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pedicellis calyci sequilongis, fuscis, corrugulatis ; sepalis 6, ovatis, subacutis, imo 

 gibbosis, fuscis, minutissime scaLridulis ; petalis ovalibus; ovario subinfero, imo 

 toruloso, 4-loculari, ovulis paucis e funiculis radiantibus, vertice depresse pulvinato, 

 radiatim costato ; stylo tereti subtenui, sepalis sequilongo : pyxidio longiuscule tur- 

 binato, imo angustiore profunde sulcato et umbilicato, corpore obconico, supra 

 medium zona calycari ambitu liexagona prominente 6-lobata cincto ; lobis longius- 

 culis compressis, late cornutis, subacutis, inflexis, liuea undulata nexis ; vitta inter- 

 zonali altiuscula, imo concava, dein convexa et fere erecta, diametri 4tam partem 

 alta ; zona superiore inferiore minore, circular! ; operculo vittse altitudine, pulvinato, 

 depresse convexo, obtuse umbonato, solido, subtus truncato et in fossis 4 cavato, co- 

 lumella obconica 4-sulcata cum eo continua ; pericarpio crasso, ponderose ligneo, pal- 

 lide brunneo, lacunis plerumque profundis grauulatis cancellatim areolato ; operculo 

 simillime signato. In Guiana : v. s. in herb. MooL et Mus. Brit., Berbice {Schotnb. 

 286) ; Guiana (Martin) ; Surinam {Sostmann, 1302) ; v, fruct. in Mus. Soc. Linn. 

 Guiana (ScJiomb. sub Z. grandijlora) ; in Mus. Kew. et meo, Demerara {JBoughton). 



This is a large tree, called Cacarola ; its brancblets with axils J-1 in. apart ; the 

 leaves are 3|-9 in. long, 1-3 J in. broad, on a petiole 5-7 lines long, and with about 15 

 pairs of principal nerves, with others shorter and intermediate ; the many-flowered 

 axillary raceme is 3}-5 in. long ; the pedicels 2-3 Unes apart, 1-2 Hnes long ; the sepals 

 2 Hnes long, 1 line broad ; the petals 10 Hnes long ; the style curved, as long as the 



pals; the pyxidium (Plate 55) is 6 J in. long; the calycary zone, 5 in. above the 



l)ase, is ^-^ in. in diam. ; interzonary band 1 in. high ; diam. of upper zone 3-33 



contracted in its mouth to 2 in., with a shelving surface ; depth of cell 3i-4 

 internal diam. 31 in. ; the fruit is identified with the plant, both bearing the same name 



This 



annexed to them by Schomburgk. The oblong seeds, If in. long, | in. broad, are of a 

 dark-brown colour, with several furcated costate ridges, pruinosely opaque ; and they are 

 suspended a Httle below the summit by a fleshy funicle of nearly similar size. ^ 

 species differs from L. grandijlora, Aublet, to which it was referred by Schombiirgk, m 

 Its narrower elongated lanceolated leaves, its" shorter racemes, with a more slender and 

 straighter rachis, very much smaller and more approximated flowers, of a pmk colour, 

 upon shorter pedicels, in its ovary with a more depressed vertex, in its more turbmate 

 pyxidium with an impressed canceUated surface, in a different calycary zone, a narrower 

 upper zone, with a more contracted and shallower mouth. 



22. Lecimis coaNATA, nob. • ramulis rubidule brunneis, opacis, striolatls, lenticellis 



flavidis verruculosis ; f oliis ovato-oblongis, yel elongato-oblongis, imo obtusis yei 

 PauUulo acutioribus, apice acute acuminatis, marginibus subintegns, chartaceis, 

 s«pra tete aut paUide viridibus, subnitidis, nervis divaricatis. subtus P^J''i"'"';»f; 

 ^bescentibus, aut fulvioribus, costa nervisque prommulis, valde ^f^^^^^^ P^*™" 

 f«sco, supra canaliculate, subtus transverse corrugulato, Umbo ll-14plo breviore 

 P'^niculis termlnalibus, ramosis, racbi rufescente-pruinosa su cata, nodo^ ; P^- 

 '^^^ subnutantibus ; sepalis oblongis, crassiusculis. concavis, inourvatis carmatis, 



