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contributions to tlie Kew Museum (Hook. Kew Jo. ii. 74, no. 23). ^ The axils of its 

 branches are 4-8 lines apart ; the leaves are 3^5^ in. long, l|-2 in; broad, on a petiola 

 2}-3 lines long ; they have about 12 pairs or more of nerves, with others shorter and 

 intermediate, all anastomosing. The raceme is li-3 in. long, the nodes of the rachis 

 2-3 Hnes apart, supporting a pedicel 1 line long ; the sepals are 2 lines, the petals 15 lines 

 long, and 9 lines broad. The pyxidium (Plate XLVII. fig. 2) is 4| in. long, 5f in. broad 

 at the calycary zone, which is 2| in. above the base; the interzonary band is If in. hio-h ; 

 the upper zone 3| in. in diam., the operculum being lost in both specimens ; the mouth 



deep, and contracted to a cUameter of 2i-2| in. ; the pericarp is | in. thick, the 



depth of the internal space is 3| in. below the upper zone, and its internal diam. is 

 3} in. ; the seeds are 2 in. long, 1 in. broad. There are 2 specimens in the Kew Museum, 

 one sent by Dr. Spruce, the other by Mr. Wetheral, who contributed many vegetable 

 productions from the Amazonas res-ion. 



14. Lectthis Pohlii, Berg, in Mart. 'Fl. Br. I. c. p. 484, tab. 7. fig. 150 et tab. 68 ; 

 Linn, xxvii. 452 (excl. syn.) : ramis nigrescentibus, ramulis teneris, brunneis, 

 minute verruculosis, subpruinosis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, oblonds, vel oblon^o-lan- 



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ceolatis, imo rotundatis et in petiolum ssepe breviter acutatis, apice in acumen 

 angustum longissimum acutum attenuatis, serrulatis, dentibus subminutis, tenuiter 

 memhranaceis, utrinque Isete viridibus, supra nitidis, nervis tenuissimis, patentim 



ivergentib.us, promimilis, crebre reticulatis, costa tenuissima, subtus vix opacis,' 

 nervis prominulis, costa utrinque striolata; petiolo tenuissimo, marginato, limbo 

 30plo breviore: racemis (sec. cl. Berg) axillaribus, folio sa^pius brevioribus; rachi 

 gracih, pauciflora; floribus parvis; pedicellis sulcatis, minutissime puberulis, 

 calycem aequantibus ; sepalis obovatis, subpatentibus, pruinosis ; petalis obovatis ; 

 ovario semiinfero, parvo, 4-loculari, vertice convexo, puberulo ; stylo tereti: 

 Pyxidio subgloboso, imo rotundato ; supra medium zona calycari obsolete 6-lobata 

 lu circulari vix prominula cincto ; vitta interzonali primum incurva, dein 

 ive convexa, diametri quartam partem alta; zona superiore circulari, inferiore 

 paulo mmore; operculo valido, vitt« dupla altitudine, spha^rice convexo, subtus 

 ^0 umella primum crassissima et truncata, mox obcouica et 4-sulcata, longiuscule 

 ^ cen ente aucto ; pericarpio crassissimo, dure lignoso, griseo-fuscescente, obsolei« 

 rite ^^^ ! ®^^^i^e 4-loculari ; seminibus oblongis, utrinque obtusulis, irregula- 

 hh y^^^"^*^^^ ^^^^'is- In Brasilia, prov. Goyaz, ad Pilar [FoM, 4311) : v. pi. s. in 



' ^ ook., prov. Goyaz {Burchell, sine flore, 9865) : fr. non vidi. 



"'^ mvoa}^'^'^^ resembling in habit Z. Plsonis, but with a very different fruit, which 

 H in! a T-t^.^ -^^ ^^^^ *^^* °^ ■^* ^^^'^^^«««^'^'^"^'^- The axils of its slender bmnchlets 

 ^^in^ lo^I' ^^^^^^^^eincly membranaceous leaves, with a long narrow acumen, are 

 ^^2 in. Ion °! ih^^ ^^' ^^'^^^' ^^ ^ petiole 1-1^ line long ; the axiUary racemes are 

 H which^-' !f ^.P^^^^^^^ 1-2 lines long ; the sepals 1 line, the petals 3-5 lines long in the 

 ^S^i-e) is 5 i 1 ' '"^ *^^™- 5 the pyxidium (Plate XLVIIL fig. 3, copied from Berg's 

 ^ ^"- above th* h ^' ^* ^^" ^^^^^ ' ^^^^ calycary zone, with 6 obsoletely erect lobes, is 



^ oase, and equally broad ; the interzonary band is 10 lines high ; the 



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