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2ig MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE. 



obsolete 4-loculari; seminibus oblongis, costis subparaUelis crenul^tim rugosis, 

 funiculis camosis majusculis suspensis. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro, ad fluv. 

 Macacii, v. pi. s. etfruct. a cl. C. Cox donati. 

 A tree growing along the margin of the Rio Macacii, which flows from the eastern 

 extension of the Organ Mountain -range into the N.E. extremity of the great bay of Rio 

 do Janeiro ; the axils on its branches are about 1 in. apart ; the leaves have a very lurid 

 appearance on both sides, are 3-4i in. long, 1^-2 in. broad, on petioles 3-4i lines Ion 

 having about 15 pairs of very fine nerves, with others shorter and intermediate. 



The°pyxidium (Plate LVl. figs. 3, 4, 5) is 4J in. long, 6^ in. broad at the calycary zone, 

 which is very prominent, and about 3 in. above the narrow constricted base ; the inter- 

 zonal band, much inclined, is f in. high ; the upper zone and operculum are 4i in. in 

 dium. ; the latter is j in. high, with a low umbonate knob in the centre, and is furnished 

 beneath with a columella f in. thick, where it fills the mouth, then suddenly contracted 

 and l-"T0oved to a further depth of 1 inch ; the seeds are apparently only 1-seried, IJ in. 



I in. broad, suspended by fleshy funicles | in. long. The pericarp is 1 in. thick at 



the sides, If in. at the base, its inner space being 2 in. deep below the orifice, and 3 

 wide. Specimens of the fruit and suspended seeds were sent to me preserved in spirits 



20. LECYTnis TUBERCULATA, nob. : Lecytlm minor, Veil, (non Jacq.), PI. Flum. p. 222, 



Icon. V. tab. 85 : arbor mediocrls ; ramulis tenuissimis teretibus, pallide brunneis, 



56 lenticcllatis, apice foliiferis, imo nudis, cum racemulis 

 floriferis ex axillis nudis : foliis oblongis, vel lanceolato-oblongis, imo in petiolum 



pruuiosis, spar 



infero 



brevitcr acutatis, apice in acumen angaste obtusulum subrepente attenuatis, dis- 

 tinctc serratis, dcntibus oLtusis, subchartaccis, supra laete viridibus, subnitentibus, 

 nervis tiMiuIbus venis reticulatis costaque carinata prominentibus, subtus paUidi- 

 oribus, nervis venisquc albidis prominentibus, costa prominente, pruinosa ; petiolo 

 tenui, supra piano, limbo 24plo breviore : racemis axillaribus, brevissimis, pauci- 

 fluris, aut foliis delapsis longius spicatifloris ; rachi opace pruino§a, circ. 6-8-flora ; 

 floribus nicdiocribus; pedicellis brevibus, recurvulis, sulcatis, pruinosis; sepahs 

 ovalibus, extus granulato-pruinosis, margine ciliolatis ; petalis ovatis ; ovari 

 tnrbinato, 4-loculari, oviQis pluribus axi radiatim afilxis, vertice piano radiatim 

 striato ; stylo brevi, apice crassiore ; stigmate parvo, albido : pyxidio turbinato, uno 

 rotundato, sulcato et umbilicato, supra medium zona calycari annular! valde 

 prominente cincto, hue ambitu hexagona, angulis tuberculis 2 magnis donatis; vitta 

 intcrzonali convcxe accKvi, diametri 4tam partem alta ; zona superiore suborbiculari 

 quam inferiore angustiore ; opcrculo convexo, solido, cum columella adnato, nac 

 infra medium obconice 1-sulcata aucto ;. pericarpio fusco, ecorticato, crasso, 

 obsolete l-loculiui, extus operculoque grossiuscule et profunde tuberculato ; semmi- 

 bus oblongis, utrinque obtusis, irregulariter costato-sulcatis, fuscis, funiculo magno 

 canioso albo suspensis. In Brasilia: v. v. pi. etfruct. in prov. Rio de Janeiro, ad 

 Frelxal. 



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.\ small tree, of no great height, abundantly branched, found at the head of the Bay 



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