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middle ; the calycary zone is 2 J in. above the base ; the interzonary band is J in. high ; 

 the upper zone is 2 in. in diameter, contracted at the mouth in a channelled acute lip. A 

 species near L. pilaris; but why it is called platy zone it is difficult to see. 



36. Lecythis longipolia, H. B. K. vii. 260 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 291 ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 

 452 : racemis teretiusculis, tenuissime canescenti-hirtellis ; foliis sparsis, lanceolatis, 

 imo acutis, apice acuminatis, conduplicatis, marginibus obsolete et remote dentatis, 

 suhcoriaceis, glabris, nervis parallele divergentibus, yenis reticulatis, subtus costa 

 nervisque prominentibus ; petiolo subtereti, limbo 16-20plo breviore : inflorescentia 

 ignota; floribus pedicellatis, pedicello glabro. In Venezuela, prov. Oaraccas, in 

 Aragua, ad ripam fluv. Orinoci, legit Htmiholdt : non vidi. 



A tree seen by Humboldt and Bonpland, who collected an incomplete specimen, 

 without inflorescence, with a single mutilated flower. It is called by the natives Coco de 

 Mono (Monkey-pot), and is therefore most probably a true LecytUs; but Berg, without 

 any assigned reason, doubts this, and, with some hesitation, refers it to Gustavia. The 

 leaves are 8-10 in. long, 22-26 lines broad, on a petiole | in. long ; the pedicel is nearly 

 an inch long. The species seems near i. Zabucayo, Aubl. 



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37. Lecythis integeifolia, R. & P., Syst. El. Per. 8vo vol. ined. p. 529 : ramulis 



teneris, teretibus, brunneis, opacis, striatis, lenticellatis ; foliis elongato-oblongis, 



imo rotundatis vel obtusis, apice in acumen acutum subbreve subito constrictis, 



marginibus tenuibus integris, vel obsolete crenatis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra planis, 



Isete viridibus, opacis, nervis paucis tenuissimis semiimmersis, divergentibus et 



longe adscendentibus, valde reticulatis, subtus brunnescentibus, opacis, costa tenui 



nervis venisque flavidis prominentibus; petiolo tenui, marginibus valde involutis, 



limbo 15-18plo breviore. In Ecuador : v. s. in herb, Eooh, Guayaquil (Tavon), 



e^ hb. Zimens. a Mathewsio acquisitam (sine flore). 



Mathews quotes this species as described in p. 529 of the Syst. of Kuiz and Pavon, 



in one of the unfinished volumes, which I have not seen, as the last published does 



not extend beyond p. 455. He sent a specimen of the plant, without flowers, to Sir Wm. 



fiooker, obtained from the Pavonian herbarium in Lima, from which the above dia^osis 



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obtained. The axils of its slender branchlets are |-1 in. apart ; the leaves are 5-8 in 



^^^ ^H in. broad, on a petiole 4-5 lines long, and they have about 6 pairs of nerves, 

 J^^ith other shorter and intermediate ones, aU anastomosed. We do not, therefore, know 

 or certain that this plant is a true Lecythis ; it bears more the appearance of an 



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8. Lecythis Langsdorffii, Berg in Mart. El. Bras. I. c. p. 615 : ramuHs angulato- 



^^catis, rimosis ; foliis oblongis, vel eUiptico-oblongis, imo complicatis et m petio- 

 7^ ^reviter attenuatis, apice in acumen breve recurvum abrupte constrictis, sub- 

 ^^tegris, vel ad marginem subrevolutum punctis obsolete serrulatis, chartaceis, 

 s^Pi-a luride viridibus, valde opacis, ad nervos impressos sulcatis, venis crebre reti- 

 ^^tis immersis, subtus spadiceo-brunneis, valde opacis, subpulverulentis, costa 



