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n. deep, narrowing the inner moutli to a breadth of 4 in. ; the pericarp is IJ in. thick 

 the interzonal band, li in. thick in the lower moiety. 



19. Lectthis biseerata, nob. : Lccythis lanceolata, Berg (non Poir.) in Mart. El. Bras. 

 I.e. p. 482, tab. 7. fig. 156, tab. 62 (excl. syn.) ; Linn, xxvii. p. 452 : Lecythis 

 oUaria, Saldanha (non linn, nee Veil.), Configura9ao, p. 70, Desenhos, tab. 8 : arbor 

 magnifica frondosa, ramis patentibus, ramulis pendentibus, tenuissimis, subflexiiosis, 

 lenticellatis, glauco-opacis ; foliis lanceolatis, imo subrotundatis, aut subito cuneato- 

 acntis, apice longiuscule attenuatis, acuraine obtusulo, rigidule chartaceis, insequa- 

 liter biserrulatis, dentium margine ciliato-pruinoso, supra Isete viridibus, utrinqne 

 nervis tenuissimis venis crebre reticulatis costaque tenui prominulis, subtus olivaceis, 

 nervis flavidis ; petiolo tenui, limbo 12plo breviore : panicula terminali, ramis laxis, 

 racemosis, vel racemis axillaribus, folio longioribus, snb-lO-floris ; rachi tenuissima, 

 floribus aromaticis ; pedicellis calycem aequantibus, minutissime puberulis ; sepalis 

 ovatis, obtnsis, extus cano-pruinosis ; petalis obovatis, crassiusculis, violaceis, imo 

 pallidis ; androphoro albo ; ovario infero, turbinate, 4-loculari, vertice piano, radiatim 

 striato ; stylo brevi, crassiusculo ; stigmate subgloboso : pyxidio majusculo, depresse 

 globoso, imo turbinato, profunde sulcato et umbilicato, longe infra medium zona 

 calycari prominente aunulari subundulata cincto, ambitu circulari ; vitta interzonali 

 parum convexa, zonae calycaris diametri tertiam partem alta ; zona superiore ampla, 

 paullo angustiore, subquadrato-orbiculari ; operculo lato, pulvinatim depresso, dia- 

 metri fere septimam partem alto, subtus columella crassa tmncata imo 4-sulcatim 

 obconica aucto ; pericarpio obsolete 4-loculari, crasso, subspongioso-lignoso, areolis 

 magnis irregularibus impresso. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro : v. pi. in herb. 

 SooJc., Montibus Orgauensibus, ad Mandiocca {Biedel, 4) ; fruct. non vidi. 



A magnificent tree, according to Sen. Saldanha, with a trunk more than 2 feet in 

 diameter, bare to the height of 80 feet, when it separates into three short sections, sub- 

 divided into numerous wide-spreading branches, with copious foliage, the branchlets 

 neing extremely slender and pendulous ; the axils are | in. apart ; the leaves are 2-4 in. 

 ^^o' 2-li in. broad, on petioles 2-3 lines long, having about 16 pairs of very fine nerves, 

 ^•ith many others intermediate and shorter, l\\ anastomosing into a very close and pro- 

 jmnent reticulation; the branches of the terminal panicle are 1-3 in. long; the rachis of 



' ^^lary racemes is IJ in. long ; the pedicels are 1 line long; the sepals 2 lines; the 



fp, ' 6 lines long, 5 lines broad ; the flower expanded 1| in. across. The pyxidium 



U-iate LIL), with the addition of the operculum, according to Berg's drawing from a 



Pecimen in the Berlin herbarium, is nearlv 6* in. high ; the diameter of the calycary 



2'' IS 8 m. in diam., and 2 in. above the base ; the interzonary band is 2^ in. high ; the 



m zone is 61 in. across, the operculum being of the same diameter, and 16 lines high ; 



margin of the mouth is 9-10 lines broad, the orifice 4| in. wide. 

 . ^n. Saldanhn'« 



hisfi 



full description of this species is good, and his drawing of it tolerable 



.mnn -.-f °^ ^^^ ^^'^it' reduced to i nat. size, must be rejected, because it sho;^ 

 "^Po sibihty, as the operculum is twice the diameter of the upper zone, on which it 



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