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preserved in spirit ; the fruit in sections, with the seeds suspended from their lar^e 

 funicles, was sent preserved in the same manner. The pyxidium, of a pale fawn-colour 

 (Plate LVII. fig. 4), is 5^-6 in. long ; the calycary zone, 3 in. ahove the hase, is 6-Q^ in 



diam.; the interzonary band is IJ in. high; the upper zone 3| in. broad 



its 



mouth 3 in. in diam. and f in. below the zone ; the operculum 3f in. broad, f in. hio^h ; 

 the columella, filling the mouth, flatly truncated beneath, is suddenly contracted into a 

 narrowish sulcated cone, descending halfway into the main cell ; the pericarp is | in. thick 



the sides, and 1 in. at the base ; the seeds are l^-lj in. long, f-1 in. broad, suspended 

 yellowish fleshy funicle 1-1^ in. lono^, f in. broad 



29. Lectthis minoe, Jacq. (non YeU.) Amer. i. p. 168, tab. 109 ; edit. 8vo, p. 210 ; 

 DC, Prodr. iii. 294; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 452: ramulis . tenuibus, brunneis, sub- 

 flexuosis, angulato-striatis, glabris ; foliis longe ellipticis, imo obtusis, et in petiolum 

 hreviter acutatis, apice longiuscule et acute attenuatis, crebre serrulatis, submcm- 

 hranaceis, Isete viridibus, utrinque concoloribus, nervis tenuibus supra subimmersis, 

 subtus costaque paullo prominulis ; petiolo fusco, canaliculate, tenuiter marginato, 

 hmbo 16plo breviore : racemis axiUaribus et terminalibus, foHo brevioribus ; rachi 

 crassiuscula, crebriflora ; floribus majusculis, odoratis, albis ; pedicellis brevissimis, 



sepalis subparvis, rotundato-ovatis, patentibus; petaHs anguste oblongis, 

 planis, subingequalibus ; ovario subinfero, 4-loculari, ovulis plurimis, radiantibus, 

 yertice depresse convexo ; stylo bre\d, conico, crasso : pyxidio subgloboso, minore, 

 lino hemisphserico, paullo supra medium zona calycari angulato-annulari sub-6-lobata 

 prommente cincto, lobis tumidis ; vitta interzonaU latiuscula, subconvexa, diametri 

 1 ^ am partem alta ; zona superiore Integra, quam calycari minore ; operculo pulvi- 

 natim convexo, solido, subtus late truncate, cum columella hreviter cuneata 4-sulcata 

 a nato; pencarpio crassiusculo, sublignoso, extus scrobiculatim rugoso, disse- 



pimentis 4 fere evanidis ; seminibus 6-8, oblongis, angulato-costatis, amaris. In 



crassis 



^ ova Granada ad Cartagena {Jacquin) : v. pi. s. in kb. Hook. (hort. cult, sine flore) ; 

 ^'jr. 8. m Mus. Kew., Cartagena {Archer) ; in Mus. meo, Costa Bica. 



axils 1 1 ^.^^^ ^^^' ^^ ^^^^ ^^SK growing in woods ; its branchlets are slender, with 



- 2 in. apart ; the leaves are 6 in. long, 2-2f in. broad, on a petiole li-2 lines long. 



^ ^'ith about 1 ^ • ^' ^^ ' ^ ^ ^' 



is 2-*^ • . ^^^^^ ^^ nerves and reticulated veins. Jacquin states that the raceme 



flowers a ^^f' ^^^^ ^ ^^^^* straight rachis : the Kew specimen has no inflorescence : the 

 *^e ^ns^r^^^^^ ^^^^!^® ' *^® ^^P^^^ ^^^ ^ li^^s ^^^o ; *^e petals 1 in. long, i in. broad ; 

 the semiol lb *^^ ^-^^^^^ °^ *^® androphorum and the basal ring are staminiferous ; 

 ^f ^ith thp ^^^J^^^^ ^^ densely filled inside with echinated appendages, perhaps sterile, 

 ^^meter ^ovoT ^^^^"^ ''^' ^^^ VJ^^^i^m (Plate XLIII. fig. 3) is 3 in. high, 3 in. in 

 •diameter is 2^^ Prominent calycary zone, which is annular, with 6 obtuse knobs ; its 

 ^ad is 8 lin ^i !^®^°^ *^® calycary zone, which is 1^ in. above the base ; the interzonary 



^ operculum^ f ^^^ ' ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^® ^^^ *^® opercular opening are 2 J in. in diam. ; 



^ck • thp !^\ *^^ ^^^^ t>readth, is flatly convex, 8 lines high ; the pericarp is 3 lines 



VOL. xS;''^^ ^^^ 1 i^- long, i in. broad. 



2 G 



