

 ovato, medio sensim ventricoso, et 12-sulcato, zona calycari paullo supra medium 

 linear! cincto; vitta interzonali conica, diametri dimidia parte alta, incurvata, 

 infra summum subito expansa, labium prominens simulante ; zona superiore cir- 

 eulari, Integra, fauce intus in labrum latissimum nitens producto ; operculo ignoto ; 

 pericarpio crasso, leviter lignoso; seminibus magnis, elongato-oblongis, utrinque 

 obtusis, pallide brunneis, cum costis prominentibus circa 7, intervallis angulatis 

 et transversim corrugulatis. In Nova Granada : v. fr, s. in Mus. Keio., Nova 



Granada [Triana) ; Antioquia {Jarvis). 



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\Vhether these fruits belong to L. integrifoUa, R. & P., or some other species from the 

 same locality, we have no evidence to determine. The two specimens in the Kew Museum 

 liave evidently been used as water-bottles, their bottoms being truncately cut to enable 

 them to stand upright. Their thin bark has been smoothed off, leaving a fibrous surface, 

 with twelve longitudinal furrows, which cease at a transverse line which I take to be 

 the calycary zone. The larger specimen (Plate XXXVIII.) is 8| in. long, GJ in. broad at 

 the yentricose middle, 51 in. at the calycary zone, which is 2f in. below the upper zone ; 

 the mterzonary band is contracted below the lip-shaped mouth to a diameter of 4 inches ; 

 ^he upper zone is 5 in. in diam., with a rather obtuse margin ; and this incHnes inward 



form the lip, which has an enamelled surface 1^ in. broad, where it narrows gradually 



jnto a^contracted mouth 3 in. in diam. ; the pericarp is J in. thick at the interzonal 

 ^3fid, , m. m the middle, and much thicker at the base ; the inner space is 7| in. deep, 



and ^^^l '^ ^^^ '^''^^^ ' *^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^ "^- ^^^o» 1 ^' ^^^^•l' ^^*^^'" narrower at base, 

 ^marked near one extremity with a lateral hUum. The smaUer specimen, from 



L !'^''''' '' °% lialf the size of the above, and is probably only half-grown; its surface 

 ^''^ ^^^^P^d off in a simHar manner. 



^^ciTHis Amazonum, Mart., Berg in Mart. PL Bras. I. c. p. 484 tab. m. 67 : planta 

 ^T' '• Py^i<iio maximo, late oviformi, imo hemisph^rice rotundato, longe supra 



"^ zona calycari obsolete 6.1obata vix prominente cincto ; vitta interzonah 



