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attenuatis, subintegris, vel margine teaui vix revoluto leviter crenato-serrulatis, 

 rigide cliartaceis, supra opacis, sub lente minute granulosis ; nervis adscendenter 

 diyaricatis, vix prominulis, costa tenui, subtus rubescentibus, opacis, costa valida 

 striata, nervis venisque areolatim reticulatis prominentibus, petiole fusco, tereti, 

 subcanaliculato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 12-17plo breviore: panicula e racemis 

 3-4 approximatis, axillari vel terminali ; racbi subflexuosa, folio breviore, angulato- 

 sulcata, fusca, granulatim pruinosa, subapproximatim nodosa; floribus ad nodos 

 articulatis; pedicellis sepalis dimidio brevioribus, saepe recurvulis, subtenuibus. 



verruculosis ; sepalis elongato-oblongis, intus 



extus subcarinatis, gibbosi 



torulosis, opacis, margine membranaceo-crenulatis ; petalis ovatis, unguiculatis 



infero, extus verruculoso, 4-loculari, ovulis paucis, paululo sub apieem 

 vertice concave, radiatim striate; stylo lonmusculo, subincurvo. 



suspensis 



Guiana Batava : 

 {Eostman, 1260) 



In 



herb. Mm. Brit, Guiana (Martin) ; in herb. Hook.y Surinam 



This is a tree with white flowers 



The species differs from Z. Martini in its leaves bein 



double their size, and upon shorter petioles, in a paniculate raceme double the length 



and with a stouter rachis 



3-8| in. long 



4 



3 



The axils of its branchlet§ are 1|-2| in. apart ; its leaves 



broad, on a petiole 3-5 lines long, and they have 12- 14 pairs of 



with others shorter and intermediate, all anastomosing ; the panicle or raceme 

 2-3^ in. long ; the pedicels 1 line long ; the sepals 2 lines long ; the petals 7 lines long 



3-4 Hnes broad 



ndrophorum 9 lines in diam 



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11. Lectthis setifera, nob. : ramulis tenuibus dichotemis ; foliis suborbiculatis, imo 

 petiolum versus abrupte acutis, apice in acumen lineare subito constrictis, mem- 

 branaceis, denticulatis, dentibus setiferis, supra viridibus, opacis, subtus vix palli- 

 dioribus, opacis, costa nervis que tenuibus paullo prominulis ; petiole tenui, subcana- 

 Hculato, limbo quintuple breviore : floribus axiUaribus, solitariis ; pediceUe sepalis 

 pauUo longiore ; sepalis obtuse ovatis, expansis ; petalis triple longioribus, oblongis ; . 

 androphori appendiculis longiusculis, fere omnibus antheriferis ; ovarie infero, tur- 

 bmato, 4.1oculari, vertice vix elevate, radiatim striate ; stylo brevi, obtuse. In 



Brasilia: v. s. in herb. Sook., Eio de Janeiro (Glasiou). 



very distinct species, remarkable for the setifereus teeth of its leaves; the axils 

 I Its branchlets are ^1 in aT.o,.f. +i.« i«„,.^. „«^ 17 01 ;^ i^«o. ii_9 in broad 



^l 



m. apart; the leaves are l|-2i in. long, 



1^-2 m. 



^ udmg their suddenly acute point i in. in length, and 1 J-2 Unes broad), on petioles 



Imeslong. The pedicels are 4 lines 

 ^ W is 9 lines in diamete 

 <^TOlla expanded is 1 



long, each 



2 

 bearing a single 



flower; the calyx 

 r ; the sepals 2 lines long, 3 lines broad at the base ; the 



1 • 



a m. across ; the androphorum 9 Mnes wide, , 



Species non satis nota 



"^S '^^^'™^^' ^- & P- J^i. Per. iv. lao. ^ui, mea. ; -i.un, ^.... .. u.. . 



Petalk "i^^^'^f ^^^^^^S' acuminatis, integris, petiolatis ; pedicelHs saepius bims,l.fl 



iv. tab. 461, ined. ; Don, Diet. ii. 873 ; foliis 



petaHs obtusis 



Peru {non vidi) 



