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empty, the seeds having been devoured by the monkeys, who are very fond of them. 

 The great height of the tree prevented him from obtaining specimens of it. He observed 

 it in a forest near Catuca, twenty miles W. of Pernambuco and about sixty miles from 

 Alagoas. Marcgraaf says the size and shape of the leaves are like those of the mulberry, 

 and are therefore about 3 J in. long and 21 in. broad. 



16. Lecythis densa, nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio globoso-ovali, dense ponderoso, imo 

 hemisphgerico, fere ad medium zona calycari obtuse annular! vix lobata ambitu 

 circulari cincto ; vitta interzonal! alte conica, diametri tertiam partem alta ; zona 

 superiore quam calycari dimidio minore, circulari, fauce crassa et declivi ; operculo 

 convexo, diametri tertiam partem alto ; columella crassa faucem implente, subtus 

 truncata et 4-cavernosa, dein in conum 4-sulcatum angustum longe descendentem' 

 constricta ; pericarpio crassissimo, densissimo, ecorticato, fusco, crude tuberculato, 

 impresse areolato, cum granulis interspersis. In Brasilia : v. fr. s. in Mus. Brit. 

 (Shane, 7798), loco ignoto. 



This may possibly be the fruit of L. ollarla ; it approaches L. Fisonis in its general 

 character ; the pyxidium (Plate XLIX. fig. 1) is 6| in. long, 5^ in. from the upper zone 

 to the base, 6J in. broad across the calycary zone, which is 3 in. above the base ; the 

 interzonary hand is 2 in. high ; the upper zone 3 J in. across the mouth, which is f in. 

 deep, and contracted to a diameter of 2 in. ; the operculum is 3 J in. in diam., 1 in. high ; 



the attached 



mella, f in. thick, fills the mouth, and descends in a conical form to 



further depth of 2 in. ; the pericarp is 1* in. thick at the calycary zone, 1 in. thick above 



and at the base 



17. Lecythis Pisonis, Camb. PI. Bras. ii. 377 (excl. synon.) ; Berg in Mart. PI. Bras. 



^- c. p, 480, tab. 82 (excl. syn.) ; id. in Linnsea, xxvii. 499 (excl. syn.) : arbor 



procera, trunco maximo, cortice quercino, crasso, irregulariter rimoso ; ramulis 



gracilibus, pallide brunneis, pruinosis, striolatis, verruculosis ; f obis oblongo- vel 



nceolato-ellipticis, imo rotundiuscule obtusis, anice sensim angustioribus et in 



acumen acutum longiusculum constrictis, crebre et obtusule serrato-denticulatis, 

 c artaceis, supra valde viridibus, subnitentibus, nervis tenuissimis stramineis ar- 

 cuatim nexis, yenis crebre reticulatis costaque tenui prominulis, subtus vix pallidi- 

 ^1 lis, opacioribus, costa fusca nervis stramineis venisque prominulis ; petiolo fusco, 

 «iaahculato, marginato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 20-30plo breviore : racemis fsec. 

 ^m ) folio brevioribus, rachi gracili, creberrime 5-lO-flora ; >edicellis 



^|iilongis; floribus majusculis ; sepalis ovatis, obtusis, atro-violaceis, obsolete 



ovar-'''''' v^^*^^'" ol:>ovatis, ina^qualibus, violaceis, demum albidis, extus prumosis; 

 non C ^'rf^''''' 4-loculari, ovulis plurimis ab axi radiantibus : pyxidio (sec. Berg, 

 versus^"^ ^aj^sculo, imo hemisphgerico, umbilicato et interdum 6-lobato, medium 

 ^tta inT'' ''^^^''^'*^ annular! 6-nodata subprominente ambitu fere circular! cincto ; 

 calycari TT^ convexa, diametri plusquam dimidium alta ; zona superiore quam 

 1-seriati. f '^'^'™ angustlore ; fauce decliva, latiuscula, margine foveolis crebre 



terebrata ; operculo crasso, convexo, vitt* fere altitudine, subtus columella 



