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of Rio de Janeiro ; it agrees well with the characters of that found hy Velloz at Ilha 

 Governador in the same bay. The axils of its hranchlets are f-l in. apart ; the leayes 

 are 2-4 in. long, l^lf in. broad, on a petiole 2 lines long, with about 12-15 pairs of 

 slender nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all anastomosing; the axillary 

 raceme is 1 J in. long, its floriferous nodes 2 lines apart, the pedicels 2 lines long ; the 

 sepals IJ line long ; petals 4 lines long, 5 lines broad, concave, yellow ; androphorum 

 globosely inflected, 6 lines in diameter ; the pyxidium (Plate LVI. fig. 1) is 5 J in. long, 

 4 in. broad below the calycary zone, which is 6 in. in diam., and 4 in. above the base ; the 

 interzonary band f in. broad; operculum 3 in. in diam. and J in. high, increased beneath 

 Ij the columella, which fills the mouth, where it is 1 in. thick, and then descends 

 obconicaUy to the middle of the cell ; the pericarp is | in. thick, its inner space 4 in- 

 deep below the opercular zone, and 4 in. in diam. ; the seeds are IJ in. long, f in. broad, 

 suspended from a large lateral hilum a little below the summit by a fleshy funicle of 

 nearly equal size ; the nucleus is amygdaloid, edible, and of a pleasant flavour. 



27. Le 



JTTHis GEANDiFLORA, Aubl. ii. 712, tab. 283, 284, 285, in parte (non excl. syn. 

 Benth.) ; DC. Prodr. iii. 291 ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 454 : arborea ; ramuHs fuscis, 

 stnolatis, lenticellis sparse verruculosis ; foliis majusculis, ovato-oblongis, imo 

 rotundiusculis, et in petiolum brevissime constrictis, apice obtusis, in acumen bre- 

 vissimum acutum repente attennatis, crenulatis, margine revoluto punctate, char- 

 taceis, supra viridibus, subopacis, nervis adscendentibus venisque reticulatis paulo 

 prommulis,^ costa imo crassiore sulcata, subtus fere concoloribus, valde opacis, costa 

 vahda nervis flavidis venisque prominentibus ; petiolo validissimo, fusco, marginibus 

 tenuibus involutis, limbo 8plo breviore : racemo terminali, foHo breviore ; rachi 

 vahdissima, angulato-sulcata, valde geniculata, longe nodosa, crebre lenticellata, sub- 

 remotiflora ; pedicellis validis, angulato-corrugulosis, imo bractea majuscula decidua 

 ongo-ovata crassa subsessili recurvata donatis; sepalis orbicularibus, concavis, 

 submembranaceis, lenticellatis, pruinosis ; petaUs maximis, oblongis, subinsequaHbus, 

 concavis, roseis ; ovario semiinfero, 4-loculari, ovulis numerosis affixis, vertice alte 

 pulvinato, conice convexo, radiatim striato; stylo tereti, longiusculo: pyxidio 

 ^ajusculo, turbinato-oblongo, supra medium zona calycari annulari prominente 

 solete 6-loba ambitu subhexagona cincto ; vitta interzonali introrsum sigmoideo- 

 onvexa, diametri 4tam partem alta ; zona superiore Integra, inferiore dimidio angus- 

 e , operculo vittse altitudin e, pul vinatim convexo, apice umbonato, solido, cum 

 ^0 umella crassa primum obconica dein acuta et profunde 4-sulcata continuo ; peri- 

 coTr ^^^^?' °^^^^etissime 4-loculari ; seminibus plurimis, magnis, oblongis, sub- 

 (yl ^i ^\ ^^f^^^}^ magno carnoso suspensis ; nucleo eduli. In Guiana : v. pi 8. spec 



erb. Mm. Brit., Cayenne (Aublet) ; Guiana (Martin) : frucf. non vidi 



Urn 



^Part; theT' ^^^^ ^ *^^^ ^^ ^®^* ^°^° ' *^® ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ hranchlets «x. ^-^^ ^. 



about' U D ^^^^^ ^"^f ^^^ ^' ^^""^^ ^*-^ ^^- ^^^^d' o^ * P^*'^^^ ^^ ""• ■^^''^' ^""^ ^^^ 

 ^o^ards the ^^ ^"'^^^^t^d nerves and others shorter intermediate, all anastomosed 



e margin ; the rachis of the raceme is 3i-6 in. long, with projectmg nodules 



