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MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E. 207 



broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long; the racliis of the raceme is 2-2| in. long; the pedicels 

 are IJ line long; the flower in bud is ^ in. in diam., the sepals 1^ Une long. The 

 pyxidium (Plate XLYI.) is 5f in. long, 4i in. in diam. ; the calycary zone 4 in. ahoye the 

 base; the interzonal band is | in. high; the operculum is ^ in. in diam., IJ in. hio-h 

 the columella attached beneath it, being there 3 J in. broad, 2i in. long, conicali'4.an-led,' 

 with 4 deep hollows ; the pericarp is f in. thick ; the depth of the cell is 3 J in., its internal 

 diam. 3 in., the inner mouth under the operculum being 2 in. in diam. In Duncan's 

 specimen the thin granulated bark is partly scraped away, showing beneath it many 

 impressed whitish areoles. The indigenous specimen in the Kew Museum is rather 

 wider, and the operculum broader and of more fibrous consistence. The specimen in the 

 British Museum, from the Island of Bourbon, is smaller and immature ; its operculum 

 IS taUer and more pulvinate, and contains 12 immature seeds only 14 lines long. 



Dr. Berg (El. Bras. I. c. p. 482) confounded this Guiana species, which he had not 

 seen, with Yelloz's Zecf/this minor from Rio de Janeiro, a species well known by me, and 

 to be presently described under Zec^this tuberculata. 



12. Lectthis Zabucayo, Aubl. Guian. ii. 718, tab. 288 (excl. syn.) ; DC. Prodr. iii. 293 ; 



erg m Linn, xxvii. 453 : ramuHs subteretibus, subangulato-striatis, ad axillascom- 

 pressis, fusco-brunneis, lenticellis flavis creberrime verruculosis, junioribus tenui- 

 onbus, Isevibus ; foliis oblongis, vel lanceolato-oblongis, imo obtusis aut acutioribus, 

 apice repentino longiuscule et acute attenuatis, subintegris, vel obsolete crenulato- 

 serratis, chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, subopacis, nervis tenuibus subpatentibus 

 vix prommulis, reticulatis, costa tenui prominula, subtus fulvis, opacis, minute 

 granulosis, nervis venisque prominentibus, costa flava, striolata, prominente ; petiolo 



usculo supra piano, marginato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 24plo bi 

 axillaribus ■ ° ^ 



racemis 



. terminalibus, folio multo brevioribus, paucifloris; rachi flexuosa 



nr. T?' ^"^^^^^^ iiodosa; floribus mediocribus, paUidis, glutinosis; pedicello sub 



'palis bre 



viore; sepalis pallidis, crassiusculis, ovato-acutis, subcarinatis 



albis-' i^ ^^*^"0sis, marginibus anguste membranaceis, erosulis; petalis ovatis, 

 OTulis ^ ^.^^. ^^ roseo; ovario infero, turbinato, vertice subconcavo, 4-loculari, 

 truncat ^^^^^ paullo sub apice axi affixis, radiantibus : pyxidio late ovato, imo 

 obsolet fi ^^^™o> medio cylindrico, supra medium zona calycari vix prominente 

 interzo 1' ^ -^ ^i^icto, lobis late obtusis, sursum incurvulis et acutiusculis ; vitta 

 superiore c'^^^T^— ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ conice convexa, diametri 3-4tam partem alta ; zona 

 faucem i^^^i^ ^^^' "iferiore angustiore ; operculo depresse convexo, subtus columella 

 Pericarpi^T^ ^^^^ crassissima aucto, hac obconica, 4-sulcata, longe descendente ; 

 ^iiiana p ^^^^^^^^^^^» pallide brunneo, minute granuloso, leviter ponderoso. In 

 {MartL\' ^'^^^f' (specim. typic.) in herb. Mus. Bnt, Cayenne (Aublet); Guiana 



A 



3 Ipn!! '^^' ^^*^ spreading branches ; the axils of the branclilets 



1-1^ in. 



*W : the .,^y^.g 



*Wt 12 or^iH^^.^^ ^^^* ^* ^^^^' ^-^ i^- ^road, on a petiole 3-5 lines long ; they have 

 ^P^e raceme hZ^^- ^^^^^' ^^*^ others shorter and intermediate : the rachis of its 



in. long, when panicular 5 in. long, with branches 1-1^ in. long. 



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