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ought to fit closely ; and the interzonary band is much too short. He is unquestionably 

 wrong in referring the species to L. ollaria, Linn. 



Berg*8 account is more than usually full of errors. He first refers it to Poiret's Guiana 

 species, to which certainly it does not belong, as I have verified in Commerson*s spe- 

 cimen ; and secondly he identifies it with Velloz*s L. minor, an extremely difi'erent 

 plant both in its leaves and fruit, as I have elsewhere demonstrated. There is another 

 great error in his account of the fruit. This is at variance with his drawing, which is 

 taken from a specimen collected in Rio de Janeiro by Pohl, and now in the Berlin 

 Museum. In this the diameter of the upper zone is 6| in., whereas in the description it 

 is stated to be only 3^ in., a discrepancy which might be attributed to a typical error if 

 it had not been accompanied by the word "parvo." I have copied that drawing in my 

 Plate LIT., with the addition of the operculum, 16 lines in height, as he states it to be 

 in the specimen. K-ieders specimen of the plant agrees with Saldanha's figure, and bears 

 on the accompanying ticket in BicdePs writing " Lecythis Pohlii, teste Berg." It is, 

 however, certainly different from that species, showing how loosely Berg gave his autho- 

 rity from memory, without eoinparing the plants. 



20. Lecytuxs limbata, nob. : pyxidio latissime urceolato, imum versus subconstricto, 



profundo 6-sulcato, -lobato et umbilicato; supra medium zona calycari latissime 

 cxpansa ambitu sinuato-hexagona angulis subacutis subreflexis cincto ; vitta inter- 

 zonali scnsim acclivi, diametri fere 4tam partem alta; zona superiore circulari, 

 ampla, fauco crassiuscula et convexe dcclivi; operculo ignoto; pericarpio crasso, 

 subleviter lignoso, grosse ruguloso, cum areolis impressis medio lenticellis flavidis 

 granulatis signato, obsolete tt-loculari. In Brasilia : v. fruct. sicctmi in Mns. Brit. 

 (sine altera indicationc). 



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The pyxidium of this very distinct species (Plate LIII.), from the mouth to the base, is 



6^ in. long ; its diameter beneath the calycary zone is 5| in. ; the latter, suddenly project- 



ing like a reflected cornice, is 8 J in. in diam., and 4^ in. above the base ; the interzonary 

 band is If in. high, 7 in. in diam. at its base, where it rises from the zonal lobes, curving 

 and narrowing upward to the upper zone, which is 4|^ in. in diam. ; the mouth inclines 



inwards, narrowing to an orifice 2| in. broad ; the pericarp is j in. thick below the 



calycary zone, and 1^ in. thick at the interzonary band ; the depth of the internal space 

 below tlie upper zone is 3| in., its internal diam. is 4i in. 



21. Lecytuis ventjsta, nob. : Lecythis grandijiora, Benth. (non Aubl.) in Hook. Joum. 



Bot. ii. 324 : ramulis teneris, fuscis, opacis, striolatis, rugulosis, lenticellis flavidis 

 verruculosis ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis, vel oblongis, imo obtusis, vel subacutis, 

 apice in acumen brevissimum acutum subito constrietis, integris, vel obsoletissime 

 serrulatis, marginibus subrevolutis, chartaceis, supra profunde viridibus, leviter 

 opacis, minutissime granulatis, nervis semiimmersis, venis reticulatis, subtus rubi- 

 dulc brunnescentibus, opacis, costa striata nervis flavidis venisque prominentibus ; 

 petiole tereti, canaliculato, subtus corruguloso, limbo 9-1 2plo breviore: paniculis 

 axillaribus ct terminalibus, brevibus ; floribus plurimis, mediocribus, incarnatis ; 



