﻿* 



MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 205 



fusco-brunneis, glauco-pminosis, irregulariter costatis, costis paullo prominentibus. 

 In Nova Granada : v, fr. sice, in Mus. Kew., Antioquia (Jervis). 



The fruit (Plate XLIII. fig. 1) is extremely different from L. mnpullaria from the 

 locality. The pjxidium is ^ in. long, 5J in. broad; calycary zone 5^ in. above 



the base, 6 in. in diam. ; interzonary band 1| in. high ; operculum 3| in. in diam. 1# in. 



high ; columella, with a neck filling the mouth 9 lines thick, is alto"-ether 4 in. lono- • 

 pericarp | in. thick, internally 6 in. deep from upper zone, and 4^ in. broad ; it is covered 

 by a rather thin cracking bark, granulated with raised hollow lenticels ; the seeds are 

 1| in. long, 1 in. broad. 



9. Lecythis validissima, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio late vasiformi, imo rotundato, 

 supra medium zona calycari annulatim prominula et obsolete 6-lobata margine 

 erecta cincto; vitta interzonal! primum concava, dein conice convexa, diametri 

 7mam partem alta ; zona superiore circulari, inferiore minore ; operculo altiore, pulvi- 

 nato, valde crasso, subtus columella descendente aucto, hac orificium implente, 

 dem anguste obconica et 4-sulcata; pericarpio crassissimo, Hgnoso, ponderoso, 

 bruuneo, granulatim scrobiculato, obsolete ^-loculari \ seminibus oblongis, obtusulis, 

 opace brunneis, subgranulatis, costis rubellis prominulis irregulariter furcatis. In 

 Guiana : v. s. in Mus. Brit., sine loco et forsan indigena; in Mus. Kew., ins. Mauri- 

 tiana cult. (J. Duncan). 



^^ The former specimen (Plate XLIV.) agrees in size, shape, and other respects with the 



hich is cultivated in the Mauritius, and is one of the three kinds transported from 



ayenne m 1760, by order of the French government (the other two species bein 



• mceolata and X. Zabucayo). It much resembles the latter in form, but is much 



and of much 



calycary zone is 6i-6i in. in diam.. and 6 



consistence. It is 74-71 in. lonsr, 5^-61 in. broad : the 



2 « J A^- A"i^o> ^^ "4 



above the base; the interzonary band 



g ; the upper zone and operculum are 4^-4^ in. broad, tlie latter 1| in. high 



PTno ^,^ , , "^^^^^ ^J tiie columella, which fills the mouth, where it is \ in. thick, and 



n ^tr p ^^^^^ ^^ ^ 4-grooved conical form, reaching the middle of the cell ; the pericarp 



^maua specimen is | in., in that from the Mauritius 1 in. thick. 



T 



6-s 1 + -^^^^^^^SA, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio urniformi, imo sensim angustiore : 

 aun 1 V ^^^ilicato, medio subventricoso, longe supra mediuni zona calycari 

 u.^. ^.^^ Pi^ominente obsolete 6-loba ambitu circulari cincto, lobis late rotundatis. 



brevi 



simis, erectis, vel paullo inflexis, compressis ; vitta interzonali valde dep 



flemis ^^^^^7^' ^^^ convexiuscula, paullo elevata, vel interdum subter zonam 

 minore • ^ ^^^^^^^^^^i^er depressa ; zona superiore Integra, circulari, inferiore multo 

 faucem'" °^^^^^^^ convexo, tuberculato, rugoso, subtus columeUa brevi, intra 

 ^^ 4-suCT^^^^*^ subtruncata cavernis 4 insculpta dein subito brevissime obconica 

 ^el tuberc 1^ ^^^^^ ' P^ncarpio ecorticato, subcrasso, glauco-brunneo, scrobiculato, 

 <l^e tuber^ f ^' ^^°^ ^^^^lis impressis et foveolis profundis variolate (vitta operculo* 

 ^^tuse ^^j^^^ '^^^"^^gosis et foveolatis), sub- 4-loculari; seminibus 24, majusculis, 

 ^OL. xix ^^^^^' castaneis, costis crassis irregulariter furcatis prominentibus, sub- 



2 B 



-y 



